200 Episodes! One Mission: Choose Christ Before Sugar
“Nunc Coepi”
– Venerable Bruno Lanteri
It’s the 200th episode of the Delay and Pray Podcast—and that is something worth celebrating! Two hundred episodes. Four years. Countless conversations about food and fasting, weight loss and sugar, prayer and sacrifice, virtue and vice, the body and the soul—and most importantly, Jesus Christ. What began as a desire to help Catholics understand spiritual fasting has grown into a mission that has reached people across the country and around the world. So today, we are celebrating where God has brought us, the lives He has touched, the miracles He has worked, and everything He has taught me along the way.
For this special 200th episode, I am looking back and sharing the five greatest truths I have learned through four years of podcasting, coaching, fasting, praying, experimenting, falling down, and beginning again. Weight loss may bring us to the starting line, but holiness is the greater destination. Fasting exposes what food has been covering up, helping us recognize emotional hunger and transform those uncomfortable moments into holy opportunities for prayer and sacrifice. We also need to stop fighting our bodies and instead learn to love our bodies and souls into becoming healthy. Permanent change requires far more than another diet—it requires formation of the whole person through our thoughts, choices, virtues, prayer, sacraments, and willingness to begin again.
As we celebrate 200 episodes of Delay and Pray, I also share why the ancient Catholic rhythm of Wednesday and Friday fasting can transform individuals and families, why Nunc Coepi—“Now I begin again”—has become one of the most important principles of my life, and why spiritual fasting has always been about something much bigger than food. I am profoundly grateful for every listener, client, guest, team member, and friend who has been part of these first 200 episodes. And after all of it, the mission has become clearer than ever: Choose Christ before sugar. Eat with gratitude. Fast with purpose. Feast with joy. And keep your eyes fixed on Heaven.
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