1. It's a Spiritual Thing
The Weigh Down Diet does something that other diets don't. It connects weight loss to spirituality. The Weigh Down Diet calls over eating not just a problem of bad food choices or inactivity, but a problem of the soul. It tries to help its members understand why they eat what they eat and how it relates to the way they feel about themselves. The program encourages people to stop and think before eating and try to identify whether the feeling is truly hunger or something else all together.
2. The Upside of Weigh Down
The good part about Weigh Down is that no foods are off limits. Because the key is finding our why you want to eat instead of choosing what is right to eat, the program automatically eliminates emotional eating. Emotional eating usually means bad food choices. No one reaches for a bag of carrots when they're depressed. So, getting to the bottom of the emotion before making a bad choices, mean less bad food choices overall.
3. The Downside of Weigh Down
One of the downsides to the Weigh Down philosophy is not teaching healthy eating habits. Although the eating when you are truly hungry is an attribute of a healthy eating program, it's not the only thing. People wanting to lose weight need to understand what good nutrition looks like and how to put together menus that focus on variety and quality. Only eating when you're hungry is fine if when you are hungry you feed your body the food it needs to be healthy. If you choose to eat candy or empty calories each time hunger strikes, you may lose some weight, but you won't be healthier.
4. Body Image Issues
Tying weight loss to acceptance and love from God is a danger signal to some who've looked closely at the Weigh Down program. Some college guidance counselors see it as a downward spiral toward eating disorders. College age girls tend to look for and seek after a perfect body image and for those who tend toward eating disorders, the Weigh Down program is dangerous. Young women already fighting with body image issues might find the connection to God even more reason to obsess about weight loss.
5. Going Deeper
The Weigh Down program's focus on emotional eating is a key component left out of many diet programs. Whether it's a relationship with God or a bad relationship with an ex boyfriend, emotional eating is real and needs to be dealt with as part of an over all approach to weight loss. Balance in any weight loss program is still the key. Better food choices, portion control, increased activity and a healthy mind are all parts of weight loss. Leaving out even one component makes any weight loss program fall short.
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