100 Days of Weight Loss: The Secret to Being Successful on Any Diet Plan

If you are a person who has started weight loss plans and fell off the wagon, or if you are person who is planning to start a weight loss plan, any plan YOU CAN BENEFIT GREATLY FROM THIS BOOK! It is not a diet book per se but instead a book that makes you take a LONG hard look at yourself and helps you to understand totally why you have not been successful on loosing weight in the past. If you are starting a plan it will indeed help you BIG TIME on starting out and continuing strong on your plan. This book is to be used with whatever weight loss plan you are on or will be starting. It deals with the mental and emotional side of dieting & healthy lifestyle changes. The book is broken down into daily readings and questions to answer about yourself after each reading. It takes maybe 15 minutes of your time. I have been waking up in the mornings and reading with my morning cup of coffee and I have to say it is the most motivating thing I have ever experienced regarding weight loss. I have about 40 pounds to loose and I already know that this is going to keep me inspired and motivated to loose beyond my norm of 10 pounds or so. Someone referred to the book as being CHEESEY, well I have to disagree totally. Since I have started this book and the exercises, I have been gun-ho and I stay that way all day. I cannot say enough about it. Kudos to you Ms. Spangle because I am ready to help you promote this book in a big way...lol! As a matter of fact when I reach my goal over the next few months I am going to do a YOUTUBE video just for this book. Ms. Spangle if you EVER decide to include before and after pictures, or if you do another book and need people for testimonials, pls contact me as I KNOW that I am going to reach my goal with the help of your book! Thanks so much for this wonderful piece of work! I have already sent four people out to get this book TODAY...lol! Thanks so much! Hey, I will do a video review on Amazon as well when I reach a loss of 20 pounds!

(This may be lengthy, but it may be the turning point you need...) I firmly believe you have to be at "the right place" to achieve successful, long-term anything. That holds especially true for changing habits and addictions. Food is one of the most difficult "habits" to break because it is essential to exsistance. I am on the journey to permanently loose 160lbs. At one point I was 65# down, but ended up gaining 5# back (putting me in the 250# range). I gave up for a year, too frustrated, too willing to believe an MD who told me I would never be able to lose that amount of weight without becoming obsessive. I maintained at 250# for that year, but then suddenly gained an additional 10# last fall. I struggled for several months to lose it, but wasn't seeing the scale move. Not being able to loose those 10# terrified me. It meant my body had a new set point and it was very content to stay there. That was my turning point, being 47, wanting to look the way I feel and the way my husband makes me feel, wanting to move the way I know I can, and knowing that the older I got, the more difficult it would be to lose weight and minimize loose skin that comes from dropping 150+ pounds. I went to a second MD to inquire about phentermine. His first response was to ask if I'd ever considered stomach banding. I work in healthcare and have not known anyone who's gone through the procedure without complications and know the majority have regained most of what they've lost (my personal observations). Not something I wanted or could afford to try. My choice to utilize prescription medication was to lose some pounds so I could exercise without pain, and to have a fairly immediate way to be motivated while I worked on rewiring my relationship with food. My way of going cold turkey and having time to restructure my habits. I have been on phentermine for 3 weeks and have lost 10# without thinking too much. I am in process of committing to daily exercise and finding out how to eat like a "normal" person who can maintain a healthy body weight. I hope, too, I'm retraining my body to function normally instead of on the roller coaster of eating and drinking orgies I've ridden for over 25 years. Like a good fat girl, I have shelves of books on diet and weight, blah, blah, blah, Ginger... It's the old, "you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince" thing. I am grateful Amazon has a secondary book market that I can purchase and then re-sell all those frogs. This book, 100 Days of Weight Loss, is my prince. It's helping me rework my thought process and relationship with food. I'm not one to buy into gimmicky, psychological stuff. I don't have Post-its on my bathroom mirror with, "You're good enough, you're smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like you." But what this book is selling sticks with me. It's made me take the step to being committed. It's played into my tenacious nature by making me say, "I'm going to do it anyway." I'm beginning to analyze my eating as to whether I'm fueling or filling. It's making me analyze the emotions I'm struggling with when I do just "fill". And a HUGE step for me, I'm throwing away food!! I've looked a long time for the resources that will compliment a turning point in my weight-loss life and lead me to the body I want. I feel strongly this book is the most valuable I've found. It's a watershed time for me and this book is motivating me to live my life differently. That's crucial because my life needs to be different then what I'm living as an obese woman. I don't know if 100 Days of Weight Loss can have the same effect for you. Perhaps it's your toad. But, I think it's worth buying to see if it's your prince. All I can say is, thanks Linda Spangle for making me a princess. I am heartfelt grateful. (And about that loose skin issue, you can read my 5/8/09 10:19 and 12:24 duel postings to: [...] to see what I'm doing and recommend to minimize your need for surgery. I know this is a major issue for people with an substantial amount of weight to lose.} My best to all of my sisters on the journey, missy soo

I thought this was a very good book, with quick, easy, practical lessons. I found it motivating and insightful. Not every lesson resonated with me and I found some of the examples to be irritating and irrelevant, but I'm only one part of her audience and I'm sure those lessons and examples spoke to someone else. As far as the lessons go, you can do as much or as little as you want with them. Some days, I wrote a lot. Some days I wrote just a few sentences. If I missed a day, I just picked it up the next day. If you can't commit to that, I'm not sure if you're ready to commit to long-term weight loss or maintenance. The most important lessons, I think, are around managing long term weight loss. It really is a rest of your life challenge!

This is a great book to use with any diet plan. Keep you focussed with daily activities. Find a healthy lifestyle that will work for you and this book can be a great tool to help you succeed if you do the work

Really motivating stuff if One is serious about Weight loss.

This is a book based upon another book - Life is Hard - Food is Easy and yet it also works as a stand alone because of the difference in lay out. Emotional eating is an issue we all "suffer" from - some of us more intensely than others. And having an "over eating" issue is much more transparent to others than say alcoholism or sniffing coke or sex addiction and there's not a lot of helpful information out there... As an expert in helping people lose weight, overcome addictions and a few other things - I love coming across a book as good as this one... Linda Spangle has chosen to share her knowledge in a way that is quite easy to understand - and hopefully to act upon. This is also a really helpful book and written in a way that is inspiring and a great starting point for beginning to tackle the issue of losing weight successfully... Because of the negativity involved - from others - from the media - from ourselves - especially ourselves - it becomes difficult to separate the negative messages from "reality"... Lesson 78 or rather Day 78 shares a simple and profound way of overcoming negative self talk. Jack Canfield, coauthor of the best seller Chicken Soup for the Soul teaches people to use the phrase: "No matter what you say or do to me, I am still a worthwhile person"... This lesson is worth buying the book for on its own - and there are another 99 similar lessons that are helpful. Not all days / lessons will resonate with you - however - there's enough information in here to pick out at least 20 things that will help you on your journey of regaining your health, self esteem, confidence and they are written in an easy to understand way. It's as if Linda is personally working with you, inspiring you to take some time to actually wonder what's really going on... And each lesson also has a couple of experiential exercises to help make the learning stick. Well worth buying - it's one of those books you wish you had stumbled across years ago...

Well written. Motivational. Author has experienced this too as well as coached others

not what I had expected