Project Slim!  

This is weight loss coach, Susanna Wermuth, over 17 years ago at a size 18. In the decade before, she had tried it all, including the now popular Atkins diet, only to regain her weight back and more. Wermuth finally jumped off the weight loss roller coaster in 1988 and acknowledged that she was never going to maintain "a healthy lifestyle change." She declared herself a diet dropout and then found out she was hardly alone. The weight loss industry has a less than 1% success rate!

This is Wermuth now, at a size 4. More telling, she has been a size 4 for the last 17 years. She credits her success to giving up on diets and exercise and going back to eating her beloved McDonald's cheeseburgers and french fries. Since then Wermuth has made working with "real people who love food and hate to exercise" her passion and her work. Fortunately, she has now put all that same passion into a book to share with us. In "I've Tried It All! Now What?!" Wermuth boldly accuses programs like Dr. Phil's and Jenny Craig's as part of the problem not the solution to America's growing weight problem.

Wermuth's argument is compellingly sound and is poignantly punctuated by a personal letter from Oprah written to the author years ago. Even more importantly, Wermuth's solution is amazingly simple. She records the profound intellectual, psychological, and physical changes that resulted from one tiny change in her life. Then she enthusiastically invites her readers to make the same tiny change with The New Rules for Diet Dropouts.