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3 Godly Practical Ways to Manage Weight and Eat Healthy
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Eating healthy is not just a popular trend nowadays. Multiple scientific studies have proven that eating a good, nutritious diet improves the quality of our lives. You can manage weight and eat healthy without feeling overwhelmed.
As believers, living an abundant and healthy life physically has numerous benefits for the kingdom of God. Taking the gospel to the nations can be physically demanding on our bodies. We can prepare ourselves for the race that God wants us to run spiritually and physically by filling it with foods that will give us energy and endurance to complete the journey.
My Health Story
For eight years I owned a business and my health was slowly declining. I wasn’t sleeping through the night, my emotional state was unstable and I was at my heaviest weight I had ever been. Exercising didn’t help me lose the weight because I continued to eat what my feelings were telling me I needed, which was ice cream and cake all the time.
In March 2025, I was ready to make that leap and change in my physical health. I hired a nutrition coach to help me jump-start my journey to healthy eating. For eight weeks, I learned about portion control, how certain foods process in my body and what I need to do in the future if I wanted to feel better. Some days were harder than others, but after losing 14 pounds, I started to see positive results. I was sleeping through the night, some of my jeans were lose on me and I was feeling like a million bucks physically!
When I say “hard days,” I mean mentally and emotionally. There were some foods I was emotionally attached to as they brought fond memories. Comfort in food was an outlet for stress. I am also a foodie at heart and grew up in a family of foodies. I cook to relieve stress and my recipes are built best during those times too. The kitchen is my happy place. That’s why I was so attached to food. I wanted to eat to satisfy my emotions more than nourish my body and I didn’t know how to stop that vicious cycle.
During the ‘hard days’ I prayed that God would help me learn what I needed to change about my relationship with food, show me what the Bible says about it and help me adjust my mindset. From that prayer came a short devotional that has helped me see nutrition in a different light.
3 Godly Ways to Manage Weight and Eat Healthy
As I prayed about how to transform my mind, these three things were pivotal for me as a believer in considering what I was doing to keep my temple (body) in check through my food choices.
1. Get to Know Yourself and How God Created You
God made every single person on this earth to have their own set of taste buds, hormones, body image and even each cell.
In Psalm 139:13-16 it says, “For you created my inmost being; knit me together in my mother‘s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; I know that fool well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the Earth. Your eyes saw my unformed; all the days or gained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
God made no mistake in creating your body image or putting together the unique features that make up you.
If God put in that much effort to create you as a human being, He probably wants you to put in the same effort to get to know about His creation, which is yourself. By doing so, you will gain a better understanding of how to care for your mind, body, and soul as a whole.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.”
Practical Steps:
It’s time to start exploring and deepening your understanding of yourself. This can take a few days or even weeks, but make time to know how God designed you as a whole. Grab a notebook and start writing it down. Take inventory of:
- What foods you like to eat and don’t like to eat?
- Do you crave certain foods at certain times of the month or year?
- How do certain foods make you feel when you eat them? Do they have a memory attached to them or is it a stress relief?
- When do you typically overeat or undereat?
- What body shape are you?
- What kind of family history do you have with health issues and trends?
- What foods do you consider a treat and indulge in but think you shouldn’t do that as often as you do?
- Do you understand when you are full or when you are actually hungry? Tune into your hunger and satiety cues.
This is your first step to shifting your mindset and creating the best decision to take care of you.
2. Know Your Food!
God also created the food we eat. Boxed food is typically made by humans and heavily processed. Just thinking about that for a second….
In North America, we have been eating from a box for so long that our minds are fogged up, and we can’t tell the difference between good and bad. If the media says something is healthy, we believe it and fill our pantries with it. I am guilty of that too, and I have had to pay close attention not to jump on that wagon.
We lead busy lives, to the point where boxed foods and frozen pizzas have become a regular part of our lives. I am speaking to myself as I write this, but I want to shed light on what we have been led to believe.
Our taste buds have been destroyed by all the processed food that we love. When I started eating whole and minimally processed foods, it took 4-6 weeks for my taste buds to adjust to certain foods because I was used to consuming lots of sugar and msg. My body would continue to crave that food because that’s what it was used to being fed.
I am reminded of Daniel from the Bible. When he was invited to sit with the king to eat, he ate only what was good for his body. He didn’t indulge on the feast, but yet he carefully planned his meal to build strength so that he could do what he was called to do. That’s why love this verse in Proverbs 23:1-3 “When you sit and dine with a ruler, note well what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony. Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.”
Practical Steps
Take some time to learn about the food you eat. This is a journey, just like learning about yourself. It will take time, so don’t rush into changing everything right away. One box and one ingredient at a time. Here are a few ideas to help you start learning about what you’re eating.
- Start reading labels on boxes. If you can’t read it, you shouldn’t be eating it.
- Google what certain ingredients mean and how they affect your health. Understand why you will be avoiding it or why you will continue to eat it.
- Create a list of healthy foods you like to eat
- Create a list of foods you would like to treat yourself to occasionally (I call them ‘guilty pleasure’ foods). Having this list will help you create a balanced approach to eating healthy.
- Work with a nutrition coach to learn about what your body needs. Learn about the macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, and fats).
3. Take Control!
Start putting in the work so that you can run the race for the Kingdom! This is the hardest step for most people. Some tried and quit after multiple attempts at dieting. I am here to tell you to slow down and take the journey one step at a time.
Getting to know your health journey is like going to college to get a nursing degree. You don’t go straight to treating patients at the hospital. You start by learning about the body, the effects of certain medicines, all the diseases, and any other intricate details that you would need to treat patients. When you get to the floor and start working with patients, you are not alone. You are following an experienced nurse for a little while (hint: get a nutrition coach!). After your training is done, then you start building your experience by working on different floors of the hospital. Each year, you get better as a nurse.
Nutrition is a journey that we will continue to learn about, due to the details of how we were created, the foods we eat, and the new resources available to us for learning about health and nutrition.
If you’re looking to cook healthier without sacrificing the amazing flavors of good food, find healthy recipes here. I share recipes regularly to make your journey easier.
I need to warn you here. Like any other goal, this will require discipline and self-control if you are genuinely committed to managing weight and eating healthy. This is why it is a journey. One step at a time, and you can, over time, implement change that can last forever. In Hebrews 12:1 it says “…let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” This is our race to run as believers, not just a trend.
If we are committing ourselves to this change, it is essential to understand that you will need self-control and discipline. Let’s be clear about a few things here. This doesn’t mean you can’t treat yourself to ice cream or a burger. It does mean that you are not eating that every day, though.
Practical Steps
If you’re looking to start creating a change in your life, manage weight and eat healthy, begin with small changes, one at a time. This might mean adding a salad to your dinner, if you haven’t been doing that already. Or it might mean walking 15 minutes a day. Small steps lead to big changes over time.
If you need someone to walk alongside your healthy journey, hire a nutrition coach. This relationship should help you achieve your goals and establish a lifestyle change that lasts forever.
Why Hire a Nutrition Coach
As a busy mom who runs a business, I know how overwhelming it can be even to consider starting nutrition coaching or embarking on the weight loss journey. Treat your health journey like an urgent appointment you have on your calendar. Your life depends on this appointment. Just like your business, you need this appointment to happen or you will lose everything. Quite frankly, without your health, you won’t be available to run your business.
I was in a place where I needed help, and that’s why I hired a nutrition coach. It was scary. I felt like I was exposing a private part of my life that I was very strong in for many years, or so I thought. In previous years, I was yo-yo dieting, reaching my goals, and then would gain the weight back shortly after.
After losing 14 pounds and seeing a significant improvement in my health, I knew I wanted to help others achieve the same results. I got certified as a nutrition coach shortly after and now I am ready to help you feel your best and make lasting changes in your life.
Are you ready to make that change in your life? Choose how you want to work with me so that it can fit your lifestyle. This is your journey.