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Love Shouldn’t Upset Your Health Journey
What should we do when our loving husband brings us our favorite candy and we have committed to not eating sugar? As a Christian weight loss coach, I’ve heard from many wives who are afraid of hurting his feelings if she tells him she doesn’t want that any more. She’s...
I Blame It On My Family
My family won’t eat healthy meals. This is an excuse that I understand and yet I think it is one of the poorest excuses. When we are blaming our bad eating habits on our families we place all the responsibility for what we’ve done to ourselves on them. That is not...
Habit Change Works, Diets Don’t
No diet works was more than an excuse for me. It was the truth. No diet worked because I always treated it as a short-term fix for what I knew was a long-term problem. I wanted to think my obsession with overeating certain foods was something I could overcome with a...
How Old Is Too Old to Eat Healthy?
Are you too old to eat healthy? One woman said, “I don’t have long at my age, so why not enjoy what’s left?” That made me feel sad for her because if the only enjoyment we are getting out of life is eating, then we need to re-examine our lives. As I look back over my...
What Does My Voice Sound Like?
To say we have no voice or say in what happens in our lives is an excuse for not surrendering to the Holy Spirit. We do have a voice but it means we are just living by every whim we have and not by God. Galatians 5:16 TPT tells us, “As you yield to the dynamic life...
Hello, God on the Line!
One of the biggest excuses we have is that we somehow feel God doesn’t speak to us. This excuse shuts down our ability to hear from Him, trust Him and surrender to Him. All three things are integral when we are trying to change our habits, lose weight, get healthy and...
Discerning the Voice of the Enemy
Voices, voices everywhere. We hear them from friends, family especially if we have small children, mothers, fathers, extended family, best friends, worst enemies, television, social media, music, podcasts, speakers, preachers, teachers, mentors, casual acquaintances,...
Jesus Is My Friend, Not Sugar
It’s been at least 10 years since I’ve had cake for my birthday, which is in a couple of days. Strawberries with nuts are my favorite treats today. That was definitely not my choice in years past until I made some monumental decisions in about 2009. Not eating sugar...
I Will Rescue You
There is a major fallacy that keeps many stuck in super morbid obesity. That is that overeating our favorite foods will protect us from the kind of men that might want to do us harm. For those who have been sexually abused this becomes a major excuse for overeating....
I Am Not Insane
Most of my life I tried to avoid one thing—being crazy or insane. When I was growing up my mother had emotional issues and saw a psychiatrist regularly. She was on medication which only seemed to make her mood swings worse. She had high highs and low lows. When I...