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Self-Help
Publisher: Post Hill Press
ISBN-10: 9781642936384
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 256
Copyright: January 26, 2021
Price: $9.99 (eBook)
Exposes the weight-loss industry, delivers the truth about why you can't lose weight, and shows you how to permanently shed those pounds and take control of your life.
You are not a failure. And you are not alone. You are being scammed by a system that promises quick fixes that fix nothing and sells you money-sucking programs that do nothing but fuel overeating. At each meal, 93 million overweight American adults and 14 million overweight children and adolescents risk their lives. More than 300,000 die unnecessarily every year from obesity-related diseases.
Confessions of a Fat Cosmo Girl shows you how to rid your life of toxic food, toxic people, and your own toxic beliefs.
Excerpt
As a child, maybe you were told to clean your plate even though you were full. Perhaps you got a cookie as a reward or to soothe you when you skinned your knee. Perhaps you were told you
“should” eat this and “shouldn’t” eat that. Maybe you didn’t get enough food or love and you ate to fill an emotional hole, and you’re still stuffing your face to stuff down the anger and helplessness you feel.
You might have been raised on fried food, fast food, or junk food and think you can’t live without it. Maybe you were told that you inherited the family fat gene and there’s nothing you can do
to lose weight, or maybe you think that food is the only thing that can make you feel good. Forget it. These are just more excuses to keep you from becoming healthy.
I’m going to show you how I stopped automatically reaching for food and how you can recognize that nasty voice in your head for who and what she is and talk her down. I’ll help you understand
how to rewire the pathways that form unhealthy behavior patterns and create new, positive ones.
Maybe you have tried Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, or any one of the hundreds of weight-loss programs on the market and were unsuccessful each time. Maybe you’ve tried joining
a gym or watching online exercise videos and were as unsuccessful at sweating off what you ate that day as you were with the weight-loss programs. Perhaps you are considering bariatric surgery or have had it and are gaining back the pounds. Every ad, every weight-loss
consultant, even your doctor has promised you an easy fix to your
long-term food abuse. Forget it. There’s no such thing.
The $80 billion weight-loss industry is designed to ensure you fail. You are obsessed with food, and they know it. They profit by keeping you obsessed. If you were healthy, they’d close their doors. So stop blaming yourself.
All these miracle cures, including the big three—Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig—advertise long-term success. Yet, according to a study published by the National Institute of Health, losing 10 percent or more of your body weight and keeping it off for at least one year is considered the standard for “successful weight loss in obese individuals.” After that time, the majority of people regained weight no matter what program they had tried.
Further, the chances of keeping the weight off for five years or more is about 5 percent. This 95 percent long-term failure rate is what no commercial weight-loss program will tell you. This book will expose the propaganda you’ve heard from the weight-loss industry, from the ads on TV, and from medical and fitness professionals.
You will learn:
• How the weight-loss industry keeps you fat.
• The truth about the feed-your-obsession snack foods they push you to buy.
• The diet-speak vocabulary that’s designed to make you think getting healthy is a snap.
• The eat-the-foods-you-love story that leads you down the greasy path to illness, or worse.
You cannot eat Calorie-Rich and Processed foods (CRAP) and ever expect to kick the cravings. The weight-loss industry tricks you with portion control. Sure, if you eat less of anything you will lose weight. You will not lose your cravings for fat, carbs, and sugar. As soon as you’re milked for all the money you can afford, you quit. Then, the weight piles on again because you still crave the junk and can no longer control yourself.
You gain back every pound and more, and then renew the mail-order meatloaf or head to a meeting for a dose of don’t worry-you-can-lose-it-again. Sure, you can. You will also gain back
every pound because they all fail to teach you how to change your
mindset. You can stay in this endless cycle until you’re dead, which
you will be if you don’t flip off your fat switch for good. Or you can
jump off the fat wagon and take responsibility for your health and
your life. No one can do it for you.
No one could do it for me either, and believe me, I used every dodge in the book of self-deception. My pig-outs, cop-outs, and brain scuttle to avoid seeing the truth are all here. You’ll recognize them because sneaking and cheating and lying are universal.
I understand the panic you feel when you’re anxious to lose, and the
frustration when you repeatedly fail. I know what it feels like to hide food and lie to family, friends, doctors, and, worse, to myself. There isn’t anything you have done that I haven’t.
Feeling like a failure—sometimes desperate, sometimes defiant—
I was always guilty because I knew how to lose weight but couldn’t keep it off. I understand going to the biggest checker in the grocery line because you can’t endure the side-eye from a
cashier looking at your overloaded basket. Or cringing from a look
the server at your favorite restaurant shoots you when bringing a
huge plate of food. Knowing that others are quick to judge you by
your size, thinking you’re lazy because you can’t lose the weight or
a loser because you keep cycling through one weight-loss program
after another, is humiliating.
I wrote this book because I understand how you feel. I know what it’s like to be ashamed of the way you look and to feel so defeated that you use food to dull your emotional pain, just like
drug addicts use heroin to dull theirs. I know what it’s like to buy a package of Oreos one day, and then reach for it the next and wonder why there are only two or three cookies left.
I am going to show you how you can permanently change your attitude toward food. You will discover why your friends and family often sabotage you. You will understand how you can begin from where you are right now. You don’t even have to believe in yourself. You just have to start. I ended my bingeing, guilt, and unhealthy eating by moving to a plant-based diet. It saved my life.
Most people don’t wake up until their bodies are already damaged, or worse, they don’t realize until it is too late that they are rotting from the inside out. Then they die. Don’t let this be you.
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