The 5 Pound Challenge

July 11, 2015--- When I reviewed my results and progress with Dr. Minkoff last Thursday, he told me that I need to eat more. Since starting treatment, I have lost 4 pounds on this Paleo diet. Doesn't sound too bad, right? Well, my BMI is now 17.6 and less than 18.5 is considered underweight. I told the doctor I am constantly thinking about food. I eat dinner and am ready for dinner again an hour later. The goal for the next 5 weeks is to gain five pounds (will keep you posted). So I am skinny, this is old news. In this fight for food, friends and family are literally trying to donate their fat reserves to me. The support that I am getting from loved ones is such a huge blessing. God is sustaining me everyday. One of the services that I have enjoyed recently is PaleoontheGO.com, which has been a lifesaver when my energy is too depleted to cook for myself. And when you are separated from your wife's home cooking for 4 weeks, your bound to lose weight. So I give my thanks to my wonderful cousins Luke and Nicole Shaw for the Paleoonthego.com gift certificate. Here is a couple meals I literally inhaled this week: Bacon-apple chicken burgers with maple-cranberry sauce and Creamy chicken and bacon Alfredo.

Jehovah-jireh

June 28, 2015-- Galatians 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. --"Why me?" It is the knee-jerk cry and human response to suffering, trial, and testing. The question resounds in my heart like a gong ever since the tick bite three years ago. Typically a cry associated with sorrow and tears, the why question is often selfish and inward thinking. On the other hand, the question can be twisted and flipped on its head when salted with joy and God's high calling. Today, the "why me" is turned right side up with a right perspective. When I heard that First Baptist Church of Shawnee, Kansas, took up a love offering for my treatment, that's exactly what I said. The church is filled with people. The needs are endless. Why give to me? The spreading of the Gospel and God's eternal purposes are so beyond me, beyond Lyme Disease, or anything I will ever be. I don't want to hinder the mission of the Church. Why me? I don't deserve such an offering by any means. Yet this is essentially what the Gospel should do to you. When you wake up in the morning, do you say, "Wow God saved a wretch like me. Why me?" Do you say, "God chose me out of the entire world before the foundation of the world for His eternal Glory. Who am I to deserve this? In this way, the First Baptist Church of Shawnee has reminded me of the message of the Gospel by blessing me beyond what I deserve. Last of all, Galatians says "to do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." In light of this, I am well taken care of by the family of God. My help comes from the Lord, and I belong to the family of God. God has given me brothers and sisters in Christ who care about me. What an encouragement! I thank God for FBC Shawnee with all of my heart. I look forward to returning to you.

Paleo Diet Experience- June 23, 2015

Since starting a Paleo diet, I have learned that it really is a hunting and gathering diet. You have to hunt for things you can eat. On the other hand, it makes shopping easy because I only have to go to two sections of the store: meat and produce aisle. Now when it comes to Paleo restaurants, the hunting and searching ends with Kara Lynn's Kitchen. It is just what I need: no dairy, no sugar, no gluten, no nightshades, and great service. Today, I ordered stir fry vegetables and a carrot muffin with grass-fed butter from Ireland. I devoured the muffin and told Amy my server that this is something I had been craving for a long time. I raved on and on about the muffin like a dog with a bone. She must have thought I looked like a hungry cave man as I consumed the stir-fry vegetables she set before me. After my meal, I was shocked when she wanted to send me home with a carrot muffin and pork leek soup to go. Not only that, Amy brought out plastic wrap and wrapped my PICC line to keep it from getting rained on. I am always amazed how God uses little things like this to remind me of how much he loves me.

Our Journey

Welcome to our website! We hope that through our story, you will find that even when we are faithless, God remains faithful. To God alone be the glory.

Love,

Kevin and Marissa