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Jayne Dubois
 After 20+ years of taking diet pills, counting fat grams and calories, weighing, measuring, and consuming only fat free foods, paying for fitness club memberships (that I never used), my weight just yo-yoed, finally peaking at more than 236 lbs. I angrily and arrogantly tried to convince myself (and everyone around me) that being overweight was "acceptable," that it was my “right,” and if YOU didn't like me the way I was, then it was YOUR problem. Before Weigh Down I refused to take responsibility for my attitude, my actions, my overeating---and in many ways, I didn’t know HOW to take such responsibility. Weigh Down taught me the “how.” Before I learned and put into practice these godly principles taught in the Weigh Down seminars, I had a terrible and very ugly attitude. I used to fill my mind with lies so that I could pretend I was content and happy. I had heard about Weigh Down Workshop, but I didn't sign up right away because I had "convinced" myself that my being grossly overweight and greedy for food didn’t matter to GOD. This, I learned through the Weigh Down teachings, was one of the worst lies of all (Ephesians 5:5). Six months later, as I was more and more depressed, angry, prideful, lonely, and desperate, I set foot in my first Weigh Down class; that was January of 1995.
WWeigh Down was totally different than all of the dozens of diets I had tried in the past. The minute I saw the orientation video, I knew this was THE answer to my prayers. The Weigh Down principles were so clear, so simple: (1) obey God's eating plan for my body (His Temple), (2) pursue a wholehearted relationship with Him and with Christ Jesus, and (3) feast on His Word (not just read the Bible, but DO it, put it into practice!). Once I learned that life comes from death to self will, as Jesus said, "not my will but Thine be done," the excess weight came off and stayed off!
Since I started Weigh Down, my weight has not yo-yoed and I am over 100 pounds lighter AND the weight has been off for YEARS!! Even more exciting, the principles taught in Weigh Down have shown me how to walk the one, true narrow path of salvation, and my heart is filled with joy, peace, love and true contentment!! I am free from the bondage to food, to anger, to depression, to selfishness, to pride, to loneliness, to dieting, to emptiness, to SELF. God alone is to be praised in and through Christ Jesus!!
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