Shelli Johnson - Start Where You Are Weight Loss

Start Where You Are Weight Loss

Shelli Johnson

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START WHERE YOU ARE WEIGHT LOSS

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This book is a general educational health-related information product. This book does not contain medical advice. The books content is not a substitute for direct, personal, professional medical care and diagnosis. For more information, please read the Disclosures and Disclaimers section at the end of this book.

Author photo Copyright 2019 Charisma Howard, A Brew & You

Cover and book design by Alpha Doll Media, LLC

First Electronic Edition

Published by Alpha Doll Media, LLC (the Publisher).

ISBN: 978-1-948103-09-1

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SELF-HELP BOOKS

Start Where You Are Weight Loss Playbook

Start Where You Are Weight Loss Manifesto

Start Where You Are Weight Loss Freedom Commandments

Baby Step Your Way to a Life You Love: Encourage Yourself

Baby Step Your Way to a Life You Love: Forgive Yourself

Baby Step Your Way to a Life You Love: Heal Your Burned-Out Self

Baby Step Your Way to a Life You Love: Overcome Fear

Baby Step Your Way to a Life You Love: Crush Self-Doubt

Baby Step Your Way to a Life You Love: Get Out of Your Own Way

Baby Step Your Way to a Life You Love: Become Yourself

Baby Step Your Way to a Life You Love: Let Go

ADULT COLORING BOOKS

Color Your Way to a Life You Love: Encourage Yourself

Color Your Way to a Life You Love: Forgive Yourself

Color Your Way to a Life You Love: Heal Your Burned-Out Self

Color Your Way to a Life You Love: Overcome Fear

Color Your Way to a Life You Love: Crush Self-Doubt

Color Your Way to a Life You Love: Get Out of Your Own Way

Color Your Way to a Life You Love: Become Yourself

Color Your Way to a Life You Love: Let Go

NOVELS

Small as a Mustard Seed

CHILDRENS BOOKS

Leave Me Alone

Dedication

This book is dedicated to

everyone who has ever thought or

still thinks that its too late for them...

Its not too late. Youre still here.

Youre still breathing. Theres still time.

You can turn this thing around.

So take a deep breath,

pick yourself up,

dust yourself off,

and just start where you are.

Dont Scare or Overwhelm Yourself

I know this book may seem intimidating by its sheer size and by what it's asking you to do. Dont be scared. Dont be overwhelmed. Dont let any anxiety rise in you about how youre going to make it through, how long it may take, how much work (play!) it may be, or anything else regarding this book that you may be anxious about right now.

This book is meant to be read and acted upon slowly over the length of your weight-loss journey. It's not meant to be finished in a week, a month, or even a year. Its going to take some time to get to where you want to be. Take that time to learn some things about yourself with this book. Learn what you really need, what you honestly want, what deeply matters to you. Learn why you abuse food. Learn what you need to do to best take care of yourself so that you can stop the food-abuse cycle and move forward in a straight line to create a body and a life that you love.

Do yourself a kindness and be patient with yourself, especially if you dont feel ready or willing to face this book and its contents right now at this very moment in your life. Thats okay. For one, this book will still be here when you are ready for it. (Take heart: Ive always been a big believer that books find you when you are ready for them.) And second, you have permission, always, to go as slowly as you need to go so that you dont scare and/or overwhelm yourself.

Every day, you just take a deep breath and start where you are.

Companion Playbook

This book has a companion book, Start Where You Are Weight Loss Playbook , which was designed to give you opportunities to answer probing questions, explore your innermost thoughts and feelings, chart your progress and successes, along with other encouraging activities, all in one convenient place. Please note: the companion book is specifically structured as a journal to complement this book. Complete instructions and explanations can be found in this main book, Start Where You Are Weight Loss .

Start Where You Are Weight Loss Playbook (ISBN: 978-1-948103-83-1)

Memoir Disclaimer

This book has sections that are memoir. Each of those sections were from separate events in my life that occurred decades ago. The memoir sections are stories from my childhood but do not comprise the whole of my childhood. They are my memories, and Ive done my best to make each one honest to what happened as I remember it. Others may remember these events differently than I do, and I recognize that.

It is not my intention to turn any person into a villain nor to hurt any of the people involved. My intent is to show you how I was wounded because all of us, at some point, have been wounded by someone or something. And as youll come to learn, wounds are a part of the reason you abuse food.

The people involved are no longer the same people they used to be years ago. Neither am I. They learned and grew from those experiences, and because of that, became better people. I did the same. What Ive come to learn is that people who have been wounded (especially when they are children) tend to wound others if they dont do something to break the cycle. In the case of my parents, they were both wounded terribly as children and, in turn, wounded me in a similar way. Forgiveness matters, for others and also for yourself. So does realizing that none of us is completely good or completely bad. What matters most is acknowledging that all of usyou, me, everybodymake mistakes.

I did my best to recall events, characteristics, ages, dialogue, among other narrative elements. Some events were compressed and some dialogue was recreated. While the main point is there in each section, I may have gotten some of the details wrong. For this reason, I consider the memoir sections to be works of creative nonfiction. Tobias Wolff once said that memory has its own story to tell. In that spirit, Ive written the story as truthfully to my memory as possible.

Contents

Quotes for the Journey

Life dont often ask your permission first, thats true.

And sometimes you find yourself wandering

around in the dark.

Its real likely that you might stumble across