I might look like the same person I was 20 years ago but the inside (and I think the outside) is completely transformed. I have lost 30 lbs along with a ton of dieting and food rules that I tried to force on my husband and children. I use to be totally anti authority (but sweet). I had my own rules and laws and they did not match with the law or my employers. I believe the biggest change is that I have found something I was looking for all of my life. I remember always asking how to invest money. I would seek out media and other parents on how to raise happy children. I have searched friendships, business and worldly magazines looking for this. The answers was there in print or on the lips of someone, but it never reached into my heart. Through this teaching I have peace in all areas of my life and I can teach my children how to find God which has taught me that that is the answer to all of my searching. I still remember taking my first Weigh Down class and being taught about a God that was loving and personnel, I fell in love immediately and wanted more. That was February of 1999. I continued to stay in any class offered. By 2003 I was trying to find the people (even leaders) in my church that had the same love for God that I had found through this teaching. They weren't there...sooooooo...I left.