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Please can you help me write my new book?
Last month I was pleased to make good progress in writing my new book. However, in order to bring my book to life, I need your help.I'm looking for real-life stories of people who've experienced losing weight - any amount - and improving their lives using the scientific principles from The Don't Go Hungry Diet.
My plan is to illustrate all of the principles in my new book with real life experiences from many different people, thereby making my new book a pager turner that will inspire others to improve their lives.
Do any of the following apply to you?
- Have you lost weight - any amount - by eating according to your body's needs?
- As a result of eating according to your physical needs, have you experienced changes in the way you think about food, your body and weight loss that make it easier for you to manage your weight?
- Do you have strategies that you currently use to successfully manage your weight? In other words, do you have "secret weapons" that help you to stay in control of your weight?
- Would you like to share your experiences in my next book in order to help others to improve their lives?
Please note that all of the Success Stories in my books are anonymous for protection of privacy. Note also that if I write up your story for publication, I will send you the final draft for your approval before sending it to the publisher.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to write to me, and I look forward to hearing from you. I will personally reply to your letter within the week.
To share your story with me now, click here.
What our readers say...
"Dear Amanda, I recently read your book a second time. The first time I read it, I was impressed but it took me another year before I was ready to seriously have a go. I am now on my third month of keeping a success diary. I have lost 4 kg, 3 in the first month and 1 in the second. I always have eaten a relatively healthy diet but I have had to learn to leave food on my plate. We grow a lot of our own food and I am a dedicated cook, so it was hard to get used to the idea that throwing food away was actually less wasteful than eating it when I have had enough. That was a big challenge, but I think I can do it now. Keeping the success diary has made me more aware of when I am up to 3+ and I can stop before I get to 4+. I was a bit disappointed to only lose 1 kg in March but encouraged by all the stories in your book and in your newsletter that losing weight slowly is the way to lose it for ever. I wonder if the slow down in weight loss is evidence of the Famine reaction setting in? In the past I would have been so discouraged at this point that I would have given up the diet. But this isn’t really a diet that I can give up, but a whole different way of thinking about eating. The really big difference to my weight loss attempts this time is that I got the exercise component. I never found ‘going for a walk’ very meaningful, so now I park the car 2kms away from the shops or wherever I am going and walk 2kms there and 2kms back, which feels more meaningful to me. I think in the past I didn’t walk for long enough to experience the benefits of walking and gave up on it because it was time consuming and pointless. Now I have lost weight and sleep better and feel more energetic. I am addicted to my pedometer and try to do 12, 000 steps 4 times a week and 10,000 the other days. I really think this is why I have been able to lose weight this time, more meaningful than my eating patterns. Thank you for your work and I look forward to reading the new book when it is finished. Sally"