Coming October 23 · the new book
A blueprint for
happiness disguised as
weight loss advice.
From ages 16 to 39, I struggled to stay at a healthy weight. I dieted, worked out like a maniac, and tracked my food on apps.Â
It always worked, temporarily.
What kept me stuck wasn't a lack of discipline; I didn't know how to live in a world designed for weight gain.
Every plan I tried required my best, most energetic self—in other words, willpower. If you’ve ever concluded the problem is that you 'can’t stick to anything,' this book is for you.
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During my long years of struggle, I was camera-shy. These are a few photos I allowed to be seen. What I know now is that I was fine all along. I had some things to learn and skills to develop.
The author
Rebecca Thomas
I lost 55 pounds in 2010, at age 40, and have kept it off since — through perimenopause and the whole menopause transition*
The real accomplishment is how I did it; after all, people lose weight in all sorts of harmful ways.
No tracking, no caloric restriction, no fasting, and I ate carbs. I gave up dieting entirely in 2008, and that forced me to understand food and health in a completely different way. A sustainable, life-giving, personally healing way.
I’m ready to share everything I’ve learned with you in my new book.
* There have been minor periods of gain over the last sixteen years due to injury or big life changes. I handled them the same way I lost the weight: without dieting, fasting, drugs, or relying on willpower. It's all in the book.
Who is this for?
This book is for you if:
- You’ve rejoined the same program so many times that the app remembers your password, and you feel that heaviness every time you download it again.
- You’re being nudged toward a GLP-1 and keep thinking there has to be another way.
- You’re coming off a GLP-1, by choice or by cost, and you can feel the food noise coming back. You’re scared the weight is right behind it.
- You’re the caregiver in the sandwich years, running on coffee and whatever’s around, with no bandwidth left for anyone’s meal plan.
- You could teach the nutrition class. You know exactly what you “should” do, and you can’t make any of it stick.
- You eat one way in front of people and another way alone, and you’re tired of carrying that.
- You’re in perimenopause, and your weight started climbing while nothing about your eating changed.
- Your doctor’s whole answer was “eat less, move more” or a printout about the Mediterranean diet.
From women who’ve done this work
“The concept of engineering your life for weight loss really resonated with me. It took the emotion out and made it about actions and habits. That made it much easier to get away from the harmful diet thinking that has been with me for three decades.”
Kathleen G., the Build program
“The one thing that surprised me is I have so much more freedom in my mind. I used to spend 90 percent of my time stressing about food.”
Susan D., the Build program
Why willpower?
Relying on willpower almost guarantees failure, and then we blame ourselves when it runs out.
That blame takes a serious toll on our mental health and self-esteem.
Willpower is a fine tool for short jobs: a term paper, a work deadline, a diet. It's not designed for the daily work of living in the modern world.
Anything that relies on it has a built-in expiration date, which is why the plan that finally works will be the one that never asks for it.
You’ve been taught that losing weight means resisting, restricting, and pushing through, but that’s exactly why things unravel.
This book invites you to rethink food, your life, and your thinking so you can unshackle yourself from ideas that could never work and build what will.
Out October 23
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