With Spring Break in the air and summer on its way, swimsuits are already appearing in stores and people are dreading trying to fit into them. And let’s face it: Weigh-ins, expensive prepared meals, and point systems don’t fit everyone’s lifestyle, personality, or budget. But there’s a secret weapon that average, everyday people — and especially women — have at their disposal to fight a creeping accumulation of fat - their friends.

Author Sheila Roberts discusses in her funny, self-deprecating fashion how your listeners can slim down and have a great time doing it, with greater success. She’ll make your audience and callers feel like they are sitting around the kitchen table with her as she shares secrets and reveals:

• Her diet adventures — hysterical and frightening — and even a diet-related brush with death.

• A revolutionary idea for how you and your friends can support each other to fit into sexy swimsuits by summer!

• Why women are particularly good at group dieting and exercising, and what the Hawthorne effect has to do with it.

• Dieting tips, including dealing with cravings while watching TV or driving.

CREDENTIALS: An award-winning author, Sheila Roberts has written 22 fiction and non-fiction books. She publishes an online newsletter for women called Super You, and has now created her niche in literature: self-help fiction, where she helps others in an entertaining way. Her latest self-help novel is BIKINI SEASON (St. Martin’s Press, 2008).

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AVAILABILITY: Washington State; Portland, OR; nationwide by arrangement and via telephone
CONTACT: Theresa Meyers, (360) 895-0879 (WA); bluemooncomm@aol.com; www.sheilasplace.com