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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Give Yourself A Break
We all have issues. It’s just a fact of life. When the issues we are concerned about are beyond our control we worry and stress over them and then do crazy things like eat everything unhealthy that we have in the house or run to fast food to get something even more...
Episode 76-Putting Stress to Rest
If we can just stop and clear our minds, we can see everything that is happening to us right now is attributing to our stress because we are living in a state of chronic stress. So everything looks and feels stressful, even good things. I know I’ve been there. Living in chronic stress is no fun.
Take Back Your Power
Stress is insidious. It is relentless. It can drag us down to the point that we feel powerless and defeated. At the root of stress, is the evil one himself whose goal is to destroy us. Yet Jesus tells us He came to give us abundant life. He came to give us power over...
Episode 75-Managing Stressors
To curtail stress, we have to learn how to manage our stressors. When we are in the midst of overwhelming stress that just feels like one more job we can’t or don’t want to face. We just want the stressors, whatever they are, to go away. The sad truth is the things that stress us out are not likely to just go away. We have to put forth some effort to make that happen in a healthy manner.
When Stress Won’t Go Away
Stress—a feeling of mental or emotional tension. It creeps up on us slowly and then before we know it will totally overtake our lives to the point that we feel like it is just a byproduct of life.Most of the time we can’t even pinpoint when it began. It just feels...
Episode 74-Living in Chronic Stress
If there’s one thing I’ve learned on this lifelong journey of weight gain and weight loss it is that I cannot lose weight for someone else. I can only do it for me. We can’t lose weight for our husbands. It has to be for us. We have to want it for ourselves.
Managing Stress In A Stressful World
We are stressed, worried, fearful and overwhelmed. That about sums up the year 2020 and is starting to define 2021. I am concerned about the many who are caught in the overwhelming stress of just trying to live everyday life. Although stress may seem like just a fact...
Episode 73-Eating Stress
If there’s one thing I’ve learned on this lifelong journey of weight gain and weight loss it is that I cannot lose weight for someone else. I can only do it for me. We can’t lose weight for our husbands. It has to be for us. We have to want it for ourselves.
What It Takes To Stay Married
If there’s one thing I’ve learned on this lifelong journey of weight gain and weight loss it is that I cannot lose weight for someone else. I can only do it for me. We can’t lose weight for our husbands. It has to be for us. We have to want it for ourselves. So just...
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.