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My DH, Gary, and I began our journey to good health a couple years ago when we began confessing the Word, "The Lord renews my youth like the eagle, He renews it day by day." In order for that confession to become a reality in our lives we had to stop the behaviors that were rushing us to old age fast. We started hearing from Christian doctors and nutritionists about the dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup and MSG. We also learned about the benefits of Probiotics. We lost some weight slowly but continued to fill up on healthier versions of the same processed foods we enjoyed. During this time, Gary was able to stop the ton of stomach remedies he had taken for years by using Probiotics. He is now completely off Tums, Riopan, Digel, Pepsid, and Zantac and doing very well. Early last fall, he decided he wanted to eat beans more often, and I said, OK with me as long as you cook them. I was not a big fan of pinto beans because of the gas issue, but after taking probiotics, I could finally enjoy them. We ate beans, fried okra and cornbread about 3 times a week and were loosing weight. Then in October Gary saw Roger on the 700 Club and was thrilled to know that beans were so healthy and eating more of them could lead to even greater weight loss. He was not particularly thrilled about giving up the saltines and cornbread (he never really liked the whole wheat bread anyway). That was October 30th, 2009 and I got on the web site and we began LDL on November 1, 2009. But that was just before Thanksgiving and Gary was in a festive mood and decided he would really like to do some baking for the kids and grandkids. This was his first time baking and he did make some delicious Banana Nut Bread, cookies and fruit cakes. We gave most away but sampled enough ourselves. Because we knew that eating the flour in the goodies was an LDL no-no, I believe we ate a lot less than we would have.
After 2 months of no loss, we began the new year seriously doing LDL. Gary’s weight began falling dramatically. At his March check-up with his doctor, she noticed his weight coming down nicely. We mentioned LDL and she cautioned about the beans possibly increasing uric acid and causing gout. Around the first of April, he remembered that he had not taken any blood pressure medication in about 4 days and wondered if he should take one or 2 CoReg tablets. I took his blood pressure and it was 100/60. That was too low a reading to be taking anything to lower it more, so I told him not to take any. Knowing that stopping BP meds can have a rebound effect (the BP becomes severely high after stopping), I checked his BP every day or 2 then every week. After a month of normal blood pressures, he put the BP meds away for good.
By his doctor's visit in May, she really noticed the weight loss. All his labs were completely normal and at that time we noticed he had not taken any Motrin or aspirin for general aches, pains or headaches in the few months. The doctor was now really interested in the plan so I gave her our book.
So at this time, he is rid of the food addiction and 85 lbs. His BP is 120/64 without meds and by the way, he continues to shake on the salt (Himalayan) very generously. If his doctor could see how much salt he uses she would be scratching her head as to why his BP is so low. He continues to not need any pain meds or stomach medications. The Lord certainly led us to LDL.