Shauna Collins M.D. - No More Dieting!: Permanent Weight Loss Without Dieting and Freedom From Compulsive Eating

No More

Dieting!

Permanent Weight Loss Without Dieting

and Freedom From Compulsive Eating

Shauna Collins, MD

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Dedication

To My Patients and To All Who Struggle

With Overeating and Suffer From Obesity

I wrote this book for you.

You will find freedom within these pages.

Thank you for allowing me to provide these teachings to you.

Thank Yous

To God for everything .

To my Honey, Demetric: Undoubtedly, you are Gods gift to me. You are the rock that keeps me grounded in the cyclone that sometimes (well, usually) is our life. Thank you for your never-ending patience as I brainstorm (and execute) endlessly. Thank you for allowing me to be me. I am so grateful for you! I love you forever.

To Joshua and Daniel: Thank you just for being my babies! Your very existence fuels my soul with continuous joy and motivates me to be the best I can. Thank you for your patience throughout the many days I had to give my attention to this project instead of you. I hope you know that youre central to the reason I work as hard as I do. I love you deeply.

To Jovanna and Shondia : Thank you for allowing me to share in your life. I am blessed to be able to call each of you daughter . I love you both.

To Mom: I love you. You taught me what love in action looks like without ever saying a word. I wouldnt be the mother I am and strive to be, if I didnt have you as my example. There arent enough thank yous.

To the Sibs:

Stephen: Thank you for your wise counsel, your love, and your endless support. Thank you for all the years of making me laugh until I cry. Youre the best brother God couldve given me! I love you Broham!

Jaimie: JB, thank you for decades of spiritual counseling, tireless prayers, and for your love and support. I dont think Id be the person I am today had you not been my sister. I love you Liver! Heres leg to ya!

Sonya (the Biz Wiz): Sonya, Theres so much I enjoy about you and that Ive learned from you over the years. Im so grateful to have you as a sister! I love you.

To Fe : Thank you for decades of sisterhood. No price can be placed on such a friendship. I love you Febe! My life is enriched because you are in it.

To All the Babes: Bryson, Jordi, Summer, Savannah (babygirl), Vanessa, Savannah (ladygirl), Aasha, and Matai. Life provides us the extraordinary opportunity to do just about anything we want with it. Be wise and make good use of it! Im expecting to hear great things. I love you. Youre always in my prayers.

To the Amazing Women in My Life:

Sijara, Susie2, SuszeeQ, the CC moms : You all have touched my life in a multitude of ways. I cherish our friendship and fellowship!

To Lise Cartwright: Thank you for helping me pull it all together! Your expertise, organization, and just the right amount of cracking that whip, was exactly what I needed to birth my vision and bring it to life. Thank you!

To Chandler Bolt and Self-Publishing School: Although I had the resolve to publish for years, SPS gave me the how to that I was missing. Thank you Chandler and all those at SPS!

Table of Contents

My Story and the Birth of No More Dieting!

The 7 No More Dieting Mindset Principles

for Permanent Weight Loss

No More Dieting!

Always Strive to Make Healthy Choices

Eat Whenever You are Truly Hungry

Stop Eating as Soon as Your Body is Satisfied

Dont Eat Again Until Youre Truly Hungry

Dont Expect Perfection. Just Do Your Best Each Day

Start Today. Always Today!

Imperfectly Perfect

Taking Action Steps: Getting in Motion

Make Health Your Top Priority!

Move That Body!

Accountability and Support

Seven Simple Steps to Live an Energized Life

Even Well-Meaning Ones: Roxannes Story

(FAQ)

Simple Steps, Huge Success!

Is Prescription Medication the

Missing Piece of the Puzzle for You?

That is the Question: My Personal Experience with Weight Loss Medication

: What it is and How Orlando Reversed It

Used for Weight Loss - Part 1: Medication Discussions and Definitions

Used for Weight Loss - Part 2: Detailed Medication List

INTRODUCTION :

My Story and the Birth of

No More Dieting!

Wow! You look great!

Kay looked me up and down with her eyes popping out of her head. I hadnt seen her in a while, and she was used to seeing me much bigger.

What diet are you doing? You have to tell me!

No diet, I said. I think her eyes got even bigger. I dont diet anymore. I refuse to diet anymore.

Kay looked bewildered. I dont get it. So how did you lose the weight?

Kay knew all about my lifetime struggle with food and weight, as I knew about hers. She was aware that as an obese child, I was taken to my first fat clinic at age 7, prescribed a handful of pills to take multiple times a day, and got a shot in the rump twice a week to boot.

Naturally, I protested and my mom eventually took me out of the program. I remained that fat kid for several years until I became anorexic at thirteen. I would allow myself only water for two days then eat on the third day, then repeat. This resulted in a fifty-pound weight loss over one school semester.

But one day I ate and couldnt stop eating. Determined not to gain all my weight back, I began vomiting up the food. This marked a nine-year stretch of bulimia, which I practiced multiple times a day.

Finally, at twenty-two, Id had enough. With the help of family, I was admitted into an inpatient recovery unit where I stopped the binge-purge cycle at least for the thirty days I was there. I relapsed upon discharge, but I remained in counseling and attended regular recovery meetings. It was touch and go for a while as I struggled to live normal in the outside world. Eventually, I remained abstinent from bulimia but continued binge-eating. I promptly ballooned back to a state of obesity, and there I remained for the next twenty years.

Kay and I knew each other through mutual friends. All of us gals would get together at one of our homes every so often. Kay and I would inevitably migrate to each other and bond over exchanging our fat chick woes. Wed discuss our love for food, our most recent bingecapades, and empathize with each other as fellow food addicts. Wed wrap up our discussion by deciding to do the latest diet together, starting tomorrow (always tomorrow), so we could finally become the divas that we knew we were meant to be.

Then wed celebrate our upcoming gorgeousness with the yummy eats we all brought to girls night. Sort of a last supper type of feast. When wed see each other a few months later, wed both be just as big, same as always, and wed launch into our fat chick sagas again, same as always. It was like a bad recurring dream that carried on for years.