Five Step s to Changing Your Life (they boil down to one thing) In the last three years, I’ve: lost 120 pounds, become debt free, earned an MFA, quadrupled my income, and sold a novel to a major publisher. Three years ago I knew something needed to change. A lot of somethings, really. I’d been published, by Penguin, a couple of years before. But my books had failed , my publisher dropped me, and I wasn’t writing. At all. For the first time since I was about ten years old, I was seriously considering just doing something else with my life. Only, I felt so sick, I wasn’t sure I could do something else with my life. I was in pain all of the time. I woke up every morning so exhausted that I just wanted to cry. I often did. I weighed 368 pounds and I was afraid for my mobility. I couldn’t stand long enough to make dinner. I couldn’t walk far enough to make it to the end of a parking lot. This is me at the point where I felt the absolute worst. I’m in New York City here, with my da...
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