Diets and Weight Loss

Building a Sound Emotional Foundation
Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover
by Bob Greene
Most people poised to embark upon a 12-week body makeover program will begin by thinking about, and maybe even worrying about, how they're going to change their eating and exercise habits. But this program is different.

What Else Is in Store?
Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover
by Bob Greene
As part of your preparation for the 12-week program, I'd like you to put your intentions into writing by signing a contract with yourself. If you're familiar with some of my other books or if you've seen my work with people on The Oprah Winfrey Show

Introduction
Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover
by Bob Greene
Twelve weeks to total transformation. If you're familiar with Get With the Program!, Make the Connection, and Basic Training, a program on my Web site www.getwiththeprogram.org, you know that I've always said that it takes time and patience to lose weight

How To Use This Journal
The Essential Walker's Journal : Your Companion to Weight Loss, Health, and Personal Transformation
by Leslie Sansone
The most important thing to know about using this journal is to relax. This is your journal, to be used however you see fit. Nobody is going to check your answers or make sure you filled in every page, because there is no one way of keeping a journal

Leonardo da Vinci, the Golden Ratio and What's for Dinner
The Diet Code: Eat Bread, Drink Wine, Lose Weight
by Stephen Lanzalotta
In this imagined scene, one of the world's great geniuses finishes a meal as ideally proportioned as any of his master works. What Leonardo da Vinci brought a tavolo (to the table) was as balanced as anything he consciously designed during his long career

What the French Eat
The French Don't Diet Plan
by William Clower, Ph.D.
On the Saône River in Lyon, France, a lively farmers' market sprawls along much of the left bank on most mornings of the week. The first time I came across it, I was astonished at the possibilities beyond our conventional American supermarkets.

You Should Feel Lucky
Food and Loathing
by Betsy Lerner
It is 1972. I am twelve years old. It is the first day of sixth grade, and I am standing in the girls' gymnasium waiting to be weighed. My last name begins with L, so I am exactly in the middle of the line.

Learning to Love Food Again
Leslie Sansone's Eat Smart, Walk Strong : The Secrets to Effortless Weight Loss
by Leslie Sansone
There are many small ways we sabotage our health without realizing it. By recognizing these bad habits and developing good ones, we can see big results. Using her proven six-week-plan format, Leslie teaches readers how to eat healthier and smarter

Walk Away Those Pounds!
Walk Away the Pounds: The Breakthrough 6-Week Program That Helps You Burn Fat, Tone Muscle, and Feel Great Without Dieting
by Leslie Sansone
Losing weight has never been easier or more fun than with Leslie Sansone's Walk Away the Pounds. For over twenty-five years, Leslie has helped more women get off the couch and onto their feet than anyone else in the fitness industry.

Realistic Expectations
Calorie Queens: Living Thin in a Fat World
by Jackie Scott, Diane Scott Kellum, Brett A. Scott, M.D.
Fed up with trendy diets, a mother and daughter share the self-created down-home diet that helped them shed over 300 pounds. This is not a starvation or a fad diet. It's not really a diet at all. It's about learning how to eat for a lifetime

America Expands

If you've said anything like this recently, you're not alone. We spend enormous amounts of time, energy, and money on weight-loss programs, diet pills, shakes, prepackaged low-cal meals, fat- and sugar-free foods, and the latest diet books and products

Introduction

Would you ever consider going to the kitchen in the morning and grabbing five slices of bread for breakfast? No? Just one bagel or perhaps a bran muffin is more like it, right? Well, think again. Your morning bagel or muffin is probably equivalent

The Inflammation - Aging - Disease - Obesity Connection
The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet Personal Daily Journal: A Diet Journal to Keep You Focused on Your Weight-Loss Goals
by Nicholas Perricone, M.D.
As many readers of my earlier books know, the original anti-inflammatory diet is both a powerful antiaging, disease-fighting tool and the secret to clear, wrinkle-free skin. It was not specifically designed for weight loss.

Getting Started
The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet Personal Daily Journal: A Diet Journal to Keep You Focused on Your Weight-Loss Goals
by Nicholas Perricone, M.D.
Millions of women and men have restored youthful radiance, smoothness, and suppleness to their skin through Dr. Nicholas Perricone's advice, care, and transformative eating plan-and all with the welcome yet unexpected benefit of losing excess weight along

My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen
Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat : Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen
by Naomi Moriyama
What if there were a land where people lived longer than anywhere else on earth, the obesity rate was the lowest in the developed world, and women in their forties still looked like they were in their twenties?

The Principles of Eating Well

Dr. Weil provides us with a program for improving our well-being by making informed choices about how and what we eat. He gives us all the basic facts about human nutrition. Here is everything we need to know about fats, protein, carbohydrates, minerals

Why America Can't Stay Thin

Turn Up the Heat provides a thoroughly documented food management system personalized to each individual's metabolic type-fat-and-protein efficient, carbohydrate efficient, or dually efficient. The system is comprised of three components: eating the right

What is Self-Hypnosis?
Keep It Off: Your Key to Weight Loss for Life
by Brian Alman, Ph.D.
Welcome to the start of a journey to permanent weight loss using the power of self-hypnosis. If you're investigating self-hypnosis for the first time, you should know that you're about to learn how to make dramatic and positive changes in your life.

The Missing Ingredient
Keep It Off: Your Key to Weight Loss for Life
by Brian Alman, Ph.D.
Keep It Off reveals a step-by-step process for resolving the underlying issues that cause overeating and unwanted habits. Dr. Brian Alman has helped thousands of people find their inner guru and tap the well of resilience that lies within us all.

Blood Type and Fertility: A Vital Connection
Eat Right for Your Baby: The Individualized Guide To Fertility and Maximum Health During Pregnancy, Nursing, and Your Baby's First Year
by Peter J. D'Adamo, M.D., Catherine Whitney
Fearly in my practice as a naturopath, I discovered, almost by coincidence, that when my female patients followed the correct diet for their blood type, fertility increased dramatically. Even women with long-standing fertility problems, including repeated