This book is the personal journal of Cindy's journey out of obesity

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).

The popular television personality discusses his battle with weight loss, describing his initial successes after bypass surgery, his efforts to get back on track after regaining lost weight, and his confrontation with goal-compromising childhood issues.

Cindy Snyder shares her deepest thoughts, feelings and experiences in this diary/journal in hopes to encourage others and for her to never forget where her God has brought her. Being warned by her physicians that her life was at stake, she knew she did not have the willpower to deliver herself from this bondage. This book is the personal journal of Cindy's journey out of obesity. You will be led through this journey as to what life is like for the super morbidly obese person and is filled with descriptive and explicit hardships that the super morbid obese must daily live with. Cindy has tried to be as open and honest as possible and in some instances very detailed and graphic as to what "life" had become. Cindy not only shares the battles but also lets everyone experience the victories with her. Throughout her journey she shares Biblical teachings, humor and the joy that only God can give during trials in our lives. Her journal covers everything from menus and recipes, surgery and exercise, measurements and weights, personal care, before and after pictures, to her most inner thoughts and feelings. Her documentations will encourage all that read them, from the most slender person with their own struggles to the very obese. Through her journey, faith will be strengthened to believe that with God all things are possible.

Fitness legend Richard Simmons calls him a leader that will help to change people's lives. After almostlosing his life to obesity-related illness at the age of 37, Bryan Ganey decided to take matters into his own hands. At nearly 600 pounds, he refused offers of free weight loss surgery and set out to lose almost 400pounds on his own, just through diet and exercise. 7 years later, not only has he lost the weight, but he has kept it off. He has since become an author and a motivational speaker and currently resides inCharleston, SC. He has appeared on the Rachael Ray Show, CNN, Headline News, the Dave Ramsey Show, Sirius/XM Satellite radio, among many others. Bryan has started a common-sense weight loss revolution and is determined to help people take back their lives and stop supporting the deceptive and destructive weight loss industry.

This work by a #1 New York Times-bestselling author presents a revolutionary plan that helps readers to reshape their body, get rid of abnormal fat, increase their metabolism, eliminate hunger and food cravings, and reveals why the food industry wants to keep the population fat.

Jimmy Moore's testimony about how he was able to transform himself from a 410-pound man into a healthy and vibrant individual through a low-carb diet and 10 life-changing characteristics.