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The
WEIGH DOWN Diet
“God’s power not will
power.”
Theory:
The Weigh Down diet focuses
on how God can transform your heart and your mind so that you can rise
above the magnetic pull of the refrigerator.
This weight loss program encourages focus on your natural, internal
hunger control, and turning to the will of God as it relates to food.
Strategy:
- Relearn
how to feed the stomach only when it is truly hungry
- Relearn
how to feed or nourish the longing human soil with a relationship with
God
- Relearn
how to recognize the different “hunger” urges and not confuse
them.
The root of the problem is not the food ingredients, but the volume of the
food that we eat. God does not
care about what we eat. What
God cares about is how much we eat. God cares about and is displeased with
overindulgence.
Once you stop going to food
for sensual indulgence, escape, spacing out, a tranquilizing effect,
comfort, and so on, and start swallowing regular food only when your
stomach growls, you will swallow or eat just one-half to one-third of what
you used to swallow. The
desire eating goes away. You
will lose weight naturally and permanently.
The only exercises insisted on are getting down on your knees to pray and
getting the muscle of your will to surrender some of the extra food you
have been eating.
True Hunger:
The feeling of true stomach
hunger is a little burning, empty, hollow sensation that occurs several
hours after the last feeding. You
can pray to God to help you recognize true physiological hunger.
Do not refuel before you reach hunger.
Once you feel this hunger, select regular food that you desire.
God is the genius chef behind lasagna and chocolate cheesecake.
God intended for us to enjoy all foods, from broccoli to
Haagen-Dazs ice cream. Rate the
food you are eating and eat only the best.
Food was made to be a tool to serve mankind, not man to be the slave of
food. If it rots or is wasted – so what, he was more for you.
A practical thing to do with desire eating is to talk to the food and tell
it that you are not going to answer to it anymore.
You will not obey it when it calls you name from the kitchen
cabinets or refrigerator.
Desire-eating will disappear will soon disappear if you run to the Bible
or to prayer every time you feel this urge to eat when the stomach is not
calling for food.
Rule – Any food is OK, but just between the green light of hunger and
the red light of full.
Slow down your eating so that you can better tell when you are full.
Weight Loss Tips for
Slowing Down Your Eating
- Pray
to God for help
- Try
stopping in the middle of your meal for one to two minutes
- Drink
two or three ounces of orange juice or sweet beverage before you start
- Try
looking up from the food. Enjoy
the company.
- Try
using a fork
- Try
sipping between bites
- Try
taking smaller bites
- Get
the food out of your sight when you even suspect you are comfortably
full.
Day One – Gwen’s Sample Weight Loss Menu. (Her amounts vary
according to her hunger. Use
your own hunger and preference to select your amounts and menus).
- Breakfast
– Biscuit with butter and jelly, 1-3 slices of bacon, coffee with
cream (depending on hunger level, some may be left over)
- Lunch
–
Sandwich
(white bread, ham, mayonnaise, lettuce), a few plain potato chips,
small Snickers bar, diet soda (left some)
- Afternoon
– Diet Soda
- Supper
– Lasagna, salad with blue cheese dressing, roll, lemon pie,
unsweetened tea (left behind
some of everything)
- Nighttime
snack – leftover slice of lemon pie.
Gwen Shamblin. 1997.
New York
: Doubleday
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