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Some of you may have heard about the Weigh Down Diet and the Weigh Down Workshops. Some of you may be scratching your head and wondering what they are.
What Is the Weigh Down Diet?
The Weigh Down Diet is a diet that was started years ago by nutritionist Gwen Shamblin. The Weigh Down Diet is a faith based diet that Gwen Shamblin developed. The diet is based on passages from the Bible. Ms. Shamblin says the Weigh Down Diet isn’t a diet at all, but rather a change of lifestyle.
Although the Weigh Down Diet and Workshop has been around for years, it’s only lately that it has been getting a lot of attention. This came about when a husband and wife, Magie and Andy Sorrells, who weighed in at around a 1000 pounds combined loss 580 pounds combined on the Weigh Down Diet. The story hit the newswires and the rest as they say, is history.
Where the Weigh Down Diet differs from many traditional diets is that it is a Faith based diet. It works on changing the way you think about eating along with a good dose of Bible related teaching about how we should eat.
The Weigh Down Diet helps you recognize when your body has had enough. As we all know and are guilty of, we continue eating after we are full. The Weigh Down Diet helps recognize when you’re full and helps build the desire to stop at that point, whether or not your plate is clean!
The core of the program is that you can eat anything you want so long as you stop when your body tells you that it’s full. I’d say that we all have a problem stopping when our body tells us it’s full!
It claims to be able to awaken your internal hunger instinct which tells your body to stop eating at a natural point without having to consciously make an effort.
The Weigh Down Workshop
The Weigh Down Workshop is a program that compliments the Weigh Down Diet. The Weigh Down Workshop is a gathering of people who practice the guidelines set forth by Gwen.
The last number I have is that there are something like 30,000 Weigh Down Workshops around the country and the World.
People network at these workshops, share testimony, ideas and what’s working for them. As eash Weigh Down Workshop is normally ran by a different director, the class courses can change from one Workshop to another, so it pays to call around to see which one fits your schedule and lifestyle.
If you’ve tried all other ways of loosing weight, you may want to look into the Weigh Down Diet and Workshop. It obviously is working for many, many people, it may work for you!
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3 Responses
Margie
June 30th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
1I think it is absolutely tragic that you would in any way suggest that joining this cult that convolutes the Word of God would help anyone. Yes, people do lose weight but they have to give up their mind to do it. I am a born again Christian and I believe that some of the concepts are valid, however they are hidden in among lies and half-truths.
Annie Heminger, Ohio
October 13th, 2008 at 7:12 am
2I have taken this workshop. I have to say that Gwen Shamblin has the right idea. While I did not stay with it (took it ten years ago) I have to say it stands out in my mind as very different than anything else out there in “lose-weight land.” The basic premise comes down to overeating. I don’t know about the rest of you, but overeating comes and goes as my favorite hobby in life, and I might add that I eat when I’m sad or anxious AND I eat when I feel happy! How about that?! Focusing on hunger (in weighdown fashion, hunger for a spiritual relationship with God instead of for food) is not a bad idea. I am a practicing Christian and I don’t mind the religious analogies. I am NOT fundamentalist in any way, in fact, I am a middle-of-the-road (middle-aged overweight — ha,ha) Methodist.
I do not like “diets.” The old weight watchers program where you wrote down what you ate in a day focusing on X number of servings of each of the food groups every day was REASONABLE. There was a dietary accountability that made sense — now they want to increase the workload of recording food eaten by adding a calculation predicated on the hypotenuse-square of the right triangle of each food — info one can calculate ONLY if you have the dietary numbers off the side of food packages. This system is not practical!
Weighdown is simple — eat less. One thing Gwen said in one of the sessions I took years ago still resonates — eat what you want to eat. If you don’t want salads or greens for awhile, that may be natural after years/decades of forcing yourself to eat “the right foods.” You will want the healthier foods as time goes by. No measuring, no writing anything down. Just be mindful of God’s desire for us to take care of our physical vessel so we can fill it with his spirituality. And amazingly, that motivates me. Well, thanks for listening.
Margie
October 15th, 2008 at 9:17 am
3It is obvious that you took it years ago. while I believe that the basic concept is true, her program is cuurently designed as a recruiting tool for her cult church; Remnant Fellowship. According to the class I took in 2006/early 2007 you would not be going to heaven because you do not belong to her message. I am a born-again Christian but her current program and church messages are designed to draw you into her message only and make people into robots for her message.
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