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The healing is in the bread and in the water
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Posted by: JeriRose12
I am working on my diet. Really, really getting an entirely new mindset on food. I must EAT to live, not LIVE to eat! So far, I am doing well. Broke for my nieces birthday dinner is all, since starting last Monday or so.... the last day I had chocolate in all that time. I feel so positive about this. Had to turn my back on the candy bars in the check out stand.... But I quit the negative talk, and I am saying "I CAN do this," rather than "But I want chocolate (or whatever)." No processed foods, as much as possible. Anything high fat, surgar laden, chemical filled has to go!!! Had this yummy salad at Red Robin, and only ate ONE fry the whole time!!!
They say "The Makers Diet" has helped many to be cured of osteo arthritis. So, I am going to a more natural diet as much as possible.
I am trusting God to come through as I obey what I know He is telling me about diet. He said in Exodus that if the Israelites followed all His commands and decrees they would not have any of the diseases of the Egyptians put on them.... Well, He had a particular diet laid out to His children, and that is the diet I am going to get on, so that I am following his commands and decrees in that area. Christians should be the healthiest people alive. That is what the author of "The Makers Diet," realized. He was cured of chrones disease through diet. I have really gotten serious, and I know that God can keep me serious, if I just stay with the following, declaration: "I am eating to LIVE!!!" There is a scritpure that says "The healing is in the bread and in the water." Well, they didn't eat all this processed junk we do now.... they ate whole foods, like the sprouted grains breads I am now eating. I drink plenty of filtered water, too. So, I am claiming my healing related to diet as well as to God's love for His children and wanting to give them good gifts.
Lord, I thank You for the info on diet....and for the way it hit me this time. I had never looked at the scripture of "....for I am the God that healeth thee," as being related to diet. When Jordan S. Rubin said that about following all Your commands and decrees (and pointed out that You had a diet that You commanded Your children to eat), I knew that You were telling me plainly that I was in disobedience. How could I be healed, if I ate foods that were ruining my body?
I pray, Lord, that You will keep me strong on this. I don't care what people around me do. They can eat anything they want. I won't condemn them or tell them they should eat like me. This is my journey. This is the path You have put ME on. I won't break down just because they say I should or eat foods that tempt me.
I will not take my health for granted. I will not think my body is indesctructable.
Lord, I offer my body a living sacrifice. I will no longer cater to the flesh. Who cares about cravings? I need YOU, not food. I live for YOU, not food.
I EAT TO LIVE!!! I even eat this one brand of bread that says, "The Living Food" on it, because it is made of all sprouted grains.... wow, Lord, I feel so good (mentally) eating this way. I like reading labels and I KNOW what that ingredient is, because it is not some long word like "disgliserides" (sp?).
Since I don't feel a huge change, except less indigestion/stomach ache type problems, it can seem like "Why bother?" Well, Lord, help me to keep bothering. I am not going to make food my God. I have used it as my comfort or as a bordome buster. That must quit. Help me to eat to fill hunger and to feed my body the NUTRIENTS it craves.... not to give my taste buds the thrill they want.
I thank You, Lord, for this first week of success. I am so changed in attitude, to where I am not fighting every minute to stay on this. I just know that I will. Let that attitude continue. My sister bought the candy bar, and it did not phase me. I had no desire for it. 
Awesome!!! I know that I can not be an overcomer in big areas (well, this area IS a big area to me) if I can't even overcome in my eating habits. I refuse to be slack in this area, and keep thinking I am some great woman of faith, when I don't even have faith You can help me eat right. So, let The Holy Spirit give me self control and let me continue in this daily. I am claiming that about having dominion and subuing, so I must get dominion and subude my run away food cravings!
Father, I am thrilled about the wonderful future You have for me, a more YOU focused future. A future where I am walking healthy and going strong and running and working cirles around younger folks (I already do on my job, even in poor health and poor diet). Just think what I can do with the proper essential nutrients being put into my body! I believe for new strength, energy, health, vitality. I am thankful for it! I have felt such peace and victory this weak in this new diet venture.... I thank You for that! Let us keep going together, Lord. May I walk this path faithfully from this day on. Thank You, Lord, for Your help in this! I look forward to a wondeful future and health in You!!!
~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!) 
Posted by: JeriRose12
I was just reading in "The Maker's Diet" that it is probably a good idea to get rest when starting on this diet plan. Well, I am in a four day weekened right now, so that is perfect. And I have been feeling much in need of rest.
He is suggesting a more drastic beginning for people with bad health such as me -- all the arthritis, etc. So, I am reading up on Phase One, where we are to have VERY FEW carbs. I have been eating a lot of potatoes and corn, but that is better once we have gotten healthy. So, I can use prayer to get to that more veggies and meat type situation. He lists a lot of fish items -- those with fins and scales, as God says in the Old Testement diet for the Israelites. I have heard taking a good fish oil pill like Omega 3 can be an alternative, if it's hard to consume a lot of fish. I have heard eat fish at least three times a week, as the omega three fatty acids are good for heart and joints. I like fish, but prefer other meats, so I need to pray about this. Also, fish can have chemicals and stuff from the water.... So this area is hard to be sure about.
Well, anyway, all prayers appreicated.
I have felt some of the withdrawl he mentioned. He said we will have headahces, which I have been. Mood swings and tiredness can all be a part, and I have been tired this last week. Changes in bowel movements, too. I have had all that, and that proves the diet is working; I am getting toxins out.
Amazingly, he was 6' tall and weighed only 111 pounds -- from weightloss due to health complications as a result of bad diet (chrons disease was just one thing he had)! After four months on the healthy diet, he weighed 170!
Praise the Lord for this testimony! The doctors shot so many medicaitons into him, he had halluciantions. Inspite of that, he had his mother take a picture of him at the 111 pounds, so he could prove he had really been that sick when he was finally well.
This is so great to know that I have a chance to get well by putting the correct foods into my body and bringing down the inflimation and other things out of wack in my body. I know I tried this kind of diet before, and I wasn't sure how much help it was, but I am determined to eat correctly FOR LIFE, and to trust God for healing. It took him two years to get totally healthy....
There are some other things, like what he calls the morning aromatherapy and the morning cleanse and the morning higiene. I haven't gotten to all that yet. I do want to get a shower filter, as bathing in chlorinated water is not good for our bodies.
There is so much to think about besides just diet.
What makes sense to me is, he was raised in a family that ate the Biblical way as much as possible, and he was rarely sick when young. It was after he went away to college that he started getting diarrhea, nausea, exhastion, heartburn, indigestion and all the rest. Obviously, he wasn't eating right, anymore. I have had all of those things throughout my life at various times, but definitely exhaustion a lot.
Wow, I am so hopeful that by eating the God prescribed way I can get to feeling better! I do know that I have already better in the indigestion area the last few days.
Continue to pray with me as I continue in this LIFE CHANGE FOR LIFE. This IS NOT a diet! Well, he calls it "The Maker's Diet." I call it living right from now on.
OK, I will quit for now.... 
Need all the encouragement I can get, so writing this for my own encouragement.
~JeriRose~
Finidng HIM in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: JeriRose12
Well, I may not be posting much....He said rest is important in the diet switch time, because at first we feel worse instead of better, and being tired is one of the symptoms of the feeling worse. Very tired, now, so about to go rest.
I was at Friday Harbor today, and we found a place that served a good salad. Well, it was really a veggie sandwich, but she put the veggies on lettuce for me, as I had no idea what kind of bad ingredients might be in the bread. It was good! She roasts the veggies after soaking them in lemon juice, basil and olive oil. I thank the Lord for helping me eat healthy on our excursion today!
Well, just need prayers to keep on this. Pray I can get off the Excedrin eventually, as it has caffine, and that is a no-no food for health.... Well, you know, maybe he had organic coffees listed in the back of the book, so not sure. But they say caffine is the accepted drug, so I would like to quit it.
I know many don't think in terms of eating like this....but this is something I need to do for me, so pray God strengthens me to keep on this.
~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: bluecatkeeper
Heavenly Father, thank YOU For this time for JeriRose to be eating healthy. Please give her continued strength and will power to eat those foods that she has found to be what she needs. Please keep temptation foods out of her mind that she can concentrate on her task at hand. Please keep her strong and let her rest and be calm and strong in YOur presence. In Your name, Amen
Posted by: JeriRose12
Thanks for the prayers, Lori.
Most of God's people just think they can eat anything they want....but I have had to change my attitude on that. I just can't keep justifying foods that really have no food value left in them.... Anyway, I appreciate the prayers.
I am having intense neck pain, and that might be related to getting the toxins out and the withdrawl from the unhealthy foods. Not sure. But truly pray with me that the healing will be in the bread and in the water. I have taken my step of obedience, so I need God to touch my body as I stay on this path of eating.
Here is a scripture I am using in this:
12All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. (1 Corinthians 6:12, King James Version)
In the NIV it says "All things are permissable....but all things are not beneficial," and "....I will not be mastered by any."
This is my declaration. I am not going to be under the power of chocolate, etc. anymore. I will not be mastered by junk foods.
I have used food as my comfort, and that is wrong.... Now, I DO NOT live to eat, I EAT to live!!! I put things into my body that give me the nutrients I need to be able to do the things God has called me to. I will not be weak and run down all the time, sluggish and in an over all malaise a lot. I am moving into a new realm of health, in Jesus Name! I claim victory and vitality!
I had a weak day on Sunday, but managed to stay on this. I do believe it will take a minute by minute calling on God when I am tempted. I must look to Him at all times, not to some so-called will power of my own. I can do NOTHING without Him! I can do ALL THINGS through Christ Who strengthens me. He and I must walk this out, step by step.
I like the word "expedient" because that refers to something that speeds us on our way. The junk food only slows me down. The healthy food will speed me on my way. Okay, maybe that is not the true meaning of "expedient," but I always think of it in that way.
Well, I thank all who pray. This is probably the biggest battle of my life, yet I must constantly see myself in the overcoming role. I have to tune out those around me who say I won't stay on it. I have to look to Jesus The Author And Finisher Of My Faith. I have to say "Those foods are not expedient," and believe that I would rather have long term health than a short term tastetation.
OK, God bless, and will be getting out of this thread for now.
~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: Rachel R
I encourage you!
Stay the course.
I believe it will help your health.
I think the cleansing of your system with healthy foods will definately affect your bones and your joints.
Hang in there...
Love, Rachel R
Posted by: JeriRose12
Thanks, Rachel. 
This is DAY TWO that I didn't take the afternoon dose of Excedrin at work. Pray tomorrow is Day Three. I need to keep a record of the improvements and changes I see. When I tried to eat healthy before, I said it didn't help much. But I do remember saying my brain came out of a fog when I cut the sugar in the past. And one time I thought my headaches were a lot less. There is a book called "The Sugar Blues" and this man quit having headahces when he quit sugar. Pray my perserverance pays off -- and pray that I KEEP perservering.
Lord, I thank You for over a week of successful days now. Continue to lead me in this. Show me what more to do for health. Also, Lord, I pray that I STAY ON THIS. I am not capable in MY strength....so I ask for YOUR STRENGTH. You know the weaknesses and tempations, so I will not repeat them here, as I need to accenuate the positive. I thank You for helping me walk past those mexi fries without eating them. I thank You for helping me not to buy that snack cracker or chip that was some better, but still wasn't great. I thank You for giving me the want to to stir fry the plate of veggies. Lord, thank You for the rest you provided when I got home but that I was up in time to go out for the ladies fellowship night. Thank You for the enjoyment of the healthy foods. I admit they TASTE good! Thank You for bringing this info across my path FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS! Thank You for Jordan S. Rubin having this ministry, for him being on TBN and for me catching that program....and for it ministering to me in just such a way that I HAD to make the change! Keep me on this, Lord. I look to You and consider Your goodness. You laid out this diet in Your Word, because You knew what truly was BEST for Your children. Help me trust You that You are not limiting me but are protecting me. Thank You, Lord, amen and amen.
~JeriRose~
Finding YOU in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: JeriRose12
Made it through another day. Whoohoo!
I took afternoon Excedrin, but no morning Excedrin, so that is still only two today.
Need to rustle something else to eat, as I feel kind of hungry. That's what makes this hard, not having a quick snack to fill up on. But I use the sprouted grain breads for snacks, and we do have some in the house.
Thanks for the prayers.
Felt kind of rummy today, so I just have to keep searching for the positive. Pray God shows it to me.
~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: JeriRose12
Well, I am still holding strong on the diet.
I made some minor mistakes -- ate a little white flour in some tortillas, because that's all we had in the house, and I was making chicken and black bean burritos. Forgot momentarily, and went to eat a mistake at work that had white tortilla.... But been staying on it. I did eat kettle chips on the weekend, so that is fat fried food, but they are made healthy besides being fried. No MSG or junk fillers. When I was on the health diet before, they said kettle chips were the permissable chips.
So....praise the Lord for helping me make it through.
I haven't taken Excedrin today, but I am thinking about it before bed.
I kind of ache all over today, so I am praying I am not getting sick. I am low on Sea Vegg and my friend isn't selling it anymore, so I have to find something else to take. Will go to Super Supplements on pay day, which is Friday and see if I can find the supplement he mentioned in the book. It has the sea plants and a lot more in it, so it has even more stuff than is found in all the sea kelps, sea weeds, etc.
I am not sure how many Excedrin free days I have had since I last posted. But I know I have been taking no more than two a day.
Well, I am getting ready for bed, so God bless and thanks for the prayers.
~JeriRose~
Finding YOU in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: JeriRose12
THREE DAYS Excedrin free!!!
I saw Art Linkletter on TBN just now, and he is 94 and busy, busy and going strong. He said DIET plays a key role in living to an old age in good health and strength. So that was an affirmation to me to stay the course.
I thought of something today. Last time I went on the "health" diet, I used a lot of sugar substitute, which was dried cane crystal. It is the cane dried rather than processed as white sugar is. This time, I have not had much sweets, not even honey. Maybe that's why I am noticing quicker improvement. Maybe all sugars are not good for me. I heard arthritis feeds on sugar, and perhaps it feeds on the cane crystal, too. Not sure, but interesting to note.
So far the lack of Excedrin is the main difference I've noticed. Time was, I couldn't make it through my day without Excedrin for bad neck and head pain. By afternoon, the pain was usually excrutiating to where I had to take Excdrin to finish work. I usually took a morning dose, too, as I woke up with intense neck and head pain. So.... The other difference is less gas, indigestion, etc. Tummy is happier. I am not feeling like I have to tough it out regarding the Excedrin, either. I used to try to resist, and just figured I couldn't without ending up in bed for the night, possibly with a sick headache. So... PRAISE THE LORD!!!
Lord, help me to keep on. Sometimes, I get to where I think it's just a habit, and it will be easy to stay on this. Yet, I see or think of those favorite foods, and I find myself wishing for them. Help me to rely on You EVERY MINUTE, especially those minutes when I am tempted. We are going out for Sarah's birthday (niece), and I pray that I can find something healthier to eat. No clue what this restaurant serves. It is not so much about guilt over breaking the diet, as it is about being tempted and wanting THOSE foods again. Once I eat some, it's hard to stay off them. Well, You know. Give me the positive attitude that says I WILL do this. I can do ALL THINGS through Christ Who strengthens me. I DO NOT need those foods. Only Jesus/God will satisfy. By focusing less on food, I am focusing more on YOU. Help me to be purfied in body, even as I wish to be purified in spirit and soul. I am having such a good time so far. I am convinced this is right for me. Let me be strong and courageous in this. I do not want to sacrifice my destiny and my health to food simply because I like the flavor of it. Break me continually, daily, of the cravings. I ask and pray, in Jesus Name, amen.
I am going to get paid tomorrow, so I am going to get something to replace the Sea Vegg and this other product that consists of the nutrients that get stripped out of most soils veggies are grown in. I hope it's not in a powder form, as he said the stuff he took was, which sometimes those powders have a really...strong taste, as in not pleasant at all. Well, I've got to be positive. Pray that God gives me strength to take whatever will help. When Jordan went on the diet he was starting to improve, but when he added what he called, "Black powder" into his diet, he improved even more obviously. He started pedaling this product after he wrote the book and people heard how much it helped. He calls them SBOs (soil-based organisms).
Well, I thank you for the prayers. Praise the Lord for helping me eat better. I see he really stresses the organic stuff and the meat from range fed animals or the wild fish. He drank raw milk, including goat's milk. I don't really like the flavor and am not sure where to get it.
OK, I will quit for now.
~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: JeriRose12
Yesterday marked FOUR DAYS Excedrin free.
I went in one of those massaging chairs at CostCo, to bad results. It made my neck worse instead of better. My neck does not respond well to these chairs. I had the same result in the mall chair of similar kind. I can't seem to get the correct massage going that will help my neck. You are suppossed to be able to press the "knot" and redistribute the acid and the headache will go down. This never works for me. 
I just feel worse.
Right now, I have intense neck pain, that has grown worse and worse since using that chair. I may break down and take Excedrin. I am having a hard time typing, as the spot gets tighter and tighter.
Well, I am still on the diet, though I broke a little for an outing with my sister, nieces and a friend. We had half price appetizers at Applebees. They ordered desert, and I actually felt my stomach turn at the thought of chocolate. Now, THAT is a miracle!!! I bypassed the sweets. Earlier, I was craving a dark chocolate Hershey's bar.... though that is not the kind of dark chocolate the health doctors probably mean. I have had BITTER dark chocolate, that is 85% or so chocolate and only 15% sweet. Yuk! 
I am fasting today as I start my new health products. The Perfect Food is only $5 more than what I paid for the Sea Vegg, and it supposed to last me double the time. Plus, it has even more stuff in it. Then, there is the soil based organisms (SBOs) that is called Primal Defense and is supposed to replace the nutirents missing in most soil that food is grown in.
God bless you all for your prayers. I believe that I will make it this time!
~JeriRose~
Finidng HIM in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: JeriRose12
I feel led to tough it through and not take Excedrin. To get off the aspirn, etc. merry-go-round you have to tough it through the headahces. FOUR DAYS is an amazing miracle and gift from God. So, no matter what happens, I don't want to break down and take Excedrin. Pray with me for success. Pray the pain goes down by Devine healing. The Excedrin causes rebound headahces. You get a headache because you're addicted to the caffine, so you are having caffine withdrawl....though this one was caused by the massage chair. So you take more of the caffine to quiet the pain of the caffine withdrawl. And it just goes on and on. I covet your prayers, as this thing just keep esculating at this point. Typing isn't helping, so I will quit typing now....
Posted by: JeriRose12
The Lord be praised! SIX DAYS Excedrin free!!!
Also, my waist measured an inch less. So I will probably get back into those clothes I can't fit as I keep eating this way. Eating the Bible diet, ones body regulates to the proper weight (well, in most cases).
Any rate, I am staying on the diet. Had a successful fast yesterday, as that is a way to cleanse the body, as well as just standing for some breakthroughs in prayer. I introduced the supplements in during that fast.
I am praying to break this tiredness thing. If Art Link Letter is going so strong at 94, and I spend so much time lying around tired, at the age of 44 something needs changed. Eating the right foods should help. So praying for relief from the dragginess, too.
I just read Benny Hinn's list of the twelve strong men (the demons over the smaller ones). Know what's under the spirit of heaviness? Gluttony! Obviously, the depressed run to food. I have had to quit doing that, and I am standing to be free of heaviness with this Bible way of eating, too.
Another related issue: I have given up many favorite foods, and now I seem to want to watch more TV. Why are we always going after something besides God to satisfy or a thrill or whatever? When bored, I do one of two things: eat or watch TV. (Well, not ALL the time -- many times I do go to quiet time with God). Need to break the TV habit, too. Don't want to replace junk food with junk TV. Or even with GOOD TV. Too muc TV is too much, period.
Well, thanks for the prayers. God is good! He is REALLY in this, and I am so excited to be winning this victory daily, minutely.... I LOVE THE LORD!!!
~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: JeriRose12
ELEVEN DAYS Excedrin (thus, caffine) free.
I am feeling so positive about this diet. Yet....
Considering even more things I heard I should leave out of my diet. How timely that they should be talking about osteo arthritis on TBN today. Dr. Cherry also has something called "Joint Support" that he developed after 30 years in practice. Anyway, his wife read off more things to avoid: hot sun, salt, nightshade plants (potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, egg plant), citrus, red meat.... SIGH. Then, I need to be walking 45 minutes a day. I do walk a lot, so that's easy. She did say to cut the caffine, sugar and high fat, so I am doing good there. You know, we had pop corn in the theatre today, and I thought I felt extra pain come on me after a few kernals, so I got thinking I should cut salt.
I have not had bad results of being off the Excedrin, as in sometimes if I didn't take it I would end up in a sick headache. I have had some neck ache and head ache pain, but nothing unbearable, even when it was intense.
I pray I don't have to cut citrus, potaotes and red meat. It bothers me that some respond fine to these foods, and they are not noted as a big health risk to some.... Well, Benny Hinn was told by God to cut red meat, due to heart problems. But God allowed the Israelites to eat red meat. Anyway, pray I can do whatever He calls on me to do, cut anything I need to. I don't want to feel this way anymore. I LOVE orange juice, though I keep hearing the pasturised kind is bad for me....
It's just: what will be left to eat???
Ah, well, pray I accenuate the positive, and that I would rather be in good health than quibble over foods I can or can't eat. Mrs. Cherry said if we know the things to do and don't do them....
Praying for God to make plain to me what else to cut. I cut the night shade for a month, but was still eating caffine and sugar at that time. The best way is to cut EVERY bad food for one entire month, then you introduce each food back in one at a time, to see which ones cause the pain.
I pray for healing, so I don't have to control it this way. I pray for obedience, too.
Dear Lord, thank You for the willpower so far. I am kind of stressing over cutting even more stuff. I eat the instant potatoes for breakfast. Tell me what I can do, should do. Make me obedeint. I can't do this without You. But even now, in much pain and wanting relief. Lord God, give me a strength that I don't know I have. Give me a will to do what will help me heal. Help me not to cry. Oh, Lord, they are hitting on some very favorite foods that are in the Bible diet....yet bad for some. Please don't let my body react negatively to them. I need Your help, Lord. You know all the struggles; how I don't feel that great regardless of my tries here. I need the biggest possible encouragement. I want to do what's right...sort of. God, help me take these next steps of cutting more stuff, if need be. Help me to do what I must. Show me that my destiny is too great to sacrifice for food. I know what You have placed in my heart and shown me.... I pray that I will be steadfast and stubborn. I WILL fulfill my destiny. Move me into what I must do. I need You as NEVER before! Help me surrender all. Help me throw it down as Moses did the rod. I believe You have the best for me. Help me stop looking at the "problem" and look to You....
Perhaps, I can cut out one more of the bad foods at at time....I am improved as far as not needing the Excedrin to survive. Everything else doesn't seem much changed. Keep praying for me. I thank you for the prayers!
~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: JeriRose12
Dear Lord, give me strength. I was tested with the migraine type headache...wondering if this was working. Or was it the pizza? Well, I took one Excedrin, and I did not want to take ANY. Still, I thank You for the many days Excedrin free. Now, I just pray that I won't need it tomorrow or the next day or the next.... Father, I just need YOU, so I can stay the course. Especially, as I take even more foods out of my diet.
I pray for healing, so that my body does not respond negatively to the nightshade foods, as they ARE natural.... Please set my body right, so the foods You permitted Israel to eat, I can eat without pain coming on me. They were allowed red meat. Why then does it feed my arthritis? Help me to have patience. Help me to have a NORMAL body, that is truly healthy when I eat the permissable foods in the Bible diet. The scripture says if I do what You command, I will not have any of the diseases of the Egyptians. So, I pray in accordance with Your Word, that I am able to eat all the foods You allowed and be pain free. I do not accept this disease, because Your Word says if I eat the way You say to, I will be healthy. Yet, I am told to avoid certain foods in the OK list. Touch this body head to toe, as I do ALL I CAN, to get well.... Make it so I can eat those foods, and yet I will illiminate them for now.
Lord God, I thank You I have come this far. It's hard to realize it's just a little over two weeks, yet I have to do this for life.... Give me the willpower day after day (my WILL and Your POWER). Even if I am pain free, I want to stay on the Bible diet. Help me, Lord, to stay the course! Especially when I cut those other foods. Already cheated slightly tonight....
You know all the thoughts colliding in my mind. Help me, O Lord!!!
~JeriRose~
Finding YOU in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: JeriRose12
Lord, You know my struggles, my frustraitons. How bad I felt today to breaking down and taking Excedrin. Lord, I want this to help and work. Father, meet me with healing as I keep cutting the bulk of the foods I used to eat. I so want to go back to them..... Has it been 30 days? I guess not until October 22. He said I would feel worse at first.... Give me patience! Well, let's see, that means I have only taken TWO Excedrin in the last seventeen days, which is AWESOME!!! Again, help me accentuate the positive!
I have only been off nightshade, red meat, citrus and (most) salt since last Thursday.... Lord, help me hold steady!!! I so want to give in. I pray for devine healing, so I don't have to control it this way. But, Lord, I have heard these are foods to avoid, along with the sugar, caffine and high fat foods to heal from osteo arthritis. So, I will stay off them. It's one day, one step, maybe one minute, at a time. I pray I will make it. YOU can help me make it!
With so many other things going on, it's hard to stay on this. Help me not give in for the various reasons I keep coming up with. Provide the finances and the clean kitchen I need. Let others want to clean, so I am not the only one, so I can home to a kitchen I WANT to cook in. Father, encourage me early in the morning, when I don't want to get up and eat something healthy for breakfast. When I feel like I keep eating the same few foods over and over, encourage me that I don't live to eat, I EAT TO LIVE!!!
I am an OVERCOMER!!! I can and WILL do this! I am victorious! Thank You, Jesus! AMEN!!!
Posted by: JeriRose12
Don't feel so great....sore throat, sinus headache, runny nose.... Pray I hold steady on this diet. Pray the Pefect Food and Primal Defense give me what I need to build my immunities. I wanted comfort food earlier, something not so good for me....but I didn't give in. Cutting the nightshade and citrus has been hard (I drank a glass of oragne juice nearly every day before this). Not eating potatoes is a challange. And nothing with tomatoes....so many things at work with tomatoes. No red meat allowed and the chicken has slasa stirred in. So can mostly eat the pinto beans boiled in water. I have not felt great results off cutting the new foods, so pray I get relief from the arthritis, SOON, SOON.
Dear Lord, I can not do it without You. Remove these sinus infection type symptoms. If it is allergies, let it STOP. Let the supplements really do the trick. Let the healthy foods supply what I need. I heard about the dust mites in our beds causing bad allergic reactions, like morning headaches (which I often have). You know I want the tempurpedic bed....but how to finance? So many health issues and complications. Remove all through diet or devine touch. Just need free. Relying on You to come through as I obey Your Word of obeying ALL Your commands....and none of the diseases on the Egyptions would be put on us, and I claim that the healing is in the bread and in the water. Let it be so. Come through as I stay on this diet, not eating foods that are harmful and eating foods that are helpful. Father, I so need a breakthrough. Has it been 30 days, let alone 40? No, not yet. O, Lord, I need You desperately! Bring me through this. Let me be focused on YOU not on the foods I have eliminated and how much I want them. I need YOU, YOU, YOU. I cry out to You to help me do this! I am weary in well doing already....and this is a LIFE TIME change. Help me to realize this is Your loving protection, keeping me from foods that hurt me. I thank You for helping me so far; continue to help me in the future. In Jesus Name, amen.
~JeriRose~
Finding YOU in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: JeriRose12
Thank You, Lord, that I feel so much better, that this did not devleop into anything major. Continue to touch and heal me, as I did do some nose blowing today....
Heal this neck pain and ALL pain on my body. I am claiming that the healing is in the bread and in the water. Please, Lord God, just as I improved and felt better as I prayed over the cold type thing, let me feel better in my achy body. Take the natural foods You have provided and bless them to the health of my body. Let these supplements supply the missing vitamins+ and get my body supplied with things that help instead of hinder. Show me what to do to get better -- whether to just stand on Your Word, change my diet more, apply various heat/cold remedies, get a different bed.... Lord, my prayer is that I will quit hurting. Let it be so, whatever it takes. Make me willing and obedient to whatever You instruct me.
I ask and pray, in Jesus Name, amen.
~JeriRose~
Finding YOU in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: JG
Dear Jeri:
We will be holding services next week in Yelm
I will post the directions.
I will pay for your gas
Please come so we can pray for you
I just know Jesus wants to heal you
Pastor Jerry
Posted by: JeriRose12
Where is Yelm? I think my school used to play sports against Yelm in the ternaments.
I thank You for praying for me, as I know you do. So looking forward to pain free days.
I would LOVE to come! Perhaps, if I spring for gas, I can find someone who is available to go.
~Jerena~
Posted by: Rachel R
Oh, Lord, please help her get to Yelm (?).
Send her on winged feet for this moment of prayer.
I continue to send my blessing of health and wholeness to her.
In Jesus' Name I ask this, Amen.
Posted by: JeriRose12
I fell way off the diet during the Holidays....and I did not feel good. Or I felt so bad, I decided I really had been feeling better due to the new way of eating....
So, Lord, give me strength to get back on the straight and narrow and stay on it!
~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2006 (The Year Of The Double Portion!)
Posted by: sonrise
Jerirose,
Congratulations on staying the course. I thought I would pass on a little information that may help you. The omega -3 that is very good is pharmaceutical grade EPA-DHA. I am going to a naturopathic Dr. and we have been discussing healthy lifestyle eating. I read the Maker's Diet but was kind of turned off as I found it legalistic in that that diet was given during the time of the law and we found in the New Testament that all food is good as long as it is eaten as unto the Lord (my opinion only). Yet common sense must apply as in the biblical time processed foods were not around.
I have studied nutrition for the last three years intensely and there is a diet that is the healthiest diet and longest known diet on earth and that is the Crete diet (as in the isle of Crete). You can find out about it at Medditerasian.com.
A very good natural sugar sub. is stevia. I carry it with me in little packets. Also there are some very good natural sugars that are not refined that even those who are fighting diabetes can use without spiking their blood sugar.
You may want to check out the fungus connection. It has a very strong connection to arthritis. It takes about two to three weeks to cleanse your system. I will have to get back to you as to the info on the fungus connection.
The one very good thing about the makers diet is right now it is changing your gut, to being healthy once again. I felt yucky while I went thru the cleansing and establishing a healthy system.
If your local library has lectures on health given by a naturopath, I really urge you to attend.
Here is what I have listed for arthitis that is natural to take: Moducare, Antibiotic therapy (natural), Microdose therapy.
For migraines: magnesium( good source is dark chocolate) Petadolex, and Ribolavin.
If you can get a hold of the glycemic index, it is a very good source for the difference between a good carb and bad carbs.
If you are interested in some good resources for health and like reading I have some good books found at the local library.
This may sound odd but I noticed you talked about your neck and the problems you were having. It may be due to the toxins built up in your lymph nodes. Jumping on a little trampline keeps your lymph nodes clear and flowing. It is more painful to have them milked (which I went thru and about went thru the roof) by a massage therapist, so I bounce and make sure you drink lots of water because if there is a build up in your body you need to flush with lots of water.
As long as we eat wild fish not caught in Puget Sound it is safe. Tuna is okay once a week. If concerned about mercury and lead there is a cleanse you can go thru that will flush it out.
Hope some of this is helpful. I shall be praying as I am also changing my eating habits for a healthier lifestyle. blessings!!
Posted by: JeriRose12
Well, a lot of time has passed....
Thanks for the info sonrise.
I have been pretty much on the diet, but for a while, was eating something bad (white flour or heavyily surgared item) about once a week.
I fry crustos at work, which are tortillas deep fried and covered in a cinnamon and sugar mix. Problem is....I munch on them! So, last week, some way somehow, I got off them....I didn't pray much; I used determination.
Last week, I remembered the lady who put a rubberband on her wrist and would snap it every time she wanted to smoke. Well, I put one on my wrist a couple days, and I snapped it when I was badly wanting a tempting food (happens a lot at work....and someone had brought kisses candy to work! ) OK, my name is Jerena, and I am a recovering chocolholic....
The problem is, I did it more on determination (not on relying on God). I don't know HOW I did it last week. I was so zombie like, and usually when I'm that tired, my resistence is low. Something just told me I HAD to get serious again. I had gained a little weight back, and that to me is a sign that I am eating too many bad foods. Whenever I eat healthy, the weight goes off and stays off.
So, I still do not take a lot of Excedrin, which means I'm doing something right. I actaully ate really good foods today, and I had a terrible headache and did take Excedrin. Sometimes, there is no rhyme or reason to it.
I tried magnesiam for a headache once (I heard it would knock out a migraine), but it didn't help. I do eat dark chocolate in small portions, and I actually think my head hurts worse when I take it. Told you, I'm a chocolholic! Someone at work says it's because the caffine constricts yoru blood vessels....which leads to the headache.
I am adding in FYI (For Your Inflamation) from the Garden of Life line (Dr. Rubin). Will add it next check; it is for the arthtritic swellling. If you want to try it, make sure it's the one for tissue and joints.
The Perfect Food and Primal Defense seem be keeping the cold & flu type stuff at bay. I had a tiny touch of it, but just a slight bit of coughing and a slightly runny nose. I feel pretty much over it now.
I am so happy that I had a really successful week. I passed by icecream in our house two different nights. I didn't eat crustos when I fried them in the mornings! Just the feel of the rubber band reminded me not to eat the mexi fries (what Taco Time worker doesn't occassionly munch one?).
We'll see how Easter goes, as we are having a family gathering in honor of new house, Resurrection Day and nephew's birthday. Don't want to eat hot dogs or sausage dogs.... May buy these healthy turkey sausages I found at our local co-op, which is a health food store. They were juicy and yummy good. REALLY good. It's hard to find truly tasty health foods. I can get these awesome srpouted grain bagels, too, from Alvarado Street (I think that's how you spell it). I think the suage and bagel together would be YUMMMMMMY! Anyway....hoping to get to the co-op and pick up some foods that will encourage me to stay the course. They can be more spendy. But I find I am really not spending any more on groceries than I used to. Find that the "bleached" breads actually costs about as much as the sprouted grain breads in most stores. So....
I praise the Lord for really helping me get back on this. Those around me are very lax on sticking to even a weight loss diet, so it can be a challange to have no-one serious around me. Some say life is too stressful to worry about what they eat. I say it's too stressful NOT to. In other words, stress causes us to feel bad, but so does poor diet....so I had better do ALL I CAN to get healthy.
I know some Christians say we can be healed reagardless of what we eat. And it does happen. But it keeps hitting my head that if we keep putting bad foods in our body, we can't expect it not to blow out at some point. It is presumptious to think God will heal us should we get sick, so it doesn't matter what we eat. God created our bodies and He knows how best they function. He didn't lay out the Bible diet to restrict us, but to protect us! Nutritionists are discovering that the very foods God said not to eat our bad for us and the very foods He said to eat our good for us. There was no white flour, no sugar, no deep frying in the Bible....so the body would have every chance of being healed should one get sick, because it wasn't all run down with bad foods. The foods they put in their bodies, then, would be foods that truly fueled the body, cleansed the body, healed the body, benefitted the body....and they drank the fruit of the vine (not some proccessed version of grapes), and they drank water. None of this carbonated junk.
I am not much of a fish eater, so will try to take fish oil supplements eventually. Adding these in slowly, as my budget permits. Adding in the FYI (for inflamation from arthritis) right now.
Well, just an update. Wanted you to know your prayers have been answered. God has helped me in this, and, for the most part, I have stayed the course. They say cut your sugar down to 5% of your daily diet, and I am sure I have done that, and I eat very little processed food and hardly any deep fried or other high fat foods.
You see, this is a testimony to God's greatness! He has really helped me be strong, and I had to cut some SUPER FAVORITE foods to do this. I know there is much controversy about whether we need to observe this deit....but I do feel better, which is enough proof for me. I also find it builds a relationship with God, in that I can't do it without Him. And rather than reaching for comfort foods, I reach for God. You see food did replace God in my life, and I was not even consicous of it often times. When depressed, I used to always do the "drown my sorrows in chocolate" routine, which proves that point.
God bless. I continue to pray to stay strong. I arrive at a point, where I think I will just do it because I have been doing it....it's habit. But, still, yet, I have fallen back in the past. Don't want to this time.
~JeriRose~
In HIM in 2007
Posted by: Jon Henry
Jeri - I recently quit smoking after almost 35 years of puffing away. I got this feeling God was telling me in very strong terms that I needed to quit in obedience to Him and after some 10 years of rebelling against Him and four heart attacks I finally gave in, lol.
. It's been about 5 weeks now that I'm smoke free and I'm dealing with the munchies and the weight gain (over 60 pounds in the last 18 months). So I can empathize with what you're saying about healthy eating and dieting.
I want to encourage you to continue pressing on toward what you feel led by God to do regarding your diet. I know from personal experience that walking in obedience to His will has brought me blessings and riches of the spirit I would never have imagined. I praise God for His infinite mercy and grace and patience. He knows I've tried His patience, and it cost me dearly. But since I'm doing what I feel He was asking me to do all along, He has poured His loving kindness on me in ever increasing ways. God bless you and keep you.
In the love of christian brotherhood
Jon Henry
Posted by: JeriRose12
Thanks for the encouragement. Christians want to focus on the anointing, the blessing, the moving of The Spirit on and on.... all wonderful. But no-one wants to claim responsibility for their poor helath due to poor diet. They want to keep putting junk in their body and expect it to function correctly. Our body needs the natural foods that God created, not the proccessed down stuff we call food. OK, enough of my soap box!
Anyway, I praise God for helping me through more temptation in this area. Passed by ice cream in the house a couple times.... On Resurrection Day I did allow myself some icecream and cake with whipped cream. But over did it and didn't feel too well. 
Didn't feel so well today, though, and I have been eating healthy. So not sure what that all means. Your montly cycle is supposed to go easier when eating right, but not sure that is the case this month.
I acutally have been feeling new pain coming on, and it gets very discouraging, and am crying "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!!!"
Taking the FYI since the 11th of May, so hope it will help. It says on the bottle it is not a cure, but it is supposed to bring some improvment.
Well, not much else to report. Just staying the course quite well, and I thank the Lord for that. Hallelujah!
And, yes, there IS a reward, in that one grows closer to God out of sheer despendance on Him to do this, if nothing else.
~JeriRose~
In HIM in 2007