Lord's Table Testimony: ernest

our story is a little different then most as we came to this course as husband and wife, both needing to do the lessons together. ernie my husband has a problem with dyslexia and therefore i do all the writing for him. we both were overeating and both had been gaining weight. ernie was thin as a young person but after he turned 40 he started having problems keeping the weight off, Jeri was heavy all of her life and had tried almost every diet on earth but always the same story, it would come back plus more finally she stabalized at 234 but that had even started to change in the last year and was up to 240 when starting this course. at first neither of us wanted to admit that overeating was wrong and sinful but after God opened our eyes we realized that any time we ate more than we needed or at foods that hurt our body as Jeri is diabetic, it was a sin. It wasn't long until we both realized that we had to repent and ask God's forgiveness and food all of a sudden did not have the strong pull it did in our lives before doing Setting Captives Free. after about 5 weeks into the program, jeri's insulin that she had to take at night was causing her to go way low so now she is insulin free in the evenings, we are watching our medications to make sure that other medicines might be eliminated as we journey down the road with Christ and continue to lose weight. we can't thank our mentor, Mike, for all his positive reinforcement through these last 60 days, we so looked forward to his email each day, he is an exceptional mentor. we have learned so much through these lessons and hope we can apply everything to our lives for the rest of our lives!!!!!! Ernie and Jeri