What do you do when the new wears off? When the excitement fades… and you’re left looking at your ambitious menu for the week and wondering “what in the world have I done?” I have turned the simplest of dishes into my own master-craft by making Every. Single. Thing. In. It… I put the chicken in the slow cooker, make up my own Au Jus and add it to the chicken, then make my own ranch powder and add it… top it off with banana peppers and there ya go! Something that I used to throw in the slow cooker in less than five minutes, now takes me maybe 30ish. And that’s just one dish… I went from being a “Drive-Thru Sue” to full on cooking from scratch.

Today for lunch, I declared a leftover lunch. I ate leftovers, and T… said “I can’t find anything to eat! It’s ALL ingredients!” There is very little processed food in my house at this point. And while I absolutely LOVE this life I’ve built… Today, I’m just wondering how all this even came about…

THEN, I’m reminded: Cancer. I am on a healing journey. I am healing my body with food. No preservatives, No sugar, and I’m in the process of taking out all the food dyes. I’ve been on this journey since November. Let me just tell you a bit of my testimony.

2016: Alcoholic. Drinking heavily daily. Killing my gut and anything good that I might have put into my body.

October 2020: SOBER! WHOOP! But my body was still sick. I had so many gut problems… I’d already cut out most dairy (you can’t drink excessively and have milk or ice cream… can’t be done)

2022: Diagnosed with Uterine Cancer: I had a full hysterectomy and found that it had spread … so CHEMO. Which killed any and everything good in my body. If the alcohol didn’t kill it, it was completely dead by the end of 2022.

2023: Everything was looking good. Lots of good things happened!

2024: Reoccurrence was found in my lung. Surgery again, and a new type of chemo. FOR 2 YEARS! I started treatment about April/May.

And that catches us up to November 2024. I was praying and seeking God’s help and guidance. I knew there had to be a way to heal my body. My oncologist is very strict “No supplements, only a multivitamin” so I had to heal with food. That was my option. I found Trim Healthy Mama in 2021 and used it for a short time as a weight loss plan. It failed. I tried again in 2023. Failed again. This time though, I’m not using it for weight loss, I’m using it because I KNOW it will help heal my body (and God told me to give it another try). I reached out to a friend, who also happens to be a THM coach and we started working together.

Giving up most gluten and sugar provided a profound change in my body. My gut started healing. I started waking up earlier. Homeschool was going better. I could think through problems again. There were SO many benefits in that first month. I was hooked. Of course I still wanted to try and test the system, and I’d eat something NOT on plan…and every time, I’d pay for it. Usually in stomachaches.

Last month (Feb 2025) God spoke very clearly to me and said “Your body is a temple, honor it as such”. SO, that’s what I’m doing. This homesteading… it’s a part of me now. It is really a healing for me.

SO! NOW for the GREAT NEWS!

I went to the ER for chest pains (we found a second cancerous tumor in my lung) and they wanted me to get some heart testing done. The scans showed build up in my arteries and I needed a stress test. So, I went to a cardiologist and got all the testing done: completely normal! No build up, arteries look great! Heart looks great!

I was having trouble breathing at my last chemo. They immediately sent me to get a CT Scan. It was completely clear! AND I previously had 2 tumors (benign) in my lung, and NOW I only have 1 and it’s tiny!

I saw my pulmonologist after the CT scan, and she said everything looks amazing! And gave me an inhaler! WHOOP!

I talked to my oncologist about stopping chemo after 1 year instead of 2 and she talked very positively about it and said we would discuss more after my pulmonary visit.

PRAISE THE LORD!

The Lord has allowed my body to be miraculously healed through nutrition. I am in awe. He is the great physician and I will never stop praising His name.

AND THAT my friends, is why I cook from scratch… why I’m cutting out harmful dyes… why I choose to eat organic and grass fed as often as possible. This is why I cook these crazy meals instead of eating out or buying over processed foods at the grocery. It is why I will continue this way of life until the Lord takes me home. I AM HEALED! PRAISE THE NAME OF JESUS!