Taste for Truth - Weight Loss Encouragement

Join us on the Taste for Truth Podcast as we go to God for help with weight loss. We'll have victory interviews, coaching interviews, author interviews, tips, and even opportunities to renew your mind while you're listening to the podcast. My goal is to encourage you and equip you to break free from the control of food with God’s help.

Boredom, Holiday, and Hard-Life Eating with Suanne, Emily and Elizabeth 03/27/2024

How to Help Your Kids Avoid Picky Eating, Emotional Eating, and Obsessive Eating 02/28/2024

End Boredom, Mindless, and Procrastination Eating with Kim 01/30/2024

End Boredom, Mindless, and Procrastination Eating with Kim Many of us turn to food when we are bored, or when we want to avoid a project we know we should be doing! Unfortunately, this can easily become an unhealthy pattern that leads to weight-gain and out-of-control eating. If you're all too familiar with this struggle and want to stop the cycle of boredom eating, my episode today on the Taste for Truth Podcast should be helpful (links below)! Share an Update! I also wanted to mention that I'm excited to try something a little different for a few episodes of the Taste for Truth Podcast. I would love to have updates and "victory moments" from people that I've interviewed over the years! If you would be willing, and record a brief message letting us know how you're doing! This is not an interview at all, it would just be you recording whatever you'd like to say in a short message - I think the limit is 4 minutes. Anyway, I think it'd be so fun and encouraging to hear how everyone is doing! What We Discussed on the Podcast How often our childhood shapes our interactions with food Non-diet boundaries Why sometimes we should first begin renewing our minds NOT about food or eating The emotional toll of procrastination How to renew your minds about specific situations What it means to hold losing weight with an "open hand" Resources Mentioned on the Podcast To record an update or victory moment from your weight loss journey, go to . - Weight Loss App - This page on my website has many tips for renewing, but also a section dedicated just to how to truth journal. Listen to the Podcast Google: to subscribe or listen on Google Podcasts. Apple Podcasts: to subscribe or listen on Apple Podcasts. (If you haven’t subscribed to the podcast on Apple, this can sometimes take a few hours to update.) Android: to subscribe or listen on Android. Spotify: to subscribe or listen on Spotify. Amazon Alexa: To listen on Amazon Alexa, say, “Alexa, play the Taste for Truth Podcast.” /episode/index/show/tastefortruth/id/29637623

7 Reasons We Gain Our Weight Back 12/05/2023

7 Reasons We Gain Our Weight Back I would love to know how many pounds I've gained and lost in my life. In the old days it was all about "Go on a diet, lose weight, live it up, then gain the weight back." Over and over and over again. Every once in awhile I could muster up the self control to lose the weight, but I always gained it back. I had little self control, I loved food, and I was an emotional eater. And because of that I gained the weight back every single time. I actually knew how to lose the weight, but I didn't know how to keep it off. So today I'd like to look at why we gain our weight back and how to stop the old merry-go-round. Let's begin by looking at why we gain it back. 7 Reasons We Gain Our Weight Back We let go of boundaries once we lose our weight. Think of it. Have you ever lost weight without setting some sort of boundaries? Maybe you did intuitive eating and ate only when you were hungry and stopped when you were full. Or you joined Weight Watchers or you did intermittent fasting. But in some way you set limits for yourself. Unfortunately, once we lose the weight, all limits go out the window and that's the biggest thing that makes us gain the weight back. There are two ways we do this: 1) We do it consciously. We think, "Yay!! I get to live it up again!!" Then immediately go to living it up and gain our weight back. 2) We do it without realizing we're doing it. So for example, I may have lost my weight by counting carbs faithfully with a set limit each day of how much I could have. When I lose the weight, I still try to watch how many carbs I eat, but I don't have a set limit. Or I lose weight with Weight Watchers. I still focus on free foods and eat as many as I want--but I no longer count points. So what we have are some practices, but we don't have actual boundaries. We switch to different boundaries and don't go through the necessary work to learn how to follow our boundaries. In the first reason, we let go of boundaries altogether, but with this reason, we actually do have boundaries--we just haven't learned how to follow them. Here's an example. Let's say you lost your weight with a diet, but then you decide to switch to 3 meals and one snack a day for your boundaries. Since those boundaries are looser than what you're used to, there is a learning curve to figuring out how to maintain your weight within those boundaries. If we don't make the effort to learn how to make those boundaries work, we'll gain our weight back. We have a new trial in our lives that makes us feel like eating. Often we'll be going along smoothly and then something happens that makes us want to eat. Some trial that triggers all our emotional eating tendencies. Maybe there's a pandemic. Or the world is looking a little scary. Or someone you love is having a crisis. Or you're having a crisis. When those new trials crop up, it makes us want to eat. And we may gain our weight back at that time. We stick to our boundaries most of the year but go off during holidays and vacations. This is a good one to think about now because we're smack dab in the middle of the holidays--halfway between Thanksgiving in the United States and Christmas. When we go on vacation or it's a holiday, it's easy to justify a few extra treats. We think, Oh I'll just eat this now and get back on track when I get back to normal life. When we do that, we usually only gain a few pounds a year, but after ten years, those few pounds a year have become 30-40 pounds and we're back in a situation where we need to do the whole thing over again. We reintroduce sugar and/or flour when that was part of the reason we lost the weight to begin with. I've talked to many people who lost their weight without renewing their minds. They were able to do it because they took away their biggest source of temptation: flour and sugar. Unfortunately, I've also talked to a lot of people who then reintroduced sugar and flour at some point and either gained all their weight back or at least a good share of it. We lose it with self control and/or obsession rather than renewing. I've talked to many women who are either all in or all out. When they work on losing weight, they have a hard time doing it without obsessing about it. The temptation is to think about being healthy, exercising, and eating right all the time. This becomes so exhausting that eventually they can't handle the stress anymore and go back to eating. Then there are people like me who don't obsess and have no temptations in the exercise-too-much department, but I still used to gain my weight back because I never took the time to change the way I thought about food. We start believing new lies and don't take the time to renew. With this reason for weight gain, we do renew while losing it. In fact we renew our minds so much that we change the way we think about food and we no longer even want to overindulge or binge. But then if we're not careful, we start fudging our boundaries. So what do we do? With so many reasons driving us to gain our weight back, is there still hope that we can avoid all of that? Yes, there is hope! The Bible tells us we can do all things through Him who strengthens us. It also tells us that He who began a good work in us will complete it. God can help us stay free from the control of food. Let's look at seven strategies we can use to stay free from the control of food. 7 Ways to Keep Our Weight Off Keep relying on God for help with life. So many times I've had women tell me, "I'm so thankful I learned how to truth journal. It has helped me go to God for help with so many things." They started out renewing for food, but then started renewing for life and that drew them closer to God. With me it was the opposite. I started renewing first for the hard things in life, and only later started renewing for food. Here's the truth: God wants us to go to Him for help with life. And the more we go to Him, the more we'll fall in love with Him and the more we'll grow in our character and be like Him. And as a little side benefit, if we keep going to God for help with life, we'll be far less likely to gain our weight back because we won't be going to the refrigerator. Renew often about each new trial that comes up. Things will often be trucking along just fine, and then some new difficulty comes up in life that causes us stress, worry, or fear, and we find ourselves reaching for food again. When we learn the valuable skill of truth journaling, we can start going to God right away when a new trial comes into our lives. We can truth journal and ask Him to show us the lies we are believing about our current situation. By going to God about the trial first, we will be far less likely to continue to run to our old idol (food) to bring us comfort. Catch any weight gain early. It's far easier to lose a couple pounds than 20 pounds. And it's far easier to lose 20 pounds than 100 pounds. Some women will put away the scale for good, but when they find their clothes getting tight it's a wakeup call to be more diligent about following their boundaries--and renewing if necessary. For me, I weigh about once a week. If I find my weight is up for several weeks in a row, I try to be careful about eating less at meals. Continue to have firm lifelong boundaries. I can't emphasize how important it is to have some sort of boundaries with food if you're a person who loves food, is not opposed to large quantities, and has a tendency to eat emotionally. Boundaries keep our passions reigned in. Be VERY careful about reintroducing sugar if you lost the weight without it. And by careful I mean either don't do it, or do it carefully. Be careful during vacations and holidays. Fudged boundaries (which might involve actual fudge!), lead to weight gain. Check to see if you still believe any lies that make you overeat and also look out for any new lies that crop up (see below). Lies We Often Believe after We Lose the Weight It's okay to break my boundaries because I'm free from the control of food now. I may be free from the control of food, but that doesn't mean I can't gain my weight back and I will gain it back if I consistently eat too much! This little bit of sugar won't hurt. While it's possible this little bit of sugar won't hurt, it's also possible that this little bit of sugar will set in motion weeks or months or years of overeating. I should think carefully if I really want to do this and then make a plan for it if I decide to do it and go back to renewing if necessary. The truth is that I am a person who tends to overeat with sugar--I just love it too much--so I'll probably have to be careful all of my life. I still have boundaries. I don't actually have boundaries. I have intentions--more fruit and vegetables for example--but I don't have primary boundaries that tell me how often or how much I can eat. If I really want to keep this weight off, I need to have boundaries and follow them. Boundaries keep me safe. I talk more about boundaries in my recent book, Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating, and hope to do a video or podcast about them sometime as well. Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating also contains 100 exercise you can use to renew your mind to break free and stay free from the control of food. is a 30-day Bible study focused on the lies that make you eat, body image, and the weight loss process. I wrote this Bible study to go along with the questions and Bible verses in I Deserve a Donut, and it’s best if you have both books when you do this study. I Deserve a Donut is also available as a free app for your phone. The Android app isn't working on new phones at the moment (November 2023), but I hope to have it up and running again soon! Listen to the Podcast Google: to subscribe or listen on Google Podcasts. Apple Podcasts: to subscribe or listen on Apple Podcasts. (If you haven’t subscribed to the podcast on Apple, this can sometimes take a few hours to update.) Android: to subscribe or listen on Android. Spotify: to subscribe or listen on Spotify. Amazon Alexa: To listen on Amazon Alexa, say, “Alexa, play the Taste for Truth Podcast.” /episode/index/show/tastefortruth/id/28892753

Victory - Breaking Free from the Control of Food with Shelly 11/08/2023

How to Renew Your Mind for Weight Loss with Examples 10/10/2023

Breaking Free from a Sugar Stronghold with Tammy 09/12/2023

7 Lies That Keep Us from Renewing with Tonya 05/16/2023

7 Lies That Keep Us from Renewing with Tonya Most of us would agree that in order to have a change in our eating habits, we must first have a change in our minds! Yet, even knowing this, many of us still struggle to make the commitment to renewing our minds on a regular basis. On today's episode of the Taste for Truth Podcast (links below), I coach Tonya through identifying many of the lies that keep us from renewing. What We Discussed on the Podcast Identifying possible stressors in our lives that would cause us to emotionally eat How sometimes it's better to renew about emotions (or problems) we face in the day quickly to keep them from becoming really big emotions How to be proactive in truth journaling Why truth journaling is such a powerful tool for realignment The idea that making a goal that makes your life easier (like truth journaling) is a strategic way to approach change Some tips for having a really effective truth-journaling session (also found in ) 7 Lies That Keep Us from Renewing It's not going to work. I don't feel like doing it, so I shouldn't do it. Truth journaling isn't a fun way to relax, so I shouldn't do it. It takes too long. If I do it, it will make me not want to eat. (And I want to eat.) I'm too bad to go before God. I've messed up so God doesn't love me. Resources Discussed on the Podcast (the interview with one of Coach Sarah's clients that I mentioned) Contact Information for Nutritional Coach, Sarah Truitt (Tonya's health coach): Website: Instagram: Facebook: YouTube: Contact: Note: I will be taking the summer off from the Taste for Truth Podcast. I invite you to subscribe to my as I plan to put up some videos about emotional eating in the next few months. I also want to challenge you to make a renewing commitment for the summer... If you take a moment 2-3 times throughout your day to renew your mind whether by using one of the resources listed above, or simply by truth journaling, I have a very strong feeling that you will find it easier and easier to follow your food boundaries this summer! Listen to the Podcast Google: to subscribe or listen on Google Podcasts. Stitcher: to subscribe or listen on Stitcher. Apple Podcasts: to subscribe or listen on Apple Podcasts. (If you haven’t subscribed to the podcast on Apple, this can sometimes take a few hours to update.) Android: to subscribe or listen on Android. Spotify: to subscribe or listen on Spotify. Amazon Alexa: To listen on Amazon Alexa, say, “Alexa, play the Taste for Truth Podcast.” /episode/index/show/tastefortruth/id/26709063

How to Stop Boredom Eating (10 Strategies) 04/18/2023

How to Stop Boredom Eating (10 Strategies) Do you ever find yourself reaching for some exciting food because you're bored? Eating is quick-fix way to conquer boredom, but often leads to regret. In this post I want to talk about ten strategies to help you stop boredom eating. Let's begin by asking the question, "Why am I eating when bored?" Why am I eating when bored? For those of us who crave excitement, we want anything that will take us out of our mundane life and into a little bit of fun and excitement. And of course the most easily available option is the refrigerator. So of course we'll eat when we're bored if we enjoy food! It gives us that quick fix of fun and excitement to ease just a tad bit of our boredom. A better question to ask may be, "Why am I bored to begin with?" Let's take a look at that because if we can stop being bored, we can stop boredom eating. Why am I bored? Have you ever heard a friend say, "I'm never bored" or "Boredom is a choice"? I have. And each time I hear it, I think to myself (or more likely out loud), "I'm often bored!" In fact some days I feel like I'm going out of my mind with boredom!! So why are we bored, when our friend is never bored? I can think of ten reasons. We like being busy and get bored when we're not. I listed this reason first because even people who are almost never bored sometimes struggle with boredom during evenings and weekends. If your life is filled with work during the day—and you're a person who enjoys being busy—then you may be bored at night or on weekends. We're fun-loving people who crave excitement. When I think of my friends who aren't bored, they usually fall into three camps: they love accomplishment, they love stability, or they love hobbies. When you think about it, all three of those types of people can be satisfied in everyday life. The ones who love accomplishment can make a list no matter what's happening in their lives and work on accomplishment. The ones who love stability don't care if they have excitement because excitement by its very nature is a bit unstable. And the ones who love hobbies can usually find a hobby or two to fill up their free time. It's only people who crave excitement that have a hard time meeting those needs because regular life by its very nature isn't all that exciting because it's .... regular life! We're procrastinators and the thought of all that horrible work we should be doing is making us feel bored. I don't know how many times I feel bored just because I have too much on my plate and all of it sounds very boring to do. That makes me want to avoid work and go get something fun to eat. Our regular life doesn't fit our personalities. My dream job is to be a counselor at a Christian backpacking camp. Unfortunately, that's not a possibility for me right now, not to mention the fact that most Christian youth camps aren't looking for a 63-year-old married woman to be their camp counselor! We live in a culture that tells us to follow our passions and go for that dream job, but let's face it, the dream job isn't always practical, nor is it always what God wants us to be doing. That said, living a life that's different than our dream life can still lead to boredom. This leads to the fourth reason for boredom. We have unrealistic expectations for life. When we believe the hype that we need to be living our best life and our passion, we start having unrealistic expectations for life. We might think all of life should be just as fun and exciting as the summer we spent as a backpacking camp counselor, when there is no way the rest of our lives will be that fun on a consistent basis. Our unrealistic expectations for life make us feel bored because we're focusing on what we don't have rather than on what we do have. We expect ourselves to work too much without reward. When I was working full-time before I had kids, I rarely got bored. This was because my days were filled with work. And since I worked at a bank, my days were also filled with people. I enjoyed my work and also enjoyed all the visiting. Work in and of itself was a reward. But when I started working at home, first as a stay-at-home mom, then a homeschool mom, and finally as a writer, I often got bored (and still often get bored). I'm beginning to realize that one of the reasons I get bored is because I'm doing a job that doesn't energize me without taking enough "reward" breaks. This is a recipe for continued boredom, not to mention procrastination. Which leads us to the next reason for boredom ... We don't manage our work well. For those of us who spend the majority of our days at home, one of our biggest problems is that we have too much time on our hands. That doesn't mean we don't have a lot to do. It just means we have to manage our time ourselves and that can lead to long blocks of time with nothing to do (because either we don't have that much to do or we're procrastinating). And those long blocks of time can lead to boredom. We don't have enough on our plate. Another possible reason for being bored is that we don't have enough to fill our time. Many people reported boredom during the pandemic because they were out of work and weren't used to being out of work. Or you may be in a season of life such as retirement where you haven't figured out how to fill up your time and that leaves you with a lot of boredom on your hands. We've trained ourselves to need constant excitement. Educators say that it's hard to teach kids today because kids have been trained to expect constant excitement through playing video games, watching TV, and doing other forms of electronic entertainment. Kids aren't the only ones with this struggle. We also struggle because we have the same temptation to constantly jump on our phones whenever we're bored. We're making life about "having fun and excitement" and not about God. Whenever we try to fill ourselves up with something other than God, we never get enough to satisfy us. So if I'm trying to fill myself up with fun and excitement—and feel like I need that fun and excitement to live a great life—I'll never get enough to satisfy me and I'll live in boredom. We'll take a look at ten strategies for how to stop boredom eating by learning not to be bored in a minute, but before we do that, let's look at three practical tips to stop boredom eating. 3 Practical Tips to Stop Boredom Eating Hide or remove exciting food from your house. Let's face it, more often than not, if it's there to eat, we'll eat it! To solve that problem, try not to have exciting foods in the house--or if you can't do that, ask someone in your house to hide them from you! Make it harder to buy exciting foods when you're out on the town. If you have a tendency to stop and get exciting food when you're out driving, find a way to make it harder to get that food. You could change your driving route, put your wallet in the far corner of the back seat so you can't reach it when you go through the drive through, or renew your mind before you make that drive so you don't want the exciting treats. If you're within walking distance of exciting treats, consider leaving your billfold at home so you won't be tempted to get them. Eliminate exciting foods from your diet. Sometimes it's easier to have none than one. At different phases of my life I've given up sugar. Was my life boring in the food department? Yes!! But did it help me give up boredom eating? Again, yes!! This is a drastic move, but it can actually make life better if you're constantly craving sweets or chips or something like that and then giving into your cravings whenever you're bored. Okay, now that we have the practical tips out of the way, let's look at the bigger picture. And in some ways this bigger picture is about how to stop boredom itself--because if we learn how to stop being bored, we'll learn how to stop boredom eating. How to Stop Boredom Eating (By Learning How to Stop Being Bored!) - 10 Strategies Let go of unrealistic expectations for this phase of your life. While we might expect life to be constantly exciting if we're backpacking counselors at a Christian camp, we can't expect life to be constantly exciting with most stages of life! Take a minute and think about your current life phase. On a scale of 1 to 10 how exciting should you expect your days to be? Based on your answer, give up your unrealistic expectations and then move onto the next step. Embrace regular life. Think of this way. What if you lived in a war-torn country and all of a sudden the war stopped. Life wasn't fun and exciting but at least there wouldn't be a war going on. Would you be thankful for regular life or would you be craving excitement! I think we'd all be thankful for regular life. The more we can embrace life as-is and tell ourselves that this regular life is great, the less bored we'll be. Make life about God. I still remember years ago complaining to a friend about how boring my life was. My friend, said, Barb, what is excitement from a biblical perspective? I thought about that for a minute and replied that excitement from a biblical perspective would be growing closer to God and serving Him and even doing things like helping others break free from strongholds. From a biblical perspective my life (and work) was exciting. But I wasn't seeing that because I was wanting some traditional cultural excitement. Learn how to manage your work or day-to-day life. If you spend your days at home, learn to manage your work and time well. I talk a bit about this in my book, Freedom from Procrastination, and I am learning more about this as I go along. This is something that will be different for each of us, and it's a project in and of itself. Work on overcoming procrastination. The less we procrastinate, the less time we'll spend being bored. Not only will we have less down time (because we'll actually be getting those things done), but we'll also be less bored because we won't have that dreaded job hanging over our heads. That said, it's incredibly difficult to overcome procrastination. If you need help with it, check out my Bible study and workbook, . Plan rewards for work or find ways to make work fun. If you're a person who is more fun-focused rather than accomplishment focused, you'll be far happier if you find a way to make work fun or at the very least plan some rewards for work. Get more on your plate. If you don't have enough to fill your days, think of new ways to fill it. God never meant for us to spend our days watching Netflix all day! Find ways to serve others and love others well. The more we focus on others, the less we focus on ourselves and how bored we are. Find non-addictive ways to fit excitement into your day. There is nothing wrong with trying to make life more exciting, as long as God would approve of the type of excitement we're adding to our lives! If you're in a season of life where you don't naturally have a lot of fun and excitement in your life, try to plan for it. For example, when I'm planning coaching calls, podcast interviews, or appointments, I try to space them out through the week so I have at least one of those a day since I'm energized by being with people. I also usually talk to one friend or family member by phone each day. These are non-addictive ways I can add fun and excitement to my life. You may be different than me, so you'll have to ask, "What energizes me?" and try to add some of that to your life each day if possible. Put limits on your phone, Netflix, or other entertainment sources. We spoke earlier about how we train ourselves to need constant excitement. We do the same things with food. When we eat exciting food too often, we train ourselves to need exciting food all the time. It seems counterintuitive, but the more we reign in our desires for constant excitement and learn to have it as treats rather than regular life, the less bored we'll find ourselves. Make a plan for downtime. If you regularly experience boredom in the evenings, late afternoons, or weekends, make an actual schedule for how you'll spend your time during those periods. It can be a schedule with time slots (7:00-8:00 board game with kids, 8:00-8:30 read, etc.) or it could just be an order of events: certain things you'll do in a certain order each day during that downtime but without a time tied to them (do dishes, fold clothes, go on a walk, renew my mind, read, etc.). I also wanted to add that I have another helpful post about dealing with boredom, it's called: ! Check it out if you need additional support with overcoming boredom eating in your life. Resources Mentioned on the Podcast Listen to the Podcast Google: to subscribe or listen on Google Podcasts. Stitcher: to subscribe or listen on Stitcher. Apple Podcasts: to subscribe or listen on Apple Podcasts. (If you haven’t subscribed to the podcast on Apple, this can sometimes take a few hours to update.) Android: to subscribe or listen on Android. Spotify: to subscribe or listen on Spotify. Amazon Alexa: To listen on Amazon Alexa, say, “Alexa, play the Taste for Truth Podcast.” /episode/index/show/tastefortruth/id/26522268

Freedom from Food Addiction through Truth Journaling with Debbie 03/21/2023

Freedom from Food Addiction through Truth Journaling with Debbie Do you feel hopeless that you will never be able to get over your food addiction? Have you had success with weight loss in the past only to find yourself back at the same (or higher) weight again? If either of these describe you, you will be greatly encouraged by my interview with Debbie on today's Taste for Truth Podcast (links below). Debbie went from a size 28 to a size 12 and has been living in victory for over six years! In this interview, Debbie and I go through many of the lies that she has had to overcome in her journey. I've listed these below along with their corresponding truths. Debbie's List of Lies & Truths 1. You'll never be good enough. Truth: You don't have to be good enough, Jesus is. 2. You'll never be accepted. Truth: Jesus accepts you as you are, and honestly, most other people also accept you as you are! 3. Food has to taste good. Truth: Food has to be good for me and nourish my body. 4. It's not fair. Truth: It's an opportunity to grow closer to God. Truth: Everyone has something that they struggle with. 5. More is better. Truth: Less is better for me because I feel better. 6. Truth Journaling won't work unless I do it perfectly. Truth: There is no such thing as perfect. Truth: Mistakes are part of learning. 7. You're a failure. Truth: I'm not a failure! Mistakes are part of learning. 8. I can't do this. Truth: God can, and I am depending on His strength to change me. 9. I'm a horrible person and I feel ashamed. Truth: God loves me as I am, and I am actually a wonderful person even though this area of my life may be a struggle. What We Discussed on the Podcast How eating was a numbing drug for Debbie How an "all-or-nothing" or perfectionist personality plays into weight loss efforts Deep insecurity from years of being overweight Learning to forgive culture for not accepting people who are overweight How Debbie truth-journaled about body image before actually journaling about food "I didn't know how important the truth was until it set me free." Learning to listen when we bring our lies and our thoughts before God Truth journaling to get rid of mental commotion Debbie's four big takeaways from her weight-loss journey Grace over guilt Resources Mentioned on the Podcast Listen to the Podcast Google: to subscribe or listen on Google Podcasts. Stitcher: to subscribe or listen on Stitcher. Apple Podcasts: to subscribe or listen on Apple Podcasts. (If you haven’t subscribed to the podcast on Apple, this can sometimes take a few hours to update.) Android: to subscribe or listen on Android. Spotify: to subscribe or listen on Spotify. Amazon Alexa: To listen on Amazon Alexa, say, “Alexa, play the Taste for Truth Podcast.” /episode/index/show/tastefortruth/id/26195748

Persevering with Truth Journaling (Even When You Don't Think You're Doing it Right) with Tami 02/22/2023

How to Make Yourself Exercise and Renew with Anna 01/25/2023

Letting Go of Emotional Eating with Karen Seager 12/28/2022

Living a Life Unbinged with Kristy McCammon 11/30/2022

Living a Life Unbinged with Kristy McCammon When life gets stressful, do you find yourself running to food to cope? Do you find that any emotion causes you to want to eat, and to eat too much? If so, you're not alone. On today's episode of the Taste for Truth podcast (links below), I speak with Kristy McCammon, the creator of , about her struggle to break free from a life controlled by food. What We Discussed on the Podcast How sugar and white flour abstinence helped Kristy tear down the idol of food How "none is so much easier than one" Learning to sit with uncomfortable emotions How different personalities approach weight loss Victory over emotional eating always boils down to renewing our mind using a variety of tools How reaching out in times of failure can circumvent an unhealthy spiral What a life of food freedom truly looks like How viewing boundaries as "life-giving" rather than "restricting" can help us stick to them Kristy's mantra: Stop - Pray - Walk Away Resources Mentioned on the Podcast Barb's newest book: to Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating Kristy McCammon's website and coaching program: on Facebook on Instagram About Kristy McCammon Kristy McCammon is a speaker, blogger, influencer, and coach in the area of Christian weight loss. She spent most of her life food obsessed and overweight. In 2017, she started using boundaries in regards to food and lost 100 pounds. She has been maintaining that loss for 4 years now. She specializes in Christian weight-loss by combining faith and food boundaries. She is on a mission to help others become free from food addiction and fully live out God’s plan for their life. Her signature course is called the 60 Day Surrender. You can find her on social media where she shares trips, tricks, and recipes to help others on their journey to food freedom: Website Listen to the Podcast Google: to subscribe or listen on Google Podcasts. Stitcher: to subscribe or listen on Stitcher. Apple Podcasts: to subscribe or listen on Apple Podcasts. (If you haven’t subscribed to the podcast on Apple, this can sometimes take a few hours to update.) Android: to subscribe or listen on Android. Spotify: to subscribe or listen on Spotify. Amazon Alexa: To listen on Amazon Alexa, say, “Alexa, play the Taste for Truth Podcast.” /episode/index/show/tastefortruth/id/25171494

How to Break Free from Emotional Eating 11/01/2022

Bonus: When You Feel Like a Weight Loss Failure 10/26/2022

Bonus: When You Feel Like a Weight Loss Failure Do you ever find yourself saying, "I can't believe I'm still struggling with my weight! I should be over this by now!"? If you do, you're not the only one. That's one of the most frequent comments I hear from women about their weight. We think we should have it all together, but it's not surprising that we don't! After all, we love food. We eat for emotional reasons. And this isn't a goal we can check off our list and say, "There! That's done!" Instead, we need to keep following our boundaries day after day, month after month, and year after year. No wonder we feel like a weight loss failure at times! Here's the thing though: We're not weight loss failures. Let me say that again. We're. Not. Weight. Loss. Failures. Instead, we're people who broke our boundaries today. It's important that we make that distinction in how we talk to ourselves. Because if we're defined by failure, there's no use going on. We might as well give up right now and start eating what we want. But if we're just a person who failed at following her boundaries today, then it would be better to look at why we failed and correct our course so we'll be less likely to fail tomorrow. We can do that by looking at how we spend our days, what food is in the house, what we do when life is hard, and what we do when we break our boundaries. In this podcast episode, we'll look at what we do when we break our boundaries. Picture yourself following your boundaries. Life is going well and your weight loss program is going well, but then one day you break your boundaries. Majorly. You now have five options of what to do next. 5 Options When We Just Broke Our Boundaries and Think We're a Weight Loss Failure Give up. Quit trying to follow your boundaries. Eat what you want for the rest of the day or better yet for the rest of the week! Persevere in your own strength. Get up the next morning and say, "I'm going to follow my boundaries today!" but then don't go to God for help when you break them. (And I don't know about you but I am FAR more likely to break boundaries the next day if I broke them the previous day.) Persevere in God's strength by asking Him to change you. Keep trying to follow your boundaries and regularly ask God to help you follow your boundaries. Persevere in God's strength by asking God to help you follow your boundaries and then renew your mind every once in awhile. Renew your mind every once in awhile (but not often enough for the truth to really sink in), and visit with God about what you learned. Ask Him for wisdom, insight, and strength to follow our boundaries. Persevere in God's strength by asking God to help you follow your boundaries and then renew your mind either every time you feel like breaking our boundaries or several times a day. Renew your mind several times a day or every time you feel like breaking your boundaries (even though you don't feel like it and you're sick to death of doing it), and visit with God about what you learned. Ask Him for wisdom, insight, and strength to follow your boundaries. Now let me ask you a question. Which option do you think would give you the best hope of lasting success with following your boundaries--which translates to lasting success with weight loss? I think we'd all say the 5th option, but we also know how hard it is to take that 5th option. Our flesh doesn't want us to take it (because it wants to eat), we don't want to take it (because it takes too much time), and Satan doesn't want us to take it (because he likes to see us controlled by food). I'm hoping my new book (on shelves November 1) will help you take the third option. In fact let's take that third option right now. Following is one of the renewing exercises from . In this exercise I list five lies we believe when we feel like a weight loss failure. These lies come from lies women have told me in coaching sessions and also lies I've told myself! When You Feel Like a Weight Loss Failure (page 220 in Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating) Write truths for the following beliefs. Beliefs I'm a failure because I can't stick to my eating plan. It's terrible to be an overweight person. I am not worthy in the eyes of the world. I have to be skinny or I'm an utter failure. People will like me better if I'm skinny. Truths 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. What I Would Write for the Truths Did you write down your truths? What I usually find as I record truth to the lies I'm believing is that my desires and emotions actually change as I'm writing them. If you find that your desires and emotions aren't changing, check out the 8 tips I have for recording the truths to your lies in the chapter on truth journaling in . Following are five possible truths you could write. (Note: I may write a completely different set of truths if I was doing this exercise tomorrow.) I'm a failure because I can't stick to my eating plan. I am not a failure. I'm a person who failed today at following my boundaries. And as I said earlier in this blog post, this is normal. I will fail! The question is, what will I do after I fail? Anytime I stop, it's a victory. So if I stop after seven donuts, that's a victory because I could have had eight donuts! Renewing my mind will help me stop. Lord, please help me to develop this habit of renewing every time I break my boundaries! It is terrible to be an overweight person. War is terrible. Child abuse is terrible. Famine is terrible. Being overweight is unpleasant, not terrible! Lord, help me to be thankful for the blessings I have and see myself through your eyes! I am not worthy in the eyes of the world. I may not be worthy in the eyes of the world I've drummed up in my mind, but that's not the real world! While it's true that our culture seems to be obsessed with skinny, it's not true that the people in our world are obsessed with skinny. Most people care how they themselves look. Some (maybe few) people care how their kids or spouses or boyfriends/girlfriends look, but very few care about how anyone else looks. What they really care about is how I interact with them, how I treat them, and my character. Those are also the things God cares about. Seek to please Him, not man! I have to be skinny or I'm an utter failure. This is soooo untrue!! There are so many parts to who I am. I'm a person who likes to hike. I like doing puzzles. I enjoy visiting with strangers. I love helping people grow. To say that I'm a failure because I'm skinny objectifies me and turns me into just a body. Don't do that! Be thankful for how God made me and all the gifts He's given me! People will like me better if I'm skinny. The vast majority of people out there could care less what I weigh. The only person (people) I can think of that might like me better if I'm skinny is (fill in the blank). And my guess is that that's because I'm related to him/her and it hurts his/her pride when I'm overweight. This is his/her problem, not mine, and God doesn't want him/her to be proud so this is a good trial for him/her to work on that. :) (NOTE: I'm just giving one possibility here!) It's also true that some people might like me better if I'm overweight as some people are intimidated or jealous of skinny people. And I also don't want to cater to that! The truth is, I will feel much happier at a lower weight. God wants me to accept myself as I am, but He also wants me to work toward being more healthy. Do you see how writing the truth would change my desires? Truth really does set us free. It makes us want to follow our boundaries! When we break our boundaries, it's essential to see ourselves through God's eyes, rather than our own self-condemning eyes or the (imagined) eyes of a society who (we think) condemns us (even though most of them don't). God doesn't look at us and say, "You're a weight loss failure!" No, He looks at us and says, "You're my beloved child. You're my beautiful creation. Or even, you're my !" And then He says, "Come to me, my beloved, and ." Renewing is a way we go to God for help with changing the things we can't change in our own strength (). Resources Mentioned on the Podcast Pre-Order Bonuses at How to Listen to the Podcast Google: to subscribe or listen on Google Podcasts. Stitcher: to subscribe or listen on Stitcher. Apple Podcasts: to subscribe or listen on Apple Podcasts. (If you haven’t subscribed to the podcast on Apple, this can sometimes take a few hours to update.) Android: to subscribe or listen on Android. Spotify: to subscribe or listen on Spotify. 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8 Tips to Maintain Your Weight 10/05/2022

Bonus: Why Did I Write Another Book on Emotional Eating? 09/28/2022

5 Lies Christian Women Believe That Sabotage Weight Loss with Sara Borgstede 09/07/2022

Mini Habits for Weight Loss with Charlene Dash 05/18/2022

How to Stop Eating So Much on Vacation with Stacie 04/20/2022

How to Maintain Your Weight with Michelle 03/16/2022

How to Stop Sugar Cravings with 7 Habits with Katrina Sequenzia 02/16/2022

How to Stop Sugar Cravings with 7 Habits with Katrina Sequenzia Breaking free from sugar cravings and managing your weight is about more than diet and exercise. Sugar is highly addictive and requires multiple steps to break free from its bondage. In this podcast episode, I am interviewing Katrina Sequenzia; Katrina is a Certified Health Coach and Registered Nurse on a mission to help Christians fulfill their God-given purpose by sharing the tools and resources to live a healthy lifestyle. Katrina shares Seven Habits To Stop Sugar Cravings in today's interview, based on the signature framework from her life-changing programs. By the end of this episode, you will understand why some foods are more addictive than others, the impact that food and stress have on our bodies, and how you can begin the process of healing from your food and sugar addiction. Episode Highlights: [00:01:17] Understanding why we become addicted to sugar and other foods? Katrina breaks down the spiritual, physical, and emotional aspects of cravings. [00:03:48] The body’s chemical reaction to sugar and why we were created to love sweets. [00:04:48] Dopamine is the feel-good chemical that our brains release, but can we have too much of a good thing? Katrina explains why the answer is Yes! [00:08:24] Have you ever wondered why diet and exercise sometimes fail to produce results? Katrina and I discuss why and you should avoid extreme diets and fads. [00:15:49] Katrina reveals the Seven Habits To Stop Sugar Cravings and provides a deeper insight into kicking the sugar habit once and for all. [00:18:14] The importance of relaxation and hydration and how it can help or hinder us in our journey. [00:19:15] Sleep and movement and why it's more important than you think. [00:24:03] Where to start your weight loss journey and how to use Katrina's framework to lay the foundation to healing your relationship with sugar. [00:24:58] Special gift for podcast listeners. Key Takeaways: When we attempt to break free from the bondage of food addiction, we often start with exercise and food preparation. Still, the areas that are often ignored make the most impact in our journeys, like putting our faith front and center, rest, and relaxation, to name a few. Food isn't the enemy- the goal of any program should be to develop a relationship with the glorious foods that were created to be consumed according to God's instruction. How to Listen to the Podcast: Google: to subscribe or listen on Google Podcasts. Stitcher: to subscribe or listen on Stitcher. Apple Podcasts: to subscribe or listen on Apple Podcasts. (If you haven’t subscribed to the podcast on Apple, this can sometimes take a few hours to update.) Android: to subscribe or listen on Android. Spotify: to subscribe or listen on Spotify. Amazon Alexa: To listen on Amazon Alexa, say, “Alexa, play the Taste for Truth Podcast.” /episode/index/show/tastefortruth/id/21896891

Are You Tired of the Struggle to be Healthy? - 5 Tips 01/19/2022

Are You Tired of the Struggle to be Healthy? - 5 Tips It's January 19th, and many of us have already given up on our commitment to "Be Healthy This Year!!!!" It's not that we don't want to be healthy. We do! We're just demoralized by the constant failures that go along with working on a be-healthy habit. So what do we do to get out of that slump? Pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and make a commitment to try again tomorrow? I don't think so; I used to do that all the time and it didn't work. I didn't have enough self-control to make myself do the things that would lead me toward health or not do the things that kept me unhealthy. If we really want to be healthy--and we're not one of those people who love exercising and eating healthy--we need to renew our minds. The Bible tells us we're transformed by the renewing of the mind. This works for anything we do in life, including becoming healthy. The more we get God's perspective on life and food, the more we'll want to do things that will lead us toward health. If you'd like to become healthy this year, here is what I would suggest. 5 Steps to Becoming Healthy if You Don't Have Oodles of Self-Control Renew your mind about food 2-3 times a day by doing 1) the questions in I Deserve a Donut (app or book), 2) the questions in Renewing of the Mind Project, or 3) truth journaling. I would suggest renewing at lunch and again sometime between 3:00 and 5:30 to prepare you with enough truth to make it through the evening. Make a commitment to exercise. If you don't already have a habit, make this a really short commitment: 5-15 minutes or 3000 steps a day. Then increase it as you gain more self-control in that area. Renew your mind when you can't make yourself exercise. You can use the questions in Renewing of the Mind Project in the Starting a Habit section for this. Here are some of the thought in that section of the book that have corresponding questions and Bible verses: This is so boring. I really don't want to do this. I shouldn't have to do this. There's a good reason I can't do this again. This is no fun. I'll do it later. I'm too busy. Will this be worth all the work? Memorize a few Bible verses and meditate on them throughout the day. In the Bible we see Jesus use Scripture to battle temptation. If Jesus used Scripture to walk the straight and narrow, how much more do we need to use it? Here are a few suggestions of Bible verses you could memorize: Luke 12:15, Romans 13:14, 1 Corinthians 6:12, 1 Timothy 4:7b, Philippians 4:11-13, Hebrews 12:11. JULIE - could you ad links to these maybe using the ESV translation? Do a weight loss Bible study. Renewing will help you with the lies that make you overeat and avoid exercise. But it also helps to have a biblical foundation for the truths that will set us free from an unhealthy lifestyle. Bible study will help with that. People often ask me which of my Bible studies to do first. I recommend Freedom from Emotional Eating first if you struggle with emotional eating or entitlement. And Taste for Truth if you're more of an indulgent, careless, or bored overeater. If you like variety, I'd recommend doing the first six lessons in Taste for Truth, then switch over to Freedom from Emotional Eating and go back and forth between the two. But What If I Can't Make Myself Do Those Things? Now you may have noticed one tiny little problem. All the things I just mentioned also require discipline! This is where you need some friendship or group support--to make yourself renew your mind. Usually we use accountability to make us follow our eating guidelines or make ourselves exercise. This is nice, but it doesn't change the way we think about eating and exercise. And we need to change the way we think if we want to have lifelong change. So I would suggest finding a little group. In my last podcast episode with Dr. Melanie Wilson, called , we talked about how to gather a couple of people for the purpose of following through with goals. This would be the perfect thing to do to avoid getting discouraged about your attempts to be healthy. You could start a Bible study at your church (even though that might be scary) or just gather two friends and meet weekly or even monthly. You could do daily accountability for renewing. Let each other know what your goals are (I'll renew 3 times a day, for example), then each morning text each other and ask, did you renew? Just remember as you do this, though, that you will have bad days. We all do when we're working on a new habit. The key is just to get through those bad days and don't give up. Don't beat yourself up. Don't say mean things to yourself. And don't despair. Every single person on the planet has something they can't get over. Eating too much might be that thing for you. But... we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us! We just need to keep going to Him to get that strength! In today's podcast episode, you'll get a chance to do that. Following are the questions we'll be visiting with God about on today's podcast: Tired of the Struggle Questions, Bible Verses, and Tips Note: The questions, Bible studies, and tips are all from . Do you ever wish life were easier? Why do you think it’s so hard to lose weight and keep it off? What do you usually do when you get discouraged about it? What will happen if you keep doing that? Do you want that to happen? How do you think God feels when He sees you suffering? (Hebrews 4:15) What do you think God wants to do for you in the midst of your struggle? (See Hebrews 4:16 and the other verses below for ideas.) What do you think He wants you to do in the midst of your struggle? (See verses below for ideas.) What will you gain if you go to Him for help with this struggle? When you think of all you’ll gain, is it worth taking the time to fight the battle with spiritual weapons? Would it help to have someone hold you accountable to the renewing of your mind? If so, who could you ask? Bible Verses Psalm 30:5b Weeping may last for the night, but a shout of joy comes in the morning. Jeremiah 32:27 Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for Me? Romans 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. Galatians 6:9 Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary. Philippians 1:6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Hebrews 4:15-16 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. Hebrews 12:11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. James 1:2-4 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. Tired of the Struggle Tips Let’s face it. It’s hard to keep dealing with the same problem over and over. Sometimes we feel like throwing in the towel and just giving up. Don’t do it. Spiritual battles are just what they’re called: battles. And battles aren’t easy. You can’t enter into battle without entering into suffering. Here’s a comforting thought, though. It’s far better to suffer with God than without Him. Spiritual battles can be intense, sweet times of fellowship with God—so sweet it almost feels like it’s worth struggling through the problem just to have those times with God. I want to encourage you to keep going to Him for help. Renew your mind. Take off those lies and put on the truth. Let the Holy Spirit work in you and minister to you and conform you to His image. The journey won’t be pleasant, but afterwards, you’ll experience the peaceful fruit of righteousness (Hebrews 12:11). And that will be worth the struggle. Other Podcast Episodes Where You Can Renew If you'd like to listen to more podcast episodes that allow you to renew while you listen, check out these episodes: Resources Mentioned on the Podcast Bible Study Bible study book blog post with Dr. Melanie Wilson and Barb How to Listen to the Podcast: Google: to subscribe or listen on Google Podcasts. Stitcher: to subscribe or listen on Stitcher. Apple Podcasts: to subscribe or listen on Apple Podcasts. (If you haven’t subscribed to the podcast on Apple, this can sometimes take a few hours to update.) Android: to subscribe or listen on Android. Spotify: to subscribe or listen on Spotify. Amazon Alexa: To listen on Amazon Alexa, say, “Alexa, play the Taste for Truth Podcast.” /episode/index/show/tastefortruth/id/21590624

Helpful Tips to Stop Overeating 12/15/2021

Helpful Tips to Stop Overeating It's that time of year again when parties and treats abound! Many of us who already struggle with overeating find it even more difficult to resist temptation during the holidays. What's a person to do?! Well, there are actually some ways to healthfully navigate this tempting time of year. Let's look at some helpful tips to stop overeating during the holidays. Change Your Mindset First, we need to adjust the way we think about food. We do this by renewing our minds and confronting any lies we believe that make us overeat. When we overindulge (or with any bad habit, really), there's usually something going on in our minds that is creating that intense desire to overeat. We may think, I've waited all year for this [insert special food]. We begin to anticipate all of the goodies that we don't regularly eat during the rest of the year. When we start to fixate on our favorite holiday foods - without trying to stem the tide of these thoughts - the desire for them just grows bigger. Many of us also probably have a strong association between eating and holiday festivities. It's almost as if - in our minds - every party or event is primarily centered around what we plan to be eating. It's often our first thought! We have to learn to focus on the people and fun at the events to begin to decrease the allure of indulgent eating. If all we are looking forward to is the food, then we're setting ourselves up for failure. Another lie we believe is I only get this food at this time of year, so I better eat up while I can. Here's the truth: almost of all of our favorite foods can be made at any time of the year if we are able to cook it ourselves. We just don't usually think of making it during other seasons. Telling ourselves, you can make this any day you want, will help us avoid the frenzy to eat all of it at once. We may also think, This is so delicious, I need to eat more! The truth is, the actual taste of the food diminishes for us when we eat too much of it. It's actually way more delicious if we eat a small or just regular amount! We can eat slowly and savor every bite. Get Things Done Early Another reason we overeat is to avoid doing the things we don't feel like doing. This happens throughout the year, but even more so on the holidays because we often have more on our plates at that time of the year. The more we work on overcoming procrastination, the less likely we'll be to overeat. One way to overcome procrastination is to make a list of your top three things to get done each day. Don't put things on the list that you'll do anyway. Put those things on the list that you hate to do and know you'll procrastinate. Get those things done first and you'll be less likely to overeat during the day. If you struggle with procrastination, here's a podcast episode that will help: Go to God for Help with Negative Emotions Often we turn to food, not God, for help with life. Something is going badly and all we want to do is eat. Drown our sorrows in that yummy bowl of ice cream. The more we go to God for help though, the less we'll feel like overeating. He'll help us see life from His perspective, and give us strength and comfort. Eating on the other hand, will only give us immediate relief. It's a temporary fix that leaves us with a life of consequences. In my experience, it's far better if I go to God early. When I first start feeling upset with something. If I wait until later in the day--when that small emotion has become an overwhelming emotion--it's hard to let go of it. On those days, you often just have to wait until the next day to feel better. If you'd like some tools for dealing with negative emotions, check out the Renew Your Mind tab at the top of this website or the Live in Peace tab. If you're reading this on a mobile device, you can find those tabs by clicking on the menu at the top of this post. Go for Quality, Not Quantity When I was in high school, my mom encouraged me to buy fewer clothes but higher quality clothes. This was back in the days when there weren't a lot of discount stores around. Because of this philosophy, I missed out on some fun clothes. But what I gained was an uncluttered closet. Most of us would be better off if we had less belongings. Less to take care of, less to clean, and less to clutter up our lives. Most of us would also be better off if we had less food! What would happen if you started thinking about quality, not quantity in the food department? I'm not talking about being a spoiled person (I'll only eat food if it's high quality!) I'm talking about a philosophy. To enjoy each and every bite of any food you eat, but to stop before you reach the food equivalent of an overflowing closet that adds stress to your life. If you'd like to give this a try, you could say a little prayer before each meal and ask God to help you dwell on the good, to be thankful, and to praise Him for each and every bite. Let each meal be a time of fellowship with God and with the people with whom you're sharing the meal. Hold Weight Loss with Open Hands Focusing on weight loss often leads to overeating. It seems counterintuitive--shouldn't I eat less if I'm trying to lose weight?--but here's what happens: every time we break our boundaries and eat too much, we go on a binge. Why? Because we've already broken our boundaries and this is a brilliant opportunity to eat more before we get serious again tomorrow. If we instead just focus on developing healthy habits--like following our boundaries, for example--we'll be less likely to overindulge. Does that mean we can't go on a diet to lose weight? No, we can still do that if we want. We just need to remember to hold weight loss itself with open hands. Give Yourself Grace In some ways, this tip is tied to the last tip. If we're holding weight loss with open hands--not feeling like we need to be skinny to be acceptable--we'll be far more likely to give ourselves grace. We beat ourselves up when we feel like we're a total failure. But if life isn't about being skinny (which it's not), then we're not a total failure if we're not skinny! This is just one aspect of who we are. If you're tempted to beat yourself up after eating too much at a holiday party, come home and do the self-condemnation questions or the regret questions from my as soon as possible. This will help you avoid that late night binge session. Usually, we haven't even "messed up" as bad as we think we did. We just ate more than usual. It's the late night binge sessions that really contribute to our weight gain. Take Practical Steps to Stop Overeating We'll be far less likely to overeat if we take some practical steps before we're in that tempting situation. Here are some practical steps you can take to stop overeating before you ever start. Don't keep your favorite treats in the house. When baking, make smaller amounts, or freeze some of it. Make sure you're not completely famished when attending a holiday event where there will be lots of tempting foods. Renew your mind before every holiday eating opportunity. Do a Bible study like or to better prepare your mindset. Create a simple plan (like a specific menu) for the days following an event so that you can more quickly get back on track. I hope these tips have been helpful. We talk about some other things on the podcast as well to help stop overeating. In fact, you could listen to the podcast on the way to an event where you'll be tempted to overeat! Resources We Discussed on the Podcast - hosted by Wendy Speake How to Listen to the Podcast: Google: to subscribe or listen on Google Podcasts. Stitcher: to subscribe or listen on Stitcher. Apple Podcasts: to subscribe or listen on Apple Podcasts. (If you haven’t subscribed to the podcast on Apple, this can sometimes take a few hours to update.) Android: to subscribe or listen on Android. Spotify: to subscribe or listen on Spotify. Amazon Alexa: To listen on Amazon Alexa, say, “Alexa, play the Taste for Truth Podcast.” /episode/index/show/tastefortruth/id/21369410

Overcoming a Negative Body Image and a Difficult Childhood with Kate 11/10/2021

Transition Eating: What It is and How to Stop with Linda 10/13/2021

Transition Eating: What It is and How to Stop with Linda Do you ever find yourself struggling with your eating boundaries when your normal routine is interrupted? Do you find it difficult to get back to "real life" after coming back from a vacation or a holiday? If so, you'll want to listen to today's episode of the podcast. I get to talk with Linda, who is a school teacher, about the challenges she faces with her eating during those transitional times in her life. Types of Transitions We Talk About on the Podcast - when plans change suddenly - from summer break to school or school to summer - from vacation to real life or from real life to vacation - from weight loss to maintenance. We didn't talk about transitions from one task to another on this podcast, but I find that's another common time for us to break boundaries. For this type of transition, the first step is to be aware of it. It's often caused by procrastination. We don't want to switch to the next activity so we procrastinate. And we often eat to procrastinate! This type of transition eating could be solved by doing the procrastination questions in the I Deserve a Donut app or by asking two questions: 1) Why am I procrastinating, 2) What's the first step? Then focus on the first step. Tips for Overcoming Transition Eating 1. Plan for Transition. 2. Renew more than usual. 3. Plan some things you like to do for the first 2-3 days of a transition to help ease yourself into it. 4. Remember how much you enjoy life with boundaries. 5. Practice gratitude and let go of entitlement. 6. Make time to think and prepare ahead of time (like putting notifications on your phone to remind you to think about it). 7. Let go of unrealistic expectations (for how perfect you should be by now, for regular life, etc.). 8. Focus on being nourished by God (rather than feeling like you need good food and fun vacations to get your nourishment needs met). Resources Mentioned on the Podcast blog post How to Listen to the Podcast: Google: to subscribe or listen on Google Podcasts. Stitcher: to subscribe or listen on Stitcher. Apple Podcasts: to subscribe or listen on Apple Podcasts. (If you haven’t subscribed to the podcast on Apple, this can sometimes take a few hours to update.) Android: to subscribe or listen on Android. Spotify: to subscribe or listen on Spotify. Amazon Alexa: To listen on Amazon Alexa, say, “Alexa, play the Taste for Truth Podcast.” /episode/index/show/tastefortruth/id/20580557

Stress Eating and How to Truth Journal with Stacie 09/15/2021

Getting Back on Track after Breaking Your Boundaries with Brooke 08/18/2021

How to Stop Obsessing About Weight Loss and Exercise with Heather Creekmore 05/05/2021

How to Stop Obsessing About Weight Loss and Exercise with Heather Creekmore Do you constantly think about losing weight? Do you struggle with a healthy body image? On this episode of the , Heather Creekmore gives insight into her own struggle with body image and how she learned to stop obsessing about weight loss! Heather Creekmore writes and speaks hope to thousands of women each week inspiring them to stop comparing and start living. Her first book, , encourages women to uncover the spiritual root of body image issues and find freedom. Her new release, , offers women a journey into the depths of God's grace to find a way off the treadmill of constant comparison. Heather has been featured on Fox News, Huff Post, Morning Dose, Church Leaders, For Every Mom, along with dozens of other shows and podcasts, but she's best recognized from her appearance as a contestant on the Netflix hit show, Nailed It. Heather and her fighter-pilot-turned-pastor husband, Eric, have four children and live in Austin, Texas. Connect with Heather at . Topics We Discussed on This Episode: The "Body Image Idol" and modern day idolatry Being obsessed with weight loss and exercise The treasure principle found in Matthew 6 as a test for idols in our lives Looking for salvation in the next new diet and being controlled by rigid food rules The cure for idolatry The lie about loving our bodies A grace-filled approach to looking at our lives Resources Mentioned on This Episode: Heather's Website: Heather's Podcast: Heather's Books: and How to Listen to the Podcast: Stitcher: to subscribe or listen on Stitcher. Apple Podcasts: to subscribe or listen on Apple Podcasts. (If you haven’t subscribed to the podcast on Apple, this can sometimes take a few hours to update.) Android: to subscribe or listen on Android. Spotify: to subscribe or listen on Spotify. Amazon Alexa: To listen on Amazon Alexa, say, “Alexa, play the Taste for Truth Podcast.” /episode/index/show/tastefortruth/id/18909053

Taste for Truth - Weight Loss Encouragement

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