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You are going to have to surrender those times of eating, knowing that the end result will be SO much better!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/store.weighdown.com\/Weigh-Down-Works-P3296.aspx\">Weigh Down Works!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God will go to great lengths to help us on this journey, and it is humbling to realize that He cares so much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[160,175,176,247,272,362,444],"class_list":["post-447552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-lose-weight","tag-god-and-weight-loss","tag-gwen-lara","tag-gwen-shamblin","tag-how-to-lose-weight","tag-i-want-to-lose-weight","tag-quick-weight-loss","tag-weigh-down"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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