Stop Carrying the Weight of Your MS: The Art of Losing Weight, Healing Your Body, and Soothing Your Multiple Sclerosis

This is another great self-help book by Andrea Hanson (see the deservedly laudatory reviews, by me and others, of her first book, "Live Your Life Not Your Diagnosis," originally released on Kindle in 2015, in paperback 2016, with a new edition coming soon).This book explores a challenge so many people have dealt with: weight loss. Obesity has become a really significant public health issue in the US, and millions of people have struggled with the personal challenge of weight management. Tragically, the problem has long been tangled up with negative and often sexist body-image messages sent out by popular culture, with its obsessive and often cruel focus on unobtainable ideals of beauty and body (especially inflicted on women, though as I know from my own experience, a real problem in the gay male community also).While Hanson's books focus on challenges faced by people like her with MS, this book has a lot of really valuable guidance to offer anyone dealing with the challenges of healthy weight management. How to approach those challenges while avoiding or minimizing all the unhealthy cultural and emotional baggage? Hanson provides a fresh, practical, and optimistic approach.

Written well, but I am confined to my wheelchair and I need something to help someone that gets very little exercise, left arm and leg minimal.

While I don't have MS, I do have several auto-immune disorders. They and the medications that keep me functional have caused me to gain a ton of weight that I feel like I have to explain and apologize for. Andrea's book helped me feel less isolated in my health journey. Stop Carrying the Weight is not a diet plan, but a tool for looking at your thinking patterns which in turn help you make positive changes in your lifestyle.