You Are Not What You Weigh: Escaping the Lie and Living the Truth (Inner Beauty Series) [Paperback]

Lisa Bevere (Author)

Book Description

Series: Inner Beauty Series | Publication Date: June 1999

It is time for women to stop measuring themselves by the numbers on the scale! How many women out there are tired of the tyranny of dieting? Millions! With candor and a gentle spirit, Lisa Bevere shares powerful insights and liberating principles she discovered through her own personal struggles with weight. This life-changing book will empower women to:

 

• Learn how to identify and maintain an ideal weight

• Discover riveting truths from God’s Word that will deliver them from the lies of the world

• Trade their self-consciousness for a deeper consciousness of God

• Break free from the destructive cycle of dieting

 

This book also features inspiring testimonies since the original publishing in August 1999.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Lisa Bevere is a best selling author, international speaker, and frequent guest on Christian television and radio shows. Bevere is also the co-host of the weekly television program The Messenger, which broadcasts to 214 nations. She and her husband, John, also a best selling author, make their home in Colorado with their four sons.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Strang Communications Company (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0884196615
• ISBN-13: 978-0884196617
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #928,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Passionate. Edgy. Relatable. Powerful. Funny. These words describe Lisa Bevere--international speaker, bestselling author, and co-host of "The Messenger" television program, which broadcasts in more than 200 countries.

Since 1996, Lisa has written many bestselling books, including Fight Like a Girl, Kissed the Girls and Made Them Cry, Nurture, and Out of Control and Loving it. Her books have been printed in over 20 languages worldwide. Her latest book, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World, challenges women to find their purpose in life and use it to change the world. Lisa uses the image of a lioness to illustrate the courage, power, strength and the fearless life women are capable of living.

Nearly 20 years ago, Lisa and her husband John, also a bestselling author and speaker, founded Messenger International (www.MessengerInternational.org) in Orlando, Fla. Messenger International is an organization founded to inspire godliness and release people into fulfilled lives in Christ. The ministry relocated to Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2001 and since has grown internationally with offices in the United Kingdom and Australia.

In her transparent style, Lisa shares God's Word woven with personal experiences to empower lives with freedom and transformation. Her heart breaks over social injustice, and as an advocate for change, she rallies others to be an answer to desperate problems near and far. She is the founder of Pearl Alliance, an outreach branch of the ministry raising funds and awareness to stop human trafficking. (www.PearlAlliance.org)

When she's not out changing the world, Lisa resides in Colorado Springs, where she begins her days with mochas and ends them laughing around the dinner table with family. She enjoys riding her Ninja motorcycle with the love of her life, John, and spending time with their four sons, stunning daughter-in-law and adorable grandbaby.

Connect with Lisa Bevere online...
Twitter: http://twitter.com/LisaBevere
Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/lisabevere.page
Blog: http://www.messengerinternational.blogspot.com/

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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book - Find Help, April 25, 2000

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Osa (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Are Not What You Weigh: Escaping the Lie and Living the Truth (Inner Beauty Series) (Paperback)

This is a great book that really helps the reader put food and spirit in line. I highly recommend it. In some parts she (the author) gets very spiritual (which is good) but it can be confusing so you have to focus. When I am feeling down sometimes I go to read it and later I find myself putting things in correct perspective. GREAT for those who have any type of self-esteem, image, or food issue.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book will set you free, April 15, 2004

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This review is from: You Are Not What You Weigh: Escaping the Lie and Living the Truth (Inner Beauty Series) (Paperback)

I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any woman who has ever struggled with her weight or self-image. Before reading this book, I had been trapped in a hopeless cycle of self-loathing, destructive eating behaviors and depression; I had been anorexic and also overweight and was repeatedly failing any and every diet I tried within days of starting it. This book set me free, because in it Lisa Bevere exposes our culture's lies about body image and worth through the light of God's truth and love. This isn't a diet book, it's a book about coming to understand your worth in Christ and giving Him control over your weight and eating. Though I am still a work in progress and am planning to read the book again, I cannot overstate how powerfully it has affected me and how wonderful it is to be free from the tyranny of dieting and low self-esteem. Again, if you have ever struggled with your weight or body image, read this book!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not the "Usual" Approach, August 21, 2005

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A. Sutton (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You Are Not What You Weigh: Escaping the Lie and Living the Truth (Inner Beauty Series) (Paperback)

Most books that address body weight and the issues surrounding it, take the approach of tackling the unwanted weight itself. This is a book about inner transformation - the ONLY way that true and LASTING change takes place. Lisa explores the spirtual dimension of every woman's battle with the bulge, and gives specific instruction for victory. Don't read this book unless you're ready to be challenged in EVERY area of this most important issue! You will find freedom and wholeness in it's pages.