March 11, 2026
Small Supportive Habits: The Key to Sustainable Weight Loss and Wellness for Christian Women Ep 10 Waiting for Weight Loss Series
In today’s episode, "Small Supportive Habits for Lasting Change," Heather Creekmore continues the Waiting for Weight Loss series, focusing on how small, supportive choices can lead to healthier habits and lasting transformation. Learn why quick fixes and restrictive diets rarely deliver long-term results, and how gentle, health-promoting habits—like adding a daily walk, drinking more water, or including an extra vegetable at meals—are the real keys to sustainable wellness.
Heather Creekmore encourages us to shift our mindset from focusing on what we "can't" have to what we can "add" to our lives for better health. She shares practical steps to start incorporating supportive habits, one at a time, and provides spiritual encouragement to seek changes that honor our bodies and God. Plus, get a guide to finding community with other Christian women on your journey! If you're ready to replace stress and restriction with grace and growth, this episode has your name on it.
Don’t miss the special resource mentioned: The 40-Day Body Image Workbook—packed with health-promoting habits to help you take the next step.
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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey, they're Heather creak More here. Welcome back to the Waiting for Weight Loss series that we're doing all through Lent which means through Easter on the Compared to You channel and on the Compared to You podcast. Hey, before we get into today's topic, which is small supportive choices over giant leaps, today I want to invite you once again to join our Waiting for Weight Loss community. You can find out all about it at Waiting for weight Loss dot com. That's Waiting for weight loss dot com. It's absolutely free to join. Just drop your name and email address in there. You'll get instructions as to how to access it right away. And that's where we're continuing this conversation where you can engage with this content and also meet other Christian women who are on a similar journey that you're on. Okay, so today, small supportive choices, what does that mean? Okay, you've likely heard it right. You know it's those small habit changes that make a difference. And yet, if you're like me, I'd rather not have things change in a small and steady way. I'd rather just take the leap. I'd rather do the overhaul. I'd rather clench my fists and grit my teeth and change overnight. That's what I want, change overnight. But here's the thing. The best, most effective way for you to change your body is to take a long term approach to it and focus on small supportive choices. So what do I mean by small supportive choices. I've mentioned this to you in the past. This is my forty day Body Image workbook, and in it I have a whole list of small supportive choices you can make. But these are things that you can add to your life right now today that will improve your health and potentially lead to dropping some pounds. Now, here's the difference between my approach and perhaps that diet ad that you just saw on Instagram or that diet that you tried in January, which wasn't that long ago. Right. A lot of diets focus on restriction and diet that's the word we don't use anymore. A lot of health plans focus on restriction. You can eat this, you can't eat this, you can't eat this, cut this, cut this, cut this. A lot of negativity, right, like don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, And when our body is constantly faced with don't don't, don't, don't don't. We kind of rise up with a little bit of fear, a lot of stress, and none of that's actually healthy for us. So instead of like, don't, don't, don't, I'm trying to beat my flesh into submission so that it can be skinny like I want it to be. What if we kind of change the narrative and change our objective instead of what we're restricting, what we're not having. What the list of don'ts is? Why don't we create for ourselves a list of dews. What can I start doing that will help my health? We call these health promoting behaviors. What can I add that will make me feel better? And so it might be something as simple as adding a ten minute walk. Maybe it's one a day, maybe it's one after every meal. It might be as simple as as soon as I get up in the morning, when to drink a full glass of water. It might be as simple as, you know what, I really don't neat enough vegetables. Maybe I need to find a way to get a vegetable in at each meal, whether it's a little spinach with my eggs or slice of tomato. Although I think tomatoes a fruit, isn't it, But some carrots after lunch, extra broccoli at dinner. Whatever you enjoy. But don't think about it as it's a chore. I've got to get these things in. I've got to add these things. Think about these as small supportive choices. Now, if you had a friend that was going through something, you would want to support them. Right, guess what. Your body goes through a whole lot every single day for you. Your body is for you. Your body is one job, and that job is to keep you alive, make all systems go. It runs on food to do that. Some of us make it run on stress to do that, which is not good. I talk about that in this book as well. Right, that's what diets can do to us. They kind of convince us we don't really need as much food, or maybe we should not eat. And that's not good at all, because God designed our bodies to run on food. But if you need to make a change, if you want to feel healthier, what are some small supportive things that you can do that will improve your health. That's what I want you to think about today. Maybe write a list of them. Now here's the thing again, don't try to incorporate twenty small supportive habits this week. Here's what I suggest. Think of one and do that all week, and then guess what next week? Do that same one. And if by day ten or eleven you're like, I got this down, it's like brushing my teeth. I always eat carrots after lunch. Now, I mean it doesn't have to be rigid, but I've incorporated this small supportive habit into my routine. Then consider adding another one. Okay, I got the vegetable down. Now I'm gonna drink that glass of water when I wake up. Now I'm gonna go for that walk. Whatever habits you think are gentle and will feel supportive to your body instead of stressful. Our good habits to start. Think about small supportive habits that you can take with you on your journey. Now, let's pray, Old hemnly Father, thank you that you're a good God and that you encourage us in all ways. In all things. God, help us to not make these weight loss goals take your place, but help us also to change in ways that perhaps we need to. If there are small supportive habits we need to incorporate, show us what those habits are. God, show us how we can make small changes that are kind to our body, that won't distract us from you, but that will help us continue to feel or start to feel better in these bodies you gave us. Thank you, Lord for your grace for us when we get it wrong, and for your faithfulness. It's in Jesus' name my pray Amen. Okay, So your tip for today, think of one small supportive habit you can start right now, start today, right after you listen to this, and then do that for ten days or so, and then maybe add another. If you want a full list of the small supportive habits aren't called health promoting habits, go check out this book, The forty Day Body Mitageworkbook, available everywhere books are sold, and there's a whole list in there. Thanks for watching or listening today. I hope something today has helped you stop comparing and start living. Bye bye. The Compared To Podcasts is proud to be part of a Live Audio podcast network. For more great Christian podcasts, go to lifethaudio dot com.
Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey, they're Heather creak More here. Welcome back to the Waiting for Weight Loss series that we're doing all through Lent which means through Easter on the Compared to You channel and on the Compared to You podcast. Hey, before we get into today's topic, which is small supportive choices over giant leaps, today I want to invite you once again to join our Waiting for Weight Loss community. You can find out all about it at Waiting for weight Loss dot com. That's Waiting for weight loss dot com. It's absolutely free to join. Just drop your name and email address in there. You'll get instructions as to how to access it right away. And that's where we're continuing this conversation where you can engage with this content and also meet other Christian women who are on a similar journey that you're on. Okay, so today, small supportive choices, what does that mean? Okay, you've likely heard it right. You know it's those small habit changes that make a difference. And yet, if you're like me, I'd rather not have things change in a small and steady way. I'd rather just take the leap. I'd rather do the overhaul. I'd rather clench my fists and grit my teeth and change overnight. That's what I want, change overnight. But here's the thing. The best, most effective way for you to change your body is to take a long term approach to it and focus on small supportive choices. So what do I mean by small supportive choices. I've mentioned this to you in the past. This is my forty day Body Image workbook, and in it I have a whole list of small supportive choices you can make. But these are things that you can add to your life right now today that will improve your health and potentially lead to dropping some pounds. Now, here's the difference between my approach and perhaps that diet ad that you just saw on Instagram or that diet that you tried in January, which wasn't that long ago. Right. A lot of diets focus on restriction and diet that's the word we don't use anymore. A lot of health plans focus on restriction. You can eat this, you can't eat this, you can't eat this, cut this, cut this, cut this. A lot of negativity, right, like don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, And when our body is constantly faced with don't don't, don't, don't don't. We kind of rise up with a little bit of fear, a lot of stress, and none of that's actually healthy for us. So instead of like, don't, don't, don't, I'm trying to beat my flesh into submission so that it can be skinny like I want it to be. What if we kind of change the narrative and change our objective instead of what we're restricting, what we're not having. What the list of don'ts is? Why don't we create for ourselves a list of dews. What can I start doing that will help my health? We call these health promoting behaviors. What can I add that will make me feel better? And so it might be something as simple as adding a ten minute walk. Maybe it's one a day, maybe it's one after every meal. It might be as simple as as soon as I get up in the morning, when to drink a full glass of water. It might be as simple as, you know what, I really don't neat enough vegetables. Maybe I need to find a way to get a vegetable in at each meal, whether it's a little spinach with my eggs or slice of tomato. Although I think tomatoes a fruit, isn't it, But some carrots after lunch, extra broccoli at dinner. Whatever you enjoy. But don't think about it as it's a chore. I've got to get these things in. I've got to add these things. Think about these as small supportive choices. Now, if you had a friend that was going through something, you would want to support them. Right, guess what. Your body goes through a whole lot every single day for you. Your body is for you. Your body is one job, and that job is to keep you alive, make all systems go. It runs on food to do that. Some of us make it run on stress to do that, which is not good. I talk about that in this book as well. Right, that's what diets can do to us. They kind of convince us we don't really need as much food, or maybe we should not eat. And that's not good at all, because God designed our bodies to run on food. But if you need to make a change, if you want to feel healthier, what are some small supportive things that you can do that will improve your health. That's what I want you to think about today. Maybe write a list of them. Now here's the thing again, don't try to incorporate twenty small supportive habits this week. Here's what I suggest. Think of one and do that all week, and then guess what next week? Do that same one. And if by day ten or eleven you're like, I got this down, it's like brushing my teeth. I always eat carrots after lunch. Now, I mean it doesn't have to be rigid, but I've incorporated this small supportive habit into my routine. Then consider adding another one. Okay, I got the vegetable down. Now I'm gonna drink that glass of water when I wake up. Now I'm gonna go for that walk. Whatever habits you think are gentle and will feel supportive to your body instead of stressful. Our good habits to start. Think about small supportive habits that you can take with you on your journey. Now, let's pray, Old hemnly Father, thank you that you're a good God and that you encourage us in all ways. In all things. God, help us to not make these weight loss goals take your place, but help us also to change in ways that perhaps we need to. If there are small supportive habits we need to incorporate, show us what those habits are. God, show us how we can make small changes that are kind to our body, that won't distract us from you, but that will help us continue to feel or start to feel better in these bodies you gave us. Thank you, Lord for your grace for us when we get it wrong, and for your faithfulness. It's in Jesus' name my pray Amen. Okay, So your tip for today, think of one small supportive habit you can start right now, start today, right after you listen to this, and then do that for ten days or so, and then maybe add another. If you want a full list of the small supportive habits aren't called health promoting habits, go check out this book, The forty Day Body Mitageworkbook, available everywhere books are sold, and there's a whole list in there. Thanks for watching or listening today. I hope something today has helped you stop comparing and start living. Bye bye. The Compared To Podcasts is proud to be part of a Live Audio podcast network. For more great Christian podcasts, go to lifethaudio dot com.
