Well, for one thing, I have had an interesting life.  I was born in Denmark, and was brought to Australia by my parents when I was fifteen years old. I married young and spent many years in partnership with a fascinating and very complicated man, whom I loved dearly. I’ve had one child, a son, who has long since made me a grandmother, several times over.

I have travelled the world, I have lived in many places, in several countries and I have had some amazing experiences. At 42 I became a widow with no resources except a good head for business. I created and founded my own business, which I ran successfully for many years.

I have always had one constant in my life, I love to write.  I started to write little stories when I was less than 10 years old. At age fifteen, my parents brought me to Australia.  For someone like me, who planned to become a journalist, that was a huge setback.  It meant that I not only had to leave my country, my friends, my education and everything I knew and treasured.  I also had to leave my language which I had expected would make me a lifelong career.

It took several years to become fluent in English, even longer to regain my interest and confidence in writing, and I didn’t feel truly ready to write again till my thoughts, as well as my speech had adapted to english. It’s funny, but until I was forced to change language, I had always assumed that thoughts were just that, something completely abstract.  I hadn’t realized that even our most imaginative thoughts are expressed in words.

I’ll always remember a time not long after we arrived in Australia.  I was awoken in the middle of the night by my mother who needed me to answer an important question.  I was very sleepy and tried with all my might to answer her – in very poor, broken English.  I finally woke fully and came to my senses.  i used to wonder what kind of dream I’d interrupted to make me respond in english.

By now you have probably guessed that I love language and I particularly love the English language.  It is a fascinating blend of old English and Scandinavian tribal dialects with a later addition of some French culture. But unlike the structured European languages that evolved over time, English became a free flowing, unstructured, ever adaptable tool for the imagination and self expression.

I can’t remember where I read it, but someone once said that the less structured a language is, the more freedom it allows for thought and expression.  I’ve always remembered that because it makes so much sense.  It also makes sense of the old adage; ‘we are what we think’, I certainly believe that.

In my early sixties, I decided to retire, prematurely as it turned out. I soon realised it didn’t suit my personality.  I used to spend hours at my computer, looking for interesting blogs, watching news and playing games.  It’s what boredom does to retired people. But five years ago something happened which has changed my life. I suspect it will change your life too.

I always had to watch my weight, but when I retired it became a real problem.  Five years ago I had an epiphany, you might call it a discovery, which made me decide to begin an experiment on how to lose weight permanently.  The experiment worked and for five years I have carried my big secret around in my head.  In all that time, I expected someone, with appropiate qualifications, to reveal my discovery, but no one ever did.

So at the beginning of this year I decided to write it all down in a book.  The secret is fantastic, but it is very real.  You see, I had discovered the reason for the horifying spread of obesety round the world today.  I had also discovered how to cure it.  But I was a nobody,  who was going to listen to me?  So I just used it on myself.  Within a very short time my weight normalised and I even managed to cure my own personal symptoms of Type2 diabetes, something i’d suffered for many years.

I naturally expected a research facility somewhere in the world, to make the same discovery and publish a paper on it, but to my complete amazement, no one ever did.  I believe everything has a reason, and I suspect nobody wants to rock the obesity boat which sits so comfortably, where it’s been for some thirty years, under the control of pseudo health professionals and snack food manufacturers.

It was inevitable that I would decide to start my own internet business.  It is almost two years ago and in that time I have focussed mostly on writing articles and emails.  It was inevitable that I would realise that I could publish the book on the internet, without meeting the expected opposition from vested interests.

I have had five years experience to test the theory on myself.  I have been slim and free of symptoms for all of that five years.  I can honestly say that for the first time in my life, I’m in complete control of my health and weight.  So I’m ready to publish that book on the internet where nobody can stop me. It will be called My-Own-Plan by Kirsten Plotkin.

In case you wonder, no this is not another diet and this book will not ask you to go on a diet.  It will tell you something you should have been told years ago and it will show you how you can stay slim and healthy permanently.  If you act and follow the book, you’ll never have to diet again.

If you are reading this, you can leave a comment here or you can email me for an early notification of the date I publish.
kirstenplotkin@my-own-plan.com

I hope it won’t be long, I just have to learn a few technical things to complete the website.

Kirsten Plotkin, Author
Goldcoast, Australia