
Sweet Grace
How I Lost 250 Pounds and Stopped Trying to Earn God's Favor
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Buy for $19.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Deanna Arnold
About this listen
Teresa Shields Parker knows what it's like to be super morbidly obese. Once weighing 430 pounds, she's been through every magic fix imaginable. The thing she found that worked, really worked, was a key she had available to her all along.
After years of praying about her difficulties, she finally realized she had to make a bold decision to change her life. She knew she was addicted processed sugar and flour because she craved them day and night. She felt she could not live without them. With God's help, she gave up what she craved and began walking choice by choice into freedom.
Sweet Grace chronicles her journey from childhood through adulthood. You will identify with many parts of the book.
Sweet Grace will challenge you. It may shock you at times. You may shed a tear. But one thing is sure, you will never again be able to say you don't know what to do to become healthy. It is possible to overcome food cravings and live free and healthy.
If you are ready, really ready, to change your life. If you really want to lose weight and live free and healthy, I dare you to read this book. You'll be glad you did.
Includes FREE downloadable study guide and photo section at teresashieldsparker.com/guide/
©2013 Teresa Shields Parker (P)2013 Teresa Shields ParkerListeners also enjoyed...
-
Sweet Journey to Transformation: Practical Steps to Lose Weight and Live Healthy
- Sweet Series
- By: Teresa Shields Parker
- Narrated by: Deanna Arnold
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This book gives practical steps to show you how to ditch traditional diets and step into your personal forever lifestyle change plan. Many ask, “Is weight loss possible for me?” Teresa Shields Parker’s answer may surprise you. “It is possible, but only if you don’t go on another diet!” Teresa has lost over 250 pounds and kept it off since 2013. She says lasting change happens when we go through God’s process.
-
-
No sugar diet
- By Pj on 12-31-22
-
Sweet Surrender
- Breaking Strongholds
- By: Teresa Shields Parker
- Narrated by: Deanna Arnold
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Christians can be bound for heaven and stuck in strongholds at the same time. When we believe lies, they grow into strongholds that keep us from the destiny God wants for us. Teresa Shields Parker explores this in her sixth book, drawn from her personal journey of losing over 250 pounds. “We all have times when we believe things like I don’t matter, I’m not valued, I can’t go on, I am a failure, God can’t use me and so much more,” she says
-
Sweet Freedom
- Losing Weight and Keeping It off with God's Help
- By: Teresa Shields Parker
- Narrated by: Deanna Arnold
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Almost anyone can lose weight, but most struggle and end up gaining it back . Losing weight is a challenge, but keeping it off is harder. Freedom from the yo-yo dieting syndrome and control of certain foods is possible with God's help. The walls standing in your way of freedom will crumble if you are willing to dig deep to unearth the roots of buried pain, ridicule, fear, doubt, guilt, other negative and debilitating emotions, and even spiritual misbeliefs.
-
-
Excellent!
- By Regina on 06-07-17
-
I'll Start Again Monday
- Break the Cycle of Unhealthy Eating Habits with Lasting Spiritual Satisfaction
- By: Lysa TerKeurst
- Narrated by: Jill Blackwood
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Have healthy eating plans left you feeling defeated? Based on her bestseller Made to Crave, Lysa TerKeurst offers a new perspective to all those stuck in the cycle of losing weight and then gaining it back, equipping you with the deeper spiritual and emotional motivation you need to make lasting changes.
-
-
Same book, different title
- By Drenda Walker on 01-08-22
By: Lysa TerKeurst
-
Fast. Feast. Repeat.
- The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny® Intermittent Fasting - Including the 28-Day FAST Start
- By: Gin Stephens
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Gin Stephens, Greg Cooler
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Diets don’t work. You know you know that, and yet you continue to try them, because what else can you do? You can Fast. Feast. Repeat. After losing over 80 pounds and keeping every one of them off, Gin Stephens started a vibrant, successful online community with hundreds of thousands of members from around the world who have learned the magic of a Delay, Don’t Deny® intermittent fasting lifestyle.
-
-
There is newer/better research out there...
- By Aimee on 08-26-20
By: Gin Stephens
-
The 40-Day Sugar Fast
- Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation
- By: Wendy Speake
- Narrated by: Wendy Speake
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
What would you be willing to give up to gain the presence of God in your life again? Many of us sign up for a physical detox program, thinking that if our bodies are healthier, then we're healthier. But a healthy body doesn't do us a lot of good if we are spiritually malnourished. Welcome to The 40-Day Sugar Fast, a fast that begins with us giving Jesus our sugar and ends with Jesus giving us himself - the only thing that can ever truly satisfy our soul's deep hunger.
-
-
I bought audible and paper back with NO regrets!
- By Santana Wolfe on 02-15-20
By: Wendy Speake
-
Sweet Journey to Transformation: Practical Steps to Lose Weight and Live Healthy
- Sweet Series
- By: Teresa Shields Parker
- Narrated by: Deanna Arnold
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This book gives practical steps to show you how to ditch traditional diets and step into your personal forever lifestyle change plan. Many ask, “Is weight loss possible for me?” Teresa Shields Parker’s answer may surprise you. “It is possible, but only if you don’t go on another diet!” Teresa has lost over 250 pounds and kept it off since 2013. She says lasting change happens when we go through God’s process.
-
-
No sugar diet
- By Pj on 12-31-22
-
Sweet Surrender
- Breaking Strongholds
- By: Teresa Shields Parker
- Narrated by: Deanna Arnold
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Christians can be bound for heaven and stuck in strongholds at the same time. When we believe lies, they grow into strongholds that keep us from the destiny God wants for us. Teresa Shields Parker explores this in her sixth book, drawn from her personal journey of losing over 250 pounds. “We all have times when we believe things like I don’t matter, I’m not valued, I can’t go on, I am a failure, God can’t use me and so much more,” she says
-
Sweet Freedom
- Losing Weight and Keeping It off with God's Help
- By: Teresa Shields Parker
- Narrated by: Deanna Arnold
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Almost anyone can lose weight, but most struggle and end up gaining it back . Losing weight is a challenge, but keeping it off is harder. Freedom from the yo-yo dieting syndrome and control of certain foods is possible with God's help. The walls standing in your way of freedom will crumble if you are willing to dig deep to unearth the roots of buried pain, ridicule, fear, doubt, guilt, other negative and debilitating emotions, and even spiritual misbeliefs.
-
-
Excellent!
- By Regina on 06-07-17
-
I'll Start Again Monday
- Break the Cycle of Unhealthy Eating Habits with Lasting Spiritual Satisfaction
- By: Lysa TerKeurst
- Narrated by: Jill Blackwood
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Have healthy eating plans left you feeling defeated? Based on her bestseller Made to Crave, Lysa TerKeurst offers a new perspective to all those stuck in the cycle of losing weight and then gaining it back, equipping you with the deeper spiritual and emotional motivation you need to make lasting changes.
-
-
Same book, different title
- By Drenda Walker on 01-08-22
By: Lysa TerKeurst
-
Fast. Feast. Repeat.
- The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny® Intermittent Fasting - Including the 28-Day FAST Start
- By: Gin Stephens
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Gin Stephens, Greg Cooler
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Diets don’t work. You know you know that, and yet you continue to try them, because what else can you do? You can Fast. Feast. Repeat. After losing over 80 pounds and keeping every one of them off, Gin Stephens started a vibrant, successful online community with hundreds of thousands of members from around the world who have learned the magic of a Delay, Don’t Deny® intermittent fasting lifestyle.
-
-
There is newer/better research out there...
- By Aimee on 08-26-20
By: Gin Stephens
-
The 40-Day Sugar Fast
- Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation
- By: Wendy Speake
- Narrated by: Wendy Speake
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
What would you be willing to give up to gain the presence of God in your life again? Many of us sign up for a physical detox program, thinking that if our bodies are healthier, then we're healthier. But a healthy body doesn't do us a lot of good if we are spiritually malnourished. Welcome to The 40-Day Sugar Fast, a fast that begins with us giving Jesus our sugar and ends with Jesus giving us himself - the only thing that can ever truly satisfy our soul's deep hunger.
-
-
I bought audible and paper back with NO regrets!
- By Santana Wolfe on 02-15-20
By: Wendy Speake
-
Good Boundaries and Goodbyes
- Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
- By: Lysa TerKeurst
- Narrated by: Lysa TerKeurst, Jim Cress
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Stop the dysfunction of unhealthy relationships and learn biblical ways to set boundaries--and, when necessary, say goodbye. Is it unloving or selfish to set a boundary with family members or friends? Are Christians ever called to walk away from a relationship that’s no longer safe or sustainable? #1 New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst deeply understands these hard questions in the midst of relational struggles.
-
-
A must read/listen!
- By prestonpreuss on 11-12-22
By: Lysa TerKeurst
-
Made to Crave
- Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food
- By: Lysa TerKeurst
- Narrated by: Jill Brennan
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This is not a how-to audiobook. This is not the latest and greatest dieting plan. This audiobook is the necessary companion for you to use alongside whatever healthy lifestyle plan you choose. This is an audiobook and Bible study to help you find the "want to" in making healthy lifestyle choices.
-
-
Really good book, TERRIBLE NARRATOR
- By Johnna Joy on 08-15-14
By: Lysa TerKeurst
-
Martin Luther
- The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
- By: Eric Metaxas
- Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Five hundred years after Luther's now famous 95 Theses appeared, Eric Metaxas, acclaimed biographer of the best-selling Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy and Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, paints a startling portrait of the wild figure whose adamantine faith cracked the edifice of Western Christendom and dragged medieval Europe into the future.
-
-
A Metaxas Hat Trick
- By Tommy on 11-04-17
By: Eric Metaxas
-
Potatoes Not Prozac
- Revised and Updated: Simple Solutions for Sugar Addiction
- By: Kathleen DesMaisons
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Can't say no to fattening foods, carbs, or alcohol? You may be one of the millions of people who are sugar sensitive. Many people who suffer from sugar sensitivity don't even know it - and they continue to consume large quantities of sweets, breads, pasta, or alcohol. These foods can trigger exhaustion or low self-esteem, yet their biochemical impact makes those who are sugar sensitive crave them even more. Dr. Kathleen DesMaisons came up with the solution and published it in her revolutionary book, Potatoes Not Prozac.
-
-
Love the Book - but bad audio
- By Askel on 10-09-20
-
Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
- By: Ellen Vaughn
- Narrated by: Connie Shabshab
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband, Jim, and his four colleagues. Incredibly, prayerfully, Elisabeth took her toddler daughter, snakebite kit, Bible, and journal...and lived in the jungle with the stone-age people who killed her husband. In this authorized biography, Ellen Vaughn uses Elisabeth’s private, unpublished journals, and candid interviews with her family and friends, to paint the adventures and misadventures God used to shape one of the most influential women in modern church history.
-
-
Great book!
- By Dove on 09-27-20
By: Ellen Vaughn
-
Full
- Food, Jesus, and the Battle for Satisfaction
- By: Asheritah Ciuciu
- Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Have you ever felt stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of overeating, yo-yo dieting, and obsessive thoughts about food? Whether you feel defeated by your lack of self-control or overwhelmed by thoughts and longings for food, the answer to our food fixation does not lie in the $500 billion global diet industry. This is not a diet book and it's not a healthy eating plan. Because at the core, our problem is not really what we eat. It's why we seek fullness in something that will never satisfy. A healthier relationship with food through a stronger relationship with Christ - that's the goal of Full.
-
-
Breakthrough!
- By tcash on 10-30-18
By: Asheritah Ciuciu
-
Girl, Wash Your Face
- Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be
- By: Rachel Hollis
- Narrated by: Rachel Hollis
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As the founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Rachel Hollis developed an immense online community by sharing tips for better living while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own life. Now, in this challenging and inspiring new book, Rachel exposes the 20 lies and misconceptions that too often hold us back from living joyfully and productively.
-
-
More for women who are mothers
- By MeredithNCSU girl on 04-07-18
By: Rachel Hollis
-
Of Mess and Moxie
- Wrangling Delight out of This Wild and Glorious Life
- By: Jen Hatmaker
- Narrated by: Jen Hatmaker
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jen Hatmaker believes backbone is the birthright of every woman. Women have been demonstrating resiliency and resolve since forever. They have incredibly strong shoulders to bear loss, hope, grief, and vision. But somehow women have gotten the message that pain and failure mean they must be doing things wrong, that they messed up the rules or tricks for a seamless life.
-
-
didnt know it was religious
- By Blythe Cochran on 05-02-19
By: Jen Hatmaker
-
Peace from Broken Pieces
- How to Get Through What You're Going Through
- By: Iyanla Vanzant
- Narrated by: Iyanla Vanzant
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recounts the last decade of her life and the spiritual lessons learned—from the price of success during her meteoric rise as a TV celebrity on Oprah, the Iyanla TV show (produced by Barbara Walters), to the dissolution of her marriage and her daughter's 15 months of illness and death on Christmas day.
-
-
Iyanla is Inspirational! A GREAT LISTEN!!!
- By Theresa on 12-04-11
By: Iyanla Vanzant
-
The Best Yes
- Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands
- By: Lysa TerKeurst
- Narrated by: Amber Quick
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Learn to find and play the role God wants most for you to play, not the ones you feel pressured into playing for the sake of others or even our sense of accomplishment and worth. Most of us spend a lot of our lives figuring out when to say yes and when to say no. How to manage our time, reduce stress, do our best for our families, find a little space for "me". But we don't find space for our souls until we learn to step past the yes and no of daily decisions and seek a third option: the best yes. The best yes is the choice that shapes all our other choices.
-
-
Not like sample
- By Customer on 01-15-19
By: Lysa TerKeurst
-
Nothing to Prove
- Why We Can Stop Trying So Hard
- By: Jennie Allen
- Narrated by: Jennie Allen
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Are you tired inside and out? Are you trying your best to measure up - yet you still feel as if you're losing ground and missing out on the best parts of life? You are not alone. Jennie Allen understands the daily struggle so many of us face with inadequacy and insecurity and the fear that we are not enough. And she invites us into a different experience, one in which our souls overflow with contentment and joy.
-
-
Not convinced
- By A-ZMom on 04-27-17
By: Jennie Allen
-
You're the Worst Person in the World
- Why It's the Best News Ever that You Don't Have It Together, You Aren't Enough, and You Can't Fix It on Your Own
- By: Scarlet Hiltibidal
- Narrated by: Scarlet Hiltibidal
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Are you tired of the unrelenting pressure to be the best at everything? Author and speaker Scarlet Hiltibidal was too. For Scarlet, attempting to be the best at pretty much everything—whether that be the best wife or the best sub-sandwich maker or the best Christian—was her life story.
-
-
One to reread when I am weary
- By Kelly Jo on 02-28-25
What listeners say about Sweet Grace
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Brigette Adams
- 12-01-15
This book was a good listen.
I did struggle to finish at times. The author made it seem that all she had to do was pray for her food addiction to be gone and God gave her the power to resist. if it was that easy for her- great! it has not been that easy for the majority of us.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Brittany
- 07-01-15
Inspirational
I really enjoyed this book. It helped me to learn alot about myself. I think this book is geared towards people who are extremely overweight like Teresa used to be. Well I am not. I am 5'4" 26 yrs old and weigh just under 150 pounds. I am about 20 pounds heavier now than I was before I had my son. This book helped me to realize that I do have an addiction to sugar and that I can overcome it. Even though I am not in a life threatening situation right now, I know I can get into that situation pretty easily by continuing down this path. I learned that leaning on God is going to be the only way that I can do this. There is just so much I learned from this book. What I want people to know is that you can read this book no matter how much you weigh and you will learn about God's love and Grace and how to overcome an addiction to sugar.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Sheila
- 11-21-13
This audiobook gives me HOPE!
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would recommend this book to ANYBODY who struggles with sugar and or alcohol, or know somebody who does.
Who was your favorite character and why?
The author tells her real experiences in giving up sugar. She was all the way up to 430 pounds. This book really speaks to me, and motivates me to do what I need to do in order to live a complete life.
What about Deanna Arnold’s performance did you like?
She reads the story so well. Excellent performance!!
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes!! And then I want to listen again and again.
Any additional comments?
Get this book!!!!!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Diane
- 12-01-17
Practicalractical Christianity
for the Christian believer really speaks to how Spirit power or the power of the Holy Spirit can be used to overcome temptation and build self-discipline. Well written and I'm surprised it isn't the author that did the narration it really sounds like a personal story in her own words.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Tammy Matthews
- 11-16-22
Amazing storytelling illustrating relatable experi
Loved it.
Her biblical applications were so relevant and valuable.
Teresa shared vyknerably and authentically.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- jacqueline
- 04-12-15
v ery graceful
loved it lots of practical information and proof of Scripture where you can find locate it in bible
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Ilikebuyingthings45
- 08-20-19
life changing book
this book was a Godsend. it helped me make the decision to give up sugar.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
- Taryn C
- 04-29-16
Sweet Grace Restored My Hope
I love this book & I am grateful that I "stumbled" upon it. So many things that were said really resonated with me to the point that I now have more hope than I've ever had for my healthy lifestyle/weight loss journey. If you're truly sick & tired of being sick & tired like I was, then this is the book to read. It's thought provoking message is the catapult we all need to put faith into action in order to see our hopes & dreams come to pass.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- maria
- 07-03-14
Heavily Religious
Would you try another book from Teresa Shields Parker and/or Deanna Arnold?
Although it was sincere and I could relate to many of her struggles, I was very put off by the constant references to Christianity.It's not that I was totally surprised at references to God as it's in the title, but rather that I felt bombarded and it became distracting. I wish I had known the heavy religious emphasis as I would not have purchased the book. If you are comfortable with a very faith based book then you will likely find it a more comfortable experience.
What about Deanna Arnold’s performance did you like?
It did sound like the author was telling her story although it was through another person/narrator.
Was Sweet Grace worth the listening time?
Somewhat. But not really a new message.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!