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Say What You Need To Say ~ Always

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” ~Henry David Thoreau About a year ago, my dad died. He’d been battling cancer for a decade and we’d all been lulled into a false sense that he’d just keep on beating it. So I never said the important things I wanted to say because I’d …

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Hi, I’m Shelli Johnson.

For decades, I was a yo-yo dieter with an eating disorder — weighing over 300 pounds at my heaviest. I have had a weight loss transformation, losing over 160 pounds naturally and maintaining that weight loss for ten years and counting.

I’m an internationally-recognized expert in the fields of obesity and weight management. I’ve been featured four times in PEOPLE Half-Their-Size issue, PEOPLE TV, FOX TV, National Public Radio, The Charlotte Observer, among others. My work has been published in The Plain Dealer, Thrive Global, Authority Magazine, and more. My books, Start Where You Are Weight Loss® and Start Where You Are Weight Loss® Playbook, were both a #1 Amazon Bestseller.

My weight-loss program is built on over a decade of looking at weight loss differently.

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