Are You Ready to Lose Weight and Keep It Off?
Are you tired of...
Are You Ready to Lose Weight and Keep It Off?
Are you tired of...
Are You Ready to Lose Weight and Keep It Off?
Are you tired of...
What you eat does not have to control you.
You can look better, feel better and live better. You can transform into the person God designed you to be, all without dieting.
I did it and you can too.
I’m Teresa Shields Parker and I used to weigh 430 pounds, so I get it. My life was a huge depressing mess. I was ready to throw in the towel on everything. I felt I was so far gone, even God couldn’t help me. I had gotten myself into this impossible situation and I felt like I was the only one who could get myself out.
I was a strong, intelligent woman. I thought I could lose the weight on my own, but every time I went on diet and did that, I would gain it all back plus more. I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t stop eating, especially sugar and carbs. I wanted lose weight and never gain it back again, but it just didn’t seem possible.
Why was I so obsessed with food, especially sweets and carbs? Why would I gain weight when I ate those things and other people didn’t? Did God just make me different from everyone else? Was God punishing me?
Teresa Shields Parker, left 2004, right today. Total loss 250 pounds.
I know how depressing it is to feel like you are in bondage to sugar, junk food, desserts, and highly processed carbohydrate-laden foods. Along with that comes shame, guilt, regret, doubt, anger, frustration, failure and years and years of heartache. I’ve been there and it is exhausting. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's felt this way. Can you relate?
I used to weigh 430 pounds. After going on a lifestyle change journey, I lost 250 pounds which was more than half my body weight!
Then God called me to coach YOU!
There's nothing better than working with God to lose weight and keep it off. It's not about a diet! It's about changing your habits.
In Overcomers Academy, I will teach you how to find victory over weight issues. You will discover how to overcome habits that make you automatically overeat when you really don’t want to. We’ll also help you discover roots from you past that the evil one is using to keep you stuck in the yo-yo dieting spiral. You’ll learn how to make your dreams come true. You can look better, feel better, and live with purpose and joy!
Are you ready to get free from the issues and strongholds that are weighing you down?
Overcomers Academy membership's three main areas include:
Video Course Library
Access to our guided video course library on Christian weight loss and habit change God's way.
Each lesson includes transcripts and some action steps.
Every lesson prepared by Teresa based on her extreme weight gain and loss.
Guided lessons help keep you motivated. Go at your own pace. Implement the lessons and discover the breakthroughs you need to keep going.
Join a group with your same issues, headed in your same direction in a distraction-free environment.
Overcomers Community
Private Circle Community for learning, and weekly video calls with Teresa leading.
Post insights and results from the courses via our Facebook Community and hear where others are on their journey, what they are struggling with, and how they are overcoming with God’s help.
A community to guide you and support you but never shame you. Go at your own pace.
Facebook is easier to post although you can also post on Circle especially for prayer requests.
We have added the Overcomers Facebook Group for those who want to be part of the entire Overcomers Academy experience. This is a closed group only for those who have joined through Circle.
Live
Video Meeting
Live calls in the Circle community where Teresa can help you break free of the obstacles keeping you stuck.
Insights into why you keep overeating when you really want to lose weight.
Ask Teresa any question and she will work with you and the group to help you understand the root of your issue.
By understanding the root, Teresa will lead you toward understanding God's truth for your situation. That always sets us free! This is the best part of the community. Your freedom journey will help you and others.
Overcomers Academy is for you:
Overcomers Academy is NOT for you:
Don’t take my word for it. Here’s what some of our members and graduates have to say:
Back Pain and 50 Pounds Gone
That night my life changed. I walked away from sugar. Everything about my diet and eating habits has changed for the better. I no longer crave sugar or bad carbs at all. They no longer have any power over my life.
I have tons more energy, no more back pain or pain in any of my joints. I've gone from a size 20 jeans to a size 14. I've dropped 50 pounds. I am ready to utilize the tools in Overcomers Christian Weight Loss Academy to help me grow in my faith and learn what the underlying issues were that led me to become morbidly obese and desperately unhappy. OA is the best place for me to do that. I am ready!"
God-focused, Not Diet-Focused
“My journey has been slow, but I have persevered. God needed to transform the inner me through many inner healings before permanent changes could occur on the outside. I had a huge breakthrough and God has broken my stronghold of smoking completely. I have lost 25 pounds and am eating healthy and exercising regularly.
“I have such peace in my life now. Teresa always guides us back to God. This group is therapy to me. The weekly motivational calls have been key to my transformation. Interacting with other Christians having similar struggles, sharing my issues and receiving inner healing from God with Teresa leading is vital to keeping on the path God wants for me. Obedience and surrender are key to continue on my journey."
—Debbie Magner, Bradenton, FL
Can’t Find This Support and Wisdom Anywhere Else
— Kim Mancuso, Webster, NY
Losing 93 Pounds and Getting Out of the Wheelchair
“I have lost a total of 93 pounds and I’m still going. It is the first time in my life I have been able to maintain a weight loss. My journey has been slow and steady, using the techniques Teresa shares to make small, but permanent changes to my lifestyle. Drawing closer to God, obedience to Him, and forgiving others are of the most importance.
“When I came into the group I had stopped driving and needed a walker or wheelchair. These days I walk, drive and even babysit my great grand baby (I now have nine greats!) My life has improved so much for the better.
“I told Teresa I will be in this group forever because I need the structure and to have people I can turn to for pray and advice when I falter. I am so thankful to God every day."
— Peggy Burgess, Northcumberland, PA
Diabetes and 68 Pounds Gone
— Dawn Wisdom Kinstley, New Braunfels, TX
Trust, Surrender and 30 Pounds Gone
— Candy Hamilton, Columbia, MO
Former Missionary Loses 117 Pounds
“Overcomers isn’t a diet plan. I knew how to lose weight. A key factor in this group is Teresa helps us figure out what causes us to overeat and how to deal with the root issue. I continue in the group for encouragement and motivation to continue to be obedient to God in my eating"
— Jay Lee, Spokane, WA
Walking Through Food Addiction
— Susan Keays, Whitehall, PA
Healing Past Hurts and Losing 93 Pounds
— Michelle Moore, Columbia, MO
From Food Addict to 65 Pounds Lost
“I have been sober from alcohol for 35 years, so I immediately knew and understood this is an addiction. I had to learn that sugar is more than just that white stuff. There are other foods, mostly high in carbohydrates, that trigger cravings. I have lost 65 pounds, which was a lot to carry on my less than 5-foot frame. I gained some back, but have rededicated myself to following what I know to do!"
— Rhonda Burrows, Palestine, TX
OA Is Vital To Me
This group helps me stay on track with my lessons, weight loss, and health improvements in my body, mind, and soul. Most importantly this group has helped me know Father God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit more personally and deeper than ever before!
I’ve lost 142 pounds by reading Sweet Grace, which is Teresa’s memoir about how she lost 250 pounds, and going through her free study guide. I’m ready to lose the rest of my weight with Teresa's and God’s help."
—Laurel Johnson, Oakland Park, KS
Why God Called Me to Coach You:
God called me to coach others with weight issues after I lost 250 pounds. I first said, “No!” I mean who says, “No,” to the God of the universe? I really don’t recommend anyone do that. However, He didn’t condemn or berate me then nor did He when I weighed 430 pounds and was struggling to stay alive.
My next words were, “God, You don’t want me to coach. I’ve been a huge failure. Remember I weighed 430 pounds?”
He said, “And you lost 250 pounds.”
“God, I know and You know that I couldn’t have done that by myself. I needed Your strength and power to even start this journey.”
“Just teach them that and it will be enough.”
“But God, I wouldn’t be good at it. Remember me? I used every excuse in the book to not lose weight. I know those excuses very well.”
“And you got through them leaning on Me. Teach people that.”
“I was a difficult one for even You! How did You do it with me?”
“I did it with grace and compassion and so will you.”
“God, I know I have your grace, but I don’t think I have compassion.
“You do now,” He said.
No bright lights appeared. No bells rang out. I continued walking into the pool where I exercise. All of a sudden my eyes were opened to all the people who were struggling with their weight yet still exercising, still trying. It was if God whispered, “What do you feel now?”
I whispered, “I feel compassion,” as I wiped the tears from eyes of God-given compassion for you.
You’ll be changed from the inside out.”
THE NEW
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Reasonable monthly cost: Signing up for Overcomers Academy subscribes you to the group on an ongoing basis. Your payment will recur monthly every 30 days from the day you sign up. It entitles you to first join the Circle Overcomers Academy for weekly calls and ongoing courses, and then ask to join the Facebook Overcomers Christian Weight Loss Group for discussion, questions, and encouragement
Program Details...
IMPORTANT - Please read: Signing up for Overcomers Academy subscribes you to the group on an ongoing basis. Your payment will recur monthly every 30 days from the day you sign up. If you wish to leave the program, you MUST send an email to [email protected] at least one week prior to the recurring payment date. Any questions should be sent to [email protected]. When you ask for your membership to be cancelled it will be cancelled from that date forward.
Disclaimer: Teresa Shields Parker is not a licensed counselor, nutritionist, trainer, physician or physical or occupational therapist. All information contained within the group is based on personal experience. For any medical or emotional conditions seek the advice of a professional. Persons entering into the program accept full responsibility of results obtained.