Lucy wrote:
Grace, I'm totally surprised that your brother-in-law or any other Pentecostals would bother dieting at all. It was very common practice back in my Pente days for the obese to simply be prayed over for weight loss. One preacher claimed that he had such a strong anointing in this area that when he prayed for you, you would lose so much weight instantly that your pants would fall to the floor. Those who stood in line for such prayer were directed to hold up their pants by the waistband for the laying on of hands. Like 99% of everything else I saw, this, too, was BS. However, those prayed for testified of amazing weight loss results.

LOL!!!             

You could end them all up and dancing on stage, moving about as they clutch hold of their pants to the music of that awful worship song, "In him we live, ( jivy beat) and breathe (jivy beat) and have our being."...then, "Make a joyful noise...."  I bet most of them couldn't sing, so they'd be dancing about, falling about and bellowing crazy worship songs.