Win a FREE copy of the Cheat Your Way Thin Holiday Edition!

Hi Joel,

Since I hear about your program a few days ago, I have been hooked. Every day I’m looking forward to hearing more about the program, and am anticipating great results. I recently lost 25 lbs but like always it is sooo hard to keep it off. I will be the first to admit that I cheat and eventually sabotage my own efforts. It would be wonderful to find a program that I could “cheat” in and win. I am motivated but it does get discouraging to get stuck on a plateau and never seem to get off. Your program sounds like something that could work for me and many of my friends and associates. Can you imagine losing weight during the holidays! If it works, that’s what I’ve been looking for, and I won’t hesitate to tell it from the mountain tops. Thanks for sharing your program.

Hi Joel,
Thanks for the great information thus far. I am eagerly awaiting your cheat your way thin eating calender you mentioned on your last blog. I need this not just for myself, but for my mom and my sister. They need a little boost in the weight loss battle. My mom was recently diagnosed with diabetes which runs in her family. Both my mom and my sister are about 40 pounds overweight. They are obese. My mom has also had high blood pressure for a while. So I need this to help my sister because I don’t want her to take the same path my mother is on. My sister will definitely be hit with these diseases earlier than my mother did. Yes I too have a few pounds to lose, but I really want to help my mother and especially my sister with your program. Thanks Joel!

Chris

I have been in a very intense situation for the past 2 years. I have been the main caregiver to my terminally ill husband who recently passed away.

I had very little time for my self and gained some weight as well as losing muscle. I am now in the beginning stages of re-inventing myself and feel this is the perfect time to try something new like your program.

I have found that many of the “lifestyle” changing programs are little more than fancy diets and am hoping that this plan is really different.

If I were to win one of the free copies it would be that much better.

Thanks, Edith

Joel, I am a mother of 2 small boys. I still have 20+ pounds of leftover “baby weight” and my “baby” will be 3 on Saturday. Over the past several years I have been very interested in nutrition and have done SO much research online. The problem is, for some reason, I have a super hard time putting all my researach into practice. I think I let myself get overwhelmed with all the data and am paralyzed when it comes to actually committing to DOING some of it. I have been searching for a program that TELLS ME WHAT TO DO, so I no longer feel paralyzed. After reading about your program, I feel it is exactly what I need to start getting back on track. Having a schedule laid out for me gives me NO excuses (it is really easy to use my kids as an excuse, but in my heart I know that I will be an even better mom if I finally start taking care of myself). I am confident that following your “plan” (without having to take the time to come up with my own) will FINALLY allow me to get back to my pre-baby self (and probably even healthier and more fit). And, getting to “cheat” too… what an awesome bonus! Thanks for all your hard work putting this together. I know you’ll make a difference in many lives.

I need this book Joel!!! I gained 13 pound from october to january last year and it took me 6 months to lose that. Sadly, most of it was lost due to stress which, based off knowledge i have gained from you, has left me in worse shape then I was in during 2008. I dont want to repeat this cycle over and over. I would be ever so grateful if I won one.

Hello Joel,
I’ve tried so many diets in the past you have no idea. Just like you said in one of your articles, diets set you up for failure and I have experienced this first hand. I feel useless because I can’t lose all my extra fat and it takes a big toll on my self esteem. I’ve spent endless hours at the gym combined with many diets and nothing seems to work. I’ve been reading your articles closely and I now see why nothing has worked. I need a program that is do able and not mentally demanding to the point where I feel I can’t do it anymore. Your insight on using your favorite food to lose weight is amazing and makes perfect sense after reading what you have said. Why didn’t anyone else think of this? I believe, no wait, I KNOW this program is my solution to my fat loss problem. If I am given a free copy of CYWT:HE, I promise to follow exactly what the book says and I WILL lose my fat and I will be able to look at myself in the mirror and be satisfied.

Thanks,
Travis

Hi Joel
My request is straight forward. I have tried just about every fad diet going, I go to the gym 3 times a week and I am careful what I eat but I just can’t seem to shift those pesky pounds. My pharmacist tells me I am obese but then says ‘hey BMI is just a number; be comfortable with who YOU are’ but I’m not, not yet. I have read your articles with fascination and feel that your way is the way forward for me.

Hi Joel,
In the last two years, I have watch my husband, whittle down from 300lbs to an action figure sized 185. In the last two years, I have had two abdominal surgeries and done nothing but gain. It’s like we changed places. I have been working out consistently for almost three months and hardly seen any change in my weight. Although I am getting stronger which I love, I have MS and cannot work out as hard as I would like to. Your plan seems to have the balance that most diets don’t and that I have not been willing to try knowing I cannot maintain that lifestyle, and will gain the weight back. I know that at this point, loosing weight is going to be about diet for me since I have about 15 pounds to loose, and I just have not been able to find balance there. I want so badly to give my Husband the wife that he married…that looks as good or better than when we first fell in love. I want to be more than his wife, I want to be the girl that turns his head every time.
I would appreciate your help.
Thanks for your consideration.

@Leonie –
Hi Joel!
Here’s my story.
I am 36 years old. I graduated from high school at 140 pounds. Was definitely over 200 pounds within 4 years from partying and eating crap. Walked into a gym and discovered weights and met an amazing mentor/personal trainer that changed my life! Started lifting weights and changed slightly, then started to eat healthy and my weight went down to 150 within 6 months!
Bought that gym, competed in bodybuilding, and then sold that gym after 5 years….
Now, 6 years later…..had quit lifting weights and eating healthy. My weight is now 168 lbs! I am a personal trainer. I want to be a good role model :)
I am tired of struggling with food and feeling fat. I feel strong as I am back lifting weights…but I can’t seem to eat healthy consistently enough. I crave and eat sugar and crap and am tired of food controlling me. I restart my healthy eating plan EVERDAY! I need help and I need a plan.
Thanks Joel:)
Have a great weekend!
Mel

Hey Joe,

Well at 56 years old and about 20 kilos overweight i have to be worried about my weight. I want to be able to spend time with my gradkids, see them start walking, go to school attend their graduation etc. Everything i tried so far has had limited and inconsistent results which have also not been sustainable. Now i want to cheat my way thin.
Cheers. From South Africa

Hi Joel, I am 5’7 and about 140 pounds, so I don’t sound overweight. However I am slim, so the extra, probably only a few pounds, is hanging under my chest. As a 45 year old, its becoming harder to shift than ever and living in China makes professional help hard to understand. My wife and daughter could also benefit from a program which increases the metabolism, they cannot do much exercise so the extra help would make a huge difference to their well being.
I have been excited by what I have read in the previous posts and as they make good sense I would love to experiment on my family. If it works for us, it should work for everyone!

Although we would do it together, I want the “Cheat Your Way Thin Holiday Edition” programme mainly for my wife. She has tried everything to lose weight, but never succeeded. In our 26 years of married life she has tried all the media advertised weight loss programs, clubs, gyms, delivered foods, meditation, etc (all rip-offs), and works very hard at exercising every day to lose weight. She is very positive: she tells me every day that it is working and that she has lost weight. She refuses to get on the bathroom scales with me looking. Fair dinkum mate, if she had really lost as much as she claims altogether, she wouldn’t exist now. That’s how I know that she is already a compulsive cheater and a “cheat your way thin” will be perfect for her, because she already knows how to cheat and now she deserves to learn how to apply it in your program to get some real results. I know she will do it because she is secretly desperate to improve her shape, wear nice clothes, and reduce her high blood pressure, so that she can tell me, “I told you I was losing weight.”

Hi Joel,
My name is Bonnie. I am a 31 year old girl who has never felt at home in her own body. I have over 100lbs to lose.

At an early age I was told ‘you are so pretty…if only you’d lose a few pounds’ – by my father. At this stage I was only about 110lbs but being 4ft 10″ any excess weight stands out. I grew up believing I was fat and not worthy. Over the years i gained more weight because I tried all of the so called ‘healthy diets’, sure they would work for a while and to lose a few pounds but they were unrealistic and I was unable to stick to them. Thus creating a vicious circle and paving the way to a deep depression.

I have recently become a huge fan for The Diet Solution and The Fat Burning Kitchen but I still need help as I merge their teachings into a food plan that I can LIVE by.

What can I say… I need help. I really NEED help. I’m drowning and need a life raft. I am positive that with your program, I can finally pull myself up out of the abyss and finally become the beautiful and HAPPY girl I have missed out being all of these years.

Bonnie

Hi Joel,
Having a complete plan laid out for me will be perfect I think. Not to have to think about what to eat and when to eat it will take a lot of pressure off. I have read your updates and it seems to make sense. When on a diet before I noticed sometimes that if I cheat a little bit it did not effect the weight loss which surprised me at the time. Now it makes more sense. Getting a complete system will help me stick to a program to finally lose all the weight I want to lose.
Thank you for making this avaliable.

Willy

The holiday season is probably the most dreaded time of the year for bodybuilders, both hobbyists and hardcore alike. What with the sight of those shiny slabs of meat, creamy chocolate cakes and ice creams, staying away from flab and fats is indeed a scary challenge. Especially if you are like me who’ve had a long history of failing to cut out my intake of those “sinful” stuffs. Thus, I really believe that having the help of someone who’s been there and who’s done that would be a big boost for me in facing this eternal adversary.

I’ve been an on and off bodybuilder for the past 10 years and I do admit that I haven’t had any great success in keeping myself off this delectable items during the holidays. Thus, I believe that I need an effective guide to keep me from ballooning into humongous proportions during the season. An easy step-by-step program that would enable me to apply an effective method to eat happily without compromising anything in terms of gaining gats and losing lean mass.

I have read so many supposed to be “revolutionary approach” in maintaining lean mass and cutting off fats during this time of the year but nothing, and I mean nothing, has proven to be effective for me. Hopefully, this new program from you would be able to help me finally nail it down. That’s the reason why I believe I need this one badly.

Give it to me, i’m getting married next week :O
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE FOOD and specially carbs :(
weight has always been an issue for me. so whats better than helping me out with information about how i can continue eating and lose weight and stay healthy. Also my post is the shortest so I saved you some time :p

Hi Joel.
As we all know dieting has to become a way of life, not only must one make lifestyle changes in order to become the you ,you know is in you, but to be successful it must be a realistic way of life. The cheat your way thin programe offers this and so much more. It offers you a new look at the “word diet’, cos it aint like all the other programes out there. We all know that as soon as your FAT CELLS hear the word DIET they get out their hooks and dig even deeper into your HIPS THIGHS and especially your TUMMY and try as you want you cannot seem to move it!!!!HAHA But having said that i would love to be the one you choose to give one of the free programmes to cos I sure will do justice to it and then some. I am a long distance runner and have weight to lose on my tummy that is hanging on for dear life!!The thought that I can CHEAT my way THIN does not seem REAL and my little BRAIN is having a hard time processing it so yes I like millions of people would like to see your programme in ACTION. So come on give a young vibrant woman a chance!!!

Two years ago I had a medical exam, and weighed 197 (5′ 10″). I was shocked, and proceeded to loose two pounds a month for 7 months. Then I hit a plateau. Since then, my weight varies a few pounds either way. I eat mostly fruits and vegetables, and occasional fish or chicken (no sweets of any kind). I exercise moderately every day, with not much payoff. I’m excited to try such a thoroughly researched and proven plan.

You are a God sent! Everything you are talking about makes sense. I have been struggling with eating issues in all my life and restricting calories as much as I can, just to end up over eating later. When I’m able to restrict and diet for a long time I notice that my weight hardly drops. This program will teach me how to eat in a “sane” way, and actually enjoy a “normal” size of meal and not to feel guilty about it. So for me this is not just about weight loss but also will help me to get over a life time issue with food. Hallelujah :-)))))) If i win, I would be more then happy to post a “before” and “after” picture. Thanks Joel!

Hey Joel,
To me I don’t even know what is healthy, fattening, unhealthy, etc. anymore. The fitness and nutrition industry has me confused from so many things posted on the internet I don’t know what is true and what isn’t. I’ve tried two nutrition programs, not giving any names, they both had some similarities but many differences. However, these programs made me lose weight ,but very little of it. Then i stumbled across Cheat Your Way Thin, while looking for something new and you seemed to know what you were talking not like other people who just restate basics.Especially now that the holidays are right around the corner I won’t be able to resist all the foods presented to me. Acquiring this system will hopefully get me out of this confusion i live in of nutrition and most importantly, burn the fat I possess.

Thank you,
Fernando.

I am 32 years old and currently weigh 134kg. I have tried dieting in the past and I have realized that it doesn’t work. Last year I tried exercising at the gym and I lost about 14kg. This year I moved into a new province where there is no gymnasium, no health shops and I guess also I have been lazy blaming that on being upset with my company for sending me to work in such a horrible area.
In the last month and a half I have been diagnozed with hypertension due to my weight and just yesterday when I went for my check up after being on the hypertension medication for a month I have been diagnozed with an indication of diabetes (that its guaranteed I will have it if I don’t change anything, the levels are already high). The doctor told me to start eating a diabetic diet to avoid anymore illnesses. So I need your methods to help me first to loose weight and to get my health back on line because at this rate I feel I’m heading for the grave at a very early age and living my kids alone.

My wife has tried all the diets; weight watchers, slimmers world, lighter life.
She lost 3 1/2 stone with lighter life, but has now put most of it back on (over about 2 years).
She loves food, and is a stress eater (aren’t we all?) She’s given up her full time job to try and reduce her stress (to make it easier to lay off the food), but ‘normal’ diets (calorie counting etc) struggle to allow her to lose more than 1 pound a week (which is so disheartening).
I love my wife, and I just want her to be happy. I don’t want / need her to lose weight, but she is not happy with her size.
Please help her regain her self confidence with a copy of this weight loss system.
Thanks

Cheat your way thin is perfect for me because I love CHEESEBURGERS!!!! and working out your the only one that has ever told me I should mix the two to accelerate my progress.
As I was reading your emails I had to keep pinching myself. Not only because you are telling me I can eat the things I love to eat on occasion but it makes sense to me…finally something that deals with the psychological which to me is always the hardest hurdle. You rock!!!

With all the “healthy” influences on TV, in print, in the media, and passed down through years of family ideas, we as a society have lost the ability to properly supply our bodies with adequate nutrition. I believe we need to change the last 80 years of thinking and go back to the basics and teach our families how food can be a life sustaining form of nutrition as well as an incredible form of enjoyment and adventure. I look forward to sharing with my family a new “lifestyle” of eating and promoting health and wellness.

I work hard at exercisung, have changed my diet and still cannot seem to loose weight. From what I have read so far, this might give me the extra bit needed to actually shed some weight.