Marla Cilley - Body Clutter: Love Your Body, Love Yourself

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This book is lovingly dedicated to all of the FlyBabies and Menu-Mailerettes who have suffered in silence, thinking they were the only ones who have struggled and desperately wanted to release their Body Clutter.

Dear Friends,

No book is complete till we thank the people who helped give birth to our labor of love. The idea of Body Clutter was conceived during a month when we were focusing on moving and nutrition on the FlyLady website. We had written several essays dealing with food, nutrition, exercise, and getting rid of our stinking thinking. We decided that we might actually have a book that our members desperately needed. We instant-messaged each other with our ideas; we talked for hours on the phone and created an outline. And before we knew it, the book started to take shape.

We are SHEs. We get so easily bored with the process. We are filled with inspiration, but then, when the enthusiasm subsides, we are left with an unfinished project. In order to breathe some life back into our words, we begged Kelly to take on the daunting task of taking our words and turning them into a book. That was the real birthing process.

We had gone through the excitement of wanting to do a book, just like a woman does when she decides that she wants to have a baby. We had the idea, an outline, several chapters, but we didnt know what to do next. We needed a birthing coach. Kelly was the one person who pushed us when we needed pushing. She pulled things out of us when we were not willing to release our own Body Clutter, and she gave us hope that one day we would have a book to present to the world.

Every member of the FLY crew and Saving Dinner crew has cheered us on and helped us by taking on some of our chores so we would have more time to devote to our labor of love, Body Clutter . Robert, Tom, Justin, Jack, Michele, Rebecca, Wendy, Misty, Carolyn S., Paddi, Jessica, Kathy, Laura, Lee, Dana, Chris H., Katie, Jim, Michael, Darlena, Naomi, Shey, Alice, Sandy, Carolyn P., Emily, Ethan, Stephanie, T.J., Alexander, Courtney, Christopher P., Caroline, Peter, Miriam, Bonnie, Robyn, and Kandiwe give to all of you our heartfelt gratitude and thanks. To our FlyBabies and Menu-Mailerettes around the world, we thank you for asking us for this book, patiently waiting for it to come to life, for supporting us, and for being the reason that we do what we do.

This book had a life of its own. It was going to be born one way or another. The last months were tough, as with any birthing process. We could actually visualize our due date, but did we really have to go through the process every single day to get there? What else did we have to do; couldnt this be easier? Kelly told us that the reason we were struggling so with the book is that we were living a lie. We were not walking the walk. We could talk the talk, but we had to come face-to-face with our own Body Clutter if this book was going to come to life. Did we mention that she is one tough editor?

Even that was not enough for us. It took major personal health emergencies to get our attention. The fact was we were two people struggling with our own Body Clutter. What example could we be to the world if we were not taking care of ourselves? The book took on a newfound motivation; we began to take the BabySteps we were teaching and apply them to our lives. We started to see results.

Here we are with a finished book, but the book is not what was really born. It was through the journey that we took, not in the writing of the book but in taking our own words and applying them to our lives, that the book Body Clutter has actually given birth to us. You can take this journey, too, one BabyStep at a time. Read each page and start your own journey through the birthing process to discover the YOU who is hiding behind your Body Clutter.

We love you all,

FlyLady and Leanne