New Free Features Added to My Sites

This week I added two new features to my websites.

At CarleneJones.com I added a Free Consult option for members of my mailing list. This has two benefits. One it should increase my mailing list, and two, it will let me gather some important questions obese men and women have in regards to their weight loss so I can create a pertinent Frequently Asked Questions page.

For the purchasers of the Fat Brain Lies workbook, I am setting up live conference calls. The first is next week. This is getting a great response. I'm pretty excited about it and will let you know how it goes. We are going to do it round robin style so every participant gets to ask their own question or discuss a topic from the workbook that is important to them.

Smasty Hits 50 lbs Gone

Over at my other site www.RawFoodBootCamp.com, one of my clients, Smasty hit her 50 lb gone mark today. We are all very proud of her.

Free Forum for the Obese

Yesterday I opened a free forum for obese men and women over at ObeseMe. If you go to the main website you will see a Community Forum link to take you there. I hope that it becomes a hub for the obese as they work through their obesity on diets of their choice. There is also a section for those who are doing the Fat Brain Lies workbook to get together and discuss how they are doing and what they are learning.

Fat Brain Lies Comes Out in Hard Copy

Phew, that was work!

Enough people requested hard copies of Fat Brain Lies, that I went ahead, reformatted for 8.5X11, printed and coil bound what I hope is enough copies for this first run. I chose this nice 70# paper so there would be no bleed through, but it made the book heavy. At 118 pages, it weighs 15oz! Check it out at www.obeseme.com/FatBrainLies.php

I am using the workbook with two of my clients as we figure out an eating plan they can live with for the rest of their lives for both weight loss and maintenance. The three of us really like the e-workbooks. I have set it up so they can email me their books twice a week before our call date. Between the workbook and the journals they are keeping on FitDay, we are getting a lot done fast.

First New Clients are Old Raw Food Boot Camp Members

I am very excited about my first two clients who signed up for my new non-raw program to beat obesity. Both have been in and out of Raw Food Boot Camp a few times. They loved the accountability, but they just couldn't do 100% raw long term. Really, they just couldn't do any weight loss diet long-term. And who blames them? Most of the women I deal with have been on one diet or another their whole lives and have no idea how to eat outside of the diet/binge cycle. Binge isn't really the right word, it is more just uncontrollable eating in an attempt to have that one last meal before going back on a fast weight loss diet, but as we all know that one last meal can last for months! This time we are approaching the diet differently. We are actually working backwards and finding a maintenance plan that will work for them. The plan is to find a diet they can live on for the rest of their lives and then work from there to create a weight loss diet based on how fast they want to lose the weight and how much exercise they are willing to do. We are now working through the Fat Brains Lies workbook and seeing where they really are with their eating and exercise. At the end of our four weeks of discovering what works and what doesn't, we are going to design a diet that they can use for both weight loss and maintenance. The three of us are very excited about this new approach. Their feedback has been more than positive as for the first time in their lives they are shedding the fear/guilt of eating and looking forward to a life of healthy choices.

Why I Offered New Services

It is March of 2009 and I have just published my first obesity related workbook: Fat Brain Lies through the ObeseMe website. After three years of running Raw Food Boot Camp and helping women lose weight fast with raw food, I felt that the obesity raw food niche was just too small for what I hope to accomplish when it comes to helping the obese.

After all these years and hundreds of women's stories, their successes, and their failures I have learned a lot about what it takes to succeed. Fast weight loss isn't for everyone. Raw food isn't for everyone, but the techniques I have outlined in my workbook are, and I want to branch out and help more people.

The idea has already worked. As soon as I opened my doors, two women who had been members of Raw Food Boot Camp in the past and just couldn't stay raw, signed up and have already benefited from this new program.

I like it too. The phone calls really bring us together, and make it so much easier to connect and express what it is we hope to accomplish.

This site is dedicated to the obese, which is where my passion and where my expertise fall. Anyone can benefit from my workbooks, but my techniques for coaching are best served to the obese.