About this episode

Denise Jelinek and Rita Johnson discuss The Surrendered Method for women feeling stuck with food and weight issues, emphasizing a faith-based approach to overcoming these challenges.

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…

People in this episode

Host: Denise Jelinek

Guest: Rita Johnson

Topics covered

• weight loss
• surrendered method
• faith-based approach
• food struggles
• stress eating

Keywords

• weight loss
• surrendered method
• food struggles
• stress eating
• faith-based weight loss
• automatic behaviors
• nervous system patterns

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Weight Loss Workshop

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Organizations: Weight Loss Workshop

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