So I’m writing a book. It’s a book about being fat and getting back into shape - not the round one, preferably. It’s a journey through fatland and back, something I personally have lots of experience with, as I have been there and back again several times.
The book will share my experiences, what I did - both wrong and right - and what were the consequences of it, and I hope it serves as an inspiration for others to take care of themselves and lose their extra weight as well.
This is also not the typical “self-help” book that will teach you “x steps to losing weight” or how to “get ripped in y days”. Those books have their place. They are meant for the poor souls that are so unhappy about themselves and so desperate to lose weight that they lose touch with reality and fall into the trap of the people who write those books to take advantage of them. I say “take advantage” because I think that 90% of those books are crap. Not just the weight-loss ones but pretty much every self help book out there. They are money-making machines with so little useful content in them, and what little useful content they have, it is spread so thin that you could probably condense it into half a dozen pages. Hopefully I will do better than that.
One of the things that differentiates my book from all those other books is that most of its content, if not all, will be freely available online, right here on this blog. I will isolate specific subjects and adapt them to a blog format. The full book will be available as a PDF, probably published via lulu.com or maybe even here. I haven’t decided if the PDF will be totally free or if I’ll ask some money for it. If I do, it will be something like $5/4€/£3 and it will be completely DRM free - I hate DRM. I might even go for a “pay what you like” scheme. I may also put up a donations box via Paypal or Skrill (ex-Moneybookers).
We will see. For now, the first stone is laid. The rest will come with time.
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