The Weigh Down Diet - Hardcover

Shamblin, Gwen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385487622 ISBN 13: 9780385487627

Publisher: Doubleday Religion, 1997

Synopsis

You can now join the thousands who have discovered a liberating new weight control plan and are turning to God to take away the desire to overeat. The Weigh Down Workshop, a remarkable program which already has thousands of support groups across the country and has gained national attention in media from "A Current Affair" to Woman's Day, is now available as a book. What makes this ground-breaking approach to weight loss so unique is that participants can eat any kind of food-including fats and sweets--and be able to stop in the middle of a candy bar when their stomachs are full.
People who have known no end to fullness and who have no control over their late-night binges have learned through the Weigh Down Method that God can remove the seemingly irresistible pull of the pantry and drive-thru restaurants. With this approach, participants can reduce the volume of food they want to one-third of what it used to be and yet still eat with fulfilled satisfaction. Yet this is not a diet like others you've seen. Dieting only increases chewing whereas with the Weigh Down approach, you will chew less food, but more importantly, with God's help-want less food. Quite simply, this approach equals weight loss. Weigh Down gives back hope; hope to dieters who will learn that they are not a failure. Stop torturing yourself. God did not put chocolate or lasagna on earth to torture us--but rather for our enjoyment! Hallelujah!

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Review

"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.

From the Back Cover

Having been a former model and beauty queen, I was so ashamed of myself as I started gaining weight in my late twenties. Weigh Down Workshop and the Biblical principles taught by Gwen Shamblin have revolutionized my thinking about food. I lost 40 pounds without giving up anything I like to eat!”
- Mary Jo Runfola, former Miss Ohio

“As a physician I have watched the frustrated attempts of countless patients as they tried program after program to get the weight off. I knew that my recommendations of standard low-fat diets were inadequate because I had actually gained weight counting fat grams. Now I can’t seem to stop talking to anyone who will listen about the difference Weigh Down has made in my life. In fact, it is the only diet I recommend to my patients now.”
- Yvonne Sims, M.D., OBGYN, Tennessee (lost 20 pounds)

“In many years of medicine, I had become disheartened with the diet industry. It was through this program that I found a new understanding for people dealing with eating disorders and realized that there was a new focus in ways of managing weight control.”
-David Larsen, M.D., Internist, Minnesota

“There is no reason why anyone could not benefit from Weigh Down, which is less a `diet` than the Gospel applied to eating. I will not be passing on a legacy of a fat father and poor eating habits to my children who watch.”
-Daniel Sather, M.D., Internist, Minnesota (lost 54 pounds)

“I quit serving a small god of food and started serving the one true God.”
-Cindy Chapman, Aspire magazine, Missouri (lost 110 pounds)

“I have spent my life consumed with weight control. You need only to grow up in a large Baltimore high school as the largest kid and with a nickname like `Baby Elephant` to end up with a compulsion towards weight loss. It is truly liberating and wonderful to be able to enjoy food again (like the taste of real cheese) without guilt. This has been a spiritual revival program...a tool of ministry and discipleship.”
- Richard Ryan, Minister, Indiana (lost 16 pounds)

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday Religion
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385487622
• ISBN 13: 9780385487627
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336