embem, I have just known about NT for about a year now, and I know it is the answer to the dieting & obesity epidemic we are in.  I just want to scream from my rooftop that this is the answer, but that probably isn’t the most effective way.  I have sent emails to everyone in my address book about the book after I finished reading it.  Some said they were getting the book. I’ve loaned mine to two people, but you have to wonder how many people really comprehend the information in the book, and instead keep trying to apply some dieting tactics to their NT approach.  I even go on a dieting website and tell people about Jean’s Naturally-Thin website.  I think we are a nation very badly brainwashed and even one time reading the book might not undo our diet thinking.  The NY Times article is heartbreaking.  There must be countless kids like her who feel the same way, and they are all being misguided and misinformed.  I was the same way, and I’m almost 48.  Up until a year ago I knew of no other way to be thin but to diet, exercise, journal my calories, weigh myself daily, just like a good girl should.  I was doing what all the experts said I should be doing, and failing at it.  Now we have young kids doing what the experts say, and while they may have some quick weight loss on their diet plans, just think of the lifelong depression they will suffer when they gain, thinking they are failures.

I do have a daughter, and we have the Naturally Thin Kids book, and it was beneficial for me to read as well.  My daughter is doing this with me and she totally understands it.  It took us awhile to deprogram, and I feel I have to keep reading all of the books so I don’t stray away from the principles and let diet propaganda creep back into my life, which for me would be easy to do if I just read them once and never looked at them again. 

It is frustrating for those of us who have just recently realized NT is the way to go.  But think of Jean who has known for many years now about all the misinformation out there and nothing seems to be changing, it seems to be getting worse.  This is a really tough time for kids to be kids.  They see all the skinny pictures of celebrities and want to be like them, and then do the only things they know to do—and to extremes, which of course is all wrong and makes the problem even worse.  My daughter has dieting friends, and she tries to help them and suggest the books, but they don’t want to hear it.  It’s hard when you want to help but people won’t listen. 

Stay motivated by keeping your eye on the prize, embem.

Swan

is anybody listening?

Thank you for your comments.  It is at times intensely frustrating to see what’s happening and know the problem is only going to get worse while people continue to try the same “solution” they have been trying for sixty years.
Even academics and obesity research scientists are resistant to the possibility that there is a new way to look at this problem.  That is perhaps the most discouraging reality to me.  All seem to be closed minded, determined to stay the course, however damaging and dangerous it is.
But we who know about the Naturally Thin principles are free of all that pain and delusion.  We have the privilege of personal responsibility to our bodies, honoring the mysterious way that we are designed.
Sincerely,
Jean