by Kathleen Daelemans
If I had it my way I’d live a beach berry-licious life and never see another snow-flake as long as I lived. Not even in the movies. I despise the stuff.
Aloha snow shovel. Hello flip flops. Ocean views from every room.
My dream house…(I speak as though I own it of course. The Secret* is no Secret I tell you. I’ve read the book and watched the DVD ten times. It's to diet for. And I don’t mean hold the mayo.
I mean hold the Clearance items, put down the best-buys and skip the half-yearly sales. I know it sounds drastic but can a girl honestly have a closet full of Spanx** and Miracle-Suits*** at the same time?
I think I Can. I think I Can.
My scrumptious tropical stay-away (who needs to get-away from paradise I ask you?) has mango trees, an inspiring kitchen, an outdoor pizza oven, a closet full of beautiful clothes (petite petites) and the kind of accessories that make you feel little-girl pretty and Mom’s-jewelry-box Camelot and carefree.
The house has a wireless computer network that never breaks down and a fridge that's always stocked with whatever I'm hungry for right when I'm craving it.
I'll spend the rest of my life writing and swimming and hanging out with my nieces and family and friends. I’ll have ice cream suppers and tend to my astonishingly beautiful orchids to the light of the moon on nights it's so warm I can't sleep. Sometimes I'll wake at sunrise and take long walks on the beach and find perfect shells...
Good Morning Ms. Daelemans. This is your 5:45 am wake-up call…
At the moment I'm not as busy a writer as Nora Ephron per se…Though I absolutely have the neck she writes about in her last book, I Feel Bad About My Neck, (buy it or don't laugh. ever. again.). I’m certain this is a sign (not that eye fat is coming next) but that we have something in common. So I’m guessing it’s only a matter of time before I’ll be juggling multiple offers too.
Until then, if you don’t own my books please buy them. I've thought long and hard about this. I don't look upon this as a shameless plug. It's just plain good business.
People enjoy reading books and I enjoy writing books. I'm simply reminding you I've written three. One of my books, Cooking Thin with Chef Kathleen, 200 Easy Recipes For Healthy Weight Loss, was on Oprah's show which sent it to the higher tiers of the New York Times Best Sellers list before the closing credits ran.
Another of my books, Getting Thin and Loving Food: 200 Easy Recipes to Take You Where You Want to Be, received an IACP award. IACP stands for the International Association of Culinary Professionals which is a pretty important award if you're a cook.
My third book is a companion to the first two. It's a journal of sorts but it's not blank. It's filled with over 50 recipes and daily tips and tools to keep you laughing and keep you focused so you can realize the health you deserve and have the body you want in time for dinner.
I wrote, Chef Kathleen's Cooking Thin Day Book, A 52-Week Plan to Lose Weight, Get Fit, and Eat Right, because I'd rather eat German Chocolate cake than broccoli.
I needed something to keep me going when a $5.00 dollar pizza sounded a whole lot better than whipping up asparagus and beef stir fry which in reality takes less time and guess what -- looks totally way hotter in the mirror than globs of gooey cheese and doughy pizza that didn't satisfy me anyway.
I didn't write books to fill up empty warehouses. I wrote them to help people reach their health and weight loss goals and to make them laugh.
No One Is Going To Read This
I maintain a website kathleendaelemans.com to support the people who buy my books and watch me on TV. It's an online resource - an extension if you will of the books. More recipes, more tips, more tools and a live forum where people can meet and chat about food and weight loss all day long, anonymously in the privacy of their own homes. I'm on their all the time too.
There are no fees and no advertisements. There are no surveys, no songs, jingles, "prizes" or hassles. It's me and my family, some friends, some writers, photographers, a few talented women and fans and a web guy. We do it because we're passionate about what we do. I do it because it keeps me busy and it keeps the jobs coming.
I started this blog because I stink at getting my book proposals out on time. I thought the blog would be a great way to force myself to write. So far, I think my biggest problem is I'm writing too much for the blog reader.
I asked my niece to take a look at the blog before I launched it. She gave it a once over (approximately ten seconds) "Um uh like no offense Aunt Kathy, but no one's going to read this. It's stupid and boring and like really long. I think you're only supposed to write a paragraph or something. It's like really crappy."
She's 13. I think it's the age gap. But I think she's right about the paragraph thing. Of course my real objective is to get my book proposals out on time. So. I. have. to. stop. now.
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* The Secret is an Oprah book club book. It's about the Law of Attraction and the Power of Positive thinking. I use it when Nellie Olsen from Little House on the Prairie takes over my body and starts harming innocent women and children.
**Spanx - Modern day girdle you better hope no one sees you in. As in don't get in a crash. Or if you do, pray you can swap out for underwear before you pass out.
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Miracle Suit - Bathing suit that promises to make you look ten pounds thinner. Wear two, twenty pounds thinner and so on...
****Kathleendaelemans.com features articles by nationally known authors such as Jen Sader, Brie Evans, Monica Gullan…
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