It's really important to think about what our environments doing to us we are building healthy lifestyle habits. Just recognizing that the things that are around us do impact us and impact our decision making. So you really want to make our environment conducive to our goals and build lasting habits. Our environment around us plays a big factor in building our healthy lifestyle habits. This could affect our everyday decision making that’s why we need to make our environment conducive to our goals. This would help us build lasting habits. Imagine yourself walking inside an abandon ..read more

There is so much confusion and restrictions out there when it comes to food and dieting. There is a ton of noise and people walking around as experts  saying contradictory things. I mean if you combined all the diets out there, I don’t think you could eat or drink anything! So if you are feeling confused about what to eat you should eat, keep reading to find out how to tailor an approach to you and to tackle issues with God. The Gracious Health approach is all about individualization and tailoring to your life, to your body so this is not going to be a one sized fits all approach ..read more

A lot of women I talk to share this sentiment, maybe you can relate? “I just cannot stop eating…” “I am always hungry. “ “I do good for a while, but then I just can’t stop eating.” These thoughts are way top common and it is because all too often diets just tell you to eat lead. The weight loss industry is leaving you high and dry. i mean think about it, if eating less and losing weight was that easy would there be that many different diets out there? Why would so many people not be successful on a diet? A big part is because a lot of times diets gloss over how to feel satiat ..read more

All too often we try to make advancements in our health in our own strength, but that doesn’t lead to great results. When we do things in our own strength we tend to either fail or get prideful because we succeeded. We lose part of our soul when we do not include God in our journey and realize the hand He plays on our journey. We do not get the good fruit we were started out trying to get. I get it, you hear “simple and easy” solutions lose weight that have nothing to do with God, but those programs have a huge failure rate. Those programs are not trying to make you healthy and g ..read more

When emotions hit  it is really easy to find yourself in the fridge or pantry eating food before you evened realize what you are doing. I hear it al the time and have been built of this in the past, but there is a better way! Yes, better then food. God He is the true answer to the issues you are dealing with. He is the one that can handle your true, deep, unfiltered emotions. I know it can be difficult to overcome emotional eating which is why I put together my top ways to stop emotional eating for you. these strategies work! They have helped my clients (and myself) elimi ..read more

When emotions hit  it is really easy to find yourself in the fridge or pantry eating food before you evened realize what you are doing. I hear it al the time and have been built of this in the past, but there is a better way! Yes, better then food. God ` He is the true answer to the issues you are dealing with. He is the one that can handle your true, deep, unfiltered emotions. I know it can be difficult to overcome emotional eating which is why I put together my top ways to stop emotional eating for you. these strategies work! They have helped my clients (and myself) eliminate emotio ..read more

There is a big problem with how people are told to approach dieting and weight loss. I mean look at the statistics, the BEST, most promising statistic I have seen is a 30% success rate. (This is with a really low bar of “success” too.) If a teacher had 70% of students FAIL saying they have a “simple, easy and effective method,”  do you think they would have a job? OR at least be trained on how to teach a different method? I really hope not… I hope you are starting to understand that you are not the problem it is the method or the diet. Most typical approaches to weight loss do not work ..read more

Maybe you can relate, a lot of my clients come to me and eat food not only to satisfy their hunger, but also to deal with their feelings. They do not know how to stop, they are elbow deep in a bag of chips before they even realize what is going on.   Emotional eating is a quick fix to handle negative emotions and to alter how your body feels. We do not like negative emotions like sadness, anger, stress, so we typically do whatever to not experience them. We have learned that when we eat food change happens quickly! It happens at a biological level making it difficult to stop emotion ..read more

On your weight loss journey you want to make sure that your mindset and thoughts are rooted and based in God’s True Word. A lot of times women have untrue negative self talk that they speak over themselves,  It is really important to remember this Proverb, “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” (Proverbs 18:21) Being diligent about the words that you say over yourself is really important. The words that you say have a big influence and when you draw attention to them you realize how negative and destructive those words can be. I enco ..read more

When we are trying to be healthy over the Christmas celebrations it can be really difficult. I mean it is a perfect storm to derail healthy habits. Tons of get-togethers, all with food. Candy and desserts can feel like they surround you. Kids are home from school. Your schedule and routine is out the window. Stress about getting gifts. Spending time with difficult family members. In a lot of places the weather is colder, so you just want to stay inside, under a blanket. Holidays can be difficult if you are grieving a lost loved one. Your emotional, mental and physical heal ..read more