Trust God and Buy Broccoli

Are you ready to conquer your weight problem once and for all? In a world where there are thousands of books on weight loss, how can you stop your constant cycle of overeating and dieting? If you have ever: • Dieted, lost weight and then quickly gained it back … and more. • Started a diet in the morning and binged by lunchtime. • Realized that food ruled your life. • Felt desperate, like there is nowhere else to turn … If your past attempts at dieting have not produced permanent weight loss, this is the book for you! In Trust God and Buy Broccoli, Gerri Helms shares how she was finally able to lose over one hundred pounds and keep it off for eighteen years, after thirty years of unsuccessful yo-yo dieting. "Stepping onto the scale and seeing 248 lbs is not fun. Visiting the doctor, peeking at your chart and seeing the words,” Morbidly Obese” is frightening. Hearing the doctor’s warning that you’d probably not see your 50th birthday if you didn’t change your eating habits is sobering. Unfortunately, none of these events was a catalyst that could propel me into a healthy body weight. I saw the numbers, read the words and heard the warning in January, 1993, but continued to eat. The scale problem was easily solved – I just stayed off it! I continued to eat my way up to a tight size 24. What the heck, if I was going to die, I may as well enjoy myself. More and more food was my idea of enjoyment. My thoughts were incongruent with my reality. I was not enjoying my life – I was depressed to a point of considering suicide. Perhaps food had once been a friend, but that friend had turned on me. It no longer made me feel good. Now it made me feel worse. I was stuck in a caloric prison with no chance of parole. I wanted to change, but had no idea how to do it. Several months following that fateful doctor visit for heart palpitations, something shifted. I had never considered the possibility that God might help me break loose from the terrible grip of binging and dieting. I really didn’t believe in God anymore and I certainly didn’t think He cared to help me with something as silly as losing weight. But, what did I have to lose; over a hundred pounds, that’s what. Diets were always successful for a while, until the fateful day when the words, “One bite won’t hurt” rang in my ears. That always lead me back to rapid weight gain and finally, morbid obesity. This time however, I did not diet. Instead, I reframed the way I looked at eating. I developed a moderate eating plan that I could stick with, and began to enjoy my life! I also found that if I didn’t eat the foods that caused a binge, I wouldn’t binge! There are tons of diet books out there – what makes Trust God and Buy Broccoli, a Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss different? Instead of telling you what to eat, this book helps you to stick with whatever food plan you’ve adopted, no matter where you are or what you are doing! There are great tips on how to deal with our emotional feeders, parties, dining out and grocery shopping. I’ve gained and lost over 100 pounds more than once; three times actually! Whenever I was on a diet, I’d be happy to share my weight loss secrets with whoever would listen. But when I returned to eating, I isolated, and told no one. I didn’t have to – soon you’d see that I no longer was on a diet. I never knew how to reach out and ask for help. Once I learned how to do that, sticking to my food plan became much easier. I share how I was finally able to put a voice to the negative self talk and ask for help in Trust God and Buy Broccoli. You never have to eat in private, feel that shame and defeat again. If you are tired of gaining and losing weight through unsuccessful diets, this is the book for you. " Gerri Helms