Weight Loss

We all have issues, but most of them we can keep hidden – except when it comes to our bodies. When you struggle with weight gain, many who might stigmatize you don’t understand the inner battles you’re fighting.

But at Bellevue Christian Counseling, we understand it’s not just about a new diet. We look to healing the whole person and bringing out those unseen concerns that led to weight issues in the first place. We trust in a merciful God who cares for us and leads us as a good, good Father.

Many people struggle to lose weight due to an underlying medical condition. It’s important to first consult your physician for a thorough medical examination. If a person is otherwise in good health and struggles with weight gain, we look inward to explore how emotional, spiritual, and mental dynamics affect the body.

Common emotional factors include:

• History of abuse
• Internalized negative messages about the self
• Past trauma
• Mid-life emotional issues
• Emotional stress

Christian weight loss counseling will help you process and break free from emotional barriers that prevent you from losing weight. Your counselor will also help you recognize things that could be hindering your progress such as:

• Unhealthy lifestyle and eating habits
• Not knowing healthy ways to lose weight
• Social and cultural influences
• Medical and genetic factors

If you want to learn how to lose weight and maintain a healthy way of living, Christian counseling can help. With input from your counselor, you will discover underlying issues that contribute to your struggle with weight loss and why you might have been unsuccessful at losing weight in the past. This will enable you to make positive choices in the future.

Is Maintaining a Healthy Weight Really Important?

We want to attain a healthy weight so we can be all that God created us to be. Your ideal weight depends on genetics, gender, height, food, and physical exertion. If you’re concerned about whether your weight is healthy or not, see your primary care provider for a physical. When a person is overweight and stays overweight, serious health problems can occur.

Serious health risks of obesity include:

• Coronary Heart Disease
• High Blood Pressure
• Stroke
• Type 2 Diabetes
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Cancer
• Osteoarthritis
• Sleep Apnea
• Reproductive Problems

Many who want to lose weight say that improved health is their largest motivating factor. Losing weight will boost your energy levels, promote better sleep, and help you feel better overall. Don’t be fooled by trendy diet plans that promise you can lose weight fast. Christian weight loss counseling teaches you healthy ways to lose weight by changing your way of life, one step at a time.

Now for this very reason, making every effort, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, patience; and to patience, godliness. – 2 Peter 1:5-6

The key to lasting, positive change is continuing to take small steps toward your goal. Even the apostles of Christ followed this belief in teaching that we move from faith to faith, from righteousness to a greater righteousness – all by the gift of faith and the love of Christ. It happens bit by bit.

At Bellevue Christian Counseling, we know that your steps towards change are unique. Your Christian weight loss counselor will work with you to create a custom weight loss plan that works for your individual situation.

What Does the Christian Approach to Weight Loss Offer? 

What do you get from most weight loss plans? Strict diet routines (some a little more bizarre than others), trendy exercise regimens … and often you’ll gain it all back.

At Bellevue Christian Counseling, we take it two steps further. Not only will we help educate you on building healthier habits, we will also offer healing of the inner causes of your weight gain so you are less likely to gain the weight back.

Bellevue Christian Counseling offers Christ-centered weight loss solutions by helping you build a life that walks more closely aligned with God’s Word and the healing promises of Christ. We don’t need to turn to food to have our inner needs met.

The principles of our approach to weight loss include:

• Building a Christ-centered lifestyle
  We work on shifting your eyes toward Jesus Christ through Bible study and prayer. When you make Him your focus, you will see positive change in all areas of your life, not just on the scale.

• Making good choices for holistic health
  Getting out of old, unhealthy habits is important. By taking it one choice at a time, you can work towards creating healthy habits that promote wellness for the whole person: body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

Holistic Wellness Through Counseling and Faith 

At Bellevue Christian Counseling, we know a healthy weight is more than just a new regimen. Faith in the promises of Christ is our focus for healing. As Christian counselors, we offer you a place of support and guidance for living a life that honors God by living a healthy, Christ-filled life. Through a combination of Bible-based teachings and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, you can find new perspectives for overcoming harmful thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. – 2 Corinthians 10:5

Take a minute to think about what brought you here. You may feel hopeless and desperate for answers. Through Christ, we are promised that our hearts and minds can change. That is what Christian weight loss counseling is all about! We help people overcome challenges of the mind, spirit, and body so they can move towards a life that is more aligned with Christ.

What Does the Bible Say About Keeping Healthy?

As Christians, our bodies are called temples of the Holy Spirit. Because the Spirit of God lives in us, we grow in self-control, patience, gentleness and other “fruits of the Spirit” that affect our bodies. Though that can feel like a tall order, as Jesus says, “my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:30). Through faith in Christ, we have the promise of having good things worked in our hearts, and because of this, we can overcome challenges that would be otherwise impossible. This even applies to our bodies.

Have you ever told yourself any of the following?

• “I don’t have time to cook healthy meals.”
• “I’ll always be overweight. There’s nothing I can do about it.”
• “I don’t have the support I need to lose weight.”
• “I’ve tried it all. Diets don’t work for me.”

Christian counseling works to challenge these and any other thoughts that limit our ability to grow into all Christ has promised us. We will help you move toward positive, motivational self-talk to encourage you to take action.

Practical steps of Christian weight loss counseling include:

• Goal setting
• Encouragement
• Changing your mindset from “I can’t” to“I CAN!”
• Finding incentives for positive choices
• Creating new habits rather than falling prey to trendy diet and exercise plans

You can lose weight and keep it off! Christian weight loss counseling will show you how to transform your life so that you can work towards holistic transformation of body, mind, and spirit. 

Are you ready to feel great inside and out? Contact us today!

At Bellevue Christian Counseling, we have faith that you can overcome your weight challenges, and even challenges that trauma may have created in your life. To learn more about Christian Weight Loss counseling or to schedule your risk-free initial session, contact us online or call us at 425-939-6856.