Today is a day of celebrations as we are wrapping up our second season of The Diet Hates Podcast. We’re 24 episodes in and all I can say is, “Wow! I’m so grateful to be doing this podcast with you and I’m so grateful that you and I have been on this journey together for 24 episodes. So so cool! I’m telling you.. The enemy has fought hard to keep this podcast from happening, which tells me that it must be making a difference. So, if you’re good with it, I’m gonna keep pushing through to victory and shoot for Season 3 unless Jesus comes back to get us before then. I couldn’t think of a better wa ..read more

We are in the throes of Summer right now and you know what that means… Summer vacation. Target’s sold out of bathing suits and the beaches are full of women who are miserable because all they’re thinking about is how much weight they’ve gained while there, or telling themselves they can’t eat whatever the rest of the family is eating because they’re going to get fat. Maybe that’s you right now. Maybe you’re on vacation listening to this podcast and you’ve just avoided another family picture because you don’t want to look fat AGAIN! Maybe you’re preparing to head on vacation and you’re obsessin ..read more

Someone asked me this question the other day, and I've found myself asking it, too. I figured we weren't alone, so I wanted to dive into this question a bit deeper today.  "What if I lose weight and still don't like what I see?" My friend, your mindset is jacked up and it's time to start replacing some lies with the truth about who God says we are.  I'm helping you do just that in this episode of The Diet Haters Podcast.  Links in this episode: Episode 5: How to Understand Your Value on Your Weight Loss Journey4 Simple Steps to Weight Loss GuideDiet Haters Facebook Community ..read more

Obedience isn’t easy. If it were, everyone would do it, right? But obedience isn’t always easy. It is simple though. And easy and simple are not the same things. And it’s certainly not comfortable. Choosing health isn’t always comfortable. Choosing not to eat through our emotions when we’ve had a hard day isn’t comfortable. Choosing to get vulnerable with our hearts isn’t comfortable. When God is calling us to be obedient to a specific area of our life, or maybe a specific action He’s calling us to take, it’s highly unlikely that it’s going to be comfortable, right? But nowhere in the Bible di ..read more

A couple of weeks ago we had my beautiful friend Dayna on the podcast talking about her weight loss journey.  About a month or so ago she called me up to vent about her struggles with being defined by her BMI, Body Mass Index. It was interesting timing, as I was struggling with the same thing.  So.. we decided to sit down and have a conversation about it to share with you, because I bet we’re not the only ones struggling with it. In this episode, we’re going to talk about why our BMI doesn’t define our identities, what in the world a fatty liver means, and why collar bones are the ne ..read more

In last week’s episode, we talked about the importance of guarding our hearts, but doing so the right way. We’re spending some time going through the four chambers of the heart, as described in Annie F. Downs’ book, Perfectly Unique: Love Yourself Completely, Just As You Are. We covered some deep, yet powerfully freeing stuff, so I wanted to break it up into two episodes so we had some time to process. And like I love to do, I gave you some heartwork. If you haven’t had a chance to listen yet, don’t miss out. Guarding our hearts the proper way means everything for us in every area of our lives ..read more

Perhaps you’ve heard the verse before.. Proverbs 4:23, “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” Maybe today’s the first day you’ve ever heard it. That’s okay, too. Either way, we’re going to dive into this passage together and learn how to guard our heart the proper way, which means everything for us in every area of our lives, not just weight loss. But.. If we want to get healthy and stay that way, we must work on our hearts. Otherwise, our results will only be temporary. I’ve been reading this book from Annie F. Downs, called Perfectly Unique: Love Yourse ..read more

Well.. we’ve officially hit February and you know what that means? It’s the month of looovvvvee.. It’s the most romantic month of the year, so they say. Or at least it has the most romantic day of the year, right – Valentine’s Day. But.. and it’s a big but.. Valentine’s Day can be hard for all my single ladies out there. Now I’m singing Beyonce in my head. You know, so are you! Valentine’s Day can be a lonely day for single gals, especially those of us who are longing for a relationship, desiring for marriage. On this episode of The Diet Haters Podcast, we’re going to dive deeper into some pra ..read more

One of the things I learned early on in my 145 lb. weight loss journey is that if I don’t know my why, it’s much harder to bounce back onto the right path when we’ve gone off the rails for whatever reason. I used to teach men and women in the prison system how to find their why, and I’m telling you what, nothing made my heart smile more than when you saw the light bulb come on in their eyes and they realized they still had a reason to keep going. I would see grown men full of tattoos weep. Those are some of the most cherished moments in my career. But finding our why isn’t just reserved for pe ..read more

In last week’s episode, I spoke some strong words. I said, “New Year’s Resolutions are dumb and they don’t work!” I’m not only holding onto that opinion, but I’m hoping I gave you a better understanding last week as to why I think so. Setting achievable goals is what really works. I shared two of the six steps you need to take to set goals instead of New Year’s resolutions, and in today’s episode I’m sharing the other four. Our pasts aren’t always pretty, but without our pasts we wouldn’t have our future. We must learn to acknowledge our past without staying stuck in it. We use what we’ve le ..read more