{"id":95,"date":"2012-10-18T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2013-10-31T11:56:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T16:56:44","slug":"weight-loss-book-by-a-fat-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/weight-loss-book-by-a-fat-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Takes One to Know One: A Weight Loss Book by a Former Fat Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent book buyer admitted when she first saw my book she initially thought, &#8220;Oh great, another skinny person telling me why I&#8217;m fat.&#8221; Then she read about me and made a purchase! (and thank you so much!) Part of why I wanted to write <em>Powerful Hunger<\/em> was because I am also sick of the pompous and ignorant pedantry of people who&#8217;ve never had a weight problem a day in their lives. All we need are <em>their<\/em> instructions, right? Their breakthrough diet &#8220;rules,&#8221; their magical food combinations, their secrets that can now be revealed. They have all the answers and the results will be INCREDIBLE!<\/p>\n<p>They all make the same mistake. Every weight loss book author EVER assumes you&#8217;re fat because you have needed their instructions. You&#8217;ve needed their secret magic. You&#8217;ve never gotten anything right because you didn&#8217;t know what they know.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>But what they know doesn&#8217;t matter as much as what you know. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>About yourself. About your life. About what you can and can&#8217;t do in the immediate moment. About your weaknesses. About your strengths. About your hopes and dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, you have been making a big mistake. You&#8217;ve been following someone&#8217;s instructions instead of looking inside yourself. The answers you need are already in your life; you just need to know how to get them organized and put them to work. I&#8217;ve never been a &#8220;skinny person&#8221; and now I am a former fat person. But\u00a0<em>Powerful Hunger<\/em> isn&#8217;t about learning what I know. It&#8217;s about learning what you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent book buyer admitted when she first saw my book she initially thought, &#8220;Oh great, another skinny person telling me why I&#8217;m fat.&#8221; Then she read about me and made a purchase! (and thank you so much!) Part of why I wanted to write Powerful Hunger was because I am also sick of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/weight-loss-book-by-a-fat-person\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,6,16],"tags":[29,28,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}