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    Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Weight Loss: Important Facts, Inspiring Stories
    Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Weight Loss: Important Facts, Inspiring Stories
    Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Weight Loss: Important Facts, Inspiring Stories
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    Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Weight Loss: Important Facts, Inspiring Stories

    By Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

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    This new series from Chicken Soup for the Soul—inspirational stories followed by positive, practical medical advice for caregivers and patients—is the perfect blend of emotional support and vital information about weight loss including:

    • Weight Loss Goals
    • The Right Attitude
    • Diet Tips
    • Healthy Snacks
    • Emotional Eating
    • Family Affairs
    • Smart Exercise
    • Finding Support
    • Loving the New You

    Chicken Soup for the Soul partners with top doctors to give you the information you need to survive-and the positive inspiration to thrive. Each book features beautifully written stories plus information on diet, lifestyle, diagnosis, procedures, caregiving, emotional issues and alternative therapies from some of the world's foremost experts.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChicken Soup for the Soul
    Release dateOct 16, 2012
    ISBN9781453280188
    Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Weight Loss: Important Facts, Inspiring Stories
    Author

    Jack Canfield

    Jack Canfield is co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers, and coauthor of The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. He is a leader in the field of personal transformation and peak performance and is currently CEO of the Canfield Training Group and Founder and Chairman of the Board of The Foundation for Self-Esteem. An internationally renowned corporate trainer and keynote speaker, he lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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      Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series - Jack Canfield

      Chicken Soup for the Soul

      Healthy Living Series:

      Weight Loss

      Jack Canfield

      Mark Victor Hansen

      Andrew Larson, M.D.

      AUTHOR, THE GOLD COAST CURE

      Backlist, LLC, a unit of

      Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC

      Cos Cob, CT

      www.chickensoup.com

      Contents

      Introduction: Your Weight Is

      Within Your Control Andrew Larson, M.D.

      I Learned It from My Dog Kirsten Mortensen

      You Can Do It!

      Think about . . . why I want to lose weight

      Don’t Give Up, Don’t Ever Give Up Amy Westlake, N.D.

      Think about . . . my weight-loss goals

      Weight-Loss Goals

      Think about . . . my weight-loss goals (again)

      Start Living Now Vicki Jeffries

      A New Attitude

      Think about . . . making eating changes

      Diets Don’t Work But This Does Mary Silver

      Create a New Way to Eat

      Think about . . . making good food choices

      The Road to Self-Worth Jacquelyn B. Fletcher

      Healthy Snacks

      A Sweet Good-Bye Lydia Witherspoon

      Protein Tips

      Monday Morning Blues Georgia A. Hubley

      Emotional Eating

      Think about . . . what to do when I’m bored

      The Ultimate Steak Pie Joyce Stark

      Weight Loss Is a Family Affair

      Think about . . . the holiday eating trap

      Just Listen to Mom James Hammill

      Avoid the Relapse Trap

      Think about . . . learning from past failures

      I’ll Take Broccoli for 100, Alex John Bardinelli

      Trading Fat Cells for Barbells Suzan Davis

      Exercise—Getting Started

      Think about . . . my favorite exercise

      The Green Giant of Fitness Mary Mooney

      Finding Support

      Think about . . . choosing a support person

      What’s the Point? Ken Swarner

      Commercial Weight-Loss Programs

      The Secret Marilyn Eudaly

      The Last Resort: Weight-Loss Surgery

      Bite Me: Or, a Funny Thing Happened

      on the Way to the Buffet Table Harriet Cooper

      Introducing . . . The New You!

      Think about . . . positive changes in my life

      Resources

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      Fear less, hope more,

      eat less, chew more,

      whine less, breathe more,

      talk less, say more,

      love more,

      and all good things

      will be yours.

      —Swedish Proverb

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      Introduction:

      Your Weight Is Within Your Control

      There are many reasons to lose weight. Maybe your doctor has told you that you need to lose weight to improve your health. Maybe you just found out your cholesterol level is too high and you need to improve your eating and exercising routine to protect your heart. Perhaps you are tired of looking at those thin jeans you used to fit into and you want to actually wear them again. Maybe you find yourself no longer able to keep up with your little ones like you used to. No matter what your reason for wanting to lose weight, you’ll find useful, inspirational advice in this book.

      Losing weight is not simply a matter of looking thinner. Excess weight is the driving force behind a recent explosion in the incidence of Type II diabetes. Excess weight increases your risk of having a heart attack, developing cancer and spending time in the hospital. Just as important, carrying excess weight makes it harder to enjoy the little things in life like golfing, shopping, traveling and playing with your children and grandchildren.

      I know it’s not easy but I’m here to convince you that your weight is within your control. It is possible to make tremendous strides toward improving your health and your image if you’re willing to make the effort. This book is filled with inspirational success stories and invaluable medical, nutritional and lifestyle advice designed to maximize your chance for achieving success.

      No matter how frustrated you might be, no matter how fed up you are, now is not the time to give up. If the number of people who are overweight can increase, the number can decrease, too. You can be one of the many people who succeed at losing weight. The logic really is that simple.

      Why do people gain weight? Many factors have been blamed, but only a few of these explanations make sense. For instance, people sometimes blame their genes. But the fact is genes don’t change much over the years. If genetics were to blame there wouldn’t be an epidemic. The same number of people would be overweight now as were overweight in any other era of prosperity.

      Stress, psychology and hormones have been blamed. But doctors are very good at manipulating hormones. Just look at the strides we’ve made in treating breast cancer, thyroid disease and infertility. If hormones were primarily responsible for weight gain we’d be winning that war too.

      Does stress cause weight gain? Probably not. As stressful as our lives may seem today, think about how stressful it must have been to live in a world without cars, without running water and without being able to call 911. It’s almost impossible to argue that the stresses of contemporary living are primarily to blame for today’s obesity epidemic.

      The good news is that factors you can change are primarily to blame for those extra pounds. You can choose to eat more healthful foods. You can choose to exercise. You can choose to associate with people who are supportive of your efforts to lose weight. You can learn about positive lifestyle change without spending hundreds of dollars on special programs, without reading boring textbooks, without scouring the far reaches of the World Wide Web. Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living is all about turning the tables. Chicken Soup challenges and inspires you to take control of your life, your health and your spirit.

      As a physician who devotes a significant part of his practice to treating the medical and surgical consequences of obesity, I stand 100 percent behind the advice in this book, and the messages of hope in these pages. It is possible to learn from every single person who has taken the time to contribute his or her story.

      I wish you well as you achieve success. Here’s to healthy living!

      Andrew Larson, M.D.

      Author, The Gold Coast Cure

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      I Learned It from My Dog

      Answers can come from unexpected places: I learned how to overcome my weight problem from my dog.

      It was nearly thirty years ago. Brett was an Irish setter–Doberman mix, and she was bright, high-spirited and willful—the sort of temperament that, unfortunately, made her a poor choice in pets for a teenager whose understanding of dog training was based primarily on the Irish Red books. Brett was nearly impossible to control. Whether it was climbing on forbidden furniture, refusing to come when called or barking her head off when a doorbell rang, no lesson I tried to teach her seemed to catch on. My attempts at discipline were met with constant failure. I loved the dog. She was my best friend. But her wildness infuriated and exhausted me.

      Then one night, I had a dream. . . . But I’ll come back to that in a minute.

      First, my weight.

      I’d been thin

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