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Coffee Chat with Amber & Lisa
SugarFreed Living: Winning Battles on & off the Scale with Christine Trimpe
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In this episode of Coffee Chat, Amber and Lisa sit down with Christine Trimpe, a dedicated author and weight loss coach from Detroit, Michigan. They delve into Christine's journey of overcoming sugar addiction, reclaiming her health, and deepening her faith. Christine shares valuable insights from her books, 'Seeking Joy' and the upcoming 'Sugar Freed: Stop Losing the Weight Loss Battle; Start Gaining the Victory,' which will be released in January 2025. Along with discussing her journey's emotional and spiritual aspects, Christine provides practical tips on maintaining a sugar-free lifestyle during the holidays and beyond. Discover how faith and determination can lead to transformative health and well-being.
00:00 Technical Difficulties and Introductions
00:33 Weather Talk and Local Updates
01:43 Football Fandom and Friendly Banter
03:05 Introducing Christine and Her Books
03:16 Christine's Devotional: Seeking Joy
05:06 The Story Behind the Book Cover
06:19 Christine's Weight Loss Journey
07:08 Upcoming Book: Sugar Freed
08:32 A Turning Point in Christine's Life
12:34 Reflecting on Personal and Spiritual Growth
17:31 Struggles with Fitting In
18:07 Emotional and Physical Challenges
19:22 Misleading Dietary Advice
20:13 Childhood and Family Influences
22:21 Bulimia and Affirmation
23:03 Mindset Shift: Food as Fuel
25:12 Navigating Holidays and Sugar Addiction
31:20 Practical Tips for a Healthier Lifestyle
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Author Discusses Sugar-Free Journey
Speaker 1I'm going to take a picture right here because of the technical difficulties. Christine, I want you to talk so I can take a picture of you.
Speaker 2Hi, hi, picture me. Okay, hello, it's true, we're talking.
Speaker 1Hello, welcome. Yeah, okay, we are recording.
Speaker 2Everybody's recording.
Speaker 1Let me say welcome one more time. Welcome to another edition of Coffee Chat with Amber and Lisa, my co-author in crime. We've had some warm weather. Here's our great friend Christine Trimpe, up in Detroit, Michigan. How has your weather been? Have you gotten snow yet?
Speaker 2No snow yet Typical fall day here.
Speaker 1Oh wow, my daughter's been wearing shorts to school, so I'll see how long that stays in, isn't that crazy Shorts to school almost mid-November, although there has been days that it has been probably about 80 degrees here in Missouri Not recently I think we've had mostly 60s the past week here in the Kansas City area.
Speaker 3Michigan is a beautiful state, yeah, but it is a rough winter once winter sets in right.
Speaker 2Yes, it can be. I live in the southern part of Michigan and I live in Detroit, so not so much lake effect snow, but yes, really the west side of the state, upper peninsula, all that can get really walloped with winter weather.
Speaker 1Yeah, the good thing about this kind of weather is we don't see Andy Reid with a snow stash.
Speaker 3No, we don't. We don't have to have anything dripping from the mustache in this moderate weather here.
Speaker 1Yeah, and I bet the Chiefs are loving that Speaking of our Chiefs what a field goal block last Sunday.
Speaker 3That was amazing, pretty phenomenal and everybody in Chiefs Kingdom just about passed out. Yes, and I had a friend, that was all luck and I said the Chiefs just tend to pull it out.
Speaker 1Yeah they do the last minute.
Speaker 3They figure out a way, and I don't know if it's luck, so much as I don't know, we don't want to go, so far as to say. God is smiling upon the Chiefs, I believe.
Speaker 1God may be a Chiefs fan, although Christine would say God is a Lions fan, and that's pretty self-explanatory, right there.
Speaker 2I have no idea what you're talking about, other than the fact that the Lions are 8-1. So I've been told. I am a Fairweather fan. I am trying to keep up on their good news for the season.
Speaker 1Don't want to just force Paul into the Chiefs Again. I have no idea what you're talking about the only football I watch is kansas city chiefs, and the rest I don't even know. But you don't pay attention.
Speaker 3But we're not here to talk about. We're not here to talk about the chiefs. No, we aren't. Christine, I really don't want to talk about football right now. This is not my expertise.
Speaker 1I'm not even an expert.
Speaker 3Christine is a fellow author friend and she has written some books that we want to make sure you know about today and we want to talk about our topic. I know one of the books not the most recent one Seeking Joy, is a devotional and my understanding is it's a countdown from basically Advent to Easter, right Advent to Easter. How many days are involved in?
Speaker 2this devotional study. Oh, the subtitle is A Christmas to Calvary Countdown, because we go through the Gospel of Luke beginning on December 1. There's 24 chapters in the Gospel of Luke, so we're counting down to Christmas for the Gospel of Luke, so it takes place in December as an Advent countdown. And the reason I love it is because we often lose sight of the miraculous thing that Jesus did for us. And I love the Gospel of Luke because it starts like his prophesied birth and his birth and the rejoicing and his ministry on earth. Jesus incarnate with us until he resurrected. So I love reminding the reader of the entire story of Jesus. So that's why I love going to the Gospel of Luke every December.
Speaker 3I'm a big Advent this time of year yes, Of course, when it gets to celebration of his resurrection. I love detailing and going back in for myself personally and digging into the story again and just asking God to meet me in a new, fresh way. Sometimes we look at these stories as okay, it's the same old story, but I believe God can give fresh inspiration as we go through these stories, so I'm excited about that. When I saw what that was about, I was like, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3I'm going to have to get that one, Kristen.
Speaker 2And then the next book and then like shout out the cover. Isn't this an amazing cover? It's a beautiful cover. I wonder who did that cover for you. It's beautifully designed for our own, amber.
Speaker 1I've always wondered, like how did you get that perfect photo in the snow, like just throwing it up like that? That was like picturesque Funny story.
Speaker 2It took two days to get that one shot. Fortunately, when I came up with this crazy idea based on feedback from my audience, I was putting up a cover for the original design which Amber didn't design, but the original cover. I was putting up a lady throwing snow in the air and everybody said that has to be you. And I was like be on the cover of a book. And they're like no, it has to be you. So, fortunately, my wonderful photographer, sarah, was available and we went out for a day. I thought that we got the shot. I got snow on my face over and over again, my makeup was completely gone and she got home later that night. She's no, it's not good yet, let's go. So we went out again the next day.
Speaker 2And she was finally with the shot. So it was a true snow plant. Lots was a true um snow plant in the lots of snow planted Lots of snow plants in the face.
Speaker 1That is wonderful.
Speaker 3That is commitment there.
Speaker 1Commitment to the right shot.
Speaker 3Gotta get the right photo for this cover.
Speaker 1It is and you have people may not know is your weight loss journey, which was featured by many. You're famous in the mainstream media before you were an author correct yeah. Yes, now, as I said, and you have a new book coming out called Sugar Freed, which you should have thrown just sugar up in the air, I think that would have been it. I never thought of that. Brown sugar, powdered sugar, right. That sounds even messier than snow to be honest, watch how the wasps come after us.
Speaker 2The cover of that book is right now, but it was also designed by the amazing Amber, so yes, Tell us when is that book coming out, or when do you have a?
Speaker 1do you have a date yet? Yes, Sugar-free.
Speaker 2Stop losing the weight loss battle. Start gaining. The victory releases on January 21st 2025.
Speaker 1Okay, so what does that timing look like? You can go through seeking joy right now, get you to January and then January. You can do both. First of the year resolutions, that was perfect. Marketing.
Speaker 2Three weeks into the new year. Let me come alongside you and help you Right.
Speaker 3I actually think that's perfect timing because, if anybody is me and the holidays yes, we're all gearing up to this big January 1st turnover and new leaf and the reality is I'm still swamped from what's been going on for several weeks of holiday and family and the end of the year rush.
Speaker 1I think it's perfect timing to jump into the year Perfect and it will give me perfect timing to finish all my holiday eggnog before I'm having to sacrifice it.
Speaker 3Make sure you eat the last of the homemade peanut clusters. That would be my downfall Do you ever do that?
Speaker 1You're like I have this in the house. I need to eat it before I start my diet.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, I used to roll that way for 30 years. Of course yes.
Speaker 3You're not alone. So, christine, I want you to take us to the point, because we want to talk about this journey you've been on. We also want to make sure that we're recognizing that being free from sugar there's a whole lot to that concept. It's not just as simple as don't eat this or do this. I want to ask you said this has been for 30 years. You were stuck in that journey. Can you tell me where you were and what was going on in your life when you realized I need to take some different steps? Let us have a little peek into that time in your life.
Speaker 2Yeah, amazingly, I was sitting on the side of a mountain in Colorado.
Journey to Health and Healing
Speaker 2I am a mountains girl, and so the fact that God allowed me to have this reflective moment on a mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park is just, it's just like a pinch me part of my story pounds overweight, morbidly classified as morbidly obese. My husband and I went on an anniversary trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. My husband had planned some hikes for us and when we got to Bear Lake I walked around a very flat, fairly flat one mile hike around the lake and then he said let's go over to Nymph Lake and I was like okay. So we walked over to that trailhead marker and I saw Nymph Lake was only a half a mile up and I thought I can do another mile. But I looked up and the trail was like straight up.
Speaker 2Oh, wow it was not a flat trail at all. And so I was like, okay, I'm going to give this my best effort because Rocky Mountain National Park, a girl's got to try. It didn't take very long. I got halfway up that path and I was just sucking in air, I was gasping for breath and I said to my husband, I, I just can't go on anymore. I was out of air, my knees were aching. I was just so exhausted and I told him to go on without me and he was like, are you sure? And I'm like, yes, I'm positive'll be okay. Just go see the nymph lake.
Speaker 2And I sat on a stump on the side of a mountain. I just I had dark sunglasses on at the time and I had tears welling in my eyes and I just felt like such a huge disappointment again and it was something that I had been familiar with for 30 years just sitting on the sidelines of life, and I remember thinking and praying in that moment, god, sitting on the sidelines of life, and I remember thinking and praying in that moment, god, I just want to feel better.
Speaker 2I just want to feel better.
Speaker 2At that point I wasn't even concerned about weight loss because I felt like I was just meant to be fat because that was my life for 30 years. But I just wanted to feel better and I started thinking about my future, of not being around to see my grandchildren again, just constantly sitting on the side of life. And in that moment that is like my come to Jesus moment, although I say Jesus came to me more realistically because I was living very casually as a Christian at that time. And just like David writes in Psalm 40, where David was waiting patiently for the Lord, perhaps I had been waiting patiently for the Lord too and just not knowing it. But he took that little tiny mustard seed of my heritage of faith that I had and he just grew that because he did lift me up out of that miry pit, out of that mud of fear put my feet on a new solid rock and gave me a new song in that moment, and it took a while to figure out that's what had actually happened to me.
Speaker 2But that is like my turning point, my take ownership moment, because I came home from that trip with a new resolve that I had not had in my heart for decades to really do take ownership of my health. And then God just took me step by step on this healing journey and that's where it all started.
Speaker 1I can sympathize. I've had a moment like that and it was actually a couple. It was actually a couple of years ago and I was having the same kind of pain and such, and I felt like I needed, or that God was nudging me, and even through another person, a personal friend I was working with just to get up in the morning and do a morning walk, because I had not only all this stuff, I had plantar fasciitis which made it so impossible to feel comfortable walking. And what God had spoke to my spirit is take one step and I'll multiply it. Take one step and I'll multiply it.
Speaker 1So first I had my sight set on we have a little beautiful botanical garden over here and I had my sights set on a bench on the other side.
Speaker 1Okay, I'm going to walk towards that bench and my husband and I we walked towards the bench, we did our stretches, we made it around the pond and we got to that bench and I said by the end of the summer I want to get to this bench.
Speaker 1And that was, and in that time I really felt like this was the stages God was taking me on. He's just trust me, just move through the pain to get to this next bench and by the time summer was over, I was not stopping. I wasn't stopping and my husband and I, we were doing our little devotions on the other side of the lake and he spoke to my spirit you don't neglect this time, even though you feel like you can walk past this bench, don't neglect this time of meeting with me, of sharing these scriptures. So that was interesting to me, because not only did he say take one step and I'll multiply it, but he says don't remember, don't forget. I have this spot's for you and you need to stop and pause with me. And I think he takes us all through those moments.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's very powerful. We do as a type A person always trying to get the next thing done. It's God is really taking me through lessons right now on rest and just resting in him, and that doesn't just mean sleeping, that means really being in him sitting on that bench and time with him?
Speaker 3Yeah, and it's sometimes you just have to really just almost listen in the silence of not speaking even in your mind. Yeah, and that's a hard practice, isn't it? How often do we in the society that we live in, the temple, that we live at the stimulus that is around us at all time, how often do we allow ourselves to sit in silence, resting in him? We don't. We're very easily distracted because life happens 24-7 in this day and age and we almost feel like if we aren't running and gunning with it, then in some way we are less than we aren't protective. That means we aren't successful, we're not doing it right and we're being left behind if the world is racing forward and we don't say those words in our heads. But that is honestly the way we push ourselves.
Speaker 3I want to back up just a little bit in that we're talking about finders and ourselves in a place where we have to make a change. But how did we get to that place? Part of not living there anymore is recognizing how we got there. So, ladies, how did we get to this place? How did we get here, and what has God shown us about that path we took to get to that point where, like you said, 30 years I lived this way. What was that like? What was going on in life that allowed us to get here?
Speaker 2Yeah, most importantly for me, I see in hindsight like I call those, my casual Christian years. I was raised in a Christian family, raised going to church, very active in youth group, and then when I went away to college I neglected my faith and I didn't find a church. I didn't pursue my spiritual growth at all, I just took it for granted. I did take my kids to church off and on throughout the years and I wanted to let the church to build that kind of faith in their lives. So I really regret all of that. So first and foremost, it was my spiritual apathy. Secondly, psychologically, I was not emotionally regulated. I was very emotionally dysregulated because I was comforting and coping with food, with my emotions. I was a chubby child for a few years and I was teased, I was bullied, I was made to feel less than I didn't fit in. And as I grew into adulthood I always talk about how I didn't fit in. I didn't fit in physically. I didn't fit in roller coaster seats.
Speaker 2I always fit in airplane seats, but the thing that really weighed heavy on my heart was that I felt like I didn't fit in when I walked into a room full of women. So I felt rejected, isolated, like no one understood me. And in coaching the women, the clients that I have that I'm so blessed to be able to coach, we don't even talk about these things with our husbands, who's supposed to be the closest to us, right? So the depths of the despair, the heavy weight that I was carrying, was a lot of emotional immaturity. And then also physically, even physically, physiologically.
Speaker 2I 100% believe that the standard American diet and the guidelines kept me trapped in a metabolic situation where my body was physically, physiologically, craving sugar, flours, carbs, and so it was very hard to break that pattern. So, being stuck in that cycle for 30 years, dietary mantras like everything in moderation failed me over and over again, because my body was saying what are you doing? You're depriving me of this quick reward that my brain is crying out for. So that's how often we end up in dieting cycles is because that things like everything in moderation and eat less, move more and we live in deprivation and we feel all the time it's not, it's a setup for failure, it's not a setup for success. So that's where I found myself, that's my history, that's my. I have some trauma that I've dealt with over the years about being bullied and just receiving bad advice for so many years. How do I, how do we flip that around?
Speaker 3It's not just those moments, it's also it's, it's and how we have been taught that food does or does not aid us. I'm even thinking food pyramid. I'm thinking what was in our head as children by our food and drug administration.
Speaker 1Yeah, I was taught that pizza went with corn from my school cafeteria.
Speaker 3Right, exactly, or you hear that that is always bad for you, and what's? Good for you is these things, these vegetables are good for you? And then we find out these vegetables are really hard on our body when it comes to that glycemic index thing. And it's we've been lied to about what our really body, our body, needs, and it's it sends us into this spiral.
Speaker 1Yeah, I know that when I grew up, one of the things that really made a huge imprint on my life is I was always considered the chubby kid.
Speaker 1In my family we have five of us and I was the first to be put on a diet which was salad, the first to be put on a diet which was salad, the salad diet, the salad and cottage cheese diet actually butter, lettuce and cottage cheese diet. And then, of course, I grew up in a household where food was a where my dad would get very. He just ripped the belt out, belt us all, and then he would feed us ice cream and to this day, ice cream is one of my greatest comfort foods and it's one thing that I feel like it's I at least have to have a spoon. It's okay I can if I can just have a spoon of it. Have to have a spoon, it's okay I can if I can just have a spoon of it. And it's not that a spoon is bad, and it's not that the fact that gives me comfort that's bad. It's just how am I overriding pain with food instead of enjoying what I'm eating for the beauty of what I'm eating?
Speaker 3You were learning a really heavy lesson early on and the lesson was to your detriment in a lot of ways. You started to correlate when I get beat up in life, when I get hurt, when I am a disappointment or when I feel disappointed, I can self-soothe with ice cream for lack of it, but I'm sure there were other things that played into that too, right.
Speaker 1And then my dad had grown up in poverty, so we'd grow up with there was scarcity as far as food in our house. Things were marked. We couldn't drink. We had to drink milk on the turn, which is one of my. I still can't. I can't, no, I can't, even if it smells slightly off. But it's amazing though, those imprints. And then later in life, early in my marriage, I was dealing with bulimia because I was over in England. Everybody said everybody had fat American butts. And then when you start losing weight and your husband says and then all of a sudden you're like I'm going to keep doing this, I'm going to keep doing what gets the reaction, or I'm going to keep doing what gets the Ooh, you look like you lost weight type of thing. What keeps you out of that dysfunction? I know that not everybody's moving towards bulimic tendencies, but there's something about personal affirmation of weight loss that really Ooh, I need to keep doing this and it can really lead you into dysfunction.
Speaker 2Yeah, for me this is going to sound so simple, but it's really the mindset that I've landed on, and it is that food is fuel, and I need to fuel my body well, especially as we're aging. Ladies, you are in the same spot.
Speaker 1Yes, we are, you're aging, I am right, don't they say after 50? And I used to say after 50, everything's downhill. But I've learned that you don't have to be that.
Speaker 2Exactly, I feel the best now in my 50s than I've ever felt in my adulthood, which is amazing. And I have more muscle, I'm more active, I'm stronger. I don't sit on the sidelines of life anymore because I am fueling my body well and I don't feel bad about eating protein and healthy fats and because, like I always tell my coaching clients this in the beginning of their journey, it's once you see it, you're not going to be able to unsee it. Okay, so trust me, just trust me. And of course, my, my coaching is faith-based. So they have to show up and trust God in this journey first and foremost, and surrender all of this to them. But, yes, like you start getting as you I just told one of my coaching clients this morning as you lose like 20 to 30 pounds, people are going to start noticing.
Speaker 2But we need to just keep our eyes fixed on what God is calling us to do for our own personal health and wellness, our own mental wellbeing as well too. We have to stay grounded in his word. I do say that I, like I have a new identity in Christ, first and foremost because I really truly surrendered my heart to the Lord in this journey. But I have a new identity. I'm not the same person I was before this health and healing journey emotionally, physically, spiritually and it's a process talking about being transformed by the renewing of your mind. It really is most difficultly an emotional journey, but a transformation takes time. It's a process.
Speaker 2Right and it's not something we're going to get to overnight, but yeah, it takes a ton of work. And we need like 10 hours to sit here and have this coffee chat.
Speaker 1I know we missed part one and part two. Christine, you said you were talking about food being fuel, but at the same time, some of that stuff is like nostalgia to me my sister's coconut cake and cranberry salad and, as I said, there's a lot of nostalgia. On the holiday season, yes, and how do you go through the holidays sugar-free without feeling like you can't even celebrate? Or how do you celebrate? I guess celebrating with food, I don't know. To me that seems like part of it, but give me your take.
Overcoming Sugar Addiction and Finding Freedom
Speaker 2Okay. So this may be a little deep, a little much for some people to grasp right from the get-go, but because personally I can confess that I was using food as an idol in my life, like I thought about food all the time, I obsessed about it. I'm like when am I going to be able to make this fudge, like I used to make fudge every year for Christmas and dole it out as gifts. That was my thing that I would do for friends and family. So the first year I was living sugar-free, my daughter asked me to make the fudge and I said, okay, I'll make it. And I did make it and I did have one little square of it and I felt so good about my ability to be able to have one little tiny square of it just to taste, test it, to see if the sugar had melted and wasn't granulated. That was the process.
Speaker 2But yeah, and it was in that moment that I was like I really feel like I have been set free from this. I've really been set free from this. Again, I really believe that sugar is a very addictive substance and I had been able to work through the process. It's like going through an alcohol recovery, like the abstinence is what was really healing. Yeah, so that's really. That's what I can claim to have helped me be set free and also learning as much as I did. I spent hours and hours reading books and listening to podcasts about metabolic health and understanding like sugar is just not even a great source of fuel.
Speaker 2It used up very quickly and that's why your blood sugar crashes. That's why your brain is saying, hey, what's going on? I need some more fuel. So we're constantly that also that dietary mantra eat five to six meals a day to keep your metabolism revving. That's horrible advice for someone like me. I'm fueling up all day long on sugar, and I wasn't just a sugar addict. I was not the type of person that would go and eat a half a carton of ice cream or a sleeve of Oreo cookies. My source of sugar was more savory, like potato chips yeah, bread, potatoes, pasta. I was. The US dietary guidelines say let's fill up our plates with 60 to 65. Hot rolls Garbage Hot rolls yeah, I will never, I will never.
Speaker 3I was always the child I didn't go for the homemade ice cream on the 4th of July. I didn't. I wanted to have the real food. Foods were not the issue for me. And yet, like you said, when we're told that eating this amount of these foods is actually a good plan, it's nutritious plan.
Speaker 1It's nutrition sound. I've had cauliflower potatoes and they're not that great to me. I almost would rather not have potatoes than have cauliflower. And there's some sweeteners that are good. They taste not chemical, but there's some that. So what is? What do you do with that? Or do you just? Okay, I can't even eat this stuff, yeah that's a good question.
Speaker 2So coincidentally, or thank goodness, I actually did cauliflower all the years. I was growing up Like my mom made cauliflower. I actually liked it, so I do eat like that's my vegetable of choice. So there are things. There are sugar substitutes like stevia, monk fruit erythritol. I've never used xylitol because you don't have xylitol in your house. If you have a dog, that will kill your dog and so there are some sugar substitutes that are very friendly on your blood sugar, like they don't spike your blood sugar.
Speaker 3I actually love monk fruit.
Speaker 1I do too.
Speaker 2Yeah, I would rather.
Speaker 2Yeah, so if I do any baking, I will use like a keto recipe and I use the sugar substitute. My preferred brand is called Sucrin USA. They have a brown sugar, a white sugar, powdered sugar Wow, yeah, I also have powder. I also have monk fruit, lakanto monk fruit in my pantry. But, yeah, I have found suitable substitutes.
Speaker 2But I don't bake a whole lot because I really do not have a sweet taste across my tongue too much because of my sugar addiction. But I will make like a keto cheesecake for the holidays and it freezes really well, so I'll cut it up and then I'll be able to have something to enjoy If, like when I go to Thanksgiving dinner at my parents' house, everybody will be eating pumpkin pie, but I'll have a little piece of my keto cheesecake. So I won't feel deprived and I have found, like when we eliminate that sweet taste off of our tongue, that just having a little bit of, for example, a keto dessert is it's really actually quite satisfying and I don't feel deprived. Yes, what about like fruits, like fruit? Yeah, I do eat. I do eat berries occasionally. Fruit like my go-to fruit used to be bananas, and bananas highest in sugar.
Speaker 1So I try to really limit my, I try to keep my sugar really low and blackberries are my favorite blackberries yes, yes, I know that we have limited time, but I, if you have three, three, three tips for someone to walk forward in this journey, what would they be?
Speaker 2Okay, first of all, you need to get real Okay, and this could be examining your why. I have two whys, okay. So why do you need to get healthy? Why do you want to get healthy? And this could be like the practical reasons, like I've just been diagnosed with type two diabetes or fatty liver disease, like this is a serious health situation. Now, that should give you some motivation for why I want to play with my grandchildren. That was one of my biggest motivators. My other big motivator was my daughter was going into nursing school. I didn't want her to have to clean my elderly body underneath my rolls. I'm being real, I didn't want to put that through. So that's a very real thought though.
Speaker 2Yeah, that is. That's a very real thought.
Speaker 3Cause, I'll be honest with you, I am traveling a road with my own mother right now and, because of weight and also what sickness has done to her body, I can't take care of her myself and I have had to give her to other people to care for, and that is devastating for my daughter too. I don't want to do that to someone else. Yeah, right.
Speaker 2Exactly.
Speaker 1So number two.
Speaker 2Yeah, okay. Number two is, let me the second why. The second why is why did we get here to begin with? And we've talked about this, the backstory, our backstory. How did we get here? So those two whys, and then the third tip I would give you is, very practically, build your grocery shopping list off of the perimeter of the grocery store, because that's where you're going to find the whole foods. One ingredient, for example, eggs, hot roast is beef. Of course you have to skip the bakery section, ladies, okay, and you'll find that on the perimeter too. But really, when you eat baked goods and breads, those digest into sugar almost immediately as soon as they hit your digestive tract. So that's very high in sugar, breads and baked goods. Of course you understand that. So shop the perimeter, start building your meal plans, your recipes, and it can be done. It can really, truly be done, I promise.
Speaker 1I noticed that I set myself up for failure if I try to do everything at once. Yes, I can't eat this, I can't eat that, I can't One of the things that I stopped and I tried to cut out because I'm going to just not eat sweets and then I tried to do it little bit by little bit. And then I tried to do it little bit by little bit, so I wasn't constantly failing, and also I felt like I deprived myself all at lot more water. I feel like that's one of the things that we lack a lot in our body that we want to go for, I don't know that bobble of soda, even diet soda. I was just saying I'm not dogging diet soda, but sometimes your body's craving water and you feed it a dehydration. Yeah, exactly yes.
Speaker 1But Christine, as we close out today, I just would love you to close us in prayer for a lot of people who are not. Maybe they're not on a journey of weight loss. Maybe they're needing to reframe their mind of how they approach the things that have been built up in them. Can you close us in prayer?
Speaker 2Yeah, sure, let me leave us with a scripture that really has impacted my journey. As David writes in Psalm 4-7, you have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine abound. And for me, I just love that, because the grain and new wine that was my issue in life was the food right. And I allow the Lord to fill your heart and your life with greater joy, and you will just be so amazed. So I'm going to pray that for everyone listening right now. Heavenly Father, we just thank you for your word and we thank you for fellowship. We thank you that you've created us for community and that we can gather together over coffee chats like this to just lift up and encourage each other. Gather together over coffee chats like this to just lift up and encourage each other.
Speaker 2And I pray for anyone listening to this recording today, lord, that if there is something that is weighing heavy on their heart, whether it be an issue with their food, behaviors or even a mountain of debt, just something that's weighing them down that you bring them to the point, lord, that they can bring that to you and they can surrender it to you, they can get real, they can search the why and they can search for your why the way out.
Speaker 2I just pray that you give them a hunger and a thirst for righteousness, a hunger and thirst for your word, because that's where we find freedom and that's where we can live in the greater joy that you have available to each and every one of us as believers. Bless Lisa and Amber as they continue this ministry of leading ladies. Lord, I'm so grateful for them and what Amber shared today about just take one step and, lord, we know that you're going to multiply this ministry and this message, even the message of Sugar Freed as it goes out into the world in 2025. I just ask that, if anybody needs encouragement and hope and support for busting through a weight loss battle, lord, that you just give them the next best step. We ask all this in Jesus name, amen. Amen.
Speaker 1Thank you so much for being with us. I appreciate all the insight and tell you you're not only an author, you're a weight loss coach. Yes, yes, yes, tell people where they can connect with you.
Speaker 2Yeah, If they go to my website, christinetrimpcom. There is a page on my website for weight loss. There's a page for about my books and about speaking as well too, but on the weight loss page you can connect with me. There's a free gift available for you, so just click on that and get the free guide Crush your Cravings Guide. I really think that this really begins with getting to the root of our cravings, whether it's food cravings or what we're craving in our heart for more of Jesus.
Speaker 1Wow, so excited, so excited to connect people with that. And it's Trimpe with T-R-I-M-P-E. Christine Trimpe, doc, I spent a lot of time calling you Trimpe, I'm sorry. At least it's better than Trimpe.
Speaker 2Yes, I get it all Trimpe, Trimpe, Trimpe.
Speaker 1Yeah, thank you for being with us today. Yes, thank you so much. You guys, take care and make sure you subscribe to us on all the podcast platforms, and we're over on YouTube. Please subscribe, give us a thumbs up. We'd love for you to join us there. Take care and have a great day.
