Feeling Light: The Holistic Solution to Permanent Weight Loss and Wellness
by Shoshanna Katzman, Wendy Shankin-Cohen, Melinda M. Marshall
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Author: Melinda M. Marshall, Shoshanna Katzman, Wendy Shankin-CohenEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-03
ISBN: 0380799510
Number of pages: 269
Publisher: Avon Books
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Book Review: A Comprehensive Approach -- A Truly Healthy Approach
Summary: 5 Stars
I am so excited about this book! I purchased this book a little more than a month ago, and gradually started implementing the suggestions. While, as the authors suggest, I am not closely tracking my weight, I do know that I have lost at least ten pounds since I began.
I love that the authors look at weight-loss/health from many angles and encourage the reader to implement the suggestions in whatever way works best for the individual. That's exactly what I'm doing. While many weight-loss plans talk about lifestyle changes, this really feels like a lifestyle change -- one that I can fully embrace indefinitely.
I was already a big fan of taking a nutritional approach to chronic health problems. "Nutritional approach," by the way, doesn't mean "eat right and take a daily multi-vitamin." A nutritional approach involves correcting chemical imbalances that result in health issues. Some years back I cured my alcoholism using the nutritional approaches advocated by Joan Mathews Larson ("Seven Weeks to Sobriety") and Julia Ross ("The Mood Cure" and "The Diet Cure"), but I wasn't actually ready to tackle weight loss until now, and I wanted a fresh start. So I looked for a new book and found this one.
While I was working with Julia Ross at her clinic, she told me that I could come to crave vegetables, and I was amazed. I didn't get there at that point, but now I have. I am making the biggest, most healthful and delicious salads and devouring them. I'm slicing up radishes and raw turnips, chopping up dandelion greens, carrots, zucchini and cucumbers, using minimal dressing, and loving every bite! I'm correcting the imbalances that steered me toward less healthful foods.
And about energy: This past weekend was the Fourth of July, and we have an annual tradition that makes it easy for me to compare my energy level this year to previous years. The kids swim in the lake every year, but this is the first time that I have gone swimming with them -- I swam in the lake two days in a row and loved it! I played with the girls with robust energy and had a blast! We drove home in traffic for three hours, and for the first time ever, after we pulled into the driveway, I wanted to unpack the car and get the food put away so it wouldn't spoil. I have never in my life come home from a trip with energy to unpack the car. Unless my husband does it, it doesn't get done. But last night it felt great getting everything out of the car and getting all the food put away, and then after dinner my older daughter and I went out for a long walk!
All my life I've struggled with self judgments that I'm lazy because I don't want to do all the work that other people do. But I am totally convinced that "laziness," which we think of as a character flaw, is really low energy due to chemical imbalances -- and those imbalances can be easily corrected. Alcoholism, depression, laziness, obesity: These are not matters of character, they are matters of brain chemistry.
I'm disappointed that this book is out of print. But thankfully it is easy to get a used copy. Best of luck to you, dear reader!
Summary of Feeling Light: The Holistic Solution to Permanent Weight Loss and Wellness
Every year, millions of Americans spend billions of dollars on weight-loss programs, most of which are doomed to failure within the year. Now, Feeling Light presents a revolutionary concept that recognizes excess weight as an outward symptom of an internal imbalance of your body's vital energies.Aimed at healing from the inside out, the Feeling Light program offers an exciting health plan that will restore balance by nourishing your body rather than depriving it. You'll realize a miraculous transformation that brings you new vitality and total wellness -- with excess weight vanishing along with other symptoms. Discover which foods restore your body's internal balanceMaster a simple method of banishing food cravingsForget forbidden foods and calorie countingLower your risk of diabetes, cancer and heart diseaseEnjoy new energy and a sense of well beingWatch Your Excess Weight Disappear!
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