Crystal Dwyer Hansen - Skinny Life: The Secret to Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Fitness

Praise for Skinny Life

Crystal Hansen gives some excellent tips for people who are trying to improve their physical and emotional health, and to lose weight and keep it off!

Howard Flaks, MD, Beverly Hills bariatric physician

Skinny Life takes all the guesswork out of weight loss. Crystal makes it fun, exciting, and effortless. I love her work!

Tony ODonnell, PhD

Crystals book is helpful for everyonenot just for people wanting to be skinny! Her commonsense, practical, faith-based approach inspires us to create respect for our body, the incredible gift our spirit inhabits. By changing our thought patterns, we can build a happy, healthy life.

Olivia Newton-John

Finally a fresh new perspective on being the best (nonfat) you. No fad diet here, instead a practical mental reset for a healthy life. If you are overweight or thinking about being overweight this book will change your mind. It will change you and your relationship with food forever!

Amazon John Easterling, founder, Amazon Herb

I discovered long ago when I was a young man picking natural tea leaves in the Colorado Mountains, that healing, wellness, and fitness are only achieved when your approach is holistically integrated. Skinny Life is a breakthrough book that captures the truth of that wellness journey and delivers it honestly. If you want a breakthrough in your health and fitness, you will find many secrets inside this wonderful book!

Mo Siegel, Founder, Celestial Seasonings Tea

Skinny Life is chock-full of wisdom and intelligent answers to the problems that plague people relentlessly with their health and fitness. Crystal Dwyer Hansen, thank you for pulling this book together so that people can finally get the truth on how to integrate the mind, eating, and movement. The people I am coaching will benefit greatly from reading and living the sage guidance inside these pages!

Dr. Mick Hall, Developer of 35 for Life

skinny life

Crystal Dwyer Hansen

Copyright 2015 by Crystal Dwyer Hansen

Published by Worthy Books, an imprint of Worthy Publishing Group, a division of Worthy Media, Inc., One Franklin Park, 6100 Tower Circle, Suite 210, Franklin, TN 37067.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hansen, Crystal Dwyer.

Skinny life : the secret to being physically, emotionally, and spiritually fit / by Crystal Dwyer Hansen.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-61795-493-1 (paperback)

1. Weight loss--Popular works. 2. Weight loss--Psychological aspects--Popular works. 3. Weight loss--Religious aspects. I. Title.

RM222.2.H2284 2015

613.25--dc23

2015002761

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or otherexcept for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Many of the names and identifying characteristics of the individuals in this book have been changed to protect their privacy. Some of the individuals described are composites of two or more people.

Because each individual is different and has particular dietary needs or restrictions, the dieting and nutritional information provided in this book does not constitute professional advice and is not a substitute for expert medical advice. Individuals should always check with a doctor before undertaking a dieting, weight loss, or exercise regimen and should continue only under a doctors supervision. While we provide the advice and information in this book in the hopes of helping individuals lose weight, multiple factors influence a persons weight, and individual results may vary. When a doctors advice to a particular individual conflicts with advice provided in this book, that individual should always follow the doctors advice.

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ISBN 978-1-61795-493-1

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They say one spark can create a flame

that can create a wildfire.

Mom, you are that spark.

This book is dedicated to you for helping

to cause a beautiful wildfire of

truth in health and fitness.

Let it continue to spread for the good of all.

Contents

Foreword

L ook around you anywhere in our modern society, and youll see the problem and a noticeably ineffective set of solutions surrounding weight and obesity.

This book is rich with clear solutions and tools that cut through the confusion, noise, and empty promises of most diets and weight-loss programs.

In my practice involving the brain and brain-imaging studies for many years, Ive observed the powerful driving force of the mind and how it controls our emotional states and physical bodies. When you learn through Crystals insights and techniques how to purge a destructive mind-set and then integrate a constructive mind-set, you can cause a complete shift in your health and fitness.

Ive seen firsthand how those mind-set changes can transform everything about a person, including their physical and emotional states.

The book is thoughtful and comprehensive so that you can finally see how to get all of the pieces of the weight puzzleyour mind-set, your eating habits, and healthy daily movementto fall easily into place.

Skinny Life takes you on a smart, easy journey through the truth about the inescapable connection of your mind, body, and spirit and how to bring them together to triumph over weight issues and their mental and emotional entanglements.

When you read this book, Crystals life experiences and authentic, comfortable style make you feel like youre rocking on a porch on a summer day, sipping lemonade sweetened with stevia (please hold the sugar to keep your brain healthy). You cant help but enjoy it!

Daniel G. Amen, MD

Founder, Amen Clinics

Author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

Coauthor of The Daniel Plan

Introduction

S omething is wrong with the way weve been trying to lose weight in America. Have you noticed? We spend billions of dollars on weight loss in the United States each year, but people are carrying more excess weight than ever! What is going on?

Heres the scoop: you can never permanently fix a problem if you address only the symptoms and not the cause. Thats where Skinny Life comes in. This book is unlike any youve ever read about weight issues.

Since you picked up a book with this title, you have probably experienced an issue with weight at some point in your life, perhaps even for most of your life. Starting today, lets seriously consider your weight issue, because, as you know, excess weight can be a huge risk factor for disease as well as destroying your confidence and sense of well-being.