Taste for Truth - Weight Loss Encouragement

Today I'm excited to have April Hagen on the podcast with us. We'll be talking about the following topics:

• What does the renewing of the mind look like?
• Lies that make us eat too much on weekends
• Lies that can keep you from logging food on a fitness tracker
• Are some foods good and some foods bad?
• Two different ways we can go overboard with thinking of some foods as "bad"

April just recently started doing the Taste for Truth study and renewing her mind. She's using a fitness tracker and calories to lose weight.

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Other Resources:

• Taste for Truth: A 30 Day Weight Loss Bible Study
• Freedom from Emotional Eating: An 8 Week (40 Day) Bible Study
• Barb’s blog at barbraveling.com
• I Deserve a Donut weight loss app

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Disclaimer: The information on this podcast and website is for educational and encouragement purposes only. Barb is not a medical professional or a counselor. So, please be sure to talk with your doctor, dietician, or another certified health professional when seeking advice about your own weight loss or weight maintenance plan.

In this episode, I'll be answering questions from listeners on boundaries, weight loss, accountability, and the renewing of the mind. One of the questions I answer on this podcast has to do with accountability and finding an accountability partner. If you'd like to find an accountability partner, check out the resources below.

If you'd like to find an accountability partner:

1. You can either leave a comment below or answer someone else's comment (if you do this, check back to see if anyone has replied as I'm not sure yet if you'll get notified if someone tags you in a comment), or
2. Go to the Renewing of the Mind Project Facebook Group, request membership if you're not already a member, then follow directions on the first post at the top of the page. I'll leave this as a pinned post so you can try to find an accountability partner no matter when you listen to this podcast.

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How to Listen to the Podcast:

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

Other Resources:

• Taste for Truth: A 30 Day Weight Loss Bible Study
• Freedom from Emotional Eating: An 8 Week (40 Day) Bible Study
• Barb’s blog at barbraveling.com
• I Deserve a Donut weight loss app

Disclaimer: The information on this podcast and website is for educational and encouragement purposes only. Barb is not a medical professional or a counselor. So, please be sure to talk with your doctor, dietician, or other certified health professional when seeking advice about your own weight loss or weight maintenance plan.

Do you constantly think about losing weight? Do you struggle with a healthy body image? On this episode of the Taste for Truth Podcast, 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, Compared to Who?, encourages women to uncover the spiritual root of body image issues and find freedom. Her new release, The Burden of Better, 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 Comparedtowho.me.

• 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

• Heather's Website: www.comparedtowho.me
• Heather's Podcast:https://comparedtowho.me/podcast/
• Heather's Books: Compared to Who? and The Burden of Better

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Do you feel like you are addicted to food? Do you find yourself eating to manage the stress in your life? If so, you will be encouraged by this victory interview on the Taste for Truth Podcast (links below). I speak with Karen Seager about using the renewing of the mind to finally let go of her emotional eating.

• Family sin patterns and how they affect our lives
• How food can be an addiction just like other substances
• How emotional "habiting" keeps us from gaining spiritual maturity
• The importance of overcoming condemnation on our journey to food freedom
• How lies we believe fuel our negative emotions
• Overcoming lies with truth journaling and the renewing of the mind
• Identifying the messages that loop through our minds frequently
• How overcoming the struggle with food is a new way of thinking

• Barb's newest book: Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating
• Leader's Guide to Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating
• Soul Care by Rob Reimer
• Praying God's Word by Beth Moore
• Freedom from Emotional Eating
• The Renewing of the Mind Project
• Redeeming Your Phone Time
• Trim Healthy Mama Eating Plan
• Blog post & podcast episode: 8 Tips to Maintain Your Weight Loss

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• Stitcher: Click here to subscribe or listen on Stitcher.
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• Android: Click here to subscribe or listen on Android.
• Spotify: Click here to subscribe or listen on Spotify.
• Amazon Alexa: To listen on Amazon Alexa, say, “Alexa, play the Taste for Truth Podcast.”