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Blake Zanoni’s Testimony
At around age seven, judging from my childhood pictures, I began to gain extra weight. Food was a reward for doing good and a comfort for feeling bad. By the time I was sixteen, I weighed a whopping 225 pounds. Kids made fun of me at school and I just wished sometimes that I could just wake up thin or not wake up at all.
I was in denial about how bad my weight really was. My Mom was introduced to the Weigh Down Workshop through church and soon became a coordinator of a class in our home. This was a class that I was forced to attend. I didn’t want to go and though I never spoke a word against it, my body language said it all.
During and after going through the class, I was able to lose some weight, but I was doing it for Blake and what I wanted to get out of it. I was still rebellious with the food and didn’t take it seriously.
Then on November 11, 2001 my parents saw Gwen Shamblin speak in South Bend, Indiana where she introduced them to Weigh Down Advanced. I started Weigh Down Advanced in December of 2001 at the beginning weight of 225 pounds! My eyes were opened to the complete truth! I learned that you can not have greed for food and make it into heaven. I learned that I had to die to my will with food and obey God’s signals of hunger and fullness. It wasn’t easy at first and I struggled through the first couple of months, but I just kept listening to the tapes and surrounding myself with the Weigh Down message and people who were involved in the program and really DOING it.
In May 2002 my best friend left for Nebraska. That night there was a pain laid on my heart that I couldn’t put my finger on. As we said our final goodbyes I got in the car and drove away. On the ride home I started thinking about the pain I felt for my friend who was leaving and realized the pain God was feeling as I was straying from him. It was at least ten times greater. At about 11:17 I clicked on the radio and the first words I heard were “…forever is a long time without you…” It was all I could do to pull my car to the side of the road without crashing and I picked up the phone and had to call someone. God really delivered me that night and gave me a chance to turn my life around and live for him. I knew that it was time to start losing weight for God and not Blake. By the middle of July I was down to a weight of 157 pounds By the end of August 2002 I was down to my current weight of 148 pounds. That is a total weight loss of seventy-seven pounds in about nine months!
Through the Weigh Down Workshop I developed a relationship with God that I never had before. I truly wait EVERY time until I hear the growl. In between, I just turn to God, pray, read my Bible, listen to a Weigh Down tape, or get into my workbook. If I’m truly hungry, then I get exactly what I feel like eating and I eat until I’m satisfied. I don’t ever feel uncomfortably full anymore. With this new way of life I can honestly say that I will NEVER see those pounds again!!!
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