Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: “Thin People Don’t Clean Their Plates” was written for the person who is motivated to lose weight, but is frustrated by a lifetime of dieting unsuccessfully. This book will help any overweight person learn how to make the same simple lifestyle choices a thin person makes to reach their ideal weight.

Q: What is the book about?
A: “Thin People Don’t Clean Their Plates” is the simple solution to losing weight permanently without diets or deprivation. This book includes an easy-to-follow format that will change how you think about food, beverages, movement, sleep and your body. By following just one or two of these simple “THIN CHOICES”, you will begin to experience an improvement in how your clothes fit and how you feel. Those who choose to follow all 19 of the simple steps to become a thin person will forever transform their life.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I am the perfect person to write this book because I have the education combined with experience. I have a formal training in nutrition with my master’s degree in nutritional sciences and my bachelor’s degree in dietetics. My experience comes from the fact that I needed to lose 40 pounds to lose to reach my ideal body weight. Frustrated that I knew what I should do, but didn’t know how to fit these strategies into my life, I started observing the habits of ‘thin people’.

These people were walking around in the body that I wanted. I wanted to know what they ate, how they ate it and when, what they drank, if they exercised, what kind of exercise they did, how they slept, handled stress, handled cravings, holidays, restaurants and parties. I spent 10,000 hours interviewing and studying their lifestyle habits.

After losing my excess body fat, I began to teach others these “THIN CHOICES” strategies at our local hospitals. After 15 years and numerous success stories, I decided these simple strategies needed to be shared with the millions of people who are so desperately searching for the magic bullet to permanent weight loss. I believe this book contains the magic bullet and I am glad to be the one to have discovered it.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: No other weight loss book offers the inside information on how a ‘thin person’ thinks and lives. If you want to be a successful real estate investor, you should study what the successful real estate investors are doing. If you want to be thin and healthy, do what the thin and healthy people are doing. It is almost too simple. Diets do not work, but living like a thin person will produce the same results for you as it does for them. It is a way-of-life, not a quick fix.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: I am often quoted as the ‘weight loss expert’ and author of “Thin People Don’t Clean Their Plates” in national publications, including Prevention, Redbook, Family Circle, Weight Watchers International, Men’s Muscle and Fitness, Women’s World You can download a free THIN CHOICES lifestyle diary, as mentioned in the book at www.SimpleLifestyleChoices.com.

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Adult males and females who are concerned about overeating and their weight

Q: What is the book about?
A: The Taming of the Chew helps readers clarify causes of food control problems and find ways to manage them successfully physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually – to be empowered — to feel happy, energetic, peaceful, and calm. “Chew” addresses the root causes of compulsive eating behavior and is not just another diet book. It is about loving and appreciating ourselves, relaxing, being peaceful, stopping self-defeating behaviors, enjoying life, freeing up energy, reconnecting with Spirit, and living in the moment with gusto. It is powerful, clear, amusing, beautifully written, and fosters a profound respect for self and for life.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I am the founder of Emotional Eating Awareness Month and have worked with people who want to understand emotional overeating and how to stop for over 25 years. I emerged from the adversities of being a homeless college drop-out, surviving multiple eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, severe obesity and binge eating disorder) and single-parenting three children to creating success as a Clinical Psychologist, Doctor of Holistic Health, author and national speaker. I have been noted in many publications, including “O” the Oprah Magazine, have appeared widely on television and radio and have spoken across the country and in Canada. Denise@DeniseLamothe.com; www.DeniseLamothe.com; Box 933, Epping, NH 03042; 603-493-6043 or 603-778-4814.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: This is the only approach that will truly help and readers respond positively to the idea of actual weight loss. They really do know way down deep inside what they need. My intention is to help patients and readers uncover what works for them and then to make a personal plan for changing their weight and improving their health. I empower each of them to do whatever they feel comfortable doing to tame their personal Chew. We are all different and there is no “one size fits all” approach to being healthy and feeling happy in life. I stress that each reader should take what fits from the book and disregard anything that does not. I urge people to follow their inner direction, their intuitive sense of what is truly best for them. I also urge them to approach this issue one day, one breath, at a time. You can’t do everything at once and if you try, you will set yourself up to fail. Then you will feel worse – more anxious – and you are likely to make a beeline for the refrigerator.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: This book is not about being thin or depriving yourself of anything. It is about self acceptance throughout the process of healthy change. It is very hard for most people to embrace the notion that they are perfect just as they are but, at the same time, they are human and cannot do everything perfectly all the time. I find that folks generally want things to be clear — to be black and white. They often want to be told what the one thing is that they can do to feel in control all the time around food. This is not possible. Life is not black and white – things are always in motion, always changing. The goal is to know yourself as much as you can, to develop a loving and patient attitude towards yourself and to flow with the many challenges and changes that life brings your way without anesthetizing yourself with food. The Taming of the Chew helps readers to do just that.