November 27, 2024 • 39 mins
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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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm going to take a picture right here because of
the technical difficulties.
Christine, I want you to talkso I can take a picture of you.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hi, hi, picture me.
Okay, hello, it's true, we'retalking.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello, welcome.
Yeah, okay, we are recording.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Everybody's recording .
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Let me say welcome one more time.
Welcome to another edition ofCoffee Chat with Amber and Lisa,
my co-author in crime.
We've had some warm weather.
Here's our great friendChristine Trimpe, up in Detroit,
Michigan.
How has your weather been?
Have you gotten snow yet?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
No snow yet Typical fall day here.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oh wow, my daughter's been wearing shorts to school,
so I'll see how long that staysin, isn't that crazy Shorts to
school almost mid-November,although there has been days
that it has been probably about80 degrees here in Missouri Not
recently I think we've hadmostly 60s the past week here in
the Kansas City area.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Michigan is a beautiful state, yeah, but it is
a rough winter once winter setsin right.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yes, it can be.
I live in the southern part ofMichigan 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 1 (01:26):
Yeah, the good thing about this kind of weather is we
don't see Andy Reid with a snowstash.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
No, we don't.
We don't have to have anythingdripping from the mustache in
this moderate weather here.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, and I bet the Chiefs are loving that Speaking
of our Chiefs what a field goalblock last Sunday.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
That was amazing, pretty phenomenal and everybody
in Chiefs Kingdom just aboutpassed out.
Yes, and I had a friend, thatwas all luck and I said the
Chiefs just tend to pull it out.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah they do the last minute.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
They figure out a way , and I don't know if it's luck,
so much as I don't know, wedon't want to go, so far as to
say.
God is smiling upon the Chiefs,I believe.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
God may be a Chiefs fan, although Christine would
say God is a Lions fan, andthat's pretty self-explanatory,
right there.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I 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 theirgood news for the season.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Don't want to just force Paul into the Chiefs Again
.
I have no idea what you'retalking 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 3 (02:52):
But we're not here to talk about.
We're not here to talk aboutthe chiefs.
No, we aren't.
Christine, I really don't wantto talk about football right now
.
This is not my expertise.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I'm not even an expert.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Christine is a fellow author friend and she has
written some books that we wantto make sure you know about
today and we want to talk aboutour topic.
I know one of the books not themost recent one Seeking Joy, is
a devotional and myunderstanding is it's a
countdown from basically Adventto Easter, right Advent to
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Easter.
How many days are involved in?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
this devotional study .
Oh, the subtitle is A Christmasto Calvary Countdown, because
we go through the Gospel of Lukebeginning on December 1.
There's 24 chapters in theGospel of Luke, so we're
counting down to Christmas forthe Gospel of Luke, so it takes
place in December as an Adventcountdown.
And the reason I love it isbecause we often lose sight of
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the miraculous thing that Jesusdid for us.
And I love the Gospel of Lukebecause it starts like his
prophesied birth and his birthand the rejoicing and his
ministry on earth.
Jesus incarnate with us untilhe resurrected.
So I love reminding the readerof the entire story of Jesus.
So that's why I love going tothe Gospel of Luke every
December.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I'm a big Advent this time of year yes, Of course,
when it gets to celebration ofhis resurrection.
I love detailing and going backin for myself personally and
digging into the story again andjust asking God to meet me in a
new, fresh way.
Sometimes we look at thesestories as okay, it's the same
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old story, but I believe God cangive fresh inspiration as we go
through these stories, so I'mexcited about that.
When I saw what that was about,I was like, yeah, I like that.
I'm going to have to get thatone, Kristen.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And 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 foryou.
It's beautifully designed forour own, amber.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I've always wondered, like how did you get that
perfect photo in the snow, likejust throwing it up like that?
That was like picturesque Funnystory.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It took two days to get that one shot.
Fortunately, when I came upwith this crazy idea based on
feedback from my audience, I wasputting up a cover for the
original design which Amberdidn't design, but the original
cover.
I was putting up a ladythrowing snow in the air and
everybody said that has to beyou.
And I was like be on the coverof a book.
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And they're like no, it has tobe you.
So, fortunately, my wonderfulphotographer, sarah, was
available and we went out for aday.
I thought that we got the shot.
I got snow on my face over andover again, my makeup was
completely gone and she got homelater that night.
She's no, it's not good yet,let's go.
So we went out again the nextday.
(06:00):
And she was finally with theshot.
So it was a true snow plant.
Lots was a true um snow plantin the lots of snow planted Lots
of snow plants in the face.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That is commitment there.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Commitment to the right shot.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Gotta get the right photo for this cover.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It is and you have people may not know is your
weight loss journey, which wasfeatured by many.
You're famous in the mainstreammedia before you were an author
correct yeah.
Yes, now, as I said, and youhave a new book coming out
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called Sugar Freed, which youshould have thrown just sugar up
in the air, I think that wouldhave been it.
I never thought of that.
Brown sugar, powdered sugar,right.
That sounds even messier thansnow to be honest, watch how the
wasps come after us.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The cover of that book is right now, but it was
also designed by the amazingAmber, so yes, Tell us when is
that book coming out, or when doyou have a?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
do you have a date yet?
Yes, Sugar-free.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Stop losing the weight loss battle.
Start gaining.
The victory releases on January21st 2025.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Okay, so what does that timing look like?
You can go through seeking joyright now, get you to January
and then January.
You can do both.
First of the year resolutions,that was perfect.
Marketing.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Three weeks into the new year.
Let me come alongside you andhelp you Right.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I actually think that's perfect timing because,
if anybody is me and theholidays yes, we're all gearing
up to this big January 1stturnover and new leaf and the
reality is I'm still swampedfrom what's been going on for
several weeks of holiday andfamily and the end of the year
rush.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I think it's perfect timing to jump into the year
Perfect and it will give meperfect timing to finish all my
holiday eggnog before I'm havingto sacrifice it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Make sure you eat the last of the homemade peanut
clusters.
That would be my downfall Doyou ever do that?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You're like I have this in the house.
I need to eat it before I startmy diet.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Oh yeah, I used to roll that way for 30 years.
Of course yes.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You're not alone.
So, christine, I want you totake us to the point, because we
want to talk about this journeyyou've been on.
We also want to make sure thatwe're recognizing that being
free from sugar there's a wholelot to that concept.
It's not just as simple asdon't eat this or do this.
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I want to ask you said this hasbeen for 30 years.
You were stuck in that journey.
Can you tell me where you wereand what was going on in your
life when you realized I need totake some different steps?
Let us have a little peek intothat time in your life.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, amazingly, I was sitting on the side of a
mountain in Colorado.
I am a mountains girl, and sothe fact that God allowed me to
have this reflective moment on amountain in Rocky Mountain
National Park is just, it's justlike a pinch me part of my
story pounds overweight,morbidly classified as morbidly
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obese.
My husband and I went on ananniversary trip to Rocky
Mountain National Park.
My husband had planned somehikes for us and when we got to
Bear Lake I walked around a veryflat, fairly flat one mile hike
around the lake and then hesaid let's go over to Nymph Lake
and I was like okay.
So we walked over to thattrailhead marker and I saw Nymph
Lake was only a half a mile upand I thought I can do another
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mile.
But I looked up and the trailwas like straight up.
Oh, wow it was not a flat trailat all.
And so I was like, okay, I'mgoing to give this my best
effort because Rocky MountainNational Park, a girl's got to
try.
It didn't take very long.
I got halfway up that path andI was just sucking in air, I was
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gasping for breath and I saidto my husband, I, I just can't
go on anymore.
I was out of air, my knees wereaching.
I was just so exhausted and Itold him to go on without me and
he was like, are you sure?
And I'm like, yes, I'mpositive'll be okay.
Just go see the nymph lake.
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And I sat on a stump on the sideof a mountain.
I just I had dark sunglasses onat the time and I had tears
welling in my eyes and I justfelt like such a huge
disappointment again and it wassomething that I had been
familiar with for 30 years justsitting on the sidelines of life
, and I remember thinking andpraying in that moment, god,
sitting on the sidelines of life, and I remember thinking and
praying in that moment, god, Ijust want to feel better.
I just want to feel better.
At that point I wasn't evenconcerned about weight loss
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because I felt like I was justmeant to be fat because that was
my life for 30 years.
But I just wanted to feelbetter and I started thinking
about my future, of not beingaround to see my grandchildren
again, just constantly sittingon the side of life.
And in that moment that is likemy come to Jesus moment,
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although I say Jesus came to memore realistically because I was
living very casually as aChristian at that time.
And just like David writes inPsalm 40, where David was
waiting patiently for the Lord,perhaps I had been waiting
patiently for the Lord too andjust not knowing it.
But he took that little tinymustard seed of my heritage of
faith that I had and he justgrew that because he did lift me
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up out of that miry pit, out ofthat mud of fear put my feet on
a new solid rock and gave me anew song in that moment, and it
took a while to figure outthat's what had actually
happened to me.
But that is like my turningpoint, my take ownership moment,
because I came home from thattrip with a new resolve that I
had not had in my heart fordecades to really do take
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ownership of my health.
And then God just took me stepby step on this healing journey
and that's where it all started.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I can sympathize.
I've had a moment like that andit was actually a couple.
It was actually a couple ofyears ago and I was having the
same kind of pain and such, andI felt like I needed, or that
God was nudging me, and eventhrough another person, a
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personal friend I was workingwith just to get up in the
morning and do a morning walk,because I had not only all this
stuff, I had plantar fasciitiswhich made it so impossible to
feel comfortable walking.
And what God had spoke to myspirit is take one step and I'll
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multiply it.
Take one step and I'll multiplyit.
So first I had my sight set onwe have a little beautiful
botanical garden over here and Ihad my sights set on a bench on
the other side.
Okay, I'm going to walk towardsthat bench and my husband and I
we walked towards the bench, wedid our stretches, we made it
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around the pond and we got tothat bench and I said by the end
of the summer I want to get tothis bench.
And that was, and in that time Ireally felt like this was the
stages God was taking me on.
He's just trust me, just movethrough the pain to get to this
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next bench and by the timesummer was over, I was not
stopping.
I wasn't stopping and myhusband and I, we were doing our
little devotions on the otherside of the lake and he spoke to
my spirit you don't neglectthis time, even though you feel
like you can walk past thisbench, don't neglect this time
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of meeting with me, of sharingthese 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 andyou need to stop and pause with
me.
And I think he takes us allthrough those moments.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, that's very powerful.
We do as a type A person alwaystrying to get the next thing
done.
It's God is really taking methrough lessons right now on
rest and just resting in him,and that doesn't just mean
sleeping, that means reallybeing in him sitting on that
bench and time with him?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Yeah, and it's sometimes you just have to
really just almost listen in thesilence of not speaking even in
your mind.
Yeah, and that's a hardpractice, isn't it?
How often do we in the societythat we live in, the temple,
that we live at the stimulusthat is around us at all time,
how often do we allow ourselvesto sit in silence, resting in
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him?
We don't.
We're very easily distractedbecause life happens 24-7 in
this day and age and we almostfeel like if we aren't running
and gunning with it, then insome way we are less than we
aren't protective.
That means we aren't successful, we're not doing it right and
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we're being left behind if theworld is racing forward and we
don't say those words in ourheads.
But that is honestly the way wepush ourselves.
I want to back up just a littlebit in that we're talking about
finders and ourselves in a placewhere we have to make a change.
But how did we get to thatplace?
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Part of not living thereanymore is recognizing how we
got there.
So, ladies, how did we get tothis place?
How did we get here, and whathas God shown us about that path
we took to get to that pointwhere, like you said, 30 years I
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lived this way.
What was that like?
What was going on in life thatallowed us to get here?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, most importantly for me, I see in
hindsight like I call those, mycasual Christian years.
I was raised in a Christianfamily, raised going to church,
very active in youth group, andthen when I went away to college
I neglected my faith and Ididn't find a church.
I didn't pursue my spiritualgrowth at all, I just took it
for granted.
I did take my kids to churchoff and on throughout the years
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and I wanted to let the churchto build that kind of faith in
their lives.
So I really regret all of that.
So first and foremost, it wasmy spiritual apathy.
Secondly, psychologically, Iwas not emotionally regulated.
I was very emotionallydysregulated because I was
comforting and coping with food,with my emotions.
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I was a chubby child for a fewyears and I was teased, I was
bullied, I was made to feel lessthan I didn't fit in.
And as I grew into adulthood Ialways talk about how I didn't
fit in.
I didn't fit in physically.
I didn't fit in roller coasterseats.
I always fit in airplane seats,but the thing that really
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weighed heavy on my heart wasthat I felt like I didn't fit in
when I walked into a room fullof women.
So I felt rejected, isolated,like no one understood me.
And in coaching the women, theclients that I have that I'm so
blessed to be able to coach, wedon't even talk about these
things with our husbands, who'ssupposed to be the closest to us
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, right?
So the depths of the despair,the heavy weight that I was
carrying, was a lot of emotionalimmaturity.
And then also physically, evenphysically, physiologically.
I 100% believe that the standardAmerican diet and the
guidelines kept me trapped in ametabolic situation where my
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body was physically,physiologically, craving sugar,
flours, carbs, and so it wasvery hard to break that pattern.
So, being stuck in that cyclefor 30 years, dietary mantras
like everything in moderationfailed me over and over again,
because my body was saying whatare you doing?
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You're depriving me of thisquick reward that my brain is
crying out for.
So that's how often we end upin dieting cycles is because
that things like everything inmoderation and eat less, move
more and we live in deprivationand we feel all the time it's
not, it's a setup for failure,it's not a setup for success.
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So that's where I found myself,that's my history, that's my.
I have some trauma that I'vedealt with over the years about
being bullied and just receivingbad advice for so many years.
How do I, how do we flip thataround?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's not just those moments, it's also it's, it's
and how we have been taught thatfood does or does not aid us.
I'm even thinking food pyramid.
I'm thinking what was in ourhead as children by our food and
drug administration.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, I was taught that pizza went with corn from
my school cafeteria.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Right, 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 thesevegetables are really hard on
our body when it comes to thatglycemic index thing.
And it's we've been lied toabout what our really body, our
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body, needs, and it's it sendsus into this spiral.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, I know that when I grew up, one of the
things that really made a hugeimprint on my life is I was
always considered the chubby kid.
In my family we have five of usand I was the first to be put on
a diet which was salad, thefirst to be put on a diet which
was salad, the salad diet, thesalad and cottage cheese diet
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actually butter, lettuce andcottage cheese diet.
And then, of course, I grew upin 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 thisday, ice cream is one of my
greatest comfort foods and it'sone thing that I feel like it's
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I at least have to have a spoon.
It's okay I can if I can justhave a spoon of it.
Have to have a spoon, it's okayI can if I can just have a
spoon of it.
And it's not that a spoon isbad, and it's not that the fact
that gives me comfort that's bad.
It's just how am I overridingpain with food instead of
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enjoying what I'm eating for thebeauty of what I'm eating?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
You were learning a really heavy lesson early on and
the lesson was to yourdetriment in a lot of ways.
You started to correlate when Iget beat up in life, when I get
hurt, when I am adisappointment or when I feel
disappointed, I can self-soothewith ice cream for lack of it,
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but I'm sure there were otherthings that played into that too
, right.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
And then my dad had grown up in poverty, so we'd
grow up with there was scarcityas far as food in our house.
Things were marked.
We couldn't drink.
We had to drink milk on theturn, which is one of my.
I still can't.
I can't, no, I can't, even ifit smells slightly off.
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But it's amazing though, thoseimprints.
And then later in life, earlyin my marriage, I was dealing
with bulimia because I was overin England.
Everybody said everybody hadfat American butts.
And then when you start losingweight and your husband says and
then all of a sudden you'relike I'm going to keep doing
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this, I'm going to keep doingwhat gets the reaction, or I'm
going to keep doing what getsthe Ooh, you look like you lost
weight type of thing.
What keeps you out of thatdysfunction?
I know that not everybody'smoving towards bulimic
tendencies, but there'ssomething about personal
affirmation of weight loss thatreally Ooh, I need to keep doing
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this and it can really lead youinto dysfunction.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah, for me this is going to sound so simple, but
it's really the mindset thatI've landed on, and it is that
food is fuel, and I need to fuelmy body well, especially as
we're aging.
Ladies, you are in the samespot.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yes, 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'thave to be that.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Exactly, I feel the best now in my 50s than I've
ever felt in my adulthood, whichis amazing.
And I have more muscle, I'mmore active, I'm stronger.
I don't sit on the sidelines oflife anymore because I am
fueling my body well and I don'tfeel bad about eating protein
and healthy fats and because,like I always tell my coaching
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clients this in the beginning oftheir journey, it's once you
see it, you're not going to beable to unsee it.
Okay, so trust me, just trustme.
And of course, my, my coachingis faith-based.
So they have to show up andtrust God in this journey first
and foremost, and surrender allof this to them.
But, yes, like you startgetting as you I just told one
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of my coaching clients thismorning as you lose like 20 to
30 pounds, people are going tostart noticing.
But we need to just keep oureyes fixed on what God is
calling us to do for our ownpersonal health and wellness,
our own mental wellbeing as welltoo.
We have to stay grounded in hisword.
I do say that I, like I have anew identity in Christ, first
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and foremost because I reallytruly surrendered my heart to
the Lord in this journey.
But I have a new identity.
I'm not the same person I wasbefore this health and healing
journey emotionally, physically,spiritually and it's a process
talking about being transformedby the renewing of your mind.
It really is most difficultlyan emotional journey, but a
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transformation takes time.
It's a process.
Right and it's not somethingwe're going to get to overnight,
but yeah, it takes a ton ofwork.
And we need like 10 hours tosit here and have this coffee
chat.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I know we missed part one and part two.
Christine, you said you weretalking about food being fuel,
but at the same time, some ofthat stuff is like nostalgia to
me my sister's coconut cake andcranberry salad and, as I said,
there's a lot of nostalgia.
On the holiday season, yes, andhow do you go through the
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holidays sugar-free withoutfeeling 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 ofit, but give me your take.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Okay.
So this may be a little deep, alittle much for some people to
grasp right from the get-go, butbecause personally I can
confess that I was using food asan idol in my life, like I
thought about food all the time,I obsessed about it.
I'm like when am I going to beable to make this fudge, like I
used to make fudge every yearfor Christmas and dole it out as
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gifts.
That was my thing that I woulddo for friends and family.
So the first year I was livingsugar-free, my daughter asked me
to make the fudge and I said,okay, I'll make it.
And I did make it and I didhave one little square of it and
I felt so good about my abilityto be able to have one little
tiny square of it just to taste,test it, to see if the sugar
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had melted and wasn't granulated.
That was the process.
But yeah, and it was in thatmoment that I was like I really
feel like I have been set freefrom this.
I've really been set free fromthis.
Again, I really believe thatsugar is a very addictive
substance and I had been able towork through the process.
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It's like going through analcohol recovery, like the
abstinence is what was reallyhealing.
Yeah, so that's really.
That's what I can claim to havehelped me be set free and also
learning as much as I did.
I spent hours and hours readingbooks and listening to podcasts
about metabolic health andunderstanding like sugar is just
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not even a great source of fuel.
It used up very quickly andthat'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 alsothat dietary mantra eat five to
six meals a day to keep yourmetabolism revving.
That's horrible advice forsomeone like me.
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I'm fueling up all day long onsugar, and I wasn't just a sugar
addict.
I was not the type of personthat would go and eat a half a
carton of ice cream or a sleeveof Oreo cookies.
My source of sugar was moresavory, like potato chips yeah,
bread, potatoes, pasta.
I was.
The US dietary guidelines saylet's fill up our plates with 60
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to 65.
Hot rolls Garbage Hot rollsyeah, I will never, I will never
.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I was always the child I didn't go for the
homemade ice cream on the 4th ofJuly.
I didn't.
I wanted to have the real food.
Foods were not the issue for me.
And yet, like you said, whenwe're told that eating this
amount of these foods isactually a good plan, it's
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nutritious plan.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
It's nutrition sound.
I've had cauliflower potatoesand they're not that great to me
.
I almost would rather not havepotatoes than have cauliflower.
And there's some sweetenersthat are good.
They taste not chemical, butthere's some that.
So what is?
What do you do with that?
Or do you just?
Okay, I can't even eat thisstuff, yeah that's a good
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question.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
So coincidentally, or thank goodness, I actually did
cauliflower all the years.
I was growing up Like my mommade cauliflower.
I actually liked it, so I doeat like that's my vegetable of
choice.
So there are things.
There are sugar substituteslike stevia, monk fruit
erythritol.
(29:18):
I've never used xylitol becauseyou don't have xylitol in your
house.
If you have a dog, that willkill your dog and so there are
some sugar substitutes that arevery friendly on your blood
sugar, like they don't spikeyour blood sugar.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I actually love monk fruit.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, I would rather.
Yeah, so if I do any baking, Iwill use like a keto recipe and
I use the sugar substitute.
My preferred brand is calledSucrin USA.
They have a brown sugar, awhite sugar, powdered sugar Wow,
yeah, I also have powder.
I also have monk fruit, lakantomonk fruit in my pantry.
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But, yeah, I have foundsuitable substitutes.
But I don't bake a whole lotbecause I really do not have a
sweet taste across my tongue toomuch because of my sugar
addiction.
But I will make like a ketocheesecake for the holidays and
it freezes really well, so I'llcut it up and then I'll be able
to have something to enjoy If,like when I go to Thanksgiving
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dinner at my parents' house,everybody will be eating pumpkin
pie, but I'll have a littlepiece of my keto cheesecake.
So I won't feel deprived and Ihave found, like when we
eliminate that sweet taste offof our tongue, that just having
a little bit of, for example, aketo dessert is it's really
actually quite satisfying and Idon't feel deprived.
(30:40):
Yes, what about like fruits,like fruit?
Yeah, I do eat.
I do eat berries occasionally.
Fruit like my go-to fruit usedto be bananas, and bananas
highest in sugar.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So I try to really limit my, I try to keep my sugar
really low and blackberries aremy favorite blackberries yes,
yes, I know that we have limitedtime, but I, if you have three,
three, three tips for someoneto walk forward in this journey,
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what would they be?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Okay, 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 gethealthy?
Why do you want to get healthy?
And this could be like thepractical reasons, like I've
just been diagnosed with typetwo diabetes or fatty liver
disease, like this is a serioushealth situation.
Now, that should give you somemotivation for why I want to
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play with my grandchildren.
That was one of my biggestmotivators.
My other big motivator was mydaughter was going into nursing
school.
I didn't want her to have toclean my elderly body underneath
my rolls.
I'm being real, I didn't wantto put that through.
So that's a very real thoughtthough.
Yeah, that is.
That's a very real thought.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Cause, I'll be honest with you, I am traveling a road
with my own mother right nowand, because of weight and also
what sickness has done to herbody, I can't take care of her
myself and I have had to giveher to other people to care for,
and that is devastating for mydaughter too.
(32:23):
I don't want to do that tosomeone else.
Yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So number two.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah, okay.
Number two is, let me thesecond why.
The second why is why did weget 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 thethird tip I would give you is,
very practically, build yourgrocery shopping list off of the
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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 thebakery section, ladies, okay,
and you'll find that on theperimeter too.
But really, when you eat bakedgoods and breads, those digest
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into sugar almost immediately assoon 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, startbuilding your meal plans, your
recipes, and it can be done.
It can really, truly be done, Ipromise.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I noticed that I set myself up for failure if I try
to do everything at once.
Yes, I can't eat this, I can'teat that, I can't One of the
things that I stopped and Itried to cut out because I'm
going to just not eat sweets andthen I tried to do it little
(33:54):
bit by little bit.
And then I tried to do itlittle bit by little bit, so I
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wasn't constantly failing, andalso I felt like I deprived
myself all at lot more water.
I feel like that's one of thethings that we lack a lot in our
body that we want to go for, Idon't know that bobble of soda,
even diet soda.
I was just saying I'm notdogging diet soda, but sometimes
your body's craving water andyou feed it a dehydration.
Yeah, exactly yes.
(34:44):
But Christine, as we close outtoday, I just would love you to
close us in prayer for a lot ofpeople who are not.
Maybe they're not on a journeyof weight loss.
Maybe they're needing toreframe their mind of how they
approach the things that havebeen built up in them.
Can you close us in prayer?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, 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 theirgrain and new wine abound.
And for me, I just love that,because the grain and new wine
that was my issue in life wasthe food right.
And I allow the Lord to fillyour heart and your life with
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greater joy, and you will justbe so amazed.
So I'm going to pray that foreveryone listening right now.
Heavenly Father, we just thankyou for your word and we thank
you for fellowship.
We thank you that you'vecreated us for community and
that we can gather together overcoffee chats like this to just
lift up and encourage each other.
Gather together over coffeechats like this to just lift up
and encourage each other.
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And I pray for anyone listeningto this recording today, lord,
that if there is something thatis weighing heavy on their heart
, whether it be an issue withtheir food, behaviors or even a
mountain of debt, just somethingthat's weighing them down that
you bring them to the point,lord, that they can bring that
to you and they can surrender itto you, they can get real, they
can search the why and they cansearch for your why the way out
.
I just pray that you give them ahunger and a thirst for
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righteousness, a hunger andthirst for your word, because
that's where we find freedom andthat's where we can live in the
greater joy that you haveavailable to each and every one
of us as believers.
Bless Lisa and Amber as theycontinue this ministry of
leading ladies.
Lord, I'm so grateful for themand what Amber shared today
about just take one step and,lord, we know that you're going
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to multiply this ministry andthis message, even the message
of Sugar Freed as it goes outinto the world in 2025.
I just ask that, if anybodyneeds encouragement and hope and
support for busting through aweight loss battle, lord, that
you just give them the next beststep.
We ask all this in Jesus name,amen.
Amen.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Thank you so much for being with us.
I appreciate all the insightand tell you you're not only an
author, you're a weight losscoach.
Yes, yes, yes, tell peoplewhere they can connect with you.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah, If they go to my website, christinetrimpcom.
There is a page on my websitefor weight loss.
There's a page for about mybooks and about speaking as well
too, but on the weight losspage you can connect with me.
There's a free gift availablefor you, so just click on that
and get the free guide Crushyour Cravings Guide.
(37:22):
I really think that this reallybegins with getting to the root
of our cravings, whether it'sfood cravings or what we're
craving in our heart for more ofJesus.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Wow, so excited, so excited to connect people with
that.
And it's Trimpe withT-R-I-M-P-E.
Christine Trimpe, doc, I spenta lot of time calling you Trimpe
, I'm sorry.
At least it's better thanTrimpe.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yes, I get it all Trimpe, Trimpe, Trimpe.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, thank you for being with us today.
Yes, thank you so much.
You guys, take care and makesure you subscribe to us on all
the podcast platforms, and we'reover on YouTube.
Please subscribe, give us athumbs up.
We'd love for you to join usthere.
Take care and have a great day.
I'm going to take a picture right here because of
the technical difficulties.
Christine, I want you to talkso I can take a picture of you.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hi, hi, picture me.
Okay, hello, it's true, we'retalking.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello, welcome.
Yeah, okay, we are recording.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Everybody's recording .
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Let me say welcome one more time.
Welcome to another edition ofCoffee Chat with Amber and Lisa,
my co-author in crime.
We've had some warm weather.
Here's our great friendChristine Trimpe, up in Detroit,
Michigan.
How has your weather been?
Have you gotten snow yet?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
No snow yet Typical fall day here.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oh wow, my daughter's been wearing shorts to school,
so I'll see how long that staysin, isn't that crazy Shorts to
school almost mid-November,although there has been days
that it has been probably about80 degrees here in Missouri Not
recently I think we've hadmostly 60s the past week here in
the Kansas City area.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Michigan is a beautiful state, yeah, but it is
a rough winter once winter setsin right.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yes, it can be.
I live in the southern part ofMichigan 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 1 (01:26):
Yeah, the good thing about this kind of weather is we
don't see Andy Reid with a snowstash.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
No, we don't.
We don't have to have anythingdripping from the mustache in
this moderate weather here.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, and I bet the Chiefs are loving that Speaking
of our Chiefs what a field goalblock last Sunday.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
That was amazing, pretty phenomenal and everybody
in Chiefs Kingdom just aboutpassed out.
Yes, and I had a friend, thatwas all luck and I said the
Chiefs just tend to pull it out.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah they do the last minute.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
They figure out a way , and I don't know if it's luck,
so much as I don't know, wedon't want to go, so far as to
say.
God is smiling upon the Chiefs,I believe.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
God may be a Chiefs fan, although Christine would
say God is a Lions fan, andthat's pretty self-explanatory,
right there.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I 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 theirgood news for the season.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Don't want to just force Paul into the Chiefs Again
.
I have no idea what you'retalking 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 3 (02:52):
But we're not here to talk about.
We're not here to talk aboutthe chiefs.
No, we aren't.
Christine, I really don't wantto talk about football right now
.
This is not my expertise.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I'm not even an expert.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Christine is a fellow author friend and she has
written some books that we wantto make sure you know about
today and we want to talk aboutour topic.
I know one of the books not themost recent one Seeking Joy, is
a devotional and myunderstanding is it's a
countdown from basically Adventto Easter, right Advent to
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Easter.
How many days are involved in?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
this devotional study .
Oh, the subtitle is A Christmasto Calvary Countdown, because
we go through the Gospel of Lukebeginning on December 1.
There's 24 chapters in theGospel of Luke, so we're
counting down to Christmas forthe Gospel of Luke, so it takes
place in December as an Adventcountdown.
And the reason I love it isbecause we often lose sight of
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the miraculous thing that Jesusdid for us.
And I love the Gospel of Lukebecause it starts like his
prophesied birth and his birthand the rejoicing and his
ministry on earth.
Jesus incarnate with us untilhe resurrected.
So I love reminding the readerof the entire story of Jesus.
So that's why I love going tothe Gospel of Luke every
December.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I'm a big Advent this time of year yes, Of course,
when it gets to celebration ofhis resurrection.
I love detailing and going backin for myself personally and
digging into the story again andjust asking God to meet me in a
new, fresh way.
Sometimes we look at thesestories as okay, it's the same
(04:39):
old story, but I believe God cangive fresh inspiration as we go
through these stories, so I'mexcited about that.
When I saw what that was about,I was like, yeah, I like that.
I'm going to have to get thatone, Kristen.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And 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 foryou.
It's beautifully designed forour own, amber.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I've always wondered, like how did you get that
perfect photo in the snow, likejust throwing it up like that?
That was like picturesque Funnystory.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It took two days to get that one shot.
Fortunately, when I came upwith this crazy idea based on
feedback from my audience, I wasputting up a cover for the
original design which Amberdidn't design, but the original
cover.
I was putting up a ladythrowing snow in the air and
everybody said that has to beyou.
And I was like be on the coverof a book.
(05:37):
And they're like no, it has tobe you.
So, fortunately, my wonderfulphotographer, sarah, was
available and we went out for aday.
I thought that we got the shot.
I got snow on my face over andover again, my makeup was
completely gone and she got homelater that night.
She's no, it's not good yet,let's go.
So we went out again the nextday.
(06:00):
And she was finally with theshot.
So it was a true snow plant.
Lots was a true um snow plantin the lots of snow planted Lots
of snow plants in the face.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That is commitment there.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Commitment to the right shot.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Gotta get the right photo for this cover.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It is and you have people may not know is your
weight loss journey, which wasfeatured by many.
You're famous in the mainstreammedia before you were an author
correct yeah.
Yes, now, as I said, and youhave a new book coming out
(06:39):
called Sugar Freed, which youshould have thrown just sugar up
in the air, I think that wouldhave been it.
I never thought of that.
Brown sugar, powdered sugar,right.
That sounds even messier thansnow to be honest, watch how the
wasps come after us.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The cover of that book is right now, but it was
also designed by the amazingAmber, so yes, Tell us when is
that book coming out, or when doyou have a?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
do you have a date yet?
Yes, Sugar-free.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Stop losing the weight loss battle.
Start gaining.
The victory releases on January21st 2025.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Okay, so what does that timing look like?
You can go through seeking joyright now, get you to January
and then January.
You can do both.
First of the year resolutions,that was perfect.
Marketing.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Three weeks into the new year.
Let me come alongside you andhelp you Right.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I actually think that's perfect timing because,
if anybody is me and theholidays yes, we're all gearing
up to this big January 1stturnover and new leaf and the
reality is I'm still swampedfrom what's been going on for
several weeks of holiday andfamily and the end of the year
rush.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I think it's perfect timing to jump into the year
Perfect and it will give meperfect timing to finish all my
holiday eggnog before I'm havingto sacrifice it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Make sure you eat the last of the homemade peanut
clusters.
That would be my downfall Doyou ever do that?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You're like I have this in the house.
I need to eat it before I startmy diet.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Oh yeah, I used to roll that way for 30 years.
Of course yes.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You're not alone.
So, christine, I want you totake us to the point, because we
want to talk about this journeyyou've been on.
We also want to make sure thatwe're recognizing that being
free from sugar there's a wholelot to that concept.
It's not just as simple asdon't eat this or do this.
(08:51):
I want to ask you said this hasbeen for 30 years.
You were stuck in that journey.
Can you tell me where you wereand what was going on in your
life when you realized I need totake some different steps?
Let us have a little peek intothat time in your life.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, amazingly, I was sitting on the side of a
mountain in Colorado.
I am a mountains girl, and sothe fact that God allowed me to
have this reflective moment on amountain in Rocky Mountain
National Park is just, it's justlike a pinch me part of my
story pounds overweight,morbidly classified as morbidly
(09:39):
obese.
My husband and I went on ananniversary trip to Rocky
Mountain National Park.
My husband had planned somehikes for us and when we got to
Bear Lake I walked around a veryflat, fairly flat one mile hike
around the lake and then hesaid let's go over to Nymph Lake
and I was like okay.
So we walked over to thattrailhead marker and I saw Nymph
Lake was only a half a mile upand I thought I can do another
(10:01):
mile.
But I looked up and the trailwas like straight up.
Oh, wow it was not a flat trailat all.
And so I was like, okay, I'mgoing to give this my best
effort because Rocky MountainNational Park, a girl's got to
try.
It didn't take very long.
I got halfway up that path andI was just sucking in air, I was
(10:21):
gasping for breath and I saidto my husband, I, I just can't
go on anymore.
I was out of air, my knees wereaching.
I was just so exhausted and Itold him to go on without me and
he was like, are you sure?
And I'm like, yes, I'mpositive'll be okay.
Just go see the nymph lake.
(10:46):
And I sat on a stump on the sideof a mountain.
I just I had dark sunglasses onat the time and I had tears
welling in my eyes and I justfelt like such a huge
disappointment again and it wassomething that I had been
familiar with for 30 years justsitting on the sidelines of life
, and I remember thinking andpraying in that moment, god,
sitting on the sidelines of life, and I remember thinking and
praying in that moment, god, Ijust want to feel better.
I just want to feel better.
At that point I wasn't evenconcerned about weight loss
(11:08):
because I felt like I was justmeant to be fat because that was
my life for 30 years.
But I just wanted to feelbetter and I started thinking
about my future, of not beingaround to see my grandchildren
again, just constantly sittingon the side of life.
And in that moment that is likemy come to Jesus moment,
(11:29):
although I say Jesus came to memore realistically because I was
living very casually as aChristian at that time.
And just like David writes inPsalm 40, where David was
waiting patiently for the Lord,perhaps I had been waiting
patiently for the Lord too andjust not knowing it.
But he took that little tinymustard seed of my heritage of
faith that I had and he justgrew that because he did lift me
(11:53):
up out of that miry pit, out ofthat mud of fear put my feet on
a new solid rock and gave me anew song in that moment, and it
took a while to figure outthat's what had actually
happened to me.
But that is like my turningpoint, my take ownership moment,
because I came home from thattrip with a new resolve that I
had not had in my heart fordecades to really do take
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ownership of my health.
And then God just took me stepby step on this healing journey
and that's where it all started.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I can sympathize.
I've had a moment like that andit was actually a couple.
It was actually a couple ofyears ago and I was having the
same kind of pain and such, andI felt like I needed, or that
God was nudging me, and eventhrough another person, a
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personal friend I was workingwith just to get up in the
morning and do a morning walk,because I had not only all this
stuff, I had plantar fasciitiswhich made it so impossible to
feel comfortable walking.
And what God had spoke to myspirit is take one step and I'll
(13:05):
multiply it.
Take one step and I'll multiplyit.
So first I had my sight set onwe have a little beautiful
botanical garden over here and Ihad my sights set on a bench on
the other side.
Okay, I'm going to walk towardsthat bench and my husband and I
we walked towards the bench, wedid our stretches, we made it
(13:29):
around the pond and we got tothat bench and I said by the end
of the summer I want to get tothis bench.
And that was, and in that time Ireally felt like this was the
stages God was taking me on.
He's just trust me, just movethrough the pain to get to this
(13:50):
next bench and by the timesummer was over, I was not
stopping.
I wasn't stopping and myhusband and I, we were doing our
little devotions on the otherside of the lake and he spoke to
my spirit you don't neglectthis time, even though you feel
like you can walk past thisbench, don't neglect this time
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of meeting with me, of sharingthese 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 andyou need to stop and pause with
me.
And I think he takes us allthrough those moments.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, that's very powerful.
We do as a type A person alwaystrying to get the next thing
done.
It's God is really taking methrough lessons right now on
rest and just resting in him,and that doesn't just mean
sleeping, that means reallybeing in him sitting on that
bench and time with him?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Yeah, and it's sometimes you just have to
really just almost listen in thesilence of not speaking even in
your mind.
Yeah, and that's a hardpractice, isn't it?
How often do we in the societythat we live in, the temple,
that we live at the stimulusthat is around us at all time,
how often do we allow ourselvesto sit in silence, resting in
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him?
We don't.
We're very easily distractedbecause life happens 24-7 in
this day and age and we almostfeel like if we aren't running
and gunning with it, then insome way we are less than we
aren't protective.
That means we aren't successful, we're not doing it right and
(15:50):
we're being left behind if theworld is racing forward and we
don't say those words in ourheads.
But that is honestly the way wepush ourselves.
I want to back up just a littlebit in that we're talking about
finders and ourselves in a placewhere we have to make a change.
But how did we get to thatplace?
(16:12):
Part of not living thereanymore is recognizing how we
got there.
So, ladies, how did we get tothis place?
How did we get here, and whathas God shown us about that path
we took to get to that pointwhere, like you said, 30 years I
(16:32):
lived this way.
What was that like?
What was going on in life thatallowed us to get here?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, most importantly for me, I see in
hindsight like I call those, mycasual Christian years.
I was raised in a Christianfamily, raised going to church,
very active in youth group, andthen when I went away to college
I neglected my faith and Ididn't find a church.
I didn't pursue my spiritualgrowth at all, I just took it
for granted.
I did take my kids to churchoff and on throughout the years
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and I wanted to let the churchto build that kind of faith in
their lives.
So I really regret all of that.
So first and foremost, it wasmy spiritual apathy.
Secondly, psychologically, Iwas not emotionally regulated.
I was very emotionallydysregulated because I was
comforting and coping with food,with my emotions.
(17:24):
I was a chubby child for a fewyears and I was teased, I was
bullied, I was made to feel lessthan I didn't fit in.
And as I grew into adulthood Ialways talk about how I didn't
fit in.
I didn't fit in physically.
I didn't fit in roller coasterseats.
I always fit in airplane seats,but the thing that really
(17:46):
weighed heavy on my heart wasthat I felt like I didn't fit in
when I walked into a room fullof women.
So I felt rejected, isolated,like no one understood me.
And in coaching the women, theclients that I have that I'm so
blessed to be able to coach, wedon't even talk about these
things with our husbands, who'ssupposed to be the closest to us
(18:06):
, right?
So the depths of the despair,the heavy weight that I was
carrying, was a lot of emotionalimmaturity.
And then also physically, evenphysically, physiologically.
I 100% believe that the standardAmerican diet and the
guidelines kept me trapped in ametabolic situation where my
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body was physically,physiologically, craving sugar,
flours, carbs, and so it wasvery hard to break that pattern.
So, being stuck in that cyclefor 30 years, dietary mantras
like everything in moderationfailed me over and over again,
because my body was saying whatare you doing?
(18:48):
You're depriving me of thisquick reward that my brain is
crying out for.
So that's how often we end upin dieting cycles is because
that things like everything inmoderation and eat less, move
more and we live in deprivationand we feel all the time it's
not, it's a setup for failure,it's not a setup for success.
(19:08):
So that's where I found myself,that's my history, that's my.
I have some trauma that I'vedealt with over the years about
being bullied and just receivingbad advice for so many years.
How do I, how do we flip thataround?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's not just those moments, it's also it's, it's
and how we have been taught thatfood does or does not aid us.
I'm even thinking food pyramid.
I'm thinking what was in ourhead as children by our food and
drug administration.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, I was taught that pizza went with corn from
my school cafeteria.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Right, 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 thesevegetables are really hard on
our body when it comes to thatglycemic index thing.
And it's we've been lied toabout what our really body, our
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body, needs, and it's it sendsus into this spiral.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, I know that when I grew up, one of the
things that really made a hugeimprint on my life is I was
always considered the chubby kid.
In my family we have five of usand I was the first to be put on
a diet which was salad, thefirst to be put on a diet which
was salad, the salad diet, thesalad and cottage cheese diet
(20:42):
actually butter, lettuce andcottage cheese diet.
And then, of course, I grew upin 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 thisday, ice cream is one of my
greatest comfort foods and it'sone thing that I feel like it's
(21:05):
I at least have to have a spoon.
It's okay I can if I can justhave a spoon of it.
Have to have a spoon, it's okayI can if I can just have a
spoon of it.
And it's not that a spoon isbad, and it's not that the fact
that gives me comfort that's bad.
It's just how am I overridingpain with food instead of
(21:27):
enjoying what I'm eating for thebeauty of what I'm eating?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
You were learning a really heavy lesson early on and
the lesson was to yourdetriment in a lot of ways.
You started to correlate when Iget beat up in life, when I get
hurt, when I am adisappointment or when I feel
disappointed, I can self-soothewith ice cream for lack of it,
(21:54):
but I'm sure there were otherthings that played into that too
, right.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
And then my dad had grown up in poverty, so we'd
grow up with there was scarcityas far as food in our house.
Things were marked.
We couldn't drink.
We had to drink milk on theturn, which is one of my.
I still can't.
I can't, no, I can't, even ifit smells slightly off.
(22:19):
But it's amazing though, thoseimprints.
And then later in life, earlyin my marriage, I was dealing
with bulimia because I was overin England.
Everybody said everybody hadfat American butts.
And then when you start losingweight and your husband says and
then all of a sudden you'relike I'm going to keep doing
(22:40):
this, I'm going to keep doingwhat gets the reaction, or I'm
going to keep doing what getsthe Ooh, you look like you lost
weight type of thing.
What keeps you out of thatdysfunction?
I know that not everybody'smoving towards bulimic
tendencies, but there'ssomething about personal
affirmation of weight loss thatreally Ooh, I need to keep doing
(23:00):
this and it can really lead youinto dysfunction.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah, for me this is going to sound so simple, but
it's really the mindset thatI've landed on, and it is that
food is fuel, and I need to fuelmy body well, especially as
we're aging.
Ladies, you are in the samespot.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yes, 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'thave to be that.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Exactly, I feel the best now in my 50s than I've
ever felt in my adulthood, whichis amazing.
And I have more muscle, I'mmore active, I'm stronger.
I don't sit on the sidelines oflife anymore because I am
fueling my body well and I don'tfeel bad about eating protein
and healthy fats and because,like I always tell my coaching
(23:52):
clients this in the beginning oftheir journey, it's once you
see it, you're not going to beable to unsee it.
Okay, so trust me, just trustme.
And of course, my, my coachingis faith-based.
So they have to show up andtrust God in this journey first
and foremost, and surrender allof this to them.
But, yes, like you startgetting as you I just told one
(24:13):
of my coaching clients thismorning as you lose like 20 to
30 pounds, people are going tostart noticing.
But we need to just keep oureyes fixed on what God is
calling us to do for our ownpersonal health and wellness,
our own mental wellbeing as welltoo.
We have to stay grounded in hisword.
I do say that I, like I have anew identity in Christ, first
(24:34):
and foremost because I reallytruly surrendered my heart to
the Lord in this journey.
But I have a new identity.
I'm not the same person I wasbefore this health and healing
journey emotionally, physically,spiritually and it's a process
talking about being transformedby the renewing of your mind.
It really is most difficultlyan emotional journey, but a
(24:56):
transformation takes time.
It's a process.
Right and it's not somethingwe're going to get to overnight,
but yeah, it takes a ton ofwork.
And we need like 10 hours tosit here and have this coffee
chat.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I know we missed part one and part two.
Christine, you said you weretalking about food being fuel,
but at the same time, some ofthat stuff is like nostalgia to
me my sister's coconut cake andcranberry salad and, as I said,
there's a lot of nostalgia.
On the holiday season, yes, andhow do you go through the
(25:33):
holidays sugar-free withoutfeeling 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 ofit, but give me your take.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Okay.
So this may be a little deep, alittle much for some people to
grasp right from the get-go, butbecause personally I can
confess that I was using food asan idol in my life, like I
thought about food all the time,I obsessed about it.
I'm like when am I going to beable to make this fudge, like I
used to make fudge every yearfor Christmas and dole it out as
(26:08):
gifts.
That was my thing that I woulddo for friends and family.
So the first year I was livingsugar-free, my daughter asked me
to make the fudge and I said,okay, I'll make it.
And I did make it and I didhave one little square of it and
I felt so good about my abilityto be able to have one little
tiny square of it just to taste,test it, to see if the sugar
(26:31):
had melted and wasn't granulated.
That was the process.
But yeah, and it was in thatmoment that I was like I really
feel like I have been set freefrom this.
I've really been set free fromthis.
Again, I really believe thatsugar is a very addictive
substance and I had been able towork through the process.
(26:51):
It's like going through analcohol recovery, like the
abstinence is what was reallyhealing.
Yeah, so that's really.
That's what I can claim to havehelped me be set free and also
learning as much as I did.
I spent hours and hours readingbooks and listening to podcasts
about metabolic health andunderstanding like sugar is just
(27:15):
not even a great source of fuel.
It used up very quickly andthat'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 alsothat dietary mantra eat five to
six meals a day to keep yourmetabolism revving.
That's horrible advice forsomeone like me.
(27:37):
I'm fueling up all day long onsugar, and I wasn't just a sugar
addict.
I was not the type of personthat would go and eat a half a
carton of ice cream or a sleeveof Oreo cookies.
My source of sugar was moresavory, like potato chips yeah,
bread, potatoes, pasta.
I was.
The US dietary guidelines saylet's fill up our plates with 60
(28:01):
to 65.
Hot rolls Garbage Hot rollsyeah, I will never, I will never
.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I was always the child I didn't go for the
homemade ice cream on the 4th ofJuly.
I didn't.
I wanted to have the real food.
Foods were not the issue for me.
And yet, like you said, whenwe're told that eating this
amount of these foods isactually a good plan, it's
(28:28):
nutritious plan.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
It's nutrition sound.
I've had cauliflower potatoesand they're not that great to me
.
I almost would rather not havepotatoes than have cauliflower.
And there's some sweetenersthat are good.
They taste not chemical, butthere's some that.
So what is?
What do you do with that?
Or do you just?
Okay, I can't even eat thisstuff, yeah that's a good
(28:57):
question.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
So coincidentally, or thank goodness, I actually did
cauliflower all the years.
I was growing up Like my mommade cauliflower.
I actually liked it, so I doeat like that's my vegetable of
choice.
So there are things.
There are sugar substituteslike stevia, monk fruit
erythritol.
(29:18):
I've never used xylitol becauseyou don't have xylitol in your
house.
If you have a dog, that willkill your dog and so there are
some sugar substitutes that arevery friendly on your blood
sugar, like they don't spikeyour blood sugar.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I actually love monk fruit.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, I would rather.
Yeah, so if I do any baking, Iwill use like a keto recipe and
I use the sugar substitute.
My preferred brand is calledSucrin USA.
They have a brown sugar, awhite sugar, powdered sugar Wow,
yeah, I also have powder.
I also have monk fruit, lakantomonk fruit in my pantry.
(29:57):
But, yeah, I have foundsuitable substitutes.
But I don't bake a whole lotbecause I really do not have a
sweet taste across my tongue toomuch because of my sugar
addiction.
But I will make like a ketocheesecake for the holidays and
it freezes really well, so I'llcut it up and then I'll be able
to have something to enjoy If,like when I go to Thanksgiving
(30:20):
dinner at my parents' house,everybody will be eating pumpkin
pie, but I'll have a littlepiece of my keto cheesecake.
So I won't feel deprived and Ihave found, like when we
eliminate that sweet taste offof our tongue, that just having
a little bit of, for example, aketo dessert is it's really
actually quite satisfying and Idon't feel deprived.
(30:40):
Yes, what about like fruits,like fruit?
Yeah, I do eat.
I do eat berries occasionally.
Fruit like my go-to fruit usedto be bananas, and bananas
highest in sugar.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So I try to really limit my, I try to keep my sugar
really low and blackberries aremy favorite blackberries yes,
yes, I know that we have limitedtime, but I, if you have three,
three, three tips for someoneto walk forward in this journey,
(31:18):
what would they be?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Okay, 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 gethealthy?
Why do you want to get healthy?
And this could be like thepractical reasons, like I've
just been diagnosed with typetwo diabetes or fatty liver
disease, like this is a serioushealth situation.
Now, that should give you somemotivation for why I want to
(31:43):
play with my grandchildren.
That was one of my biggestmotivators.
My other big motivator was mydaughter was going into nursing
school.
I didn't want her to have toclean my elderly body underneath
my rolls.
I'm being real, I didn't wantto put that through.
So that's a very real thoughtthough.
Yeah, that is.
That's a very real thought.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Cause, I'll be honest with you, I am traveling a road
with my own mother right nowand, because of weight and also
what sickness has done to herbody, I can't take care of her
myself and I have had to giveher to other people to care for,
and that is devastating for mydaughter too.
(32:23):
I don't want to do that tosomeone else.
Yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So number two.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah, okay.
Number two is, let me thesecond why.
The second why is why did weget 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 thethird tip I would give you is,
very practically, build yourgrocery shopping list off of the
(32:51):
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 thebakery section, ladies, okay,
and you'll find that on theperimeter too.
But really, when you eat bakedgoods and breads, those digest
(33:15):
into sugar almost immediately assoon 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, startbuilding your meal plans, your
recipes, and it can be done.
It can really, truly be done, Ipromise.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I noticed that I set myself up for failure if I try
to do everything at once.
Yes, I can't eat this, I can'teat that, I can't One of the
things that I stopped and Itried to cut out because I'm
going to just not eat sweets andthen I tried to do it little
(33:54):
bit by little bit.
And then I tried to do itlittle bit by little bit, so I
(34:18):
wasn't constantly failing, andalso I felt like I deprived
myself all at lot more water.
I feel like that's one of thethings that we lack a lot in our
body that we want to go for, Idon't know that bobble of soda,
even diet soda.
I was just saying I'm notdogging diet soda, but sometimes
your body's craving water andyou feed it a dehydration.
Yeah, exactly yes.
(34:44):
But Christine, as we close outtoday, I just would love you to
close us in prayer for a lot ofpeople who are not.
Maybe they're not on a journeyof weight loss.
Maybe they're needing toreframe their mind of how they
approach the things that havebeen built up in them.
Can you close us in prayer?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, 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 theirgrain and new wine abound.
And for me, I just love that,because the grain and new wine
that was my issue in life wasthe food right.
And I allow the Lord to fillyour heart and your life with
(35:19):
greater joy, and you will justbe so amazed.
So I'm going to pray that foreveryone listening right now.
Heavenly Father, we just thankyou for your word and we thank
you for fellowship.
We thank you that you'vecreated us for community and
that we can gather together overcoffee chats like this to just
lift up and encourage each other.
Gather together over coffeechats like this to just lift up
and encourage each other.
(35:42):
And I pray for anyone listeningto this recording today, lord,
that if there is something thatis weighing heavy on their heart
, whether it be an issue withtheir food, behaviors or even a
mountain of debt, just somethingthat's weighing them down that
you bring them to the point,lord, that they can bring that
to you and they can surrender itto you, they can get real, they
can search the why and they cansearch for your why the way out
.
I just pray that you give them ahunger and a thirst for
(36:04):
righteousness, a hunger andthirst for your word, because
that's where we find freedom andthat's where we can live in the
greater joy that you haveavailable to each and every one
of us as believers.
Bless Lisa and Amber as theycontinue this ministry of
leading ladies.
Lord, I'm so grateful for themand what Amber shared today
about just take one step and,lord, we know that you're going
(36:26):
to multiply this ministry andthis message, even the message
of Sugar Freed as it goes outinto the world in 2025.
I just ask that, if anybodyneeds encouragement and hope and
support for busting through aweight loss battle, lord, that
you just give them the next beststep.
We ask all this in Jesus name,amen.
Amen.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Thank you so much for being with us.
I appreciate all the insightand tell you you're not only an
author, you're a weight losscoach.
Yes, yes, yes, tell peoplewhere they can connect with you.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah, If they go to my website, christinetrimpcom.
There is a page on my websitefor weight loss.
There's a page for about mybooks and about speaking as well
too, but on the weight losspage you can connect with me.
There's a free gift availablefor you, so just click on that
and get the free guide Crushyour Cravings Guide.
(37:22):
I really think that this reallybegins with getting to the root
of our cravings, whether it'sfood cravings or what we're
craving in our heart for more ofJesus.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Wow, so excited, so excited to connect people with
that.
And it's Trimpe withT-R-I-M-P-E.
Christine Trimpe, doc, I spenta lot of time calling you Trimpe
, I'm sorry.
At least it's better thanTrimpe.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yes, I get it all Trimpe, Trimpe, Trimpe.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, thank you for being with us today.
Yes, thank you so much.
You guys, take care and makesure you subscribe to us on all
the podcast platforms, and we'reover on YouTube.
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We'd love for you to join usthere.
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