Christine Trimpe is a transformative wellness leader dedicated to empowering professional Christian women to reclaim their health and vitality through her faith-based, holistic approach to weight loss. As the founder of The SugarFreed Me Method and a certified SUGAR® Licensed Practitioner, Christine helps clients achieve lifelong healing from sugar addiction and food-related struggles. Her clients experience dramatic transformations, including sustained weight loss and breakthroughs in physical, emotional, and spiritual health, with over 80% retention in her programs.

After a personal 100-pound weight loss journey, Christine created a healthy method that goes beyond conventional dieting, integrating faith, emotional regulation, and metabolic health principles. Christine’s own story—marked by a significant health journey, an embrace of ketogenic eating, and a breakthrough lifestyle change—has inspired thousands since she first shared it on her blog and across social media. Her journey has been highlighted in leading wellness magazines, including Woman’s World and First for Women, and featured on DietDoctor.com, where she was named a top low-carb success story. Meet Christine: 

You are an author, but is it your day job? If not, what fills your days? My new calling combines writing, speaking, and health and wellness coaching. Most of my day is spent equipping professional women through coaching to quit sugar, crush sugar cravings, and claim weight loss victory once and forever–positively impacting their lives and the lives of others.

Did you always want to be an author? Absolutely not! I call myself an “accidental author.” During a global pandemic, I wrote my first book, Seeking Joy through the Gospel of Luke: A Christmas to Calvary Advent Devotional. I looked around the world and sensed that we all needed to embark on a joy-seeking journey during that difficult time. My first book was unexpected–especially for someone like me, whose passion has always been for math and numbers, with a former career in accountancy!

What is your most recent book, and what inspired you to write it? My passion project, SugarFreed: Stop Losing the Weight Loss Battle, Start Gaining the Victory, was released on January 21, 2025. This is the book I always knew I had to write, yet it took seven years for the journey to unfold. It’s a Christian Living non-fiction book inspired by my story of massive weight loss, finally breaking free after thirty years of yo-yo dieting. When I took ownership of my health, I gained invaluable wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. With a renewed mindset, I ditched sugar and the standard American diet, embracing a low-carb approach with whole foods to nourish my body, mind, heart, and soul. I couldn’t keep this a secret after losing one hundred pounds and gaining weight loss victory. I had to share it with the world!

How do you hope your book uplifts those who read it? For women like me, I hope my book will inspire them to take ownership of their health to transform their physical, emotional, and spiritual health. I want them to know they have a kind but firm friend to walk alongside them on this journey. Breaking free from sugar and food addictive patterns and behaviors is challenging. But I know what it feels like to live in what I describe as the sugar shackles, and I know what it feels like to be set free from a life of chronic health issues and obesity. I invite my readers to journey with me, from the mudslide to the joyride.

What are you most excited about with this book? Witnessing others set free! I have a bold vision for the SugarFreed movement–to help others enter freedom and experience true joy in living. I dream of this message reaching one million people and inspiring the loss of one million pounds, transforming lives. I’m passionate about the fitness of the church. I’m on a mission to exhort the church to take up this call to live SugarFreed for vitality! I always say, “When you show up, God shows off!” The SugarFreed movement will lead the way in helping others feel better and serve better.

How did writing a book help your career take off? Writing has opened many doors I never expected, like invitations to guest on podcasts and to speak on stage. Writing my story even landed me on the cover of Women’s World magazine! As these opportunities grew, I boldly decided to leave corporate America after a 32-year career to pursue writing, speaking, and coaching full-time.  

What advice would you give someone wanting to succeed in your professional industry? After leaving my secure salary for an entrepreneurial life, knowing where to invest my time and resources wasn’t easy. It was challenging to fund the financial needs of a solopreneur! But I strongly encourage anyone considering a career as an author, speaker, and coach to invest their talents and steward their God-given gifts well. Many times, that will require a leap of faith.

How do you handle setbacks and criticism? As a recovering people pleaser, overcoming setbacks and criticism required deep introspection, helping me grow confident and stay true to my calling. A wise marketing coach once reminded me, “You’re not called to serve one billion people!” That insight helped me accept that not everyone is meant for me, and I’m not meant for everyone. Each day, I pray to have the opportunity to impact one life. That perspective helps me silence the naysayers and stay focused on my mission.

Being an author today is like running a business. How do you manage all your publicity and social media and keep your engagement up with readers? At this stage in my career, I’m still a one-woman show. My days are well-structured, and I stick to my firm boundaries. I’ve also invested my resources in tools that help me manage everything (like a customer-relations management tool that is the home for all my needs: email list, social media posting, landing pages, calendar, etc.) Another recent investment has been hiring a publicist specifically to assist in launching my book, SugarFreed.

How do you hold yourself accountable and achieve the goals that you set forth? Losing a massive amount of weight tends to make one a high-achieving goal-setter. Without goals, I’d flounder like in my old yo-yo dieting days. Since those days, I’ve learned to be an intentional goal-setter, and my preferred method is the PACT method. PACT stands for purposeful, actionable, continuous, and trackable. I hold myself accountable with the experience and knowledge that you can’t change what you don’t track and where you don’t act. Plus, as a health coach, it’s essential to lead by example.

How do you structure your day and make time for writing? I begin each day with protected time and never deviate from this routine. First thing in the morning, I grab my coffee, Bible, and journal and spend intentional time filling up my heart and soul with spiritual nourishment. Writing time comes next because the inspiration always comes from this quiet time. The rest of the day is spent tackling the three projects I list in my planner and adhering to the coaching block schedules that are the weekly routine.

What do you find most fulfilling in the career that you’ve chosen? Writing and speaking words to impact lives for positive transformation and a more fulfilling life is priceless. Whenever I coach a client to a weight loss victory, hear from a reader through an email, or chat with an audience member at a speaking event, it reminds me how important it is to connect with women like me. I am blessed to share my story with the intent that my story could be others’ story, too.

What book uplifts you? The Bible, hands down! Specifically, the Book of Psalms, when I need to be uplifted.

Anything else you’d like to share with your readers? If you are facing a mountain in life or walking through a dark valley, I want to encourage others with simply this: you can do hard things! You can. I never imagined leaving my career in accountancy to pursue writing, speaking, and coaching full-time. After thirty years of dieting failures, I never imagined I’d achieve a healthy weight and maintain it now for seven years. I’ve learned through this heart-transforming journey that you can’t climb those mountains carrying heavy chains. If something is weighing you down, take heart–hope and freedom are within reach. You don’t have to stay stuck–drop the chains. Step forward boldly into a healthier, more purposeful life.

Connect with Christine and learn more about her journey and book via her website.