A woman describes healing from severe gut problems caused by stress and overexercise, then relapsing when old habits returned. A program called "fast of faith" helped her reconnect with Scripture and learn to honor her body as a gift from God rather than something to punish.
I met you back when you were the gutsy gynecologist. There was no fast of faith. And you helped me heal my gut, which was life changing. We discovered that it was due to stress and not sleeping and working out till I was killing myself. It was just, like I said, life changing. But then you go back to your old routine, and I very easily go back to too much working out and all the things. And then you came out with fast of faith. And I just knew. I've been a Christian for a long time, but I'm not deep down. I mean, yes, deep down, but I wasn't spending enough time in the word. I wasn't truly listening to the Holy Spirit. I know you're not telling me to slow down or I should be able to push through this. And I'm supposed to be doing this for my body. And fast of faith taught me to truly honor my body. How could I be saying this about my body? How does God feel about me saying my body is gross? And I was like, oh, my goodness gracious. And then listening to Lauren Lacks talk about being in the fourth grade and the weight thing. And I remember mine started in fifth grade, and that's how that fifth grade thing is how I ended up practically killing myself with the overworking out instead of respecting the body that God gave me. So, yeah, just that faith piece means something different for each of us. And for me, it was learning to truly honor my body in a way that honored God. Oh,
