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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God Loved Me Into Existence
I woke up at 2:15 a.m. with God saying to me. “I loved you into existence.” My first thought was of course You did. You created me. Without Your desire for me to exist, I wouldn’t exist, I wouldn’t have life. God literally loved me into existence. He saw me before I...
Episode 67-Loved Into Existence
God created each of us on purpose for a purpose. As God’s creation you and I are priceless to Him. I was a valuable person to Him even when I weigh 430 pounds and I was eating myself to death. God still loved me and if I had survived and was still breathing today and eating everything in sight today, He would still love me.
Episode 66-Where Are You Stuck?
Where are you stuck? It was a question that begged an answer. Any seasoned coach, teacher or mentor will just sit there and let it sink in. My way of dealing with any question is to answer it even if I don’t know the answer. This is obviously not the best way to deal with this question.
Help, I’m Stuck!
Have you ever been stuck? When I weighed 430 pounds being stuck was a fear I had. I didn’t sit in booths because I was afraid I would get stuck there. I didn’t go in caves because what if I got into the depths of it and I couldn’t fit through an opening? Then I’d have...
What Is A Breakthrough?
Most people want a breakthrough but many have a difficult time describing what a breakthrough is or how to get one. A breakthough is said to happen when we overcome something. It might be any major progress such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a...
Episode 65-Breakthrough!
What is a breakthrough and how do we get it in our life? On today’s podcast we talk all about breakthrough.
It’s Time For Your Breakthrough!
There is something very distinct about a breakthrough. It doesn’t happen in a void. We have to be doing something first for a breakthrough to happen. We have to be working on something and all of a sudden a discovery or development occurs that makes all the...
Does God Want Me to Be Healthy?
Healthy living is more than exercise or what we eat, it is an entirely new way of existing on planet earth. For some reason, I used to think the only thing that was worth getting out of bed for was to eat the foods I loved. And of course that helped me gain a...
The God Who Never Gives Up
God is perfect. I don’t have to convince anyone of this. It is a fact. He and He alone is perfect, infallible, all-powerful but also all-compassionate, full of grace and mercy. He is always working on our benefit, though, even though He is perfect and we are not. Even...
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.