Mom's Blog - He is faithful!!

Earlier this year I realized I had put on too much weight.  I am 5′2 and weighed 143#. Well, I began to do the things that had always worked for me in the past:  I ate less, I exercised and I fasted.  Nothing was working!  I tried longer.  I tried harder.  Nothing worked.  I prayed.  Nothing.  I reminded God.  Nothing.  I prayed some more.  I tried some more.  Finally I was desperate.  I CRIED OUT to God!!!  I told Him that I wanted to lose weight in order to have a good testimony in the areas of temperance, self control and proper diet.  I told Him I wanted to be attractive to my husband.  I told him I wanted to take care of the body He entrusted to my use, and I told Him that if He wanted me to be fat I was willing. I think it was that week, someone walked up to me and handed me a book called the Miracle of Magnesium.  It is not a book about losing weight.  I read the book.  I learned that if my magnesium is out of balance I can not lose weight.  The book tells what foods contain magnesium:  whole grains, nuts, beans, seeds and greens.  I try to eat some of these every day now.  The book also explains about things that deplete our magnesium.  I try to avoid those more than I used to.  The only other thing I am doing is not eating after 6 or at the latest 7 in the evening, with rare exceptions.  I now weigh what I weighed when we married 25 years ago:  125#.  Thank God!  Isn’t He Wonderful!