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Weigh Down Workshop  

What are the main principles of The Weigh Down Workshop (and what does God have to do with it)?

"With God’s help, you can learn to stop in the middle of a meal and have no desire to eat the second half. This is a foreign concept for most people. This program helps you come to the understanding that man was created with two empty, needing-to-be-fed holes in our body. One is the stomach, and the other is the heart. The stomach is a literal hole in the body, which is to be fed with the proper amount of food. The heart represents our innermost emotional needs. To satisfy these needs, or desires of the heart, we often turn to food, overloading our stomach with more than it needs. We are trying to feed a hurting needy heart with food (or anything on this earth). There is nothing inherently wrong with food. God did not put chocolate, lasagna or blue cheese dressing on earth to torture us. But it is wrong to become a slave to food or to let it control you. To truly fill the needy heart, turn instead to God, who can satisfy you like no food can."

What if I don’t feel particularly religious, can I still benefit from this program?

"Don’t worry, you have exactly what you need to participate in this program. Each of us has a heart that worships and adores something. For example, some people enjoy money, but others worship it and will do anything to get it. Some people enjoy sports, while others worship and adore sports and their favorite players. In the same way, some people use food as fuel to run the body, while others dream about food and cannot get enough. This relationship with food can be transferred to a relationship or heart for God. When you learn to get your happy feeling from God, you will experience much more fulfillment than food could ever give."

"Everyone gives his or her heart and passion over to something; therefore you can say that everyone is "religious". The Weigh Down Workshop helps people to see that they do not need to love or worship food more than God."  

An audio interview with Gwen

Another audio interview "Jump Starting Your Journey to Fitness"

An interview with Gwen 

Read what others are saying about the Weigh Down Diet and Gwen Shamblin:

Christianity Online's article The Weigh and The Truth

Today's Christian Woman Interview

On the Joy of Obedience... and other reflections... of a Weigh Down Dieter

U. S. News and World Report

Washington Post 

Check out other Christianity-based diets:

3D Diet

About the Hallelujah Diet

An Overview of 4 Prominent Christianity-based Diets

Diets Debunked

Phys.com's Diet Debunker If you want to be totally disillusioned about almost every popular diet out there this is the place to go! On the other hand, you might want to check out Phys.com's Five Step Plan to see what they claim really works. "Throw out the diet books and jump on board. Whether you need to overcome dieting fears, get exercising, or just want to swap dieting advice, the PHYS five-step plan can help."

Low Carbohydrate, 
High Protein Diets

Carbohydrate Addict's Diet  "Carbohydrate addiction is real...and it hurts. Carbohydrate addiction is not a matter of will power - it is simply a matter of biology. We know what causes it, and best of all, we know how to correct it -without sacrifice and without deprivation - for life."

According to Drs. Richard and Rachael Heller, "As many as seventy-five percent of those who are overweight, and many normal-weight individuals as well, are carbohydrate addicted. Though many people may suspect there is a physical imbalance that makes them crave carbohydrates and put weight on easily, the underlying cause of their cravings and weight struggles often goes undiagnosed and untreated.

"Carbohydrate addiction is caused by an imbalance - an over release of the hormone, insulin, when carbohydrate-rich foods are eaten. Among its many jobs, insulin signals the body to take in food (it has been called the "hunger hormone") and, once the food is consumed, signals the body to store the food energy in the form of fat.

"Too much insulin results in too strong an impulse to eat, too often, and a body
that too readily stores food in the form of fat."
The Magic of Believing  FREE Email Weight Loss Support Group.  This is the web page that lead me to rediscover the Heller information about carbohydrate addiction. "We understand the pain and the torment of being heavy. On our e-mail support list we discuss diets, dieting, losing weight, obesity, medical advances in relation to weight loss, fitness, and nutrition. Sometimes we just share the everyday difficulties of life. We 'talk" about how hard it is, we listen and sometimes even cry together."

Zone Perfect  Official Barry Sears Web Site

The Drs. Eades Nutritional Prescription for Weightloss and Wellness  Authors of Protein Power promotes High Protein Low Carbohydrate diet.

Dr. Atkins Diet Center

Low Carbohydrate FAQ

The Egyptians Ate a High Carbohydrate Diet and Suffered from the Same Lengthy List of Ills as Modern Man

Fats and Oils Can Help You Lose Weight!

Proper Oils and Weight Loss

Flaxseed Oil and Weight Loss

The "Fats are Bad for You" Diet Myth Dr. Udo Erasmus is the world's leading authority on Omega Oil nutrition.  In his best selling book "Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill" you'll learn how eating the right fats and oils can improve our Weight loss Energy level Immunity Longevity Mental health Learn more >> Udo Erasmus' in-depth look at the oil industry and the processes that turn healing fats into killing fats is unequaled. Learning about these processes is essential to understanding why we must make certain food choices to prevent and even reverse degenerative diseases including heart disease, cancer and diabetes. For a delicious way to put more Omega Fats in your diet with Omega bars click here The Big "Fat" Lie! - WARNING: This 10 minute audio exposes one of the biggest marketing hoaxes of the 20th century.  Hear it Here

Scientific Discoveries

Body Weight Regulated by Newly Discovered Hormone.  Before you get your hopes up, this discovery was made in 1995. 

Lymphatic Drainage

Ed Skilling's Photon Sound Beam Claims amazing applications including claiming to remove wrinkles and lumps caused by clogged lymph... as well as TREMENDOUS WEIGHLOSS!

".... she looked as though she were going to pop out of her skin. She was retaining a tremendous volume of water. Have you ever seen anyone whose skin looked like it was about ready to split open? She also had a wound on her ankle, where she had bruised it, which had never healed. She had had it for approximately five years. It had continued to get more ugly, and she was told there was nothing that could be done for this and it probably would never heal. She began to do lymphatic drainage... using the Photon Sound Beam... We had a woman medical doctor, who actually utilized this instrument and massaged her for an hour. This medical doctor was very interested in doing research at the time, and she knew exactly what points to hit to trigger the dumping of toxins from the body. It was interesting. The lady did not really notice anything after the hour's session, other than maybe feeling a little upset like a lot of toxins had been stirred up. She was staying in a very nice resort hotel and went back to the hotel and noticed that she ended up urinating every hour all night long. That went on for two days. The other thing that she noticed was that her urine was tremendously cloudy. It was basically all the cellular debris that was being dumped out of the lymphatic system. You know how people glow when they are healthy - some people just pick up a healthy glow. After a few days, this lady had turned from looking like she was very sickly, to having skin with a brand new color to it, and she almost glowed. She actually dumped 25 pounds in three days, if you can believe that..."

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