Thinking Skinny

By Nadia Giordana

This ebook version of the 2009 Midwest Book Awards finalist, THINKING SKINNY by Nadia Giordana outlines an easy and effective methodology for boosting your weight loss results regardless of how much you plan to lose. The method involves using creative visualizations with a technique called "Focusing Forward" and a daily dialogue with God. The author lost 88 pounds herself using this method. She went from weighing 215 pounds to 127, losing 88 pounds in a period of 14 months.
Nadia says, “This is not a diet in the trendy sense of the word. There are plenty of hot new diet books on the market at any given time and they all work for a while. If you apply this technique to a sensible eating plan, I am confident you will lose weight and will keep it off as planned. Exercise is not an absolutely necessary component of this program, but if you are able to be active, your results will be better.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nadia Giordana
• Release date: Oct 27, 2010
• ISBN: 9781886352360

Nadia Giordana

I’m an author, lifestyle strategist, and a videographer. I help women in midlife find the inspiration they need to reawaken sidelined dreams by helping them design roadmaps they can use to affect their personal transformations or create new chapters in their lives. There are those who would label me a coach, but that’s not accurate. I’m not here to move you along your life path in the obvious sense. It’s my job to help you design a plan to fulfill desires you shelved years ago, allowing you to remove "I wish I had" or "maybe someday", from your private thoughts.

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Thinking Skinny:

Transform any Healthy Weight-Loss Program

into Supercharged Success

Nadia Giordana

Copyright © Nadia Giordana 2012

Published by Cloud 9 Publishing at Smashwords

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This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

ISBN 10: 1-886352-36-4

ISBN 13: 978-886352-36-0

Thinking Skinny was a 2009 Midwest Book Awards finalist in the

Social Science/self-help category (www.mipa.org).

This 2012 revised electronic edition is the same as the original, award-winning print version with the exception of three things:

I no longer recommend artificial sweeteners other than Stevia.

I have updated the section about the foods I ate to lose the weight to include juicing.

In the essence of producing a more affordable and portable, print pocket companion, most recipes have been removed and also three nonessential, anecdotal stories. However, they are all included in the untouched, long version of Thinking Skinny, which remains available at Amazon.com.

http://www.thinkingskinny.com

http://www.embodyyourvision.com

Disclaimer:

Any application of the information set forth in this book or in personal consultation by phone, email, in-person, or otherwise, is at the reader's discretion and sole risk. The information offered is intended for people in good health. Anyone with medical problems of any nature should see and consult a doctor before starting any diet or exercise program. Even if you have no known health problems, always consult your doctor or health care provider before making major changes in your lifestyle.

The author of Thinking Skinny is not a doctor or health professional, nor does the author possess a degree in nutrition. The advice the author gives is based on years of personal, practical application, and dealing with the needs of her own health and physical limitations.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The last few years have been incredible, and it is exciting to be able to share, what for me, has been an extraordinary journey. Learning that losing weight doesn’t have to be difficult, nor does it have to be complicated, was an eye-opener.

I am deeply grateful for the encouragement I’ve received from my family. My daughter, Laura T. Behrendt, a publisher and author herself (http://www.AutismShopper.com), helped with early proofreading and was especially effective in our brainstorming sessions. She had the clarity of thought to recognize key elements that needed to be included as part of this story. My husband, Chuck Kasun was patient and tolerant when I spent large blocks of time engrossed in the business of writing. My parents, Norman and Sylvia Wilkins made me feel like I could do it, and my sisters, Theresa Austin and Beverly Volk each gave encouragement. Special note to my friends: You have patiently overlooked my endless excuses for not attending events and functions during the time I was immersed in this project and I apologize publicly right now for my absences. You are the best.

I am grateful to Connie Anderson at www.WordsandDeedsInc.com who expertly edited this manuscript and raised some important questions for me to work through in order to present this book in the most effective way. My appreciation also goes to Althea Heim and Nancy Blomgren for reading my early manuscript, catching some typos and errors that slipped past me and offering their personal insights.

Laurie Beebe, (The Diet Coach www.MyCoachLaurie.com) made sure my final manuscript was free of dietary myths and misconceptions on my part.

FOREWORD

Anyone who has ever tried losing weight knows how difficult and frustrating it can be. Anyone who has successfully lost weight and kept if off knows what it really takes. In Thinking Skinny, Nadia takes us through her personal journey and shows us what worked for her.

This is not another diet book—it is a perspective on weight loss from a person who has accomplished what she set out to do, and more! Within these pages you will find the keys to long term weight loss. Nadia goes beyond healthy eating and physical activity to the deeper aspects that work to achieve success in any area of life—goal setting, self-monitoring, and most of all, faith and belief in one's self. She addresses these important components that are missing from all the typical quick weight loss diet plans, as she tells her story of struggle and triumph. The reactions of friends and relatives; the discovery of a new, thinner person within: these are all parts of the episode we become privy to that are seldom shared.

In this book you will find accurate nutritional facts, tips to become more active, delicious recipes, and the personal story of a woman who lost weight by thinking skinny. Additionally you will discover inspiration to follow the path that worked for Nadia, or perhaps choose among her strategies to design your own blueprint for weight loss success. —Laurie Beebe, MS, RD, LD

Laurie Beebe is a practicing diet coach, a registered dietitian certified in adult weight management, a former university nutrition professor, a mentor, and a nationally known speaker on the topic of weight loss.

CONTENTS:

Chapter One—My Story: I used to look like that, now I look like this.

Chapter Two—My Faith: