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8 Tips to Maintain Your Weight Loss

Have you lost weight only to find it creeping back up again? Do you feel like if you could just get to your goal weight, you could go back to eating whatever you want again? I used to feel this way until I realized that losing the weight was really only the beginning! Today on the Taste for Truth Podcast (links down below), I share eight tips for being successful in maintaining your weight loss.

Discussed on the Podcasttips that I have personally used in my life to maintain my weight (for ov...

How to Diagram Scripture

One of the ways I love to renew my mind is to take a Bible verse that I know will help me with whatever I’m struggling with and then diagram that Scripture in my journal. Diagramming the Bible verses helps me understand it, embrace it, and figure out how to apply it to my life. In this post, I’d like to share a video I made on how to diagram Scripture.

 

The first thing I do when I diagram Scripture is to ask what the passage is about. Often I already know what it’s about because I went look...

Bonus: Why Did I Write Another Book on Emotional Eating?



In this short bonus episode of the Taste for Truth Podcast (links below), I talk about the backstory behind my new book, Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating, and how it’s different than all of the other books that I have written about eating! If you’d like to download the first chapter and find out about some great pre-order bonuses, go to saygoodbyetoemotionaleating.com.

How to Listen to the PodcastGoogle: Click here to subscribe or listen on Google Podcasts. Stitcher: Click here to subscribe...

When Life is Hard: 3 Temptations & 3 Solutions

I don’t know about you, but when life is hard, I’m often tempted to do things that aren’t good for me. Eat, for example. Or waste time on my phone. Or sit like a lump on the couch and think of all the things that could possibly go wrong and how my life will be even worse in the future.

What I don’t normally do is run to God for refuge and strength and perspective. At least not first thing. When I do get around to that, I feel about a million times better. My problems don’t seem as huge through ...

5 Lies Christian Women Believe That Sabotage Weight Loss with Sara Borgstede

Do you ever feel guilty for focusing on weight loss and your health? Or, do you need to lose some weight but believe that you simply don’t have the time? If so, you may be believing lies that are sabotaging your efforts to improve your health. Sara Borgstede from The Holy Mess and I discuss these and other lies on today’s episode of the Taste for Truth Podcast (links down below).

Things We Discussed on the Podcast5 Lies we believe about weight loss and the truth for each of those lies.how w...

Breaking a Habit: When You Don’t Feel Like Setting Boundaries

(Test) One of the biggest hurdles in breaking a habit is getting to the point where you’re willing to set boundaries with that habit. After all, what if you have the perfect opportunity to practice your habit and you have to miss out on it because of some pesky old boundaries?

Let’s face it. We want to keep our options open.

So how do we change? How do we get to the point where we’re willing to say, “Alright, I’m going to set some boundaries here. I may not be able to keep them, but I’m at leas...

Breaking a Habit: When You Don’t Feel Like Setting Boundaries

One of the biggest hurdles in breaking a habit is getting to the point where you’re willing to set boundaries with that habit. After all, what if you have the perfect opportunity to practice your habit and you have to miss out on it because of some pesky old boundaries?

Let’s face it. We want to keep our options open.

So how do we change? How do we get to the point where we’re willing to say, “Alright, I’m going to set some boundaries here. I may not be able to keep them, but I’m at least going...

Dana K. White: How to Declutter and Get Organized

Do you feel overwhelmed by the task of getting organized? Does a simple glance around your home or office tell you that clutter is taking over your life? If so, my podcast interview with Dana K. White from A Slob Comes Clean (links below) will offer helpful advice about how to tackle these projects without stress.

What We Discussed on the PodcastComing to terms with our own unique clutter thresholdThe Container ConceptAccepting the reality of the limited space we haveHow decluttering and c...

Mini Habits for Weight Loss with Charlene Dash



Does the process of changing your lifestyle to lose weight seem overwhelming? You know that you need to develop healthier habits, but you lack the time and energy to devote to this life-change. Perhaps you’ve lost weight in the past, but it just doesn’t seem sustainable. If these are true for you, today’s episode of the Taste for Truth Podcast (links below) will be super encouraging.  I speak with Charlene Dash, a nutrition coach, who learned how to overcome these obstacles little-by-little in...

Asheritah CiuCiu: Growing a Prayer Habit

In this interview with Asheritah CiuCiu, we discuss how to grow a prayer habit using the REST method from her new book, Prayers of Rest: 365 Prompts to Hear God’s Voice. If you find yourself struggling to make prayer a daily habit, Asheritah offers many helpful ways to cultivate this powerful discipline in this episode of the Christian Habits Podcast (links below).

What We Discussed on the PodcastHow to make a prayer habit stick by learning, fostering and practicing itPraying through hard em...