Loving the FAT you while shedding the pounds!

About the Book

This book, “Loving the Fat You while Shedding the Pounds” is a powerful book that is geared towards persons who are struggling with their weight, low self esteem and self acceptance. Have you ever been verbally or physically abused because of your weight? Have you ever faced medical conditions such as heart attack, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure among others because you are overweight? Do you have an overweight spouse or friend that you want to help lose the weight but do not know how to do so? Do you have relationship problems because your spouse got overweight after marriage? Do you want to be able to wear whatever you want when you go into a store? Do you want to live a long healthy life with your spouse, friends, family members or kids? Do you wish you were thinner, healthier and happier about your life? This book is designed just for you. This book will help you to: • Love and accept your “Fat You” completely • Exercise self discipline in losing the weight • Persevere until you have accomplished your weight loss goal • Love your overweight spouse/friend unconditionally • Improve your health, family and relationships • Purge yourself of destructive habits and persons that hinder your weight loss • Become the best you that God have created you to be This book comes complete with a personal journal at the end of each chapter for you to write about your weight loss journey. There is also a section where you make a personal commitment to the principles in this book as well as a prayer at the end of each chapter inviting supernatural help during your weight loss journey. This is a holistic guide to not just weight loss but to emotional, spiritual and mental well being.

About the Author

Linace Gordon-Coleman and Marvin Coleman have been married since 2012 but have known each other since they were six years old. They not only worked together on this book but are also both Evangelists and are passionate about persons living a healthy life of purpose and joy. Linace has always been fat, ever since she was a child. She was called many demeaning names and was mistreated because of her weight by some individuals she encountered. She even dated someone who emotionally and verbally abusive towards her because of her weight. As a result of those experiences, at one point she had low self-esteem and kept wishing she was like other “slimmer persons”. In this book, she gives the secret to her weight loss while sharing her journey of self-acceptance and love. However, her friend and husband Marvin Coleman always treated her with respect and love and never made her feel like she was unimportant because she was fat. In fact, he married her while she was still 240 pounds and helped her to battle her low self-esteem by emphasizing to her how beautiful she was to him. He often told her he loved her for who she was and how beautiful she was inside out despite being overweight. In this book, he wrote a chapter encouraging spouses of overweight persons to be more compassionate, patient and tolerant towards their overweight spouses. He emphasizes the importance of valuing our relationships and staying together despite the challenges of having an overweight spouse. They have one child - Jaddua Ysabel Amaris Coleman who served as a motivator for her mother to lose the weight after she got pregnant with her. She wanted to be there for her daughter for as long as possible by leading a healthy lifestyle. They live in the wonderful, scenic parish of Portland in the beautiful island of Jamaica, West Indies.