With a deep love for God and a profound compassion for the hurting human soul, Shamblin was driven to find wisdom and answers from the Heavens that would lead people to permanent weight loss and improved health. The answers came in the writings of The Weigh Down Workshop—revolutionary information that would soon take on the world by storm. The audio cassettes and local classes provided the practical “how to” steps and sound nutritional guidance on how to eat like a “thin eater” by utilizing God given internal hunger signals. Participants were also taught how to eat “regular foods” and not diet foods, and most importantly— how to fill up the hurting heart and emotions with the love of God instead of the love of food.
By 1992, word had begun to spread about Weigh Down and unbeknownst to Shamblin, this local grassroots revival of weight loss and healing would soon become an unstoppable phenomenon, eventually catapulting Weigh Down to international status and Gwen Shamblin becoming a household name, often referred to as the “Pioneer of faith-based weight loss.”
The program was packaged for seminar use, churches began to sign up, and the media began to pay attention. The growth was explosive. By the late 1990s, Weigh Down was internationally known in most Protestant, Catholic, and Evangelical churches. Gwen Shamblin and The Weigh Down Workshop were featured on such shows as 20/20, Larry King Live, and The View, as well as in such magazines as Good Housekeeping and Woman’s Day.
In 1997, Shamblin responded to the nation’s request to offer the Weigh Down principles in book format, and The Weigh Down Diet was published by Doubleday, Inc. The book quickly became a million-seller as people discovered the secrets to losing weight quickly and permanently while finding a new relationship with God, simply by putting the Biblically sound principles of Weigh Down into practice.
Shamblin’s deep love for children and childlike heart prompted the writings of Feeding Children Physically and Spiritually, A to Zion Children’s Book, In the Beginning, The Garden of Eden, and the Children’s Treasure Devotional Workbook.
Today David and Gwen Shamblin reside in Brentwood, TN across the street from their children and seven grandchildren. Shamblin continues her writings while while overseeing the needs and direction of Remnant Fellowship Church, which she founded in 1999.