by Teresa Shields Parker | Sep 21, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Family, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
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... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Sep 14, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
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... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Sep 7, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
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... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Aug 31, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
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... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Aug 24, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
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... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Aug 17, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
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...
