Publisher Description
No one likes to diet, but this book will encourage and inspire listeners with its positive, practical, and purposeful stories of dieting and fitness. You’ll find hope, help, and hints on getting fit and staying healthy in these stories from those who have been there, done that, and maintained it. Stories about wake-up calls and realizations, moving more and eating better, self-esteem and support, will motivate any listener looking to start fresh or needing a boost. This is a great book for anyone embarking on a healthier lifestyle.
This edition includes “Through the Doors of Slimmons” (by Richard Simmons), “The Gym”, “Liking Myself”, and “Having a Partner”.
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About the Authors
Jack Canfield is the cocreator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers and has received international recognition. An internationally renowned corporate trainer, keynote speaker, and popular radio and TV talk show guest, he is also the CEO of the Canfield Training Group and the founder of the Transformational Leadership Council. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Mark Victor Hansen has been using his dynamic personality to spread the message of unlimited possibility, for all people, everywhere, for over thirty years. He is most recognized for being one the co-founders of the beloved, and world record breaking Chicken Soup for the Soul series. He is a bestselling author and an accomplished entrepreneur. He is highly respected, and has been inducted into the Sales & Marketing Executive International Hall of Fame and accepted the Horatio Alger Award for Distinguished Americans Extraordinary Life Achievement in the area of Free Enterprise Leadership. Today, he is still passionate about ending poverty and illiteracy and continues to make an indelible mark through his writing, speaking, entrepreneurial, and philanthropic efforts.
Amy Newmark is publisher, coauthor, and editor of the
Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. She has edited or coauthored the last
one hundred books in the series. Amy graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
University where she majored in Portuguese, and spent her senior year editing a
newsletter about telecom sales in Brazil and also traveling in northeast
Brazil, collecting poems and stories of local writers for her thesis. She went
on to run her own hedge fund, specializing in telecommunications and technology
companies and stepped in as publisher of Chicken Soup for the Soul in 2008. She
is delighted to have come full circle in her writing career. Amy is married to
Chicken Soup’s CEO, Bill Rouhana.
About the Narrators
Joyce Bean is an accomplished audiobook narrator and director. In addition to having won several AudioFile Earphones Awards, she has been nominated multiple times for the prestigious Audie Award. Equally adept at narrating fiction and nonfiction, and she also narrates audiobooks under the name Jane Brown.
Buck Schirner’s professional
career has primarily been on stage as a character actor. He is currently active
in the theater scene in Philadelphia. Buck also appears in the
independent film In the Woods.