Laugh your way to a lighter you! Have fun with your friends and
family while you lose the weight and the worries that weigh you down.
Guided By Him is light, easy and filled with humor, but its
life-changing ideas are profound.
You and
your daughter have designed a light and easy Christian weight-loss program
called Guided By Him. How can losing weight be “light and easy”?
We’ve discovered wonderful tools that make losing weight lighter and easier and
we share them in Guided By Him (www.guidedbyhim.com). Guided By Him is fun—and it’s
funny. For example, some of our chapter titles are “Is Fudge My Fortress?” “Are
Donuts my Bread of Life?” and “Do Broken Cookies Count?” You can work the
program alone just by buying the book, but it’s much more fun to do it in a
group—getting together with others who want to lose weight so you can laugh
together and encourage each other.
Where
did you learn how to help people to lose weight?
I learned the hard way! I
started dieting at age 8 and finally lost my weight at age 38 when I realized
that diets don’t work. (It “only” took me 30 years to figure that out!) I had
been hunting for the best way to lose weight—not realizing that it was sitting
on my bedside table all along. The Bible offers amazing weight-loss
instructions, and when I began applying them, I lost my harmful extra pounds
and immediately began helping others to lose theirs.
Why did
you write the book?
A few years after I lost my weight, I wrote
9 books published by Abingdon Press in the Step Forward weight-loss
series (www.stepforwarddiet.com)
to help Christians to lose weight as I have--relying on God’s power instead of
will power. Step Forward is a great program and is helping many people across
the country and even in some foreign countries as well. But for several years
my daughter Sarah Morris Cherry (a Licensed Professional Counselor) and I had
been discussing how busy all of us are and how overwhelming it can be to try to
lose weight, when we’re already stressed out. That’s what led us to design a
light and easy weight-loss program that busy people can do by themselves or in
a group setting. Guided By Him helps them to lose weight “the
light-hearted way.”
What do
you hope this book accomplishes?
We have received e-mails from
Austria to Australia confirming that Guided By Him has done what we
prayed it would: lead readers to a thinner, no-so stressed-out lifestyle. Most
of them say that, as a result of working the program, they have lost weight and
gained a closer relationship with the Lord. Most also say that they have
learned how to deal with stress better, pray more effectively and apply the
Bible to their lives. In other words, they have learned how to be “guided by
Him”!
Who (or
what) is your greatest encourager when you write and why?
Our readers
are! Nothing brings us more joy than to see their lives change like our have.
So many of them have lost their weight, grown in faith and seen God change
their misery to ministry as a result of working the GBH program.
How can
readers connect with you?
or our website www.guidedbyhim.com
Also check out other books Julie has written:
-Step Forward Series
www.stepforwarddiet.com
-From Worry to Worship
www.worrytoworship.com
-From Worthless to Worthy
www.worthlesstoworthy
We love going around the country telling people
how to lose the weight and worries that weigh them down. We have even devised a
way to make our conferences a fund-raising event for churches. Please let
us know if you want to know more or have questions about starting your own
Guided By Him group.
We will send a copy of Guided By Him
to someone who makes the most interesting comment on this post.
What genre is your book? Christian
Living, Health
Author Julie Morris, R.N., and
her daughter, Sarah Morris Cherry, L.P.C., have developed a way to Lose weight
the lighthearted way!
Guided By Him
is a 12-week Bible study/weight-loss program that is perfect for individual
study, lunch breaks at work, friendly neighborhood get-togethers or small
groups at church.
Filled with uplifting scriptures, thought-provoking
questions, daily devotionals and fun-filled food facts, it helps readers keep a
positive, light attitude toward learning a leaner lifestyle.
About the Authors
Our authors are a mother and daughter team.
Julie Morris, R.N., battled her extra pounds for over 30 years before
finally losing them for good in 1982. She is the author of 11 other
books and the founder of the Step Forward Christian Weight-Loss Program,
which has groups meeting across the country. Guided By Him contains
many life-changing Step Forward ideas, but GBH is lighter and easier for today’s busy lifestyle.
Sarah Morris Cherry, M.Ed., L.P.C., is a family
therapist. For over 10 years she has been helping overwhelmed overeaters
discover how to lose weight and make other healthy lifestyle changes.
Dr. Kathleen B. Oden is an author, missionary and Bible teacher, at God's House of Refuge Church & School of Evangelism. She attained a Doctorate degree in Christian Theology in 2000. After a bad fall in 2014, she realized that she had to start eating healthy, in order to fully recover. She became a Certified Health Minister and God gave her a ministry called, Create AnewU Health Ministry. She loves ministering to people and her health ministry has opened the door for her to share what the WORD OF GOD has to say, about eating healthy food. Dr. Oden has published over 20 books through Amazon.com and several of them are about health and wellness. 
