How to Use Faith and Fasting as Your Superpowers for Losing Weight and Feeling Great!

Hi, I'm Dr. Tabitha, the gutsy gynecologist. I'm a triple board certified, OB, GYN and Functional Medicine physician. I've embraced the world of functional medicine and wellness through my own personal health journey. And I'm super excited to share my wisdom and unique perspective as it pertains to women's health. After caring for thousands of women, I've come to realize that your gut health determines your gyne health and your overall health. And it's a super gutsy thing for me to go against conventional gynecology practice to bring you the truth. No more band aid medicine, ladies. We're talking root cause resolution on this show. So if you're struggling with hormone imbalance, weight gain, period issues, anxiety, insomnia, you name it, then you've come to the right place. And I want to be your gutsy gynecologist. So welcome. I am on a new journey and I'm so excited that you're joining me because it's all about you, literally. God has called me to step up and guide you into a faith transformation. So normally I teach women how to become fat burners and we go through these fasting transformations to heal our body. But what I have been hearing over and over for the past few years from women is that they're disconnected and there's a missing piece of the puzzle that's preventing them from really making a transformation. It's keeping them stuck, keeping them holding the weight on, keeping them in pain. All of these issues and what the missing piece is, we're not feeding our faith. So God has made it clear to me that I need to guide women to re establish that connection, that relationship with God. To reaffirm your belief in Christ as your savior and welcome the Holy Spirit back into your body so that you can feel whole again, so we can reconnect the body, mind and spirit. It's so incredible, the transformations I've seen since then. Like, I thought fasting was a powerful tool for women, but faith and fasting, that's the superpower. That's where the magic happens. So I'm super excited and I hope that you're really gonna come along this journey with us, because that is what I have seen. That is what's needed. That's what God has asked me to step up and do. Literally. I did not know, you know, how to quote scripture and I didn't know all the stories of the Bible. I couldn't just like talk to you about this stuff. But I am stepping out in my faith and I am Trusting that God is going to guide me every step of the way to guide you. And it's been a beautiful, amazing journey already for me. As soon as I said okay, and I made this declaration like, I believe God, I believe what you're saying is what I need to be doing. And I believe that I am fully equipped, you would not send me out, not fully equipped, not having my back. And as soon as I made that declaration, the whole world shifted. Things just started falling into place piece by piece, step by step. The doors were opening, things were happening to make this a reality. It's so beautiful to see how as soon as I accepted God's grace and his wisdom and his guidance, he gave it to me. So many of us are like putting up these boundaries for God and putting these limitations on him and telling him, I don't believe, I don't think that's possible. I can't heal, I'm in too much pain, I'll never lose weight. Like we have all of these limiting beliefs and they stop the true miracles of faith from happening. So I would encourage you to have bold faith like I did and just make a declaration and say, I can lose this weight, I can feel amazing, I can be painfree, I can do whatever you want. And put that in the sentence, make that declaration. Because God's got my back and he's going to show me the way, he's going to walk me all the way through. And you stay in that faith. And the way you do it is to listen to people who also believe, to be surrounded by believers and to stay in living, nourishing word of God. The Bible literally will talk to you. This is what I've come to understand and learn. It took 40 some years, it will talk to you. God wants to have a relationship with you, an active, ongoing relationship. So so much of the time it's a one sided relationship, right? We're always, please God, please do this, please don't let this happen. And we're begging and we're pleading and we're desperate when really it should be a two way relationship. We should take the time to be still and to hear what God is trying to tell us or to see what God is trying to show out and do in our lives. We need to be more discerning. We need to take a step back and allow him to, to come into our lives as opposed to trying to control it all and beg and be desperate for things to change. You know, instead of, oh my gosh, God, just please help me lose the weight. God thank you that you've given me a body capable of moving every day. Please help me to have the commitment and the determination to make the choices and the changes in my life necessary to lose this weight. Big difference, right? Take back control of your body, of your mind, of your spiritual health. This is the best time in your life to do that. There's no better time. That's why you're here. That's why you found this podcast. So I really want you to just step into it and faith it until you make it right. Just faith it. Just faith it. Even if you can't see the way, God has the way, just ask him to show it to you. Ask him to take you there and it will happen. I'm living proof. I'm. My whole life has been about faith. So many of you may not know that I was a wild child. Growing up, I didn't care about school. I was a D student. I got pregnant in 11th grade and found myself on Medicaid and food stamps. I had a doctor assigned to me. He made it clear I was a second class citizen. Things were done to me. Nothing was explained. I had shots and pelvic exams and procedures, all of these things. No consent, no discussion, no explanation. I had to be induced. I was two weeks overdue. And there I was in the delivery room 24 hours later in excruciating pain. No pain relief. No one by my side. My boyfriend was asleep sick in the next room. My mom was home with her own children, and I was just praying to God to help this baby come out. And she made it clear she didn't want to come out into this scary world. It was the hardest experience of my whole life. And I had to rely on God in that moment to get me through because I wasn't capable of handling the pain and the aloneness and everything else. And, you know, the doctor finally came in and I thought, oh, my God, I'm gonna have pain relief. Thank you, God, for this. That doctor came over, he put me up in the stirrups, heard a bunch of instruments clanking together, and I had the most excruciating burning pain of my entire life that I almost blacked out. He tore me from front to back, and I was never the same. That day, I not only became a mother or a woman, but a woman on a mission. As I sat there for the next hour while he stitched me up with his shots and his sutures and everything else, and I just watched my baby cross the room, I vowed to her, like, I will never Let you be this alone. I will never let you be in this much pain with no options and no consent and no discussion. And God spoke to me that day, even though I felt like he had failed me. What I realized was he said, you need to make sure this doesn't happen to other women. You need to get your life together for that little girl so she doesn't have to go through what you just went through. And I literally spent the next 30 years doing anything and everything it took to be the doctor and the woman that you need me to be, that my daughter needs me to be, that I wish I had had. And, you know, we don't all have those dramatic moments in our life, but I did. And that's why I've been on this mission for so long. And I've had multiple events like that in my life where God has clearly said to me, take this horrible situation. Don't wallow in it, don't live in it, but create something beautiful out of it. And I will give you the strength, and I will give you the way, and I will make it happen. And, I mean, I was a high school dropout. I didn't go to 12th grade, and all of a sudden, God's telling me to become a doctor. How in the world would I do that? Right? You have to have bold faith. I truly just believed that that was what I needed to do and that God would show me the steps as I went. I didn't have anyone in my family who went to college. I didn't even know how to, you know, take an SAT test or apply to college or fill out a FAFSA form. I literally learned along the way, step by step. He kept bringing me the people, bringing me the resources showing up, because I believed in him. I believed he was the way and the answer. And so if you believe that Christ is your savior and God has laid the path for you to do anything, like, just step into that and know that you can transform your body, you can transform your mental health, you can transform your life. I had a completely different life five years ago. And once again, I said, God, show me the people, show me the resources. Help me make a shift and get out of this. So I'm so glad that you're here with me. This my passion to. To help guide you to a better life, because we don't need to struggle and be miserable. That is not why we were created. We were created to blossom out of that. That misery and those struggles. They are supposed to make you a better person. But you have to do the work. So I'm so excited that you're here, and I'm excited that you're showing up for you, because I can only do so much, right? I can give you the tools. I can inspire you. I can let you know what works for me and for the thousands of other women that I've served. But you need to show up for you. You need to work and figure out what works for you. So, yay. I'm so excited you're here. Good job.