This is a podcast episode I've been wanting to do for a long time. I guess it's appropriate that I finally made the commitment to do it after publishing my new Freedom from Procrastination Bible Study!

In the podcast, I'll share my own weight loss journey and how God set me free from the control of food. Overeating and weight gain was an issue in my life from the time I was in high school until I was writing my first book, Freedom from Emotional Eating, in 2006.

I published that book in 2008 and at the time I worried I would gain my weight back and be embarrassed that I had written a book on how to gain freedom from Emotional Eating! I didn't realized that I ate for procrastination and whenever I set out to write, I felt like procrastinating! It was disconcerting to be writing on weight loss and feeling like breaking boundaries while writing. 

Thankfully, God has kept me on the straight and narrow and I have continued to live free from the control of food. I've found that it's a much more peaceful way to live and -- surprisingly -- a more fun way to live! Overeating may be fun in the moment but eating with control leads to a much more fun life. 

It's take me hundreds of truth journal entries to break free from the control of food, but that freedom has been long-lasting. If you'd like to hear more about my journey and how God set me free, listen to today's podcast episode.

Do you find that it's hard to get back on track after vacation with your weight loss boundaries? Even if you followed your boundaries while you're gone, it's often hard to follow them when you get home.

Not only are we tired and in catch-up land with all the work that piled up, but we also often find ourselves feeling sad when we get back. We miss vacation--or if things went badly on vacation, we're sad about what happened. 

Thankfully, God can help us recover from the post-vacation blues and help us to follow our boundaries. On this podcast, we'll talk about 7 things we can do to get back on track after vacation. 

7 Ways to Get Back On Track After Vacation

1. Give yourself grace.
2. Process the vacation, if necessary. 
3. Get a biblical perspective.
4. Make a plan to slowly get caught up.
5. Re-establish your eating and exercise boundaries ASAP.
6. Make a "fun" plan.
7. Spend extra time renewing the first few days back.

How to Listen to the Podcast

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Do you ever rebel against losing weight because you just can’t stand following the rules? Do you feel like other people want you to lose weight, and that kind of bugs you? Do you hate authority, especially when it comes to diets and weight loss boundaries? If so, this podcast will help! We’ll talk about what to do when you want to lose weight but hate following rules. 

In this coaching interview, I visit with Trish about how to change your mindset towards rules and authority so you don’t really mind having weight loss boundaries and may even learn to love them. 

Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss: 

• Why it’s important to associate consequences with breaking weight loss boundaries 
• Authority: Is it good or bad? What makes it good or bad? 

• Why parents and significant others often want us to lose weight 
• How to not let it bother us when people want us to lose weight 
• How to change our attitude towards weight loss boundaries or rules 
• How focusing on renewing our minds rather than following our boundaries can keep us from feeling like failures when we break our boundaries. 

Resources Mentioned on the Podcast 

• I Deserve a Donut (and Other Lies That Make You Eat) 
• Taste for Truth Bible Study 
• I Deserve a Donut app (There is an internal link at my blog for this – you can find it under the weight loss tab.) 

How to Listen to the Podcast: 

• Apple Podcasts: click here 
• Stitcher: click here 
• Google Play: click here 

Do you ever feel like you keep doing the same things over and over, and the needle on the scale never moves? On today’s episode of the Taste for Truth Podcast, I’ll be answering a listener’s question about what to do when you’re discouraged with weight loss. 

Resources Mentioned on the Podcast 

• I Deserve a Donut (and Other Lies That Make You Eat) 
• Online weight loss Bible studies 

How to Listen to the Podcast: 

• Apple Podcasts: click here 
• Stitcher: click here 
• Google Play: click here 

You know what it's like. You finish dinner, clean up the dishes, and sit down to relax. That's when the cookies start calling your name. Or the ice cream. Or the chips. It's hard to say no to their insistent voices because you're tired of saying no all day. In today's podcast, Kimberly Taylor will give us some help with saying no and overcoming night eating.

Kim blogs at takebackyourtemple.com and she recently did a session on overcoming night eating with her blog members. She asked everyone why they ate at night and came up with three groups of people:

1. Soothers. The soothers eat to ease their emotions. They may be stressed, lonely, or emotionally distraught in some other way and eating makes them feel better.

2. Sleepy Eaters. Sleepy eaters eat because they're tired and feel like they need a little pick-me-up to make it through the night.

3. Social Eaters. Social eaters eat because their spouses or kids or friends are eating and they want to join in the fun.

Kimberly tells us that what we really need to do if we want to overcome night eating is to ask the question, "What do I need?" then listen for the answer. Usually the answer won't be food!

On the podcast, Kim gives lots of examples and practical tips for each of these groups of nighttime eaters.

One of the beliefs that keeps us from losing weight is the belief that we should be able to eat “what we want when we want.” The truth is, we can eat “what we want when we want.” We just don’t lose weight when we do that! In today’s podcast, we’ll talk about how to break free from entitlement eating so we can lose weight and keep it off. This is a replay of a recent Zoom chat.

Do you ever find yourself eating too much at dinner? Do you ever feel uncomfortable at social gatherings and console yourself with food? Do you feel like you’re wasting time at some event and eat to while the time away? In today’s Taste for Truth podcast episode, I’ll be coaching Becky McGeorge about these subjects.  

Here is a sampling of the topics we’ll be discussing: 

• eating too much at meals 
• failure eating 
• overeating at social gatherings 
• eating because you feel uncomfortable at social gatherings 
• how the I Deserve a Donut failure eating questions can help you avoid a binge 

• how to renew your mind before social events 
• how to think differently about social events you don’t want to be at 
• how God can use social events for your good if you’re a person who would rather be working on your to-do list rather than going to the social event 

We also discuss the following lies: 

• This social gathering will take a long time. I need something (food) to occupy me. 

• I’m a little uncomfortable here. I’ll feel better if I eat.  
• I should be using my time better (than being at this social gathering). 
• I’m wasting my time here (so I should eat). 

Resources we Talked About on This Podcast: 

• I Deserve a Donut (And Other Lies That Make You Eat) 

• I Deserve a Donut weight loss app 

How to Listen to the Podcast: 

• To listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts: click here 
• To listen and subscribe on Stitcher: click here 

• To listen and subscribe on Google Play: click here

• intentional living as it’s related to eating
• motivations for weight loss
• what Jo did when she was tired and tempted to overeat
• the Bible verses Jo used to gain victory
• tips for avoiding overeating in the evening
• why it’s so hard to lose the last 20 pounds if you have more than 100 pounds to lose
• why it’s important to review your reasons for losing weight
• reward eating
• what to do when you’re tempted to overeat
• the importance of knowing why you’re overeating
• the value in taking baby steps for weight loss and exercise

• Weight Loss God’s Way
• MyFitnessPal app

• To listen and subscribe on iTunes: click here
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• To listen and subscribe on Google Play: click here

In today's Taste for Truth Podcast interview, Stacey shares how God helped her to lose 150 pounds through the renewing of her mind using Bright Line Eating boundaries.

Bright Line Eating is a program where you give up addictive foods, such as sugar, and plan out what you're going to eat each day.

One of the problems with programs like this is that we feel like life is boring because we can't have sugar. Towards the end of the podcast, Stacey shares how she deals with that issue, renewing her mind before she enters into situations where she might feel like she's missing out by not eating sugar. 

Whether you follow Stacey's boundaries or not, you'll be able to learn from her experience as she goes to God for help with life. 

Before and After Pictures

Also wanted to share before and after pictures of Stacey's journey!

Online Weight Loss Bible Studies Starting Up

I also wanted to let everyone know that there are a couple of new online Bible studies starting up in September. You can find out about them here: https://barbraveling.com/christian-weight-loss-podcast/

How to Listen to the Podcast

If you're viewing this on a mobile device, scroll to the bottom of this page and you'll see links to the various podcast platforms. If you're viewing this on a desktop, look over on the right side of the screen and you'll see links!

Resources We Discussed In the Podcast

Here are some of the resources we talk about on the podcast:

• Bright Line Eating website
• Taste for Truth Bible Study
• I Deserve a Donut app