You Don't Have to Be Rich & Famous to Lose Weight!

By Beverly L. Jackson

This book gives you practical, everyday, sound advice on how to lose weight and keep it off for the rest of your life. This book will speak to your specific needs and what you need to do to be successful. This book will teach you that nothing comes without a price and if it does, its not worth the effort.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 2, 2009
• ISBN: 9781462828531

Beverly L. Jackson

This is Beverly Jackson’s first completed book. Although she started writing several years ago, she was never been able to finish one until now. You Don’t Have To Be Rich & Famous To Lose Weight was a joy to write; not only because it was her very first completed book but also because it was effortless to write. Every word was birthed from her own experience, hard work and results. This was truly a labor of love. She is already working on her second book, which will pick up where this one left off. Beverly Jackson resides in Portland, Oregon with her 2 cats, Samson & Delilah.

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YOU DON'T

HAVE

TO BE

RICH & FAMOUS

TO LOSE

WEIGHT!

Beverly L. Jackson

Copyright © 2009 by Beverly L. Jackson.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This book was printed in the United States of America.

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Contents

FOREWORD

ATTENTION GENTLEMEN

CHAPTER 1

Setting the Ground Rules

CHAPTER 2

How to Get Started

CHAPTER 3

Surround Yourself with Positive Reinforcements

CHAPTER 4

Staying Motivated

CHAPTER 5

Eating Sensibly

CHAPTER 6

Exercise 101

CHAPTER 7

Good Dessert Substitutes

CHAPTER 8

Useful Websites

CLOSING NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FOREWORD

For those of you who picked up this book hoping to find a quick fix to your weight loss problems, I want you to know right now: THIS IS NOT THE BOOK FOR YOU !!!

This book DOES NOT show you how to lose the pounds and inches in a couple weeks. This book DOES NOT show you how to drop the weight without moving a muscle. And most important, this book DOES NOT GIVE YOU FALSE HOPE !!!

What this book does do is give you practical, everyday, sound advice on how to lose the weight and keep it off for the rest of your life. This book will speak to your specific needs and what YOU need to do to be successful. This book will teach you that nothing comes without a price and if it does, it’s not worth the effort.

Losing weight and maintaining weight loss is a process. It’s a process that takes time AND effort. It takes hard work and a commitment to yourself and to your future. It takes discipline and dedication. But with hard work and dedication come accomplishment and life changing results.

How bad do you want it? How hard are you willing to work? If this is you, then THIS IS DEFINITELY THE BOOK FOR YOU!! Let’s get started. The rest of your life is waiting and you don’t have time to waste.

Beverly L. Jackson

Author

ATTENTION GENTLEMEN

Just in case you picked up this book and were trying to decide if this was a book you might want to read, I’m here to tell you that it definitely is. While the verbiage of my book is pretty much geared to women—simply because I am a woman and that’s what I know the most about—I don’t want that to be the reason you choose NOT to read it. I believe that everything I talk about in these pages is just as important for men as it is for women. We are all different. We are all individuals. And we all must find what works best for us when it comes to weight loss and weight management.

If you buy my book, start to read it and find that it really isn’t for you, let me suggest that you pass it on to a female friend. I’m sure she will not only find the book valuable for her, but she’ll probably think you’re a pretty neat guy for giving it to her!

Whatever you decide, I hope you will purchase my book and give it a read. It’s not filled with frilly, girly, sissy stuff, if that’s what you’re worried about. I’ve tried to make it down-to-earth, straight forward, and honest, no matter who reads it.

CHAPTER 1

Setting the Ground Rules

I’m really tired of seeing all of those books out there, written by famous actors and actresses that talk about how they lost weight. Like they’ve got some special secret that only they found out about and now you have to read their book if you want to do the same. Well, I’m here to tell you that there’s no special secret. They don’t have the market cornered on how to lose weight. In fact, most of them have lost those same pounds over and over and over and over again. Only this time, they decided that even if it doesn’t work permanently—because none of the other times did either—they’re at least going to make some money telling you about it. And the part that bothers me the most is that we, the unrich and unfamous public, believe that just because they did it with this one particular diet, we should be able to do it too . . . as if their current success is a guarantee of ours. Ladies, come on. We’re better then that.

I don’t want to take away from them the hard work they may have put into their current success. But, you and