There are live online classes, as well as classes on a local level.

Weigh Down gives you the green light to eat ice cream, chocolate chipcookies, peanut butter and your other favorite foods. But it must bedone in moderation. One of the main tenets is to stop using food as away of coping with emotional eating.

"It's God's power -- not willpower" that is going to make the permanent changes in your life, according to Shamblin. By turning to God when the going gets tough and learning to stifle those urges to binge, you will eat one-third of the foods you used to without any deprivation.

Having the man upstairs in your corner is going to help you want less food. While the program sounds good in theory, especially to religious folks, it only takes common sense -- not $119 -- to realize eating less is going to allow you to lose more.