Stop Fighting Your Weight: 10 Things You Wish You Knew by Daniel Speraw

This book is free on these days only – 07/04/2013 at midnight PST until 11:59 pm on 07/06/2013. If the dates are the same that means the book is free one day only.

Thankfully, this book does not lay out a new, miracle program or wonder diet, or give you any amazing, fat-burning exercises, or even regale you with inspirational stories.

Better…

• It does give you a way to keep your resolutions—weight loss and otherwise;

• It’s about releasing that inner struggle of self-pushing and then rebelling;

• It’s about releasing that inner resistance, no matter how strong.

LOOKING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION

We spend tens of billions of dollars on losing weight every year: we ride bikes that go nowhere and climb stairs to the same place; we join gyms, sign up for programs and buy DVD’s; we follow fad after method after plan and even resort to surgery.

So why aren’t we the land of the fit, home of the trim?

Because each new beginning sadly comes with the end included; oh, we feel excited because it is fun to imagine how we will be looking and feeling, how others will notice and even be impressed. It can even feel good to start the actual exercising and dieting.

And most of all, we are very, very determined.

The sad part comes when our enthusiasm begins to dim; but that’s no problem—no pain, no gain, right?—so we push a bit, and then find ourselves having to push harder because of the questions:

It’s time to exercise, now? AND, I can’t eat until when? AND, No desert? Again?

But we keep pushing because we want it so much—pushing and pushing until finally we push back, letting it all go, along with our bodies. Some of us dive back into the worst possible foods and the best possible comfort; and of course, we feel disappointed, guilty and even disgusted with ourselves.

For us, exercise and dieting have become an endless, pointless cycle of failure.

TIME TO LOOK IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION:

We keep searching for that next miracle diet, wondrous program or hi-tech machine, but the answer is not out there.

Making changes on the outside can only change us temporarily, which is why previous weight-loss “miracles” did not keep working. Permanent change begins on the inside.

SO, what awesome inner change will make all the difference?

Releasing that inner resistance most of us know all too well. Without it, losing weight (and keeping any other resolution) becomes easy.

Releasing that resistance is what this book is all about.

Curiosity may have killed that feline fur ball, but she or him learned a lot before exiting number nine. I too have been curious, wondering why we, I or they acted this way, looked or did it that way or were otherwise human.

But curiosity is such a casual word, and the truth is my desire to know was almost desperate. There were times in life that I felt angry when there was no one around, unhappy when life was just fine, times I had trouble with relationships for absolutely no reason, and I felt sad when…well, you get the idea.

That desperate curiosity, along with forty years of inner work, has lead to some interesting answers.

Besides curious, I am also a writer who began with a column in the San Jose Mercury News, nationally syndicated. My current project is this column and series of books, “Things That Make Life Better”.

I also love talking with those courageous people who are going for a positive change, and I live to see that eye-widening moment of understanding—the kind you will experience with this book.

So from the central coast of the North American west, I submit these curious book jottings of curiosity to be browsed by those who will hopefully find them just as helpful as they could have wished.

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