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    Shrink!

    By Bruce Michaels

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    Well, here you are, searching for a book on how to lose weight. The number of such books is staggering; this is just one in a vast ocean. Some of the others are written by doctors, some by nutritionists, others by fitness gurus. You may even have read one or more of them. If you have, why are you looking for another? Didn’t it work? Was it too hard to put into practice, too hard to maintain? Were you always hungry? Grouchy? If you did lose weight, did it return?

    Since you are here, one must conclude you’re searching for something that works. Why should SHRINK! offer more success than any of the others?

    SHRINK!’s author, Bruce Michaels is not a healthcare practitioner, research scientist or fitness buff. Instead, he’s an average, reasonably intelligent American man who joined the millions of baby-boomers struggling to control their ever-increasing girth. At its peak, his weight had increased by nearly 38% from his early 20s!

    Difficult-to-adhere-to diets and diets combined with exercise provided him with limited success. Worse, any success was short-lived, and was followed by the all-too-familiar phenomenon of gaining it all back. Then he discovered some information that led him to call a long-time close friend, one who also happened to be a family practice physician. Guided by his doctor friend, Michaels was led to additional information in print and online which finally gave him a non-healthcare professional’s understanding of how the body burns fuel and stores fat.

    Armed with this information, he put in place new eating rules. These new rules resulted in three profound results:
    1) The extra pounds shed his body in just 5 months, allowing him to again fit into old pants and shirts he’d worn at age 22;

    2) Compared to previous methods he’d tried, it was easy! No grueling exercise campaign, no hunger pangs;

    3) 40+ pounds lighter, and over two full years later, those extra pounds remain off.

    Eureka!

    Delighted to get his “old,” thin and trim self back, the author often found himself asked, “Hey, what happened, where did your belly go? How did you do it?” Whenever so approached, he’d readily tell his story.

    But how he’d tell it is worthy of note. Bruce Michaels has had many disparate careers. A former broadcast news director, he’s able to assemble cogent sentences and explain things clearly, so yes, he can tell a story. But he’s also been an entertainer and lyricist; combining these talents, he crafts a story that contains the need-to-know facts in a way that’s delightfully lighthearted, filled with anecdotes and self-deprecating humor.

    Asked why he wrote SHRINK!, he replied, “Because I’d see overweight people, perhaps morbidly obese people, and I’d want to tell them two things. One, I get it, I understand just how tough it is to lose and then keep off the extra pounds. Two, here’s what I did that worked so well, and more importantly, worked so easily.”

    Bruce Michaels makes no claim of genius, of invention, or of having any deep, unique insight into the issue of weight loss. Nor does he believe the knowledge he found, his “secret,” is really a secret at all. He readily acknowledges the information is available elsewhere, and fully cites those credentialed authorities whose message he is so grateful to have found. But, aware of the growing obesity epidemic facing this country and indeed the industrialized world, he could only draw the obvious conclusion: while the information is out there, far too few have found it. This book is his effort to help spread the word.

    If you or someone you know has desperately struggled to lose those damnably stubborn extra pounds, this book may be exactly what you’re looking for. It contains science but it isn’t a tedious science book, nor is it a hard-to-understand medical book. It is, though, a very readable book, one that clearly explains the “secret” and could very possibly change a life – yours? – forever. How valuable i

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce Michaels
    Release dateMar 28, 2014
    ISBN9781310198663
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      Shrink! - Bruce Michaels

      SHRINK!

      How I

      EASILY

      Lost 40+ lbs in 5 Months

      . . . and Kept It Off!

      by Bruce Michaels

      Copyright 2014 Bruce Michaels

      Smashwords Edition License Notes:

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      Preface

      1 Up, Down, UP!

      2 Now What Do I Do?

      3 Synchronicity

      4 Mythology 101

      5 It’s a Wrap!

      Appendix

      About the Author

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      I’d like to thank the many friends and family members who have contributed to this book’s birthing by their encouraging words. Thanks, too, to my editors, Glenn Cook and Gayle Brookbank for their inestimable, generously-given talents.

      Additionally, there have been countless individuals in my life for whom I have undying gratitude, and ultimately, we’re all influenced by our experiences. Some of those influences have then, by definition, contributed to this book. I hope that I’ve been at least somewhat successful in conveying that gratitude over the years, and further, declare it here again.

      I must also give thanks to Gary Taubes. He doesn’t know it, but it was his work that initially prompted me to make a simple, fateful phone call to a long time friend. That call ultimately led me to my other teachers, Drs. Robert Lustig, Richard Bernstein and David Perlmutter. They don’t know it either, but their collective wisdom changed my life, and I thank them.

      But this book would not have, could not have come into existence – indeed, the story at its core, my physical transformation from porky to trim – would not have occurred without the wisdom, guidance, and infinite patience of my dear friend and oftentimes teacher . . . the recipient of that fateful call, Dr. Michael F. Gorczynski. Mike . . . this one’s for you.

      INTRODUCTION

      This isn’t a textbook, nor is it a compilation of clinical studies. What it is, or at least what I hope it is, is essentially what I tell those friends whom I’ve not seen for a while when they ask, Wow, what happened? Where did your belly go?

      Diet successes and failures are common topics across America (and many other places in the world) today, and most often, stories of failure far outnumber those of success. Having participated in many such conversations – originally from the perspective of failure, but now from one of success – I’ve reached a level of comfort in describing what I learned, what I did, and explaining, despite my non-scientific background, why it worked (and what’s at least equally important) why it continues to work.

      On occasion, if at a gathering of some sort, the topic will arise and I’ll find myself answering the question to a roomful of people, informally. This book is intended to retain that sense of informality; were we in a room together, this is what I’d say.

      PREFACE

      Why did I write this book? Am I qualified? Well, I’m neither a nutritionist nor a dietician, and although I have been on TV, I didn’t play a doctor. A quick, on-line search or casual glance at your public library or local bookseller’s shelves will reveal that many who are credentialed have indeed written books on weight loss; many of them have written several. So, the information’s out there, isn’t it? I mean, what could I possibly bring to the table? Simply, one unique characteristic: my own story, one with more than a few twists, turns and several frustrating setbacks followed by ultimate and lasting success.

      See, even though there are myriad books, plans and diets all purporting to reveal the truth and set us on our way to losing weight, we, the population of the United States (and indeed, much of the industrialized world) instead continue to gain weight, a lot of weight. Despite ever-increasing gym memberships, reality-show challenges and an astonishing number of infomercials hawking incredibly imaginative equipment, we continue to pile on the pounds. We may have won 1944-45’s version, but the sad fact is Americans are losing today’s Battle of the Bulge. I’m sure you see it wherever you go, as do I . . . in Walmart shopping aisles, lines at airports, school playgrounds and anywhere else your day’s travels take you. But it’s worse than a just a sizeable percentage of us carrying some extra pounds. Middle aged spread has long been thought to be a normal part of lost youth, but the individual whose weight was in excess of 300 or even 400 pounds was rare. Not to be unkind, but that sort of obesity was so rare it was considered worthy of a sideshow. Not anymore; according to a June, 2013 article published in the US National Library of Medicine, 15.5 million Americans fit the description morbidly obese.

      To put it into numerical context, the Centers for Disease Control reports the average Body Mass Index (BMI) for American men is 28.6; for women it’s 28.7. Anything over 25 is considered overweight, with 30 and above considered obese. Nearer to 30 than 25 as a group, we’re thus closer to being obese than to merely being overweight. In 2001, a Newsweek cover shouted the sad fact that 6 million kids are seriously overweight. Despite a dozen years of education, focused attention and healthier school diets since then, that number is now close to 20 million, so clearly the problem continues to worsen.

      But I digress. Why did I write this book? Because:

      Like so many others, I struggled to lose weight, and that struggle lasted years. Now, it’s true, I was never obese. In fact, as a kid, I was skinny (when I got a little older and my vocabulary improved I became svelte). As an adult, I had a build quite like Barney Fife, although at 5 foot 7, Don Knotts had about 2 inches on me (I briefly considered a career as a jockey). But over time, as

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