Weight Loss with the Holy Spirit

Do you feel stuck with food and your weight—even though you know exactly what you should be doing? 🎙️💛 In this conversation, Denise joins Rita Johnson to introduce The Surrendered Method and explain why this struggle is not an intelligence problem or a willpower problem. Denise shares how stress, nervous system patterns, and years of using food to cope can create automatic behaviors that feel impossible to change 🧠🍪. You'll learn why your brain defaults to familiar patterns in moments of stress, how keeping your food and weight struggles separate from your faith can make everything feel heavier, and what changes when you begin to truly surrender this area of your life to the Lord ✝️🙏. Denise also walks through the four daily disciplines of the Surrendered Method and how they help you build awareness, honesty, and peace with food so you can experience real freedom and stop feeling stuck. If you've been wondering why you keep falling off the wagon or why weight loss feels so confusing and heavy, this episode will help you understand what's really happening and show you a faith-based path forward 🌿✨ Get your spot in the Weight Loss Workshop: https://healthandhormones.org/weight-loss/ Coupon code: Denise #WeightLossWithTheHolySpirit #CatholicWeightLoss #FoodFreedom #StressEating #FaithBasedWeightLoss

You're not broken—and you're not failing. 💛 In this powerful conversation, Denise sits down with a nervous system expert to answer the question so many women are quietly asking: Why do I know what to do… but still can't do it? 🎙️ Together, they unpack how your brain and nervous system are actually wired for survival, not perfection, and how patterns like stress eating, self-sabotage, people pleasing, and inconsistency are often protective responses—not personal failures 🙏. You'll learn about the five stress responses, how they shape your habits with food and weight loss, and why willpower alone isn't enough to create lasting change. If you've ever felt stuck, frustrated, or confused by your own behavior, this episode will help you understand what's really going on in your body—and how to begin responding with more awareness, compassion, and intention. 💫 Here are the related links: FREE Stress Response Quiz (https://solutionsforsimplicity.myflodesk.com/stress-response-denise) Dr. Amber's website (https://solutionsforsimplicity.com) The More Time for Mom podcast (https://moretimeformom.buzzsprout.com) #WeightLossWithTheHolySpirit #NervousSystem #EmotionalEating #StressEating #CatholicWeightLoss

What's really causing belly fat—and what actually helps reduce it? 🎙️✨ In this episode, Denise answers your most common questions about belly fat, visceral fat, cortisol, blood sugar, food habits, and stress eating so you can finally understand what's going on in your body 💛. She explains the difference between subcutaneous fat and visceral fat, why visceral fat is more dangerous to your health, and the four things that help reduce it most effectively: sleep, lowering stress, stable blood sugar, and strength training 💪🥗😴. Denise also talks about emotional eating, food noise, chaos foods, eating while stressed, and why many women already know what to do—but haven't yet learned how to actually do it with peace and consistency 🙏🌿. If you've ever felt confused about your belly fat, discouraged by your habits, or afraid that your body is stuck this way, this episode will bring clarity, truth, and hope. #WeightLossWithTheHolySpirit #BellyFat #VisceralFat #StressEating #CatholicWeightLoss

Where should a Catholic woman start when she wants to lose weight? 🎙️✨ In this episode, Denise explains why the answer is not simply choosing another diet plan. Instead, she introduces what she calls Catholic weight loss—a way of approaching food, weight, and health that keeps God at the center rather than the scale, food, or body image ✝️⚖️. Denise walks through the three phases of Catholic weight loss, beginning with the Surrendered Method and the four daily disciplines that help women invite the Lord into their relationship with food 🙏. From there, women learn how to create an easy-to-stick-to meal plan 📝, develop emotional support tools that replace stress eating 🌿, and eventually enter intentional weight loss if needed. This episode offers a clear starting point for Catholic women who want to lose weight without falling into secular dieting mentality—and instead allow the Lord to bring peace, freedom, and lasting change ✝️💛. #WeightLossWithTheHolySpirit #CatholicWeightLoss #FaithBasedWeightLoss #ChristianWeightLoss #FoodFreedom

What are you waiting for permission to do? 🎙️✨ In this episode, Denise explores the hidden exhaustion that comes from waiting for approval—to rest, to say no, to trust yourself, or to stop overdoing. She shares her own story of chronic people-pleasing and distorted dependency, and how learning to look to the Lord instead of external validation brought freedom, peace, and clarity 💛. You'll hear how ambition can quietly become over-tasking, how rest can feel unsafe, and why giving yourself permission is actually agreeing with what God already wills for you 🙏🌿. This episode gently connects people-pleasing, nervous system safety, and even emotional eating—revealing how many women use food to extend rest they haven't allowed themselves to take. Permission isn't rebellion. It's cooperation with grace ✝️✨. #CatholicWeightLoss #PeoplePleasing #EmotionalHealing #SelfPermission #WeightLossWithTheHolySpirit

What happens when a woman invites the Holy Spirit into her weight loss journey? 🎙️✨ In this episode, Denise celebrates one year with Deb, who joined during Lent 2025 and shares how the Lord transformed her life from the inside out 💛. After decades of dieting, weight regain after gastric surgery, nighttime eating, and chaos around food 🍷🍪, Deb discovered that surrender—not another diet—was the missing piece. You'll hear how giving up her nightly "nightcap" led to freedom from late-night eating, how learning to identify her emotions changed her relationships, and how she went from size 24 to size 16 without obsessing over the scale 🌿🙏. At 72 years old, she describes feeling lighter, stronger, more peaceful, and closer to God than ever before. This is a story of surrender, community, self-reflection, and learning to hear God's voice in everyday decisions ✝️✨. #CatholicWeightLoss #FaithBasedWeightLoss #FoodFreedom #ChristianWellness #WeightLossWithTheHolySpirit

What does real coaching actually sound like? 🎙️✨ In this episode, Denise gives you a behind-the-scenes glimpse into an actual coaching session inside her program—so you can hear how transformation really happens in real time. 💛 You'll listen as a woman wrestles with decades of diet mentality, fear of "doing it wrong," and resistance to unconditional permission to eat 🍕🧠. Instead of giving food rules, Denise helps her uncover the real obstacle: forcing, overthinking, and trying to control weight loss outcomes. Through curiosity, surrender, and skill-building 🛠️🌿, you'll hear how relaxing into the process—not white-knuckling—creates lasting peace with food. If you've ever felt like every meal plan goes sideways or you sabotage yourself before you begin, this episode shows you what compassionate, skill-based coaching looks like—and why it works ✝️🕊️. #DietMentality #CatholicWeightLoss #FoodFreedom #CoachingSession #WeightLossWithTheHolySpirit

Do thoughts about food feel loud, urgent, and impossible to ignore—even when you're not hungry? 🧠🍞 In this episode, Denise breaks down the real cause of food noise and why it's not a willpower problem, a discipline issue, or something you're destined to live with 🙏✨. You'll learn how dieting, emotional suppression, and repeated patterns train your brain into constant urgency around food 🕊️. Denise shares the three learnable skills that permanently calm food noise so you can eat peacefully, meet your real needs, and allow your weight to rebalance naturally 🌿🍽️. If food thoughts have been stealing your focus, peace, or joy, this episode offers a compassionate, skill-based path to freedom rooted in truth, healing, and surrender ✝️💜. #FoodNoise #CatholicWeightLoss #EmotionalEating #HealthyWeight #WeightLossWithTheHolySpirit

Are you fasting, trying to lose weight, or drawing closer to God—and suddenly finding it harder, not easier?😣 🙏 In this powerful episode, Denise gently walks you through the five most common spiritual attacks women experience while fasting, especially around food, weight, and self-control. You'll learn how to recognize cravings, discouragement, self-reliance, shame, and pride for what they actually are—not personal failures, but spiritual resistance that often shows up when you're growing closer to the Lord ✝️🔥 Denise explains why these attacks happen, how to spot them early, and the simple, grace-filled tools you can use to respond with peace instead of panic 🕊️💛 If Lent has ever felt dry, heavy, or discouraging—or if food and weight feel like a constant battle—this episode will help you reframe the struggle, calm your nervous system, and return your focus to God as your true source of comfort and strength 🙌✨ #WeightLossWithTheHolySpirit #CatholicWeightLoss #SpiritualWarfare #LentFasting #FaithAndFood