If you struggle with your weight or have type 2 diabetes, you need this book. These days obesity is justifiably considered a disease. But simply applying the label without addressing the cause only perpetuates the problem. Obesity is the symptom, not the cause of the real disease, metabolic syndrome. Similarly, labeling type 2 diabetes as a chronic and progressive disease is only half the story. Diabetes can be chronic and progressive if all we do is medically mitigate the symptom of high blood sugar but fail to address what causes the body to develop insulin resistance. The progression of type 2 diabetes can be controlled and even reversed. I was both obese and diabetic and now I am neither. In the epilogue of this book, I confess, "When I began my own journey, I was completely alone, skeptical, and scared. I worried that it would not work. I was afraid that I would somehow do something stupid and further damage my health. It was frightening to learn that my health and wellness were in my hands and were not the sole auspices of my physician." Your health and wellness belong in your hands, not only those of your doctor. I have taken all the critical material that I had to learn during my own recovery and have created The Hypnofasting Program, an easy-to-implement, stage-by-stage plan you can use to lose weight and/or gain control of type 2 diabetes. The book provides an easy-to-follow, stage-by-stage process of reducing carbohydrate dependency while increasing intermittent fasting.