Hello everyone and welcome to the Graceology with Gwen Smith podcast. I'm Gwen Smith and I am so glad you've joined me today. Around here we have fun, faith-focused, grace-filled conversations, all to help you know and trust God more. Our discussions are honest, often humorous, and always practical,

and they're going to encourage you in meaningful ways to live out and lean on the grace of Jesus

in the midst of cluttered messy days. You got any of those? I know I do, and I can't wait to get

to today's conversation, which is all about health and wellness,

body, mind, and soul. Today, my guest is Dana Dimitri. She's the author of a book called

Eat, Live, Thrive Diet, and she's a speaker and an author and a registered nurse who comes to us

with a passion to help women to get out of bondage and find victory when it comes

to food and our battles with midlife metabolism.

Can somebody say hallelujah?

So she and I have this shame-free conversation that really is filled with grace, where

Dana shares candidly about her past eating disorder and some damaging views she

had of her body that caused her to cycle from diet to diet for decades.

You'll hear how she felt out of control, hopeless and helpless, and how her body image problems

and unhealthy relationship with food actually led her to having toxic relationships as well.

After years of wrestling with panic attacks, a broken marriage and fear, Dana began a powerful journey toward healing and

toward Jesus. And she shares how God began to transform her by the renewing of her mind through

his word. Y'all, this is so powerful. In addition to these things,

we talk about practical ways we can be healthy with intermittent fasting. We talk about metabolism

and the role that emotional stress plays on our health. We also go beneath the surface to discuss

why it gets harder to lose weight and feel great as we age.

So if you've ever had eating issues or body issues or weight struggle or food issues and who in

the world hasn't, and if you're ready to make some movement toward lasting wellness, freedom,

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