This 12 week programme compliments Sue's book and provides a Workbook, daily devotional readings and a nutritional and physical activity supplement. These additional resources come as an electronic download. The course can be followed individually or in a group for which additional teaching resources are available. (Please see 'Start a Church Group' page and 'Resources' for more information)
Unit One: Diets Dont Work The ineffectiveness (for most people) of dieting as a means of weight control Examining many reasons why weight gain can happen Our need to find the root cause of our personal weight issues.
Unit Two: Eating a holistic experience An overview of how we relate to food - body, soul and spirit. An introduction to applying Biblical truth in order to help resolve weight issues
Unit Three: The feel-good factor of food Defining emotional eating An examination of stress as a dominant root of emotional eating Practical and spiritual ways of handling and avoiding stress.
Unit Four: Filling the Void Identifying different types of void (emptiness) in our lives Finding more appropriate ways of filling these voids
Unit Five: Facing your Fears Addressing our fears in relation in weight loss The fear of being slim. Biblical ways of dealing with these fears.
Unit Six: Facing the Past How painful past experiences (especially from childhood) may be a powerful, significant root to our disordered eating Learning why this association with comfort-eating exists How we can find healing for our past pain and so be freed from our need to compensate with food.
Unit Seven: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall How we view ourselves and why The connection between poor self-esteem and disordered eating Who we are in Gods eyes and how to love ourselves Finding release from shame and true moral guilt.
Unit Eight: Finding hungry and finding full To identify what it feels like to be both physiologically hungry and satisfied Practical advice to help us to eat within these limits How this way of eating corresponds with the four Biblical principles of Fit For Life Forever.
Unit Nine: Freedom to Choose Some negative outcomes of following unqualified health mantras. Establishing a Biblical basis for eating in freedom coupled with responsibility. Practical advice to help us eat in such a way without falling into excess.
Unit Ten: Creating the right environment How the meal environment can help or hinder the eating experience Practical help for creating the best eating environment.
Unit Eleven: A Spirit-controlled Appetite Defining and encouraging good habits in relation to food and eating. Establishing godly habits through elimination and reinforcement.
Unit Twelve: Fit For Life Forever The pathway to becoming an intuitive eater How this involves a paradigm shift in our relationships with food, God and ourselves.This course is fully interactive, providing opportunity to personalise the teaching through responses to questions, home assignments and a daily devotional guide.
