Well worth reading ...

[Guest guest]

Because he deserves a plug.. because I cant wait to get my own copy

of his new book which details of his journey from fat to fit ...this

review at Amazon.com says alot:

Free your mind, and your ... will follow., August 30, 2003

Reviewer: A reader from Huntington, New York USA

I started losing fat in October 2001, and found my way to the online

weight-loss community and Fred 's website after he had taken

down his archives in the hopes of publishing this book. But

is a legend in that community, and I've been looking forward to this

book and avidly following his website's occasional updates since that

time. Also since that time, I've lost 115 of the 175 pounds of fat I

eventually hope to lose. To be honest, I've been stalled for a while,

but after reading this book, I've got my rear back in gear and my

head in the right place, the place it was when I started. Fred's

adivce is simple: Live like the person you want to be. Think and act

like a fit and healthy person, and you will become that person. His

no-nonsense, straghtforward style may offend some, but I prefer to

see it as a refreshing way of cutting through the bull aimed at the

wallets of the overweight by the multi-billion dollar weight-loss

industry. You don't need any pills, prepackaged foods, diets, weight-

loss plans, magical fat-burning devices, or bariatric surgery to lose

weight. You don't (sorry, Fred) need any diet books. I think Fred had

a hard time finding a publisher for his book for the simple reason

that the diet industry doesn't want to promote a product that will

make it obsolete. Fred's descriptions of the difference between his

new life as healthy person and his old life at 371 pounds made me

cry. Being able to move without pain, to run, to buy clothing at any

store, to fit comfortably in theater seats, behind the wheel of his

car, in any amusement park ride, in an airplane. To go out in public

with his family without feeling as if people were staring. To be able

to be an active person, like he was as a child. Here are a couple he

didn't mention, but I can vouch for: Being able to sleep on my back

without feeling like I'm being suffocated by the weight of the fat on

my chest and neck. Being able to properly clean myself after using

the toilet, something that was difficult for me at 338 pounds because

I had to do contortions to get my arms to reach around my belly. But

I'm done crying for the time I wasted. As Fred says, you hit what you

aim for. If you think like a fat person, you'll continue to behave

like a fat person, doing the same things that got you fat in the

first place. If you think of losing fat as a struggle, a battle, or a

war, it will be difficult for you. If you think of yourself as a food

addict, or on a diet, you're setting yourself up with an excuse for

not eating healthily and presupposing a time when you'll be " off "

your diet. I choose to think of myself as a healty, active, fit

woman, making the food and exercise choices of a a fit woman, easy

choices that will last the rest of my life.

A Link to the booksite:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0974150002/qid=1062866063/sr=2-

1/ref=sr_2_1/002-9187565-2368069

And a link to his before and after pics:

http://www.chunktohunk.com/bp.php?page=/pages/photos.html

Whew! Blows me away! What motivation without all the BS!

<<joni>>

*websurfing on this warm n sunny saturday morning*