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    Help! I Want to Lose Weight!
    Help! I Want to Lose Weight!
    Help! I Want to Lose Weight!
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    Help! I Want to Lose Weight!

    By Susan Shanklin

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    Susan’s enthusiasm is infectious. Now you have a weight-loss friend who will make you giggle over her own life trials as you smile at your own triumphs. Every day! Every page! Her real CAN-DO collections of tools learned the hard way along her own weight-loss path CAN MAKE YOUR OWN JOURNEY easier. 

    If you’re tired of looking for the magic pill or trendy diet that’s promises everything but delivers nothing, this book is for you. It is simple principles applied in a practical way that effectively work to shed the pounds while eating normal, healthy, natural food. Here you’ll find a common sense approach to weight-loss coupled with the inspiration and encouragement that you need. Susan believes food is to be enjoyed, not shunned. You’ll find a shopping plan, cooking tips and recipes to make your weight-loss journey not only effective but also enjoyable. 

    Susan lost 79 pounds in 13 months with the help of God, her husband and her local weight-loss group. The secret was eating controlled portions of very nutritious food and balanced regular meals. The book includes 30 photos (color in the eBook version) of Susan’s life and weight loss journey. Give yourself another chance. Buy “Help! I Want to Lose Weight! today!

    Here are Susan’s words of encouragement from the introduction:

    Mountains and valleys and starts and stops. It sounds like the old TV show, Wagon Train. But this too is how we sometimes live our lives with weight gain and losses. It’s all up the hill or down in the valleys. We start and then we stop. We’re frustrated by our own inconsistencies in the weight loss process.

    “Help!!!!! I want to lose weight!” we scream… silently. From one screamer to another, I hear you. I believe you can lose weight and keep it off for as long as you want.

    When I get mad, I talk to my adversary, the gloating self-serving food addict, and say, “I am me and I rule me! You don’t rule me. I have the freedom to change what I don’t like about myself. I can color my hair a different color, if I want to. I can wear white, if I want to. I can eat what I want to.”

    I wrote this book for you so you can decide to rule and reign in your own life instead of having food rule and reign in your life. What you will read is the truthful account of me taking ownership and dominance of my food choices for 13 months to loose 79 pounds to reach my goal weight.

    No one paid me to do it. I have no sponsors. I am not rich. I don’t have superwoman will power. I had desire. I had hope. I had a fork. I had a measuring cup. I had a scale. 

    What do you have?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTSM Publishing
    Release dateApr 21, 2016
    ISBN9781533720764
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      Help! I Want to Lose Weight! - Susan Shanklin

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Help! I Want to Lose Weight!

      Around the Mountain and Through the Valley

      You Have to Change Something

      Help to Change

      I Want to be a Loser!

      There’s a Change a Comin’

      The New Way

      The First Steps

      The Journey that Lasts a Lifetime

      I’ve Arrived or Have I?

      Taking Control

      What to Eat and How to Cook

      If I Lived in an Apartment

      Life to Live and Enjoy

      Support for Health

      Susan’s Recipes

      Your Best is Yet to Come!

      About the Author

      Books and CDs from Tom and Susan Shanklin

      Dedication

      I dedicate this book to you.

      Acknowledgments

      I would very much like to thank some awesome people who have made my life better, thinner, and happier through this short time while living and writing this book.

      Thank you, Tom, for the hours, prayers and encouragement you have given me in writing this book and also for living this book. You have been through thick and thin with me these 45 years and you should get a medal for it!

      I want to thank my oldest daughter, Heidi Shanklin Hanzely, for her encouragement over the years in helping me reach a healthy weight and for the first scan of the manuscript. Thanks to my youngest daughter, Ruth Shanklin Jackson, for Tuesday email check-ins and buying my first skinny bathing suit. Thanks to Nathan Shanklin for believing in his mom.

      Thanks to Beth Koelker, the most creative person I know in the whole world, and best sister ever, for her help with the cover design and concept for this book. Thanks to Rita Masberg for TOPS photo history, to the gals at TOPS MN#627, Joan Eichers, Dee Kessler, Vonnie Rauchman, Alvera Brooks for TOPS weigh-in smiles and sealed lips, to Diane Marks, my Chief Encourager. Thanks also to my long-suffering proofreaders and editorial advisors—Roger and Helen Melquist, Carol Kaufman, Janice West and Julie Nelson.

      Introduction

      Mountains and valleys and starts and stops. It sounds like the old TV show, Wagon Train. But this too is how we sometimes live our lives with weight gain and losses. It’s all up the hill or down in the valleys. We start and then we stop. We’re frustrated by our own inconsistencies in the weight loss process.

      Help!!!!! I want to lose weight! we scream… silently. From one screamer to another, I hear you. I believe you can lose weight and keep it off for as long as you want.

      When I get mad, I talk to my adversary, the gloating self-serving food addict, and say, I am me and I rule me! You don’t rule me. I have the freedom to change what I don’t like about myself. I can color my hair a different color, if I want to. I can wear white, if I want to. I can eat what I want to.

      I wrote this book for you so you can decide to rule and reign in your own life instead of having food rule and reign in your life.

      What you will read is the truthful account of me taking ownership and dominance of my food choices for 13 months to loose 79 pounds to reach my goal weight.

      No one paid me to do it. I have no sponsors. I am not rich. I don’t have superwoman will power.

      I had desire. I had hope. I had a fork. I had a measuring cup. I had a scale.

      What do you have?

      Help! I Want to Lose Weight!

      I don’t think anyone thinks when they are growing up, When I grow up I am going to write a book about how I lost weight.

      When you are little, as in age, you think the world is grand. There are friends, holidays and fireworks on the 4th of July. You don’t think about your body. You might think about pretty dresses (well, if you’re a girl) or playing tag in the street under the lamppost after supper.

      I guess that’s how I grew up anyway. Not thinking about my body, per say, but thinking about playing and holidays.

      It wasn’t until third or fourth grade when a distant aunt jarred my whole world by causing me to think about my body image. It was Thanksgiving Day. My small home in Levittown, Pennsylvania was the yearly venue for the Thanksgiving meal. My mom, Blanche, was a heavenly cook and her guests were the eager eaters.

      Here’s sweet Susie, age 7.

      As my mom was setting out the garnishes of cranberries and olives, I had stuck a set of 10 pimento-filled green olives on all my fingers and succulently proceeded to nibble them off when Aunt Mildred said, That’s going to make you fat.

      WHAT?????????? I was so shaken by her comment that it remains a huge footprint in my brain even to this day. It didn’t stop me from eating green olives or ruin Thanksgiving for me, but to hear the word FAT left a scar in some way that I really can’t describe.

      The scar didn’t ruin my life, but did leave me with a reminder that too much of anything would make me fat, in her words. A reminder, though, is just that, a reminder.

      Maybe Aunt Mildred was prophesying or something, because I did keep gaining weight all the way through high school.

      My mother was a great cook and cleaning your plate was paid a high compliment. Food was good and nutritious,

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