What's God Got To Do With It?: Why God Cares About Your Relationship With Food (Even When You Think He Doesn’t)

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🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered, Does God really care about my relationship with food? Isn’t He more concerned with bigger, more spiritual things? If you’ve ever felt this way, you’re not alone.

In this episode of What’s God Got To Do With It?, we’re tackling a topic that hits closer to home than most of us realize: our relationship with food—and why God cares about it.

This isn’t a conversation about diets, calories, or “good” vs. “bad” foods. Instead, we’re digging deeper to explore how your relationship with food is tied to your beliefs, emotions, and self-image—and how those things affect your connection with God.

In this episode we talk about:
Why God cares about your struggles with food and body image.
How guilt, shame, and control can weigh down not just your body but your spirit.
Steps to invite God into this area of your life and find freedom through His grace.

With Scripture, personal stories, and practical steps, this episode is your invitation to lay down the chains of guilt, shame, and perfectionism and walk into the peace and freedom God has for you.

HOST: Leanne Ellington // StresslessEating.com // @leanneellington

To learn more about Leanne, head over to www.LeanneEllington.com, and to share your thoughts, questions, feedback, or guest suggestions instantly, head on over to www.WhatsGodGotToDoWithIt.com.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:13.0	If you want to go on a journey, if you're skeptical, don't worry, not here to preach,
0:19.0	gonna keep it clean And talk miracles
0:21.2	Where faith meets
0:23.4	All of nature
0:24.4	Get in touch with your creator
0:26.8	With a baking love and Jew
0:29.0	She even speaks Hebrew
0:31.1	What's that got to do with it?
0:35.6	What's that got to do with it? Hey, hey, and welcome back to do with it.
0:52.3	It is I, Leanne Ellington, and today we're
0:54.9	diving into a topic that I think hits closer to home than most of us realize. And we are talking
1:00.4	about food. And before you roll your eyes or think like, oh no, here we go. Another conversation
1:06.6	about diets and calories and whether kale is better than cupcakes, let me just stop you right there.
1:11.9	This is not that conversation. Instead, we're going to talk about something far more meaningful.
1:18.4	Your relationship with food, and more importantly, why God cares about that relationship.
1:24.3	And let me ask you this. Have you ever wondered, does God really care about what I'm eating
1:28.6	or how I feel about my body? Like, isn't he more concerned with bigger, more spiritual things? And if you've
1:35.2	thought that before, you are so not alone. I used to think the same thing. And I used to believe that
1:39.9	food was my problem and my burden to solve, like something that didn't matter to God.
1:45.6	But what I've learned on my own journey is this, is that God cares about all of you.
1:51.2	And he cares about your heart and your mind and your soul.
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