It is with great joy that I am able to announce that my brand new weight-loss book is now for sale online!  The title and subtitle of the book is No Salads Required! How I Lost 159 Pounds WITHOUT Salads, Celery, Sit-Ups, or Surgery, and How YOU Can Too! and, you can currently buy the hardcover and softcover versions of the book from my publisher’s website, westbowpress.com, and also from Amazon.com.  The e-book will be available soon and I also look forward to announcing when the book will be available from other stores.

This is the "before" photo from the cover of my book. I weighed 281 pounds when this was taken.
This is the “before” photo from the cover of my book. I weighed 281 pounds when this was taken.

No Salads Required! tells the story of how I lost 159 pounds in fourteen months including some of the funny moments that happened along the way.  Also included is my easy to understand weight-loss program, so you can try my successful program for yourself!  You will be especially happy to know that you can eat bacon, fried chicken and BBQ ribs on my program if you want to!  The food part of the program includes lists of fruits, vegetables and protein foods that you can select from and design your own meals. I also have included a chapter with thirty preplanned meals to help you get started and a chapter that features some of our favorite family recipes that I ate while I was losing weight.

  No Salads Required! also offers advice on exercise, asking God for help, surrounding yourself with supportive people and making weight loss a priority.  I also have included a reader’s discussion guide for people who are reading this book as a group and meeting regularly to discuss it. Whether your group is a book club, a therapy group, a church group, a weight-loss support group or just some friends who enjoy reading books, I believe the questions in the guide will open the door to some thoughtful and stimulating conversations.

I also put something in my book that I think the readers of this blog will especially like! Poetry!  There is a poem in every chapter as well as the introduction, the conclusion and the readers discussion guide. The reason I think all of you will enjoy these poems is that every blog post I have written that includes weight-loss poetry has been met with great enthusiasm! You will also be happy to know that I plan to include more poems in future posts.

My readers from all over the world will also be happy to know that westbowpress.com and Amazon.com both ship worldwide, so you can order my book from almost ANYWHERE you happen to live!  I also have an update on the topic of where all of you are from. When my book was going to press there were people in 28 different countries that had learned about my weight-loss story. Since then,  the list has grown to 35 countries! I want to thank all of you for your ongoing interest and support!

I also would like to share that my publisher has given me a goal that I hope many of you can help me reach during the next twelve months.  If I sell 500 or more copies of my book through my publisher’s online bookstore, westbowpress.com, some wonderful doors may open for me that could include more stores carrying my book on their shelves and the opportunity to write more books in the future.

I also would like to invite all of you to share your thoughts on my book in the comment section of this blog and  to write reviews for No Salads Required! on the websites where you buy my book. I would love to hear from each and every one of you!  May you enjoy my book just as much as I enjoyed writing it!