Do you struggle to lose weight and keep it off? These weight loss Bible studies will help!
Free Weight Loss Bible Studies
Note: After writing these blog posts, I published Taste for Truth: A 30-Day Weight Loss Bible Study. If finances aren’t an issue, I highly recommend you go through the Taste for Truth Bible study as it’s set up to walk you through the process from start to finish and has some necessary material that’s missing from these online studies.
Click on links below to access the free Bible studies:
- Weight Loss Bible Study Day 1: Start with this one!
- Careless Eating: It’s just one bite.
- Justification Eating: There’s a good reason to break my boundaries.
- Indulgent Eating: I don’t feel like following my boundaries.
- Appearance Eating: I have to lose weight.
- Entitlement Eating: I deserve this.
- Failure Eating: I already broke my boundaries. I might as well eat.
- Holiday/Vacation Eating: It’s a holiday. Of course I’m going to eat.
- Evaluation: How are you doing? Use this worksheet to find out.
- Emotional Eating: This will make me feel better.
- “Losing Weight Is Hard” Eating: I’ll start again tomorrow.
- Hopeless Eating: I’ll never get over this. I might as well eat.
- Good Food Eating: Hey, that looks good. I should eat it.
- Bad Scale Eating: I didn’t lose weight. I might as well eat.
- Social Eating: She’s eating. I should eat.
Published Weight Loss Bible Studies and Books
Taste for Truth: A 30 Day Weight Loss Bible Study is focused on the lies that make us eat, body image, and the weight loss process. I wrote this Bible study to go along with the questions and Bible verses in I Deserve a Donut, which is also available as a free android and iOS app.
I Deserve a Donut (And Other Lies That Make You Eat) is a renewing of the mind resource to use in the midst of temptation and also to prepare yourself for temptation. I use it all the time, just for regular life. It is filled with 36 sets of questions and over 150 Bible verses that you can use to have conversations with God about life and food. The questions and Bible verses will help you renew your mind, taking off the lies that make you eat and putting on the truth that will set you free. It’s also available as a free app.
Freedom from Emotional Eating: A Weight Loss Bible Study is more focused on emotional eating. Although there is material on boundaries and breaking free from the control of food, most of the book is devoted to learning how to let go of negative emotions. The comment I get most often with this book is that yes, it helped me with eating, but it helped me even more with letting go of my negative emotions.
Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating: These 100 exercises based on biblical teachings will change how you see food, dieting, and weight loss. As you read, you will grow closer to God as you honestly and humbly present your struggles to Him, build boundaries to stop you from using food as a coping mechanism—and make emergency plans for when you’re tempted to overindulge, find freedom from strongholds by focusing your mind on God’s desires for your heart.
I really appreciated this Bible study! Thank you for sharing it.
I’ve been a believer for more than 20 years, but have never truly grasped renewing my mind or what it means to walk in the Spirit. I’ve struggled for years with holding food as an idol. Even since realizing I was doing it. Only in the last few weeks have I seen progress in this area and freedom from the bondage of eating. I’m not saying that it is easy, or that I’ve kept to my boundaries every day, but that I’ve seen my mind changed as I renew it with His Word.
Thanks again!
So glad the Bible study is helping! I was also a Christian for a long time before I learned how to renew my mind – almost 30 years. Glad you are developing the habit at such a young age! :)
I can’t find day two of the free 15 day Bible study. Actually, I can only find a one.
Hi Melody, Here’s a link to all of the studies! https://barbraveling.com/weight-loss-bible-study/
Any plans to create your books in an audio version?
Hi Liz, I’d like to. I’m just not sure how to do the Bible study part of it. The first part would be easy to read, but not sure if I should read all the Bible verses, say how I would answer the questions, etc, and that is one of the things keeping me from doing it. I’ve had lots of people ask, though, so I definitely need to figure it out and do it! If you have any suggestions, let me know!
I think you could create a pdf Included with the audio with all that Information On it.
Hi Alisun, If you’re interested in all the studies, it may be easier to just get the Taste for Truth Bible study as they’re all in that plus 15 more. I also have a new book coming out November 1 called Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating. That’s the only book I’ll have that is an audio version.
Nice post
Thanks, Jim.
Hi there. i like your loos weight tips and I am trying to less my weight by this rules. it is very helpful and it change my mindset. I’ve struggled for years with holding food as an idol. Even since realizing I was doing it. Only in the last few weeks have I seen progress in this area and freedom from the bondage of eating…
So glad you’re seeing progress, Stephanie! That’s encouraging!
Will there be any bible studies coming in the future?
Hi Tammy! My guess is that there will be another one starting in the fall. I think the support group at the following link is thinking of doing Taste for Truth in the fall: https://www.facebook.com/groups/163532310695887/. Sorry I don’t know of anyone starting one earlier!
I will be hosting/leading a small group for Wellness & Weight Loss , probably about 4-6 ladies. I love what I have heard on your Taste for Truth podcast and I love the I Deserve a Donut app…I’d love to use some of your material for a bible study in the context of our group– do you think the “Taste for Truth: A 30 Day Weight Loss Study” could be an effective group study, and how would you recommend tailoring it in that context? Thanks in advance for your feedback!
Hi Melissa! I do think it’s a great group study. I actually have a leader’s guide you can use with a group at my blog. Here’s the link to that: https://barbraveling.com/leaders-guides-for-barb-ravelings-books/. It’s under the podcasts and resources tab if you ever need to find it again. I think with 4-6 ladies, though, you can make it pretty relaxed. It’s one of those studies that lends itself to discussion, so it would be easy to just decide how many lessons you’re going to do each week and then meet and talk about them one at a time, plus share accountability if that’s something you want to do. I think I have a couple different options of ways to lead it in the leader’s guide and the easiest option would work well for a small group! Hope you enjoy the study!
What happens when because of losing spouse & family issues I stop eating? When I do feel hungry I just eat peanut butter sandwich even when I feel totally empty I just ignore it. This has been going on for 18 years.
Hi Jeannette! I think when you have the problem of not eating you have to make boundaries to eat. So maybe just say “I have to eat three meals a day” and try to make them healthy ones.
Hey, it’s really new to me! I never thought I could take advantage from biblical studies to get to lose weight. I’ll try to follow up you.
Thanks, Christiano. It’s good to have you hear!
Hello Barb – I would really like to understand how you lost weight with the three meals a day boundary. I have always had eyes bigger than my stomach. Did you limit your plate size? Never have seconds? Did you limit any type of food? I’m so so tired of being stuck. My history is complicated (I know everyone’s is). I am doing Taste for Truth and chose boundaries and tossed them by the third day. ? I would love some extra insight. Thank you.
Hi Becky, I lost my weight with Weight Watchers and then maintain it with three meals a day and a snack. However, because I don’t count points in regular life every once in a while – maybe twice a year, I’ll find my weight up a couple of pounds so I’ll go back to counting points until it’s down again. I find that way easier than having to count points all the time or not going back to counting periodically and having to lose 20 pounds rather than two pounds!
If you check my youtube channel, i think i might have something on there called how to lose weight on three pounds a day or something like that if you want to check that out. It’s possible and I’ve done it once or twice, but I find it easier to just count points if I have to lose. Hope that helps! I also have a FB live on my FB author page – you can find a link to it at the top of this blog – on how to choose boundaries.
Hi Barb
I’m looking to see if you have any videos to watch. I can’t find any.
Hi Dawn, I’m sorry, I’m just seeing this a year and a half later! I do have some videos at YouTube. Just do a search for Barb Raveling YouTube Channel and you should be able to find them!