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Overeating puts a tremendous strain on any relationship\u2014especially your spouse\u2014and you cannot play with your children. The feeling of hopelessness\u2026 \u201cWhat is the use\u201d keeps crossing your mind. Overweight is perhaps the number one cause of depression. WeighDown has thousands of testimonies where people walk free from depression each day. Watch and record your emotions this week in your journal. Notice how you will have more energy and more joy and more exhilaration this week than you have had in years if you continue with the transfer of this relationship from bowing down to the pan of brownies over to bowing down to the most loving Heavenly Father and His precious Son, Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/store.weighdown.com\/Weigh-Down-Works-P3296.aspx\">Weigh Down Works!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food is not a good source of entertainment or a good escape from your problems or a good thing to fill up time\u2014it is not a good thing to use to escape the fear of being bored, nor a good friend to take the place of relationships&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[74,87,101,175,176,224,247,326,444],"class_list":["post-452703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-lose-weight","tag-christian-author","tag-christian-weight-loss","tag-depression","tag-gwen-lara","tag-gwen-shamblin","tag-how-to-change","tag-how-to-lose-weight","tag-obesity","tag-weigh-down"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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