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Brown said his weight-loss program was developed by a Christian doctor, and that the numbers used all have Biblical connotations. "There’s a 40-day weight reduction period — the number of transformation,” he explained. “There’s a three-day recovery period — new birth or resurrection. And then there’s the maintenance phase. So it’s gone really well, but as I looked at their affirmations — and they’re good affirmations — I made mine all about the Lord, saying I want to be a strong vessel for your use: energetic, enthusiastic, healthy. And as a result, my family and everyone else, my employer, they would benefit. So it’s kind of the same concept as in Matthew 6:33, which says ‘Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added.’ If I seek to be a strong, healthy, energetic vessel for Him, everything else — my family, my wife, my grandkids — they’ll be beneficiaries.”