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
NEW!! Sweet Excuses: Stop Lying to Yourself & Start Losing Weight
Sweet Grace: A Weight Loss Memoir
Sweet Change: True Stories of Transformation
Sweet Freedom: A Weight Loss Memoir
Sweet Hunger: Developing an Appetite for God
Sweet Journey to Transformation: Practical Steps to Lose Weight and Live Healthy
Sweet Surrender: Breaking Strongholds
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What Can I Do When I Am Discouraged?
King David asked God a question I’ve asked myself many times. “Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise Him again—my Savior and my God!” (Psalms 42:11 NLT). That’s what we should do, but many times we don’t. The word...
Episode 169-Why Am I Discouraged?
In Psalms 42, King David asked God a question I’ve asked myself many times. “Why am I discouraged?” On this episode we will talk about five truths that keep us out of discouragement and allow us to once again SOAR with God.
How Can I Stop Being Bitter?
Is there something someone has done to you or some circumstance that has happened where you felt wronged and you feel you can’t do anything about it? Do you constantly think about it? Do you go to bed ruminating about it, get up with it, and carry it with you all day...
Episode 168-Bitter or Better?
What is bitterness anyway? It’s a word we all know, but one that is very hard to define. When we add fuel to our negative feelings, it only exasperates us. We have officially passed anger and have fallen into bitterness. Harbor that feeling long enough and it will become a root of bitterness which can morph into a stronghold.
The Place That Grace Built
Shades of blacks and whites Long black angry shadows Hiding fears, mistrusts, and shame And white as far as the eye can see. Nothingness. I wear my despair in monotone. No cure for my sickness. No help to pull me out of lifelessness. No desire to climb to freedom....
Episode 167-From Stuck to Unstuck
Where are you stuck and what’s causing you to be stuck? I frequently ask my coaching clients that question. Many don’t know, so we have to drill down to figure it out. The big question is why don’t we know where we are stuck or what the cause is?
My Strong Word for 2023
My strong word for 2023 is strong. When God gave me that word, I began questioning what part of that word He wanted me to focus on. Most of us think of physical strength when we hear the word strong but that wasn’t what He was talking about. Kalan Chaloupek, Battle of...
Episode 166-2023 Strong
Every year God gives me a word to define my year. This year that word for 2023 is strong. Weak is the opposite of strong. When we feel weak and ineffective it is because we have given in to the enemy of our souls. We are looking for a quick fix to make us feel better.
My Story Was Way Too Sweet
I’m reminded today that 10 years ago God tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to write my first book, my weight loss memoir. I’d been on a transformation journey, being thrilled about losing the next pound, and getting down to the next size. I hadn’t calculated how...
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.