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.
- Check out my FREE Blueprint for Losing Weight Webinar
- Take my free mini-course, Eating Stress
- 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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Comfortable Ruts
To be comfortable is at the top of almost every person’s list. Comfortable means to affording physical ease: cozy, snug, warm, pleasant, agreeable or being in a state of physical or mental comfort; contented and undisturbed; at ease. I want a comfortable home,...
Episode 115-Comfortable Ruts
What happens, then, is we fall into comfortable ruts. Ruts can be good or bad. They can simplify our lives or they can cause us to stay stuck in difficult situations. When we find what we think works for us we do it over and over again and before you know it, it has become a comfortable rut we don’t even have to think about.
Thrive in 2022
From as far back as I can remember, God has given me a word to ponder throughout the year. But it wasn’t until 2013 that I started keeping track of those words. Each year the word He has given me has defined that year in some way. MY LEGACY—Great-Grandma holding me,...
Episode 114-Thrive in 2022
This is a word that leads us to our destiny and legacy in God. This is a word for both the young and the old, but it really speaks to me as I get older. Don’t miss how to apply this word in your life.
Embrace Hope
It’s crazy how we allow our emotions to hold us back from being all-in with God. I realized there are four key negative emotions that cause us issues and keep us from applying four key truths of God. I really didn’t plan it this way but amazingly both the core truths...
Episode 113-Embrace Hope
I’m looking towards 2022 with the desire to embrace hope! Last week we talked about some emotions that may have become core issues. These are holding us back from being all in with God. Some of these are hatred, overwhelm, procrastination and exhaustion.
Why Can’t I Stop Eating?
She sat across from me with tears streaming down her face. Her question was buried in remorse and pain. She was having a hard time getting the words out. I said gently, “Whatever you want to share with me it can’t be as bad as what I’ve gone through having weighed 430...
After the Birthday Party
Everyone was gathering for the birthday party. All was set. The dining room was perfectly decorated. She had out her best tablecloth, the fancy lace one. Red crepe paper decked the room and there were party favors, little hats with each one’s name, balloons and...
Trying To Be Perfect Never Works
One thing I hear from many women is how they want to be perfect and then beat themselves up because they aren’t. When they fail, they stop trying because they don’t want the pain of being seen as imperfect. They think if they cannot do something perfectly they...
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.