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Are you an emotional eater?Losing weight is physical. Keeping it off is emotional, but dealing with those emotions is very spiritual. Author Teresa Shields Parker says "This process involves every part of us." Once weighing 430 pounds, she struggled with weight most of her life. Now, after losing more than 260 pounds, she has identified some secrets not just for losing weight, but for keeping it off! She has experienced a total transformation of body, soul and spirit.Freedom from the yo-yo dieting syndrome and control of certain foods is possible with God's help. The walls standing in your way of freedom will crumble, if you are willing to dig deep to unearth roots of buried pain, ridicule, fear, doubt, guilt, other negative and debilitating emotions and, even, spiritual misbeliefs.
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Teresa Shields Parker is an author, coach and speaker. A self-proclaimed sugar addict, she once weighed 430 pounds. She chronicles her physical journey of extreme weight loss in the long-standing #1 Christian Weight Loss Memoir, "Sweet Grace: How I Lost 250 Pounds". The "Sweet Grace Study Guide" helps guide others on the journey.In "Sweet Freedom: Losing Weight and Keeping It Off With God's Help" and the "Sweet Freedom Study Guide" she delves into the sticky issue of the emotional and spiritual side of weight loss. "Sweet Change: True Stories of Transformation" includes 17 stories of those on the weight loss journey and how they came to their "moment of change."Released in August, 2017, "Sweet Hunger: Developing An Appetite for God" is a nine-session personal or group Bible study. She has made available nine video teachings to help with the study. Purchase these from her website under the books tab. "Sweet Hunger" includes questions and activities to deepen the lessons in each chapter. However to help leaders facilitate their groups a free Leader's Guide is available with the purchase of the video teachings or by using the private url listed under the Products section of "Sweet Hunger" book.Now having lost over 260 pounds, her passion is helping people with extreme weight issues. She coaches individuals through the process of transformation--body, soul and spirit. She currently has two online weight loss coaching groups, Sweet Change and #KickWeight. Her coaching doesn't stop there, though. A journalist for over 40 years, she also does writing coaching through Write the Vision Coaching Group.She is so passionate about the addictive nature of sugar, she has a FREE 10-Day video course on her website. The course includes short videos, transcripts, recipes and FREE gifts at the end. To find #KickSugar, go to TeresaShieldsParker.com and check under the FREE tab. She has several other FREE products including chapters of all her books, an audio clip and many others. Find all of her products under books, weight loss and writing tabs.An avid blogger, she has more than 700 blog posts on her website. She is also a regular contributor to Charisma. The press tab on her web site contains samples of tv and radio interviews and a list of some of her articles in Charisma.She ministers on her Facebook page, @Teresa Shields Parker, where over 90,000 folks follow her encouraging and inspiring posts on faith, God and weight loss. Then, follow her over to Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest @treeparker. Teresa lives in Columbia, MO with her husband, Roy. They have two grown children and three grand cats. They have also been foster parents to 10 behaviorally and developmentally challenged young adults. Active in her local church, she enjoys working with the women's ministry and leading Bible studies. In her spare time, she reads, paints, exercises in the water and ha
