I am Amanda Rose, 52 years old, and a completely unexpected weight loss success case. My story has now driven over 100 triple-digit success cases. (We call these cases “Century Cases” or “Century Bears.”) https://eatlikeabear.com
Back in 2017-2018, I was running around my property in the Giant Sequoia National Monument in California (actually, I was hobbling around, limping with a knee injury and
weighing 280 pounds), minding my own business, foraging for herbs and wild plants (when I could, given that hobbling problem), and never in my life imagined I would have so many people, locally and in internetland, interested in what I am eating. I have appeared in regional and national press. The Bakersfield Californian featured my story and the community in "Bear Necessities of Weight Loss":
https://www.bakersfield.com/entertainment/discovering-bear-necessities-of-weight-loss/article_181bcbd0-d73f-11ea-b93b-57c03efce7bf.html
I was on the cover of the August 17,2020 issue of Woman's World:
https://www.womansworld.com/posts/weight-loss/eat-like-a-bear-diet
I was also on the cover of the Bauer Media publication "Keto Your Way" in January 2021. The Eat Like a Bear community has been featured in Woman's World two other times. Sales of the book "Half My Size with the Ridiculously Big Salad" went viral after nearly breaking the local post office and being featured in the national magazine for postal service employees:
https://link.usps.com/2021/03/04/bear-necessities/
Regional NBC affiliate KGET Bakersfield has featured us multiple times. Here's the first:
https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/delano-native-lost-more-than-100-pounds-after-creating-eat-like-a-bear-diet/
In September of 2021 KGET and Adventist Health honored me as part of their "Made for More" series, highlighting the many 100+ pound weight loss cases in the community: https://www.kget.com/madeformore/made-for-more-local-woman-helps-hundreds-across-the-country-lose-weight/?fbclid=IwAR0KqduN3PGOTMFb5S9M8JYjs6x5yTjyTMn_yGmtVs4A6okVZNyIHQ8dssk
As for my background, my Ph.D. is in the social sciences (political science), and so I am highly qualified in predicting how you might vote or analyzing why your agency is dysfunctional. I once gave a TEDx talk on consumer choice and information processing but, as for weight loss, I have absolutely no qualifications other than being the first 50-year-old woman I know who tried this diet approach and succeeded. Definitely don’t look to me for medical advice (but you shouldn’t be looking anywhere on the internet for that). While you should not look to me to cast your leg or write you a prescription, you will find my work in the psychology course here on this website. The course videos come out of social choice theory, an area of inquiry that comes out of Mathematics and Economics, which I used in my own publications. As I studied voters and public opinion in Central Europe and applied this social choice theoretical framework, it never occurred to me to turn the lens around and apply it to my own choices in eating. That is, in fact, what I do in the psychology course (available in the paid content area here). It was critical to my weight loss and has also been critical to my weight maintenance.
