Uncaged

An excellent personal guide for those searching for the strength to be the best they can at any size, this book is unusual in that it does not advocate losing weight so much as it advocates finding inner peace and happiness, no matter what your size. For those who wish to work on weight loss, however, it includes well-researched information on medical and health issues, including weight loss, advice on exercise and handling stress and depression for people of all sizes, particularly those seeking a healthier lifestyle.

Personal experiences of the author and many of her friends are shared here to help you through your own search for a way out of that “cage” that has held you captive far too long.  Basically this book is about using time to the fullest, dealing with the problems life brings, particularly when it comes to size, and lack of confidence and self-image while still heading towards the passions and goals that are important to you.

The author tells you what she’s done about it, how to break the chains of habit, build self-confidence, stop sabotaging yourself, handle social situations, intercept insults, acquire good doctors, fashion and makeup tips, rely on friendships, enjoy romance and sexuality and keep the spirit to fly out and stay out of that cage.  And more.

 Soft back, 6-1/2x9-1/2, b/w, includes art, 149 pages, $20 plus shipping and handling

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From the closing chapter, “Keeping the Spirit.”  -----  “Do not wrap your future up in your body, but in your mind, and in what you create and in loving others and in being happy in return.  Do not turn your personal power over to others.  Be the best you can be.  If you want to lose weight, then take steps to lose it in healthy and good ways.  If not, or you’ve tried and you can’t, then spend your life in your own way just being yourself, but the best you possibly can be.  Reality is like this; some people look beautiful nude, but most of us just look like we don’t have any clothes on.  We are not all beautiful and we do not all have perfect bodies. I cannot give you any magic formula for success, but I can certainly give you a formula for failure, and that is to try to please everybody.

It is hard to imagine the energy that goes into wanting to be thin when you are not.  The answers I have found that work for me are not deep and moving ones, just peaceful ones.  I have traveled that road from pain to peace.  I managed to escape my own self-imposed cage to travel in flights to new places and better spaces within myself I never knew existed before.  I found that the cage door had been unlocked the whole time.  I pushed just a little and it moved.  I pushed harder and it opened wide.  And I left, with one great gust of wind beneath my wings, like the tiny sparrow, to ride currents and scout the clouds and look down upon all the good that was waiting there for me.

Get on a healthy eating plan.  Walk and move your body around.  Educate yourself.  Consult good doctors and assemble understanding friends.  Breathe fresh air.  Love something, but start with yourself.  Stand up for yourself.  Believe in something.  Find a cause or career.  Change your course in life.  Stop making excuses, especially using your weight as one.  Adjust your attitude and stop laying traps for yourself.  Make yourself as beautiful as you can, both inside and out.  Change your style of fashion and hair.  Jewelry doesn’t have to be expensive, so buy a little piece of real gold and wear it every day against your skin.  Walk slower.  Put an end to all the worrying and useless stress you create for yourself.  Seek help if it gets to be a bit much.  Perhaps all you need is a little push off the ledge into flight.  Be good to your man but demand that he be just as good to you.  You are a slave to no one.  Remember that you are an individual first and foremost and should not be lost in the maze of being somebody’s daughter, mother, wife or secretary.  Reach out to other women in trouble and pass it along.  We are sisters.  Vote.  March.  Write letters.  Make calls. Stop violence against women all over the world.  Start with yourself.  You count.  You are the only one you have, you know.  Be good to her.  Love her.  Embrace her, no matter her size.  Make good choices.  Be happy.  You go girl.”

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