So I teach bits and pieces at different places. So you may have been in 63 Surrendered. You may even be in our lifetime community. You may even be restored. You may have gone through all of the courses that I’ve offered. You may even be one of my one-on-one clients who’s been through everything, and I want to assure you that you still don’t know everything.

Because I’m going to be going through this exact process of how to lose weight as a Catholic woman, and some things may feel familiar to you, but you will not know the entire rationale behind them, because once you hear that, you become even more dedicated to that. I also want to reassure you that I’m adding two new pieces to my entire Catholic weight loss model.

Those two pieces are Denise’s Lab, and I have talked about the weight loss lab before, and I’ve used the weight loss lab several different times, but I’ve never distilled it down to the simple process that it is now. I’ve been using the weight loss lab and refining it with clients to overcome middle-of-the-night eating, to overcome the 9:30 binge.

I’ve been using it personally on myself to stop overeating at restaurants, and you can hear that podcast. I released that earlier this week. I’ve even used it to overcome fatigue eating. And I initially started using this when I had gained nearly 25 pounds on a gut healing protocol, and I used the Denise’s Lab to get down to my healthy weight again.

And I’ve increased my capacity to where I’m no longer napping every single day and I am no longer relying on caffeine. I’ve even used this lab to decrease my reliance on caffeine to where I’m having less than half of a cup of half-caff a day, when I was pretty much drinking caffeinated coffee all day long. It’s pretty incredible. It’s really incredible, actually.

And so I’ve been developing this lab that I now call Denise’s Lab, this concept, and using it on myself. For a few years now, and I’ve used it and honed it with other clients to now it’s a very simple couple step process. The other piece that you’re going to hear in this workshop is the stay method.

Now, this is a method that I’m creating to help women stay in the work, because I truly believe that the only reason you’re not at your healthy weight is because you keep leaving the work. So you’re either inconsistent, which is totally fine, because your brain always wants to leave the work, which is not a problem.

Your brain should want to leave the work. That is what brains are designed to do. But you’ve never been taught how to redirect your brain and to recalibrate to the desire to truly do something. What’s been happening is you’ve been trying to motivate yourself through discipline or through shaming or guilting yourself, or just get it all together.

And I wanna tell you that doesn’t work, because God would not shame and guilt you or criticize you and get it all together. God can’t be in that method of motivation, and so it would never work.

Another reason you might not be at your healthy weight is because there’s a root cause. There’s something that’s standing in the way. And once we identify that, then we go into my lab that I’ve created, and we teach you how to stay in the works till it’s actually resolved.

And if you listen to my podcast earlier this week on overcoming overeating at restaurants, you will see that I’ve been working on this for several years. I think I started three years ago with my first protocol, and I don’t want it to take three years for you anymore, so I show you how to do it very simply.

The other thing that you’re going to get out of this workshop, especially if you’ve never done the work, is an understanding of what secular dieting is doing to you and why it’s actually making the problem worse. Why is it actually creating more of a restriction cycle for you? Why is it making your food noise greater? Why it’s making you gain weight, which is crazy, and why you can’t stick to it.

That will all be so clear to you, and so that you will know that when we do weight loss the Catholic way, we’re not exacerbating the problem. We’re actually solving for what’s really keeping you overweight.

And we’re gonna go through what’s really keeping you overweight in the workshop so that you will be able to pinpoint what your problem is. I’ll even give you some next steps, and I’m gonna lead you through the exact process that I lead women through, including what the heck an easy to stick to meal plan is, and how you can do it in a very simple way.

I want you to be able to come with a pen, take notes, and leave with something to implement right away, and just trust that God will reveal the next step to you. Also in this workshop, I’m going to be giving you an opportunity to get a free one-on-one session with me. It is for people who are going to start the new program that I’m releasing on the workshop.

So I want you to just be there for the workshop to know the new program that I’m releasing. If you choose to join within the first 24 hours, I’m giving you a free coaching session with me. The program that I’m releasing is a six-month program. It’s not for everyone, so I want you to just be okay with it not being for you.

If you are still in your beginning stages of Catholic weight loss, I’m gonna show you what you can be doing on your own. The six-month program is not for brand-new people, but I’m simply saying that so that you can get your brain into thinking, “What problem do I want to overcome? If I were to join a six-month program, what two to three things are holding up my weight loss that I want to overcome finally? What has been plaguing me for decades?”

So think about that. I’ll release all the details during the workshop. But for you people, and you women, who do not know about what Catholic weight loss even is, that you still believe that secular dieting is the answer, come to the workshop so I can teach you the process that God has led me through.

And that I’ve been refining for several years now and with over 5,000 Catholic women so that you are now getting the purest, most effective parts of what God has led me through and what he’s doing in these women’s lives.

Because you don’t need all the fluff. This is a no-fluff workshop. It is the essentials. It is the basics. It is, what can I implement today? Truly, the only thing you need to start implementing what I will go over in the workshop is love of the Lord, knowing that he is the answer. And a spirit of willingness.

And when I say a spirit of willingness, I want you to know that I, too, have experienced that is all I need to make significant progress in any method that someone is laying out. What a spirit of willingness is, “Hey, what I’ve been trying isn’t working for me, and God is putting this in my path to try, and I am willing to be open to doing whatever they say. I’m willing to try it, because my way hasn’t worked.”

And any time I have tried something new, I recognize that the best way to do that is to get help from somebody who does know the best way, who has overcome what I want. And I go to them to find out what to do, and I don’t pretend to know what I should be doing. I just simply say, “Okay, I’ll just do what you did.”

And I give myself that willingness and permission to recognize that my brain didn’t know how to do it, otherwise I would be doing it by now, and I’m willing to blindly trust another human who’s overcome what I want to overcome.

So come to the workshop with a pen, with an open mind, with a spirit of willingness, with a love of the Lord, just trusting that God will reveal what He wants for you, what next steps that He wants for you. The link to get your spot is in the description of this podcast.

And I want you to share it with other Catholic women that you know that are secular dieting. If you want to be able to get to a healthy weight in a way that deepens your faith and that brings you closer to the Lord, then Catholic weight loss is your way.

Secular dieting is making gods, and false gods at that, out of the scale, out of the pant size, out of our reflection in the mirror, out of our weight, out of following the magic food plan. And at Weight Loss with the Holy Spirit, my number one goal is to make God our God again. And if you don’t know my story.

My story is that God took me and freed me from binge eating 12 years ago. I used to spend my evenings hiding in my pantry, dumping chocolate chips in a jar of peanut butter, eating it with a spoon. I would go through several jars of peanut butter a week, and I would wait for my family to go to bed so I could scurry back downstairs and eat more.

And finally, when I had my very last binge on two pounds of fudge, Christmas of 2013, I was flat on my back and I had no other recourse than to say, “Lord, I have no idea.” And what He did was, opened a door, and He brought me to a program where I was able to let Him lead me. And I lived that private journey.

Professionally, I was just helping women with their bodies by being a personal trainer, with their nutrition and exercise. And when the pandemic hit, God used that as an opportunity to pivot my life, as well as many other people, and He charged me with the calling to go find His hurting daughters and bring them to Him. Not to me, not to Denise.

But I knew what he meant. He meant, go find the women who are hurting like you are, Denise, and bring them to Him, to His message, to His method. And that’s what I’ve been doing ever since. I’ve been teaching the way that He freed me from binge eating. I’ve been teaching the way that has kept me at a healthy weight for 12 years.

You guys, I throw out clothes because they wear out. And I’ve been teaching the method that’s helped me eat any food with peace. And I’ve been teaching the method that God is our God, that we can trust Him. We’re not perfect human beings, but any time we turn our attention to overcoming something that’s standing in the way of us being close to Him.

And for many women who struggle with food, you know that you’re, the way you’re eating is standing in the way of you being close with the Lord, because we keep confessing it, that we’re using food as a way to comfort and soothe ourselves. And that’s not a problem. It’s not a problem because you just don’t know a different way. I didn’t know a different way.

But the method that God has helped bring me through, and that now He’s teaching, is the only method out there that allows you to lose weight as a Catholic woman, eating the foods that you love.

It’s the only method out there that says, “Hey, you have your own life,” the life that God knows you’re living in now. You have your own demands. You have your own schedules. You have your own vocation in this season of your life. And this method works for all seasons of our life. It’s a method that women who live this lifestyle tell me they never wanna stop, and you never have to.

Why? Because it’s so natural and gentle, and it works for the life that you have now. So you may be wondering, Denise, why are you doing this free workshop? I’m doing this free workshop because God told me to. He said, “Go find my hurting daughters and bring them to me.”

And that is the vow that I have of life, of my life, is to spread His message, to let women know that there is such a thing as Catholic weight loss, to know that there is such a thing as losing weight with the life that you currently have and enjoying the foods that you enjoy. You don’t have to follow someone else’s plan. That’s so silly.

God wants you to learn how to live the life that you have with peace in all areas of your life, especially food. Especially food, if you’re like me, and it was the one area that was holding me up from being close to Him.

It was the one area that was stealing my confidence. It was the one area where I felt like I was disappointing God all the time. It was the one area that I kept trying on my own strength to overcome, and I know I was trying on my own strength to overcome it because I was using methods like dieting and eating clean and exercising more. But that wasn’t my problem.

My problem was that I didn’t know how to emotionally care and support myself through life. My problem was that I was people-pleasing constantly. My problem was that I was overextending myself and didn’t know my limits. I didn’t know how to say no. My to-do list was my God. Those are the real problems. My life felt unmanageable, and I didn’t know how to solve for it.

And no diet will create order and peace in your life. And no exercise routine could do the same either. And so when we do weight loss the Catholic way, we address what’s really standing in the way of you being at your healthy weight in the life that God gave you today. We make God our God, not our pants size, not the scale, not the magic diet.

And so I hope you hear me and know that this is simply for you to know that Catholic weight loss exists. And if you’re a Catholic woman, I truly believe that there are two ways to do everything in life. There’s the Catholic way, and then there’s everyone else’s way.

And so I encourage you if you want to be at a healthy weight and you are struggling with food and weight, to do it the Catholic way. And the first step is knowing that’s even a real thing, which it is.

And the second step is talking to God about it and saying, “Lord, what do you want from me?” And come to this workshop. You will see within the first 10 minutes that this is truly drawing you closer to the Lord by taking care of your health with Him, by addressing the obstacles with Him.

Common obstacles that I see standing in the way of women being at their healthy weight are things like comfort eating, grief eating, lonely eating, boredom eating, procrastination eating, stress eating. Other things I see standing in the way of women really being at their healthy weight are things like restricting their food.

And so that their brain feels truly unsafe with the food that they’re eating, so that when they give themselves permission to eat food, their brain just overeats the food as a survival mechanism. I see women people-please eating. I see women waking up in the middle of the night and overeating, not being able to go back to sleep, or having the evening binge at, like, 9:30.

There are just many, many, many things that are standing in the way, but I promise you the answer all comes with the Lord, all comes with partnering with Him. The method that I am going to lay out for you has freed women from binge eating. It has freed them from sugar addiction. It has freed them from chronically hating their body. It has helped women feel comfortable in their own skin.

It has helped women enjoy the foods that they truly love without overeating them. It has helped women find fun in things other than food and giving themselves permission to take breaks without needing to eat. It’s just incredible. It’s incredible what the Lord will do and heal in our lives, and reorder and rebalance in our lives when we let Him.

And that is the result of Weight Loss: The Catholic Way. You have got to find out what the steps are so that you can start implementing it in your life right away. And I trust that the Lord has nudged you enough, because you’re still listening, to go to the description of this podcast, click on the link, and make sure that you’re signed up.

And if, as I’ve been speaking, other women have been coming to your heart, I want you to share this with them and simply say, “I think God wants you to see this.” It’s that simple. Our goal is that all women who love the Lord and who are Catholic stop secular dieting.

You’re going to hear my belief on how I believe it’s actually making the problem worse, and it’s taking you farther from God. It’s helping you gain weight. I don’t think anybody starts a diet to gain weight.

I’m also going to be talking about how to maintain consistency, which is so hard. But I’m gonna give you my new method that I’ve been using to redirect my brain to stay consistent, and not let my brain just run wild and want to give up, because that’s my brain’s job, is to want to give up. But that doesn’t mean I have to give up.

Okay. So I want you to go into the description right now, click the link, and I will see you July 7th, 10:00 AM Central, 11:00 Eastern, 8:00 Pacific, 9:00 Mountain. I’m gonna see you for that workshop. Come with your questions. I’ll be doing a Q&A afterward.

All right, everybody, I will see you at the workshop.