Library of Congress CIP Data

1.  Weight loss—Psychological aspects. 2. Obesity—Psychological aspects. 3.  Weight loss—Religious aspects —Christianity. 4. Obesity — Religious aspects—Christianity.  I. Title.
  RM222.2.G782 2005
  616.3’98—dc22
                   2005030418      

“Begin today to lose weight, keep it off and become the healthy, secure and radiant person God intends you to be. With the help of this book, discover the energy God intended for you to have, energy vital for sticking with your plan to lose weight and to say ‘Yes!’ to life as a person whole in body, emotion and spirit.”

• “Essential for knowing the cause and healing of compulsive overeatering.”    
        –R. Sibly, M.D.
• “Excellent guidance into discovering the cause of what makes us
  a naive, gulping society.”
        –K. Gannon, Ph.D.
• “Wayne points the way out of the sadness of being overweight
  into the glow and brilliance of being the beautiful person each of us was created to become.”
        –Leif Roland, Director, Gestalt Institute of Atlanta

About the Author

        Dr. R. Wayne Guffey, director of the Pastoral Counseling Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, holds a doctorate in education (Ed.D.) and has practiced in a private ministry of counseling and psychotherapy for over thirty years. His teaching preparation includes studies with the Association of Religion and Psychiatry, Esalen Institute and New South Academy for Psychotherapy, as well as extensive Gestalt training.
        He has made a professional contribution to the counseling field as a clinical member of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, the Louisiana Board of Clinical Hypnotherapy and the Gestalt Institute of Atlanta.