Turning Fat Into Love: Downsize Your Body by Supersizing Your Mind & Heart

by Pauline Kerkhoff

Overview

1. What if you could easily transform and love your body, without struggling or feeling deprived?
2. What if you could attract and integrate an abundance of love instead of judging or criticizing yourself or others?
3. What if you could achieve your dreams by mastering your thoughts and actions instead of sabotaging your own future?
 
You can! Dutch dietician, nutritionist, and self-development expert Pauline Kerkhoff has helped overweight women all over the world transform into their naturally energetic, beautiful, and powerful selves by teaching them the secret other weight-loss books don’t address: to lose weight long-term, we must address the internal reasons why we overeat in the first place. In Turning Fat into Love, Kerkhoff shows you how to release excess weight not only physically but mentally and emotionally as well—and release it for good.
 
Far from your ordinary diet book, Turning Fat into Love is a transformational self-help program that shows you how to:
 

• Supersize your heart and gain emotional strength by creating and attracting an abundance of love and happiness, so that you feel fulfilled instead of deprived.
• Grow your brain through personal exercises and nutrition, so you can improve your daily thinking in a way that helps you instead of sabotages you.
• Transform your body through a holistic program that uses love, self-leadership, and expert nutritional advice rather than diets, pills, powders, or deprivation.

 
Pauline Kerkhoff is a dietician, nutritionist, and founder of Weight Management Institute in Soest, the Netherlands. With her unique blend of nutritional expertise, practical insight, and inspirational outlook, she has helped overweight women around the world lead happier and healthier lives for more than fifteen years. Kerkhoff has been featured on Dutch television and print media, and she lives with her two children in Soest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614487722
Publisher:	Morgan James Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2014
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Dietician and nutritionist Pauline Kerkhoff has helped hundreds of overweight and obese people around the world lead happier and healthier lives. With her scientific background (a master’s degree in health and nutrition), fifteen years of practical experience with clients, and personal experience of overcoming multiple sclerosis as well as divorce, she is known to be a humorous, intelligent, and empathic self-development expert who inspires people to transform their lives. Kerkhoff has been featured on Dutch television and print media, and she lives with her two children in Soest, the Netherlands.

Read an Excerpt

Three or four times a year, I am a mother who loves to bake cookies. The messier the kitchen, the better and tastier the dough. My two-year-old son, Daan, does not like the taste of the dough, but he enjoys cleaning his spot on the kitchen counter. With water. A lot of water. Not my daughter Kiki and I. We love tasting the dough before we begin cutting out the cookies. Afterward everything is spic and span: Daan has cleaned the kitchen counter, and Kiki has licked all the kitchen utensils and pastry bowls clean. That saves me some time and energy in these busy days! (You know I am kidding, right?)

We are proud when the cookies are baked, and we enjoy the taste, smell, and sight of the cookie stars, the puppets, and the little footballs made by Daan. But the most tempting are the hearts, decorated with pink glazing and silver sugar pearls. Sometimes we make little holes in the hearts, so we can hang them in the Christmas tree with pretty red ribbons. The hearts with holes in them almost never make it to the Christmas tree; they are usually devoured by little hungry mouths long before they get anywhere near the tree.

Like the heart-shaped cookies, you might feel like you have a hole in your heart, too. You may feel empty, unfulfilled, or restless, without knowing exactly why. Or maybe you do know why. Does it feel as if someone has devoured your heart? Or as if your heart is not whole anymore?

 You are not the only one. You are not alone.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Anything Is Possible
Chapter 1: Supersize Your Heart
Chapter 2: Grow Your Brain and Upgrade Your Thinking
Chapter 3: High Five to Improve Your Life   
Chapter 4: Transform Your Body
Chapter 5: Change the World but Begin Within
Epilogue: Safe Travels
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Resources

Editorial Reviews

"A down-to-earth approach to weight loss that begins with loving oneself.

Even a cursory glance at bookstore shelves will reveal a glut of self-help and diet books, and it can be difficult for readers to wade through the competing theories. Kerkhoff, however, has discovered a new way to slim down, not by cutting out a particular food or exercising until you drop, but by listening to the real emotional needs beneath the cravings. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis as a young woman, Kerkhoff became motivated to take care of herself by drawing emotional strength from the love of others and, eventually, her love for herself. The wisdom she's gleaned from her own experience may be useful to many, regardless of whether they're looking to lose weight. The first step in Kerkhoff's program is to become your "authentic" self by truly engaging with the world and your feelings at any given moment. Once you participate in the present moment, she says, you can form meaningful relationships. She recommends cultivating at least eight such relationships, which show you that you're worthy of love and have a right to be valued for who you are; they also teach you how to interpret others' behavior in new, less harmful ways. Other steps include retraining your brain to frame setbacks in a positive light, taking responsibility for your circumstances and setting a course of action to improve them, managing the fear of failure, and exercising your mind. What sets Kerkhoff's approach apart from others is her philosophy that the self responds best to love and gentleness, not criticism and hatred: "I don't want you to feel deprived; I want you to feel fulfilled. I don't want you to feel scared; I want you to feel confident. I don't want you to feel alone; I want you to always feel good in your own company. Because it matters. It is practice."

A debut diet book with an effective method and a warm heart."

-KIRKUS REVIEW

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