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Summary: The End Begins
Review: Before, I read this book, I was coming to the realization that God must have created our bodies with the ability for it to tell us what it needs for survival. After all, His Word tells us, if He takes care of the birds and the animals, how much more will he do for us? The only overweight birds and animals, that I have seen, were in captivity, being cared for by human beings. This book gives me confirmation that I need to be obedient to "His" will for my eating habits. I need to learn to discern between "Physical hunger for physical food" and "spiritual hunger for spiritual food(the Word of God)" . Today I weigh 429 lbs. THE END of my struggle BEGINS today. With Jesus Christ in my heart I have the power of the Holy Spirit to win this battle. This book is a tool, God has given me, to use for motivation and encouragement, along the way. I will tell, everyone I know, about this book because everyone, with or without a weight problem, needs to be in the center of God's perfect will. God bless everyone who struggles with being overweight. I trully beleive if we follow the principles, laid out for us, in this book, we will be successful. A SISTER IN JESUS CHRIST ETERNALLY!
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Summary: The End Begins
Review: Before, I read this book, I was coming to the realization God must have created our bodies with the ability to tell us what it needs for survival. After all, His Word tells us, if He takes care of the birds and the animals, how much more will he do for us? The only overweight birds and animals, that I have seen, were in captivity, being cared for by human beings. This book gives me confirmation that I need to be obedient to "His" will for my eating habits. I need to learn to discern between "Physical hunger for physical food" and "spiritual hunger for spiritual food(the Word of God)" . Today I weigh 429 lbs. THE END of my struggle BEGINS today. With Jesus Christ in my heart I have the power, of the Holy Spirit, to win this battle. This book is a tool, God has given me, to use for motivation and encouragement, along the way. I will tell, everyone I know, about this book because everyone, with or without a weight problem, needs to be in the center of God's perfect will. God bless everyone who struggles with being overweight. I trully beleive if we follow the principles, laid out for us, in this book, we will be successful. A SISTER IN JESUS CHRIST ETERNALLY!
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Summary: FREE AT LAST
Review: I have spent thousands of dollars on weight loss gimmiks. I am so happy that Gwen wrote this book and only wish I had figured it out long ago. The program IS healthy if you make the right choices. Since I went on it I choose to eat "healthy" most of the time but I don't feel guilty when I desire something fattening THAT is the freedom I have lost weight and will continue to do so with Gods help. Thank-you so much Gwen you have helped to SET ME FREE.
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Summary: Be Careful! It will catch up with you!
Review: I lost 20 pounds fast on this diet. I think I even wrote a review here recommending the book. The problem is once I stopped going to workshops and reading the books (workshops are at least $50 a piece) the weight poured back on. Only now I don't watch what I'm eating. It's dangerous to tell folks they can pour on the salt, not worry about the fat, and ignore exercise. Just don't eat. It's fasting - not dieting! And when you stop, and you're used to the salt and the fat and the lack of exercise, you'll gain more, more quickly, and then have to deal with the guilt that you're being disobedient to God by eating! Let's leave God out of the diet discussion, and bring him into our hearts. I think the author's heart is in the right place, but her suggestions border on compulsion.
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Summary: My Friend lost 50 pounds on this diet
Review: I haven't read the book yet, I'm ordering today. One of my best friends lost 50 pounds on this diet and has kept it off!
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Summary: Not a diet its God's way AND it WORKS. Praise Jesus.
Review: I would like first to say Thank you Gwen for giving of your self to the Lord. This is the only "diet book" I have read that is not looking for money or looking for gain for them selves but has given the Bible and given the glory to God.I am a mother of Two and with my first child I had a desise called tocimia that helped a long with my help in ganing 99 bls. I never lost the waight with her and I then had a nother child 6 years later fearing I would gane more wate,I only ganed 45 the secound withch I keep 15 of that.A year and a half after my secound baby I was walking down a side walk and I crossed a set of windows were I could see my self walking I started to cry I could feel my bottom moving and see it. I drove home that day crying out to God for help. A week later a freind of mine from church and I went to the libary for book time for are kids and I was ready to rent all these "diet" books out well she said "You want to lose wate?" I said Yes! She said "I have just the book for you and I Promise you, you wont read the rest of them." She was write I read the first 2 chapters and went out and bought my own. I don't by book's mind you. I have lost 55lbs with 40 to go I went from a 24 pants size to a 14 in 5 months I want to be a 10 Im above my goal.But better then all that I have had a quite time with my Jesus every day some time 3 or 4 time's a day and That is so blessed. I have bought another of Gwens books for my old boss God told me to, I new she would read a diet book befor she would read the Bible and this book gives the gospil so clearly Im Praying that it will not only change her outwordly as it as for me but her heart For Jesus. I have 2 other freinds that have read this book also after seeing what it has done for me. God is so good. He Know's what we need if we will just go to him for it hell give it. I recomind this book to any one, not just those over wate. I could tell you other ways I have aplied this to my life but not enough room. I wish I had enough money to bye 50 more of her books casue I would I know so many people how could be blessed by it. I need to tell you one more thing It says in the book to be brunt if you are filling like your alone ask him to show him self. I could not sleep one night so I went to him in Prayer was Praying for about an Hour I asked him if he would show him self cause I was filling alown Not to sucure I new he was but some time we humans need the PROF I asked if he would show me an Owl. Well the very next night I could not sleep again so I got up it was about 2:00 in the morning and I was playing on the web looking for clip art for my church Awana. I was just playing all the sudden I come to this page and there on that page was not 1 but two Owl's Staring me strate in the face. I was so Moved I can not even begin to ecsplan the filling that came over me. God was with me that is all I need to Know. Thank you Jesus. I have read Gwens book now 3 times and I have that print out of the Owls in my book to remind me of times like those when Im filling alwon in this waight thing. I Go to the Lord for dayly food instead of the frigerater. Thank you Gwen for giving to the Lord. I am a living example of what GOD can do if we just GIVE IT TO HIM Because it not a "DIET" it's GOD's way and nothing else will work.
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Summary: This book has changed my life!
Review: For the past six years I had been continually putting on weight, at about ten Lbs. a year. I was to the point of total depression. I had tried everything from counting fat to running five miles a day. Nothing seemed to help. After reading this book I felt like I had hope, like I never had before. I started applying the principles that Gwen talks about, and I started losing weight immediately. After five months I lost 50 Lbs. I then got pregnant, and I gained a lot of weight in that pregnancy. But it has been 5 months since the birth and have lost all my weight again, by letting God fill my heart. He had most of my heart before weigh down, but now he has 100%. This book is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. I feel healthier and stronger and more energetic than I ever have before. For those people who worry about the nutritional and health aspects of this book, just ask my doctor who said that I am in much better shape and much more healthy now than when I was lugging all those pounds around on me. When I told my Doctor how I lost the weight, he said it sounded very nutritionally sound. Thanks Gwen for following Gods inspirational call to you to write this book and begin the weigh Down Diet.
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Summary: True freedom
Review: Regular diets don't work, at least not in the long run. Many of us know this from personal experience.
The WeighDown Diet does work. It's simple, it's freeing, it's life-changing.
Some people disagree with Gwen Shamblin's principles and ideas. This is no surprise, since she is so out of the mainstream. However, Weigh Down really does work, and I have never heard of anyone's health suffering from following Weigh Down guidelines.
I am convinced that Weigh Down is about to take this country by storm. Soon everyone will know someone who lost and kept off a lot of weight in this program.
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Summary: freedom from diet foods
Review: I can't say enough good things about this approach to a healthier you. I have been there done that, diet wise. My last attempt before WDW was buying a treadmill and walking like a mad woman every morning. I walked for 16 weeks faithfully and didn't lose a single pound. I've always had this problem, my body just doesn't seem to shed the weight. I had finally given up and decided that I had to be satisfied with my size 16 jeans. A friend of mine told me about WD and to appease her I went (just to support her, I had given up). After viewing the first tape I was in tears. She said you don't have to drink 8 glasses of water a day if your body wasn't thirsty, you didn't have to exercise like a nut, didn't have to eat all that tasteless food that fills up your pantry and you never touch. All you had to do was not be greedy. Eat what you want.....but only if you're hungry and stop when you reach full. I went home read the scriptures and decided to try for just one week. To my surprise I lost 4lbs in the first week. I was shocked......my body gave up some fat....praise the Lord. At the end of the 12 week session I was down to a size 11/12 and they were loose. I am now in my second session and I lost 3lbs in my first week. Thank you Lord and thank you Gwen for being such a good messenger.
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Summary: I've read it twice, been to WD workshop...
Review: This is a frightening approach to weight loss. While as a Christian I believe God is personally there for me, I doubt he means for me to totally abdicate common sense to the rumblings of my stomach and cravings. It is dangerous to advocate, as the author does in tapes from her workshop, that what one eats doesn't matter. (She tells the story of a man who ate little in the way of fruits and vegetables and he's fine now, she says. What's fine about such an unbalanced died.) It's dangerous to say it really doesn't matter if one exercises or not. God didn't give millions of nutritionists, doctors and exercise professionals the brains to analyze information just to have one woman tell us we're reading the Bible inaccurately. Skip the diet plan and go straight to Scripture. The answers in there, not in Weight Down, another evangelical approach to personalized religion masking more 'Christian' self-absorption.
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