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1. When Did Your Relationship With Food Become a Stronghold?

I was doing well on my weight loss journey until I saw the scales show that I weighed 199 pounds. I didn't know why but my body did not want to go below 200 pounds. It wasn't that I was eating anything wron ...

Created on 17 May 2022

2. Scared to Speak? God Wants to Help You With This Stronghold

... et Grace: How I Lost 250 Pounds and Stopped Trying to Earn God's Favor. Her sixth book, Sweet Surrender: Breaking Strongholds, is live on Amazon. She blogs at teresashieldsparker.com. She is also a Christia ...

Created on 13 May 2022

3. Tearing Down the Stronghold of Fear in Your Life

...  an event where he was, I would stay far away from him even if it meant being rude. So, I determined I would stay away from being near him. I would protect myself from him. Weight Loss and Fear Fast forwa ...

Created on 01 April 2022

4. How God Turns Your Impossible Into the Possible

... y dresses, and my shoes were hurting my toes. She and Grandma were having me try on clothes to see if they fit. I was in the bathroom and heard Mom say to Grandma, "She just keeps gaining weight. She' ...

Created on 23 March 2022

5. If You Want To Live in Good Health, It All Starts With This Spiritual Discipline

Losing an extreme amount of weight isn't just a physical issue. I've lost 250 pounds but it was, and still is, a very spiritual issue. I wanted to lose weight, eat healthy and exercise but no matter wh ...

Created on 11 March 2022

6. Dr. Colbert: How You Can Bust the Weight Loss Halt ...

Like steps, it is natural for weight loss to hit plateaus, and then after a minor adjustment, weight loss continues. If your weight loss has stalled or plateaued for three to four weeks, then go through ...

Created on 02 March 2022

7. When You Can't Say No, Here's Where Your Real Strength Resides

... tables. Stop eating so much bread." I said, "Nice plan, Jesus. If I could do that, I could lose weight but I can't do that." I didn't ask Him if He could help me with this plan. I didn't tell Him I'd th ...

Created on 28 February 2022

8. Finding the Truth That Will Break Demonic Strongholds in Your Life

... n. She blogs at teresashieldsparker.com. She is also a Christian weight loss coach (check out her coaching group at Overcomers Academy) and speaker. Don't miss her podcast, Sweet Grace for Your Journey ...

Created on 18 February 2022

9. This Is the Only Thing That Can Break the Strongholds in Your Life

... . She is also a Christian weight loss coach (check out her coaching group at Overcomers Academy) and speaker. Don't miss her podcast, Sweet Grace for Your Journey, available on CPN. This article first appeared  ...

Created on 09 February 2022

10. How God Wants Us to Renew Our Minds to Change Our Habits

Every person wants to change something about themselves but few have any idea how to do that. In my case, I weighed 430 pounds and wanted to lose weight. When I finally got to the point that I surrendered ...

Created on 20 January 2022

11. Why the Standard American Diet Has Failed You and How to Overcome Weight Loss Stalls ...

From chapter 7 ("How You Lose Weight on a Keto Diet") of Dr. Don Colbert's book, Beyond Keto. When averaged out, the typical American diet is 50 percent carbs, 34 percent fats, and 16 percent proteins. Wi ...

Created on 30 November 2021

12. Thankful for the Good and the Bad

... e out of my self-imposed shell and shared what I saw or felt. I am now extremely thankful for honest feedback and consider it a gift anytime someone takes time not to criticize me but to give honest f ...

Created on 16 November 2021

13. Toward Unity

...  to coach those with weight issues. How do I challenge them while loving them at the same time? I had lost 250 pounds. I knew I could tell others how to do that same thing but my concern was that at th ...

Created on 11 November 2021

14. Jesus is Sweeter Than Sugar

... p sugar, Jesus," I'd say. "It makes me happy." Of course, it also made me super, morbidly obese with a cardiac surgeon declaring I only had five years to live if I didn't lose weight. However, Romans  ...

Created on 02 November 2021

15. Shattering Strongholds With Sweet Breakthroughs

Overcomers Christian Weight Loss Academy is the fruit of Teresa Shields Parker's passion. A pair of key revelations drives this ministry, built out of her weight loss season from 2004-2013. The academy ...

Created on 31 August 2021

16. How a Preacher Wrecked This Marital Issue in a Misguided Sermon

If there's one thing I've learned on this lifelong journey of weight gain and weight loss, it is that I cannot lose weight for someone else. We cannot lose weight for our husbands; it has to be for us.  ...

Created on 19 March 2021

17. How You Can Avoid This Season of Temptation

... ndma had fed me. It was my way of passing down the family legacy, the family history. Yet, when a doctor told me I'd be dead in five years from congestive heart failure if I didn't lose weight and keep  ...

Created on 22 December 2020

18. The One Dangerous Habit You Must Drop to Move Toward Health in Body, Soul and Spirit

... God told me back in 1977 and what I struggled with for almost 30 years. He told me to stop eating sugar. It was in regard to weight loss, but now I see how it was also in regard to healthy living. I di ...

Created on 04 March 2020

19. How This Woman's Life-Changing Repentance Helped Her Lose 250 Pounds

... e to pile up." That was definitely me when I was super morbidly obese. I'm glad the internet wasn't around then because I would still be paying off bills I would have incurred from buying every weight ...

Created on 26 February 2020

20. The One Thing You Must Do to Experience True Spiritual Weight Loss ...

... g Works for Me Many women with extreme weight issues are like I was. We think nothing will ever work for us, but we will always fork out money for the latest, greatest diet plan that promises we will lo ...

Created on 20 February 2020