Midwest
Book Review
17 Seconds To Weight Loss/The Guide
MidWest
Book Review: October 2002
17 Seconds To Weight Loss
Susan James/ Vast Five
ISBN: 1-929072-79-1, 191 pp., paperback,
2001, http://www.susanjames.org/
17
Seconds To Weight Loss is no ordinary weight
loss guide. But, maybe that is what we all
need, something different than the same
old weight loss plans. Something that tackles
the deeper, more unconscious reasons for
not "being able" to lose weight.
And, that is exactly what this book provides.
Author
Susan James, a formerly overweight woman,
who now remains a trim size 9, says it is
"more about energy and the application
of Spirit than anything else." James
believes we all have a conscious choice
to be exactly what we wish to be in life,
whether it is to have a particular job,
or to weigh a certain amount.
James
says, "Weight loss and body image has
nothing to do with the food that you eat
or that you do not eat. It has to do with
'energy,' and how you move and form this
energy."
Divided
into 72 chapters, some no more than a page,
the perfect size for busy people, '17 Seconds
To Weight Loss brings James' claims to light.
Her energy is infectious, and I found myself,
many times throughout the book nearly feeling
that energy come off the page.
The
principles of User Friendly Physics, which
James introduces in other books she has
written, state that weight loss is simply
a matter of "thinking" yourself
thin, that 17 seconds of pure thought about
what you want and what you intend for your
body to be like, is the equivalent, in terms
of physics, of 2000 hours of action. The
more you think pure thoughts of thinness,
energy, health, etc., the more these thoughts
compound upon themselves, bringing to reality
exactly what you are thinking about. Other
topics discussed include how we sabotage
ourselves, how we get to be overweight in
the first place, and how to be in harmony
with what we want, not what we don't want.
Very
little of the book focuses on what to eat
in order to achieve weight loss, but there
are a couple of short chapters on the subject.
In spite of having included these suggestions,
James reiterates that weight loss doesn't
have anything to do with the weight loss
plan chosen, but with the thoughts we think.
17 Seconds To Weight Loss is most definitely
unlike any weight loss book I have ever
read, but I came away feeling that this
book holds a key...maybe the key...to weight
loss for millions of people out there. It
is definitely worth reading! It may change
your life forever, in many ways besides
just your weight.
Shannon
McKelden Cave
Reviewer
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