My Supermarket Saved My Life
The real inspiration for The Grocery Store Diet, like so many inspirations, came at one of the lowest points in my life. I had lost just about everything that had ever meant anything to me. I felt alone, abandoned, and without hope—and so I did what any woman would do—I started to eat and promptly ate myself into a 227 pound body. And then I just couldn’t eat myself back out. I was stuck.
And then late one afternoon, in the most unlikely place for a personal miracle—the parking lot of my own grocery store—everything changed.
I had just locked the car and was struggling with a grocery cart when I noticed one of those advertising flyers stuck to the bottom. I reached down to pick it up and throw it out and that’s when I read the words ‘bloom where you are planted’. It was a simple slogan. I think it was for a garden center. But those five words rushed at me with a power I hadn’t felt before. I looked around. ‘Bloom where you are planted’ it said. Well, I was planted in the parking lot of my grocery store—and that’s where I decided I would bloom.
I had gotten fat one grocery cart at a time, and I vowed I could get slim the same way!
That simple little idea was to bring me the best results I’ve ever had. I lost more than 40 pounds and 4 sizes and I’m still losing with every trip to the supermarket and every single bag of groceries.
I decided to share my simple Grocery Store Diet believing if the good food I found in my own supermarket could help me it could help others. I found some amazing experts—very special Grocery Store Gals—dietitians and nutritionists–to help with the fine tuning and to make sure that my idea was sound and could work for everyone.
The result is this little diet book that starts where every diet should really begin—with real food in your own supermarket; then moves effortlessly to your kitchen; and finally shows up on your own scale where it delivers the successful results you’ve been hoping for!
‘Koko’
The Grocery Store Gal
