3D and the 3d Program: Diet, Discipline & Discipleship - Hardcover

Showalter, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557252947 ISBN 13: 9781557252944

Publisher: Paraclete Pr, 2002

Synopsis

The best way to know the heart of the 3D program, is to know the heart of the woman who took it national and has guided its development ever since. Writing with transparent and endearing honesty, Carol Showalter, the wife of a prominent Presbyterian minister in upstate New York, tells of fighting (and mostly losing) the battle against excess weight all her life.

In 1972, she was about to enroll (again) in a well-known secular diet program that was meeting in her church, when she was arrested by a Sunday school poster of a happy face, with a slogan, "Smile, God has the answer!"

She could not get it out of her mind. And when she prayed about it, she found He did have the answer.

Today, there are nearly one million graduates of the 12-week program, 3D, many of whom have had their lives wonderfully changed, as they discovered that God would meet them, wherever thay were at and would heal them, often through others who shared their struggles.

That revelation—and how much more time He desired her to spend in prayer with Him, conferring with Him on everything— changed her whole way of looking at things, and her life.

About this title

About the Author

The originator and guiding light of the first Christ-centered group diet program, Diet, Discipline and Discipleship, Carol Showalter has been a prominent spokeswoman for the program for more than thirty years. Her national best-selling autobiographical account of the founding of the program, 3D, gave the reader an understanding of the program's broad scope and spiritual depth.

After three decades the 3D program is undergoing a major updating. As a part of this makeover Carol Showalter has done a major revision to her book, rewriting its ending and bringing it into the twenty-first century. Reading the new 3D is still the best way to get a quick sense of the program. As the author says, "There's so much more than we realized, and it's so much deeper!"

Carol has been interviewed by major publications including The Chicago Tribune, the New Yorker, and Christianity Today. She has appeared on CNN, the 700 Club, and numerous other television programs, and has spoken at conferences nationwide. Carol and her husband, Dr. William Showalter, are members of an ecumenical religious community on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, where Bill serves as a Presbyterian minister on the community's clergy staff and Carol serves as the Director of Marketing for Paraclete Press. Carol and Bill have four grown children and five grandchildren.

Reviews

With all of the fads, trends and here-today-gone-tomorrow crazes of the diet industry, it's refreshing and reassuring to encounter a tried-and-true method. Carol Showalter's 1975 book, 3D: Diet, Discipline & Discipleship, which has already sold half a million copies and served as a manual for 3D church groups across the country, is being re-launched this month from Paraclete Press. Showalter's book is distinctive in that it is not just a diet book, with the usual recipes, testimonials and sample menus. It is first and foremost a candid spiritual autobiography, chronicling the author's religious journey and her struggles to overcome judgmentalism and lack of self-esteem. Showalter's forthright honesty about the ups and the downs of dieting, family life and her church community will resonate with many readers.

Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Less a weight-loss program than an affir-mation of Christian living, this is a revised edition of Showalter's original 1977 book. A faith-based 12-week plan, it relies on the familiar American Diabetes Association food exchange lists for balanced meals. The first half explains how the author's growth in her personal relationship with God led her to her present ministry with the 3D program. Aside from the diet, daily devotional readings (sold separately), journaling, and Bible study are the foundations of this plan. For Christian collections and large public libraries.

Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Paraclete Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557252947
• ISBN 13: 9781557252944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296