Weigh Down Diet
by Gwen Shamblin
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Author: Gwen ShamblinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-12-24
ISBN: 038549324X
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
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Book Review: Best weight loss program ever!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've tried every diet known to man, losing some weight each time, but gaining more back than I'd lost. I really hit a personal low emotionally after the deaths of my parents (they died just 13 days apart three years ago this month), and the death of my son, my only child, 14 months after my parents died. I ate constantly, trying to push the grief down. Of course, that didn't work, and I hit the highest weight I've ever been in my life, 267 pounds (I'm 5'5" tall, so not a good combination). I had turned back to God, after a long period of years of not paying attention to Him, just three days before getting the horrendous news of my son's death.
It took the next 20 months to get to that massive weight (I was already 90 pounds overweight when I started putting on the remaining 40 pounds), and then, when praying very earnestly one night, I asked God to please show me a way to lose the weight, or please take my life, because I couldn't live with the grief and the weight together. Literally within minutes after I said "Amen" at the end of the prayer, I found The Weigh Down Diet on Amazon.com, and after reading the first few pages online, knew it was the answer to my prayer.
I've been on the program for seven weeks now, and have lost 30 pounds. I feel better than I've felt in a very long time, but the absolute best part is getting closer to God. He's filled up the empty spaces in my heart, those holes left by the passing of my parents and my son. I pray every single day for His love to fill me, to be closer to God, and so I eat less. I no longer have a need for pounds of food per day, nor for thousands of calories.
Gwen, God bless your work; if it wasn't for your books and ministry, I would have reached 300 pounds and probably died of a massive heart attack. Thank you for writing the books--Rise Above is also wonderful, with an even more powerful message--and thank you for creating the whole Weigh Down program.
If you want a much closer relationship with God, if you're totally serious about committing your heart, your life, and your love to Him, this is the program you want to follow. For me, this is a lifetime commitment, and I'm so grateful to have been led to it. I still have 100 pounds to go, but it's no strain to do weight loss this way. I'm learning just how many strongholds and addictions I really have had--never drugs, alcohol, smoking, sex, gambling, but enough others to still be committing a lot of sins--and am now praying myself to spiritual health. Praise God for His forgiveness and His love, because life isn't worth anything without Him and them!
Summary of Weigh Down Diet
Isn?t your desire to overeat really spiritual hunger??I can stop in the middle of a candy bar and have no desire to eat the second half if my stomach is not calling for it.?
- Gwen Shamblin
Do you eat and eat and never feel full? Rise above the magnetic pull of the refrigerator and turn to the bounty offered to thousands who have embraced a liberating weight-reduction program in churches across America. The Weigh Down Diet gives new hope to millions who have failed on conventional diets and guides readers to the richer satisfaction that comes not from food, but from faith.
Gwen Shamblin?s The Weigh Down Diet is a groundbreaking approach to weight loss. People who have known no end to their hunger and who have no control over their late-night binges have learned through the Weigh Down Workshop that they can remove the irresistible desire for food. This is not a diet like others, because it is not food-focused. It contains chapters such as ?It?s Not Genetics or Your Mother?s Fault,? ?I Feel Hungry All the Time,? and ?How to Eat Potato Chips and Chocolate.? So, as you can see, here is a very different approach to weight loss. Weigh Down gives back hope to dieters who will learn that God did not put chocolate or lasagna on Earth to torture us ? but rather for our enjoyment!
"We have been trying to feed our hurting, longing hearts with physical food," writes Gwen Shamblin, registered dietician and founder of the Weigh Down program, which emphasizes "God's power--not 'will power.'" This book offers instruction on how to eat only when physically hungry, how to "nourish the soul with a relationship with God," and how not to confuse different hunger urges. The diet plan teaches you not to overeat by letting you eat exactly what you want, but much less of it.
The key is to understand hunger, recognize fullness, and sense what your body is really calling for. You learn to "rate" food by its appeal, and eat your favorite foods first, stopping when you're getting full (not waiting until you're stuffed). This is not a nutritional guide; in fact, Shamblin's own sample menu is high in fat, cholesterol, sugar, and salt. The Weigh Down Diet is, however, a guide to using your religious beliefs to help you stop overeating and see food in a new light. This book inspires you with scriptural passages, discussions of "God's rules" about eating, and assurances that God's love will help you win your battle with weight.
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