

I teach women how to work with God to transform their lifestyles, lose weight and live healthy.
At one time, my life was a complete mess. I weighed 430 pounds, was exhausted, depressed, stressed, and tired of living. Fat and happy is a lie, especially when you are super morbidly obese and in constant pain. Today, I’ve lost more than 250 pounds and kept it off since 2013. I know your pain. I can help you. I want to help you.
Are you ready to change your life?
Here’s where to begin:
- Listen to my podcast.
- Take my FREE 10-Video KickSugar Course.
- Work with me in Overcomers Christian Weight Loss Academy.

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Books by Teresa Shields Parker
Sweet Surrender
Breaking Strongholds
Sweet Journey to Transformation
Practical Steps to Lose Weight and Eat Healthy
Sweet Hunger
Developing an Appetite for God
Sweet Freedom
Losing Weight and Keeping it Off with God's Help
Sweet Change
True Stories of Transformation
Sweet Grace
How I Lost 250 Pounds and Stopped Trying to Earn God's Favor
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What Is A Breakthrough?
Most people want a breakthrough but many have a difficult time describing what a breakthrough is or how to get one. A breakthough is said to happen when we overcome something. It might be any major progress such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a...
Episode 65-Breakthrough!
What is a breakthrough and how do we get it in our life? On today’s podcast we talk all about breakthrough.
It’s Time For Your Breakthrough!
There is something very distinct about a breakthrough. It doesn’t happen in a void. We have to be doing something first for a breakthrough to happen. We have to be working on something and all of a sudden a discovery or development occurs that makes all the...
Does God Want Me to Be Healthy?
Healthy living is more than exercise or what we eat, it is an entirely new way of existing on planet earth. For some reason, I used to think the only thing that was worth getting out of bed for was to eat the foods I loved. And of course that helped me gain a...
The God Who Never Gives Up
God is perfect. I don’t have to convince anyone of this. It is a fact. He and He alone is perfect, infallible, all-powerful but also all-compassionate, full of grace and mercy. He is always working on our benefit, though, even though He is perfect and we are not. Even...
This Is My Story
https://vimeo.com/500711082/bd1ee2ea90 This is my story. It's not pretty. It's not a nice, neat story. It's a real-life story about my journey. Losing 250 pounds took me a long time and I learned a lot along the way. I learned what not to do. I learned what is...
More Knowledge Isn’t Enough
We live in the age of information and knowledge. Got a problem? All we have to do is google the answer or ask Alexa or Siri. We have facts as close as our fingertips or our lips. However, more knowledge isn’t enough to solve our problems, especially if our problem is...
Episode 64-Knowledge Versus Action
Trying to amass all the knowledge to make a decision about how to attack my weight gain is part of what kept me stuck in super morbid obesity for way too many years. The truth was I knew what to do to lose weight. I knew what my problem was. I was just trying to find a different way to lose weight, one that would let me eat what I wanted and lose weight at the same time.
Missionary Loses 80 Pounds
One of our Overcomers Academy members, Jay Lee, a former foreign missionary for 47 years in a closed country, has lost 80 pounds in Overcomers Academy. She calls herself the grandma of the group and loves to share her story. “I’m 75 and I have been overweight or obese...
About Me
I’m Teresa Shields Parker, Christian weight loss coach, author, podcaster and speaker. I’ve been writing since I was born or at least it feels that way. I do know I was born to write. However, it wasn’t until 2013 when I wrote my memoir, Sweet Grace: How I Lost 250 Pounds and Stopped Trying to Earn God’s Favor that I really felt I could legitimately don the moniker of author. It had been 60 years in the making.