Copyright 2005 Frank Smoot

Did you know that a tragic 96% of America’s weight loss
efforts end in failure?

Even worse, we gain back a heartbreaking 95% of the pounds
we do manage to lose! It’s enough to make you crazy!

But is it enough to make you take another look at what
you’ve been doing?

If you’re a Christian with a history of struggling and
failing at weight loss, it’s because you’re trying to do
things the world’s way instead of God’s way.

The world’s ways don’t work! Not for life, and not for
weight loss, either.

I’m Dr. Frank B. Smoot, MA, DD, Christian fitness & weight
loss coach. I’d like to share with you a few things I’ve
discovered in my years of helping hundreds of real people
become weight loss success stories.

I found out a while back that people were eager to
incorporate their Christian beliefs into their weight loss
/ fitness programs. And when they did, their success rate
shot up dramatically.

If you aren’t getting the kind of results you’d like from
your weight loss programs, here are five possible reasons
why:

Mistake #1 - Going To The World For Your Solution - The
Bible is full of warnings not to look to the world for our
answers, including: .Do not deceive yourselves…the
wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. (1
Corinthians 3:18)

When you consider that an astonishing 19 out of 20 weight
loss attempts fail, you can see that the $47 billion Weight
Loss / Fitness Industry reflects how ineffective the
world’s ways really are. God has a much better plan!

Mistake #2 - Trying To Solve A Non-Physical Problem With
Physical Methods - Simply growing up in the world exposes
you to an avalanche of misinformation, half-truths, and
outright lies about every subject — includes health-care
and fitness.

The world tells us that diet and exercise are the keys to
weight loss success. Yet Jesus gives a very different
perspective: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth
a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this
defileth a man. (Matthew 15:11)

Would it surprise you to know a major new clinical weight
loss study recently discovered that the real, root cause of
obesity isn’t what goes on your plate, but what goes on
between your ears?

Mistake #3 - Living In Fear Instead Of Faith - Living in
fear is the opposite of living in faith. You can’t do both
at the same time. But fear has many faces, including doubt,
worry, and anxiety. All of these create stress, which for
3/4 of Americans leads to compensatory eating — which
leads in turn to — yep — obesity.

Mistake #4 - Not Honoring Your Body - It’s amazing how many
Christians consider their physical bodies mere shells,
and place all their emphasis on spiritual development.
Where do they get the idea that it’s OK to neglect their
bodies? That’s certainly not what God tells us:

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not
your own? (1 Corinthians 6:19)

Mistake #5 - Now Understanding Why — Or How — To Fix Your
Toxic Thinking - As I noted a minute ago, the real key to
weight loss success is in your mind — in your own beliefs.
While the researchers just discovered this, it should be
old news for Christians:

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. (Romans
12:2)

Now let me add a 6th mistake that sums up the first five:

Not Trusting That He Who Made You Knows What’s Best For You

What will it take to get us pointed away from the world and
toward the Word? As the Christmas carol O Holy Night
says, Long lay the world in sin and error pining?

You don’t need to do that any more! Therefore come out
from them and be separate, says the Lord. (Corinthians
6:17)

May you cast the scales from your eyes and discover God’s
timeless truth. I guarantee it will change your waistline
– and your life!

Peace be with you,

Dr. Frank

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