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Two years ago I was diagnosed with depression and was put on anti-depressants. I had recently had reconstructive knee surgery after tearing my anterior cruciate ligament and had gained a lot of weight because I was not able to exercise anymore. I had always controlled my weight with exercise, so God had removed that “savior” of exercise from my life. I ballooned up to 189 lbs. and thought I would just be fat and depressed all my life. Then I attended my first Weigh Down class where Gwen Shamblin said that depression was caused by self-pity and self-focus. I knew it was the truth because I had been in self-pity for most of my life. Well, I couldn’t wait to get home and repent, and when I did, God gave me instant peace and joy in my heart that I had never felt in my life, even though I called myself a “Christian”. God showed me that I was living in the sin of self-pity and gluttony and no one had ever told me I was going straight to hell because of my sin. In all the churches that I had ever attended, I was told that I was okay and that since I had confessed with my mouth that Jesus Christ was my Lord and Savior, I would be saved. But the fact of the matter was that Jesus was not my Lord, because I was not serving God; I was serving myself. My lips were bowing down to God but my actions were not.
I was instantly delivered from depression because I vowed never again to fall into self-pity. I repented once and for all. I dumped my anti-depressants down the toilet and never looked back. I instantly began to lose weight through the principles of the Weigh Down Workshop. I wasn’t sure if it was going to work as I had never lost weight without exercise, and I had always been in bondage to low-fat foods - YUCK! But I made a vow before God that I would eat the way He created our bodies to eat, like a baby eats…to eat when you’re hungry (a true empty stomach growl) and to stop when you are satisfied. I had been an emotional eater and had run to food for comfort, or when I was bored, or when I was lonely. I had also given all the time that I had spent exercising (trying to save myself from this overweight condition) to God, reading His Word, and listening to the Weigh Down tapes, and I finally experienced God filling me up instead of me trying to fill my empty heart with food.
Overall, I’ve lost sixty-four pounds, going from a size eighteen to a size five-six. I then got pregnant and lost thirty-one pounds in seventeen days after giving birth, all through obedience to God. If there is any doubt in your minds that this will work, but you are sick of trying all the world’s diet programs, just trust God that He knows more that you do and test it by doing it. You will not be disappointed! Praise God for Gwen Shamblin, an obedient servant of the Most High God, and praise God for His awesome eating plan.
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