This post first appeared in Spirit-Filled Sundays, the weekly newsletter from Weight Loss God’s Way. There are three sentences I want you to stop saying. Not because they are unkind, and not because they are untrue exactly. Because every one of them is doing the opposite of what you think it is doing. 1. “I…

Last week I told you my blood sugar was spiking on foods the app called free. I promised I was coming for your smoothie this week. Bring the banana. For years, my daily staple was a homemade smoothie. My own version of the ones from the smoothie shop, loaded with banana, mango, and pineapple. All…

· by Cathy Morenzie I was in church this morning, and the message was this: change does not come until a belief becomes a value. I had already decided this was what I wanted to say to you this month. I sat down this morning and heard it preached better than I had planned to…

Last week we talked about how Weight Watchers points can quietly become the goal. This week I want to show you why counting anything, points, calories, or carbs, will never be enough on its own. And I am going to start with my own blood work. A few years ago, my blood sugar numbers started…

· by Cathy Morenzie I have been doing my own quiet work with sugar this month — paying honest attention to it, and learning what my body truly needs and what is simply habit. And in all my reading, one thing keeps coming back to me: it is rarely the big, dramatic overhaul that changes…

· by Cathy Morenzie Can I be honest with you? I’ll pray about almost anything — my schedule, my kids, a hard decision at work, even a parking spot. But when it comes to what’s happening in my kitchen at 9 p.m., I somehow forget prayer is even on the table. It’s funny, isn’t it?…

Last week I asked if you were a lifetime member of Weight Watchers. This week I want to ask a stranger question. Points, calories, carbs. What are we even counting? First, let me say again what I said last week, because I mean it. Many of the women in our own community are on Weight…

Quick question, and be honest with me. Are you a lifetime member of Weight Watchers? Almost every woman I talk to is. Or was. Or is technically still paying for it. And I’ll poke a little fun here, because a lot of us have been lifetime members of Weight Vultures for years now, circling the…