Delay and Pray

What if taking a pause is exactly what God is asking you to do?In this final Delay & Pray Podcast episode of 2026, Beth shares why she is stepping away from podcasting for three months to pray, study, and discern the future direction of Delay & Pray.After six years of teaching spiritual fasting, she has come to believe more strongly than ever that this work is about far more than food or weight loss.Beth explores what it means to become a lifelong student of spiritual fasting through the body, brain, and soul.She reflects on Eat, Fast, Feast, the difference between consumption and communion, metabolic health, virtue, Our Lady, spiritual warfare, and why the ultimate purpose of fasting is greater freedom to love Jesus Christ.Help Beth reach her goal of bringing 1 Million Catholics back to the Church: Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Delay and Pray® Links:$1000 Delay and Pray Group Coaching Experience$10 Delay and Pray® Book BundleThe Catholic Fasting CoachInstagramFacebookLinkedIn

We made it to Episode 200! In this special celebration episode of the Delay and Pray Podcast, I look back on four years of spiritual fasting, Catholic coaching, prayer, sacrifice, weight loss, victories, failures, miracles, and lessons God has used to shape this mission. Two hundred episodes later, one message has become clearer than ever: Choose Christ before sugar.To celebrate this milestone, I share the five greatest truths I have learned, including why weight loss is only part of the real goal, how fasting reveals what food may be covering up, why we must love our bodies and souls into health, and why permanent change requires more than another food plan. We also celebrate the Catholic tradition of Wednesday and Friday fasting, the freedom of Nunc Coepi—“Now I begin again”—and the incredible things God can do when we offer Him our ordinary hunger.Help Beth reach her goal of bringing 1 Million Catholics back to the Church: Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Delay and Pray® Links:$1000 Delay and Pray Group Coaching Experience$10 Delay and Pray® Book BundleThe Catholic Fasting CoachInstagramFacebookLinkedIn

What if sugar is doing more than making you crave another cookie—what if it is making it harder to hear your God-given appetite at all? In Part 2 of How Sugar Steals Our God-Given Appetite, we explore the fascinating idea that fructose may activate an ancient survival or “foraging” response designed to help us seek food and store energy when food was scarce. The problem is that today the food never disappears, and sugar, flour, alcohol, and ultra-processed foods are available everywhere.We look at Dr. Richard Johnson and Dr. Robert Lustig's discussion of fructose, insulin and leptin resistance, cellular energy, food seeking, and the emerging research connecting metabolic dysfunction with brain health and Alzheimer’s disease. Most importantly, we bring it back to Delay and Pray® and how spiritual fasting can help us create space between desire and action, retrain our appetites, strengthen the will, and learn once again to choose Christ before sugar.Help Beth reach her goal of bringing 1 Million Catholics back to the Church: Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Delay and Pray® Links:$1000 Delay and Pray Group Coaching Experience$10 Delay and Pray® Book BundleThe Catholic Fasting CoachInstagramFacebookLinkedIn

What if your cravings aren't proof that you're hungry—but evidence that your appetite has become confused?God created our appetite to serve us, yet sugar, constant eating, habits, emotions, and modern processed foods can make it increasingly difficult to recognize genuine hunger. In this episode, I begin unpacking how we can restore order to this beautifully designed system.In Part 1 of The Battle for Your Appetite, we explore the Catholic understanding of the sensitive appetite, the difference between hunger and reward-driven eating, and the roles insulin and leptin play in appetite regulation. We also examine research on sugar and fructose and discover why the Delay and Pray® practice of pausing, fasting, and choosing Christ before sugar may be doing far more for our bodies, brains, and souls than we ever realized.Help Beth reach her goal of bringing 1 Million Catholics back to the Church: Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Delay and Pray® Links:$1000 Delay and Pray Group Coaching Experience$10 Delay and Pray® Book BundleThe Catholic Fasting CoachInstagramFacebookLinkedIn

What if learning to pause could change the way you eat, think, and respond to the people around you? In this episode, I talk with Delay and Pray® clients Kathy and Coleen about the real-life changes they have experienced through spiritual fasting, the Thought Model, and learning to slow down instead of immediately reacting to cravings and emotions.We talk about sugar addiction, food protocols, marriage, and what happens when you no longer want to eat the same foods your husband does. Kathy and Coleen also share the changes they have seen in their husbands and children—and Coleen gives us the perfect reminder: “Super size your faith instead of your meal!”Help Beth reach her goal of bringing 1 Million Catholics back to the Church: Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Delay and Pray® Links:$1000 Delay and Pray Group Coaching Experience$10 Delay and Pray® Book BundleThe Catholic Fasting CoachInstagramFacebookLinkedIn