Wake Up to Your Weight Loss: Using the Art of Personal Narrative to Achieve Your Best Body [Paperback]

Alyson Mead (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 6, 2008

WHAT IF THE BUDDHA DIETED?

Diets don't work -- that much is certain. With millions classified as overweight or obese worldwide, a common sense approach is clearly needed. But crash diets, invasive surgeries and other procedures only reinforce an aggressive and disrespectful approach to our bodies.

Meant to be a companion piece to exercise and healthy food choices, Wake Up to Your Weight Loss combines meditation, follow up exercises and instruction on how to identify and redirect the internal stories we tell ourselves all the time, usually without knowing it. This program can help you identify emotional problems beneath overeating, help provide motivation for exercise, and even help you completely rewrite the story of your life.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...remarkably well-written and worthwhile. If well-being on any level is the goal, [this book] deliver(s) the goods."
-- --ForeWord magazine

"It's not about the food; it's about your story! In Wake Up to Your Weight Loss, Alyson Mead presents a creative and fresh approach to weight loss."
-- --Janice Taylor, author of All Is Forgiven, Move On: Our Lady of Weight Loss's 101 Fat-Burning Steps on Your Journey to Sveltesville

"Alyson Mead's book could just as easily be titled: Wake Up to Yourself, Wake Up to Increased Self Awareness, or Wake Up to an Incalculable Gift of Empowerment. Brilliant!"
-- --Doris Wild Helmering, psychotherapist and co-author of Think Thin, Be Thin

About the Author

Alyson Mead's fiction, essays and articles have appeared in over thirty publications, including Salon.com, In These Times, Bitch, BUST, Whole Life Times, Punk Planet, MS/NBC, The Sun, AOL, IRT, The 213, Tapestry, The Stylus, and the New York Daily News, among others.

She is the author of Wake up to Your Stories: Using the Art of Personal Narrative to Heal Your Past, Nurture Your Relationships & Ask for What You re Worth, and has received the Columbine Award for Screenwriting, the Roy W. Dean Filmmaking Grant and a Writer s Digest Award. Her work also appears in the anthology Stories of Strength, benefiting the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

She lives and works in Los Angeles.

For information about Alyson's personal appearances and online workshops, join her email list at WakeUptoYourStories.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 211 pages
• Publisher: A Storied Life Publishing; 1st edition (May 6, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1427611009
• ISBN-13: 978-1427611000
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,303,704 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)