Susan Maiava

I wrote Fat Chance! for myself when I wanted to lose weight and couldn't find what I was looking for.

I remember the day I noticed my slim friends turning down food with a polite "No thanks". My first thought was they were crazy. Why would that do that?

My son, who always fidgeted at the dinner table, anxious to be somewhere else, put it in a nutshell for me one day when he explained he "couldn't see the point of eating if he wasn't hungry". I suddenly realized he thought differently about food. And that this was the key.

Rejecting dieting, I recognized a permanent change to a healthy new lifestyle was needed to achieve lasting weight loss. I went looking for this book. But amongst the rows of diet books, I couldn't find one that would teach me how to think and eat like a slim person. I researched and wrote it for myself, developing it from one simple but revolutionary idea:

FORGET ABOUT HOW FAT PEOPLE DIET, FOCUS ON HOW SLIM PEOPLE EAT!

Susan Maiava is married with two grown children. She has several degrees in unrelated subjects and a range of life experiences. She enjoys writing and traveling and contributes to the governance of a number of charitable organizations.