There is a sincere desire for victory in my life, but success will take hard work and is even more complicated than I expected. We all search for a magic pill, formula, and quick fix, but it does not exist. Unfortunately, three things hinder success in my life related to lifestyle changes in how I eat: 1) decades of bad eating habits, 2) my food addictions, and 3) my age. I must realize that true healing will take months or maybe years and will be extremely difficult. There is no easy way out.
It has been two and a half months since I started this fight to recover my health. In every diet I have tried, this is the point where things start breaking. This is the point where I start falling off the rails. If I can describe this short journey so far with one word, it would be “humbling.” If I could use a second word, it would be “frustrating.” Diabetes is not going down without a fight. This is a very intense battle.
The positives are that my body has changed for the good: 1) I look much better, and 2) I feel much better, but My body seems to resist insulin very strongly. That thing that is supposed to remove the sugar from my blood either went on vacation or died altogether.
With all I have given up, I am still struggling. No rice, bread, noodles, potatoes, cereals, candy, chocolate, cookies, sodas, etc., and my glucose numbers have been increasing significantly for the last three weeks. I can look at the breaded meat and shrimp I have eaten; maybe I can blame the Stevia sweetener and even sunflowers seeds. But I used to eat these things in addition to the list I described. How can I eliminate so much and still struggle like I am right now? Did I jump the gun to stop taking my medications? I will keep pressing on… the journey continues…
An independent thinker with a profound call to see the orthodoxy of the church and passion for Christ manifesting together. Angel was born in Brooklyn, New York in April of 1968, he was raised on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico where he earned his B.S. degree in Sociology with a minor in Education from the Inter American University in San Germán in 1991. That same year he moved to Jacksonville, Florida. After working construction jobs for a year and learning the English language, his first job working with foster-care children in the capacity of youth care worker was with Jacksonville Youth Sanctuary in September of 1992. With JYS he was promoted several times as group home supervisor, legal caseworker, and program director.
While in Jacksonville, Angel studied a couple of martial arts styles. After earning his black belt, he became the founder of Good Fight Ministries as he used martial arts as an instrument to preach the gospel. In 2004 Angel was selected Martial Arts Instructor of the Year for the State of Florida and in 2005 Angel was inducted in the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame where he also received the Christian Spirit Award. In July of 2005 Angel accepted his call to pastor a bilingual church in Winton, NC where he served for a couple of years. Five months later he lost his first wife to cancer in December of that same year. This initiated a deep valley of suffering in his life, a mountain of costly mistakes and the embracing of lifestyles of sin that are well documented through this blog.
In August of 2012 Angel moved to Fairbanks Alaska with his wife Rayette Casiano and six children who are now adults. In Alaska, Angel continued his social work-related career and his ministry of preaching, teaching and writing. Angel is the author of two books, Hope for the divorcee: Forgiving and Moving Forward and 7 Banderas de Esperanza: La Bendición de Yokdzonot.
In January 8th of 2020 Angel and his wife moved to Arizona. On June 8th 2021 Angel started his home church, not as a starting point, but as a closer way to how the church is suppose to look like according to Scripture.
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