Feed Your Head [Mass Market Paperback] Review

Feed Your Head left me Full of Great Information! This Powerful Book takes all the complicated Diet, Exercise, and Healthy Life Style information and simplifies it into an easy to read, easy to understand format that encourages the reader to change the way he thinks about food. The book is filled with useful, practical, and surprising, information and overflows into the author's website for even more interactive and current information.

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A simpler, smarter approach to better diet and health. The CDC estimates that 66% of all U.S. adults are either overweight or obese. Though we Americans spend more than $30 billion a year on dieting, 95% of us who lose weight gain it back. What's different about this book? It's a fun and easy read that informs, angers and inspires citing statistics, busting myths, offering tips, providing tools and much more. Full integration with this site enables easy access to a useful collection of additional resources about food, exercise and wellness. Recognizing that digestion starts in the brain, Ken Leebow invites you to feed your head with facts and common-sense solutions to help seek, achieve and maintain a healthier weight and lifestyle.

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A Big, Phat Diet by a Big, Phat Loser: An Extreme, All-Over Makeover for Every Facet of Your Life [Paperback] Review

This book is so much fun and the "Healthy Lifestyle Agreement" is a great motivational tool to use with a buddy for the best possible weight loss results. I also love how it is the first diet book in Spanish that includes the "Healthy Lifestyle Agreement" for Latinas. Brilliant & Amazing! You will love this book, too!

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"A BIG, PHAT Diet

by a BIG, PHAT Loser"

(English & Spanish)

All-Natural Additives:

* Healthy Lifestyle Agreement
* Diet Journal
* Exercises
* Weight Chart
* Tip Calculation Chart
* Budget Worksheet
* PHAT Girl Mantra

Recommended Daily Allowance: >One Chapter per day.

Lisa M. Addrade (Author of Fueling the Appetite-Poetically Speaking)

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Lean for Life : The Clinically-Proven Step-By-Step Plan for Losing Weight Rapidly and Safely...and Controlling It for Life! [Illustrated] (Paperback) Review

Over the years I have written a number of diet book reviews ... I am happy to say that LEAN FOR LIFE is the last diet book I will need to review. LEAN FOR LIFE WORKS and I don't need to read anymore diet books!
The book "Lean For Life" has since been updated and retitled. It's now called "Lean For Life Phase One" and is available ... and at leanforlife.com. I would advise purchasing the new version instead of shelling out the extra money for an out of print copy of the original Lean for Life.
Lean for Life Phase One is a book that you do. Each day you are given step by step directions to follow to mentally and physically achieve your weight loss goals.
The program begins with a "prep" period where you buy the items you need for the diet and prepare yourself mentally.
The next 3 days are protein days. You select protein choices from a given list. I was shocked to find that it was easy. I ate cheese, yogurt, drank milk, protein bars, nibbled on chicken, eggs and more.
This is followed by a period where you add vegetables, grains and fruit from a list. The program is designed to get your body in a state of ketosis so you do not experience cravings, mood problems etc. AND IT WORKS!
On previous programs I had cravings for sweets and could not stick with the plan. But with LFL your cravings (if any) are very manageable and you eat so you are not hungry!
Each day adds in new mental concepts to work on to learn to become LEAN FOR LIFE. Exercise is also included - how much to do and when to do it for best effect.
After a cycle of weight loss you go into a period of metabolic adjustment adding in yet more food. Then you can repeat the cycle of weight loss if you need to lose more or you can go on to the carefully designed maintenance plan. Everything is planned out so you will become LEAN FOR LIFE and not gain the weigh back!
I have lost weight quickly, safely and with ease. It's a wonderful program and I highly recommend it! I am finally achieving my weight loss goals thanks to LEAN FOR LIFE!

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Whether you choose to lose 5, 50, or 500 pounds, you will find this remarkable, results-oriented book -- and the clinically proven programme it features -- a dynamic roadmap to results! Developed with experience from five million patient treatments at the renowned Lindora Medical Clinics, this innovative three-phase approach to weight loss has changed the lives -- and bodies -- of more than 150,000 men, women, and teenagers since 1971. Lean for Life guides you through the programme day by day, offering practical, proven 'success strategies' and sharing inspiring insights from people who have lost between 20 and 450 pounds -- and kept it off! It also serves as a gateway to an unprecedented reader support system, including the Lean for Life World Wide Web Site, newsletter, and telephone hotline. This landmark programme has helped people all over the world achieve their weight-loss goals.

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Thin People Don't Clean Their Plates: Simple Lifestyle Choices for Permanent Weight Loss [Hardcover] Review

Jill Fleming a registered dietician with an MS in nutritional science developed the THIN CHOICES program. This program reveals the habits of thin people.

In her book "Thin People Don't Clean Their Plates", Fleming reveals her techniques. The book opens with inspiring quotes from Jill's clients. In the 17 chapters that follow, Jill explains exactly what thin people do that helps them stay that way. Though the 136 page book is slim, Jill gets right to the point instead of including the extra fluff many other "diet" books do. She doesn't spend time writing about why all the other diets out there (except hers) don't work and she avoids a lot of scientific, technical chatter.

Chapters include Thin People Don't Diet, Thin People Carry Snacks, Thin People Don't Go to Bed Full, Thin People Eat Fruits and Vegetables and more.

The bottomline is the commonsense that prevails throughout the book. If you want to lose weight and maintain it you will have to eat less and/or move more. Jill tells you simple ways to do this. I especially liked her information on walking. One thing Jill shares is that a 155 pound woman who adds 1/2 hour of walking to her daily routine with no other dietary changes can lose 26 pounds a year. Sounds very doable to me!

Fleming encourages you to give up dieting and adapt an approach that you can stick with for a lifetime. Simple suggestions to incorporate into your life for wellness and a healthy slim body.

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When Jill Fleming obtained her bachelor of science degree in dietetics and a master's degree in nutritional sciences, she found herself carrying an extra 40 pounds. Since her plan was to work with overweight people to help them lose weight, Fleming knew she needed to examine her own lifestyle.
She began with simple changes: cutting back on junk food, drinking more water, moving her body. Her weight started to melt off. Fleming went on to develop the THIN CHOICES® weight-loss and maintenance program based on her own success, the success of her weight-loss clients over 11 years, and numerous surveys of thin people. Here she reveals her life-transforming approach to permanent weight loss.
The book is divided into 17 chapters, each describing how the habits of "thin" people keep them that way. From "Thin People Don't ‘Diet'" to "Thin People Don't Go to Bed Full," from "Thin People Eat Chocolate" to "Thin People Drink Water," you'll soon learn exactly what you need to do -and you'll understand the reason. Easy-to-understand analogies and visuals will help translate often confusing scientific nutrition information in layman's terms.
Latter chapters include recipe alterations and menu ideas, a summary of the THIN CHOICES program, and tips on maintenance once weight loss has been achieved. A suggested reading list provides additional resources.
Fleming writes, "It has been said that ‘where the mind goes, the body will follow.' Believe that you are a thin person; begin living like a thin person and soon you will become that thin person." And it truly does seem that simple.

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Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life: Dr. Taub's 28 Day Permanent Weight Loss Plan (Hardcover) Review

With all of the complicated, controversial and misleading information that has been written on this subject, it is a pleasure to read such aprofoundly simple, complete and common sense approach to weight management. Dr. Taub's writing style makes it an easy read that is full of lifeenhancing information.Dr. Taub states in his book that "Yourthoughts are the driving force behind what you eat".Reading thisbook will change your thinking.'Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life' isa must read for all who struggle with weight control.Thank you, Dr. Taub,for providing such a sensible and scientifically soundbook that I canenthusiastically recommend. Dr. John H. Sklare/The Inner Diet

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The Park Avenue Nutritionist's Plan: The No-Fail Prescription for Energy, Vitality & Weight Loss [Bargain Price] [Hardcover] Review

I'm a huge fan of Dr. Jana Klauer! I loved her first book, "How the Rich Get Thin," and I equally love the second. Of course, not all the advice in the second book is new, but it's highly inspiring (and entertaining)! We all know that, to lose weight and keep it off, we have to eat less and move more. Any diet book will tell you that. But Dr. Klauer's client stories and strategies offer motivation, the most important ingredient for weight loss! I'm glad she emphasizes her nutrition shakes. I've been drinking her shakes for about a year now, and I've also been recommending them to all my fitness clients (I'm a personal trainer specializing in weight loss). It's DIFFICULT to lose weight, but Dr. Klauer's shakes have helped at least 80 percent of my clientle lose weight. That's a HUGE success, given 95% of diets result in failure.

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Dr. Jana Klauer's high-profile, hard-charging Manhattan patients can't afford to be off their game. Maybe it's the after-lunch slump, or the inability to focus on a crucial task at deadline time. It could be a constant nagging tiredness, or a thickening waistline, even when they're exercising. Klauer's patients go to Park Avenue's premier nutritionist for results: to look and feel better. And they get them.In The Park Avenue Nutritionist's Plan, Dr. Klauer prescribes a smart eating program to bring you back to peak vitality, sharpness and your perfect weight. Dr. Klauer's Energy Diet will tell you:--How to break the bad habit of constant dieting, and stop cycling through one fashionable diet to the next, without permanent results
--When to drink water, and how much
--How to use high-protein snacks
--When to have your first and last meals of the day
--About high-impact foods like berries, leafy green vegetable, fish and dairy calcium
--Why some energy shakes restore alertness but others sap it
--What to do about caffeine
--Whether you can drink alcohol or snack between mealsDr. Klauer's Park Avenue patients swear by her-after startingon her Park Avenue Nutritionist's Plan, you will too!



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The Snack Factor Diet: The Secret to Losing Weight--by Eating MORE (Paperback) Review

I really wanted to love Keri Glassman's, "The Snack Factor Diet". Glassman writes in an easy to follow style and the book is packed with information. And who wouldn't love to snack several times a day. However, there were many things I don't like about plan.

Glassman is a good writer and she is very easy to understand. She shares a lot of good nutritional information in this 244 page book. But I felt her overall plan would be hard to follow. The plan begins with a 3 day cleanse.This includes dandelions, cucumbers, all you can eat celery stalks, lean meat and lemon water. Did someone say STRICT DIET! To be fair however, the cleanse is optional and designed to blast away your cravings etc.

The "real" diet is better but restrictive. Though she blasts low carb diets in her book. Her book is pretty low carb. She calls potatos, rice, cereal, pasta etc. starches and you are limited to one or two a day at breakfast depending on your weight!

A typical day on the plan might include milk, fiber cereal, and walnuts for breakfast, shrimp salad with avocado and dressing for lunch, chicken breast with veggies and a little fat for dinner. And two snacks.

The book focuses on eating snacks each day and though Glassman lists a lot of snacks, I personally felt the snacks were not necessarily optimal choices. For on the go snacking she recommends for example cottage cheese and yogurt. These items need to be refridgerated so how on the go is this?

Many of her snack choices seem unbalanced. Two or three slices of bacon or two turkey meatballs. I really think that selecting a protein and a carb for each snack is what will keep one full and content to the next meal. Some of her choices were strictly protein or carb and fat etc.

Glassman also wants you to keep a food journal and discusses the importance of exercise and managing stress. She advises drinking lemon water instead of using fake sweeteners and she gives extensive nutrition information and simple recipes. She does not give nutrition information on her menus. Glassman does a great job of explaining her plan and you can elect to plan your own meals around the information she gives or follow set menus.

Overall I think it's a restrictive plan but if you don't mind only one starch a day, you may want to give it a munch.

Lee Mellott


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Eat all day and still lose weight!

Go ahead. Ruin your appetite on snacks. Because if you want to be more energetic, feel younger, and lose weight, you have to eat more. That is the advice from Keri Glassman, and the basis for the program you'll find in The Snack Factor Diet. Glassman reveals how snacking helps you:

- Keep your metabolism revved
- Maintain high energy levels
- Slow the aging process
- Put an end to hunger-related mood swings
- Eliminate sugar cravings

This proven, groundbreaking diet includes an easy-to-follow menu plan and hundreds of intensely satisfying snacks for every craving.

Sweet Chocolate Pudding or Banana Peanut "Ice Cream"
Salty Pizzettes or Prosciutto Wraps
CreamyBlack Bean Dip or Apple Yogurt

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Mind Over Body: The Key to Lasting Weight Loss Is All in Your Head (Hardcover) Review

A self-help mind body spirit weight loss and fitness book by former Mr. France and Mr. Universe, Nordine Zouareg, Mind Over Body looks at the interconnection between what we believe and how we become. Zouareg is the fitness coach at the exclusive Miraval Life in Balance spa and resort in Arizona.

Zouareg describes how everyone can learn and implement his method for mental motivation--what he calls our `core desire'--and then learn how to master the tools (visualization, meditation, affirmation) to keep on track with weight-loss goals. After readers understand and practice these tools, they learn some of the basics about nutrition and the Miraval way of healthy living. The book comes with an exercise plan developed by the author to shed unwanted pounds. According to Mr. Zouareg, consistent use of the mind body spirit method will keep the additional weight off forever.

But to truly test any self-help weight loss book, I knew that I had to bring it into my own life. I started with the creative visualization, then the meditation, and finally the affirmations. I admit that I felt more than a little silly saying the affirmations. Being a writer, I found I did best by saying them, and then writing them down in a journal.

I then read about the basics of nutrition and the 40/40/20×5 fat loss plan, and tried some of the sample recipes that were actually quite tasty. The vegetable omelet was a big hit in my household.

On to the exercise....I'm more of a couch potato, but oddly enough I enjoyed the stretching exercises, even found them relaxing. The more strenuous exercises...well, I'm still working on those. I see this more as a slow progression, one that will hopefully develop into a good habit. So, how much weight have I lost? 4.5 pounds in ten days. Not bad for a former junk food eating couch potato.

Other links and resources are in the index.

I highly recommend this book if you are truly ready to change your life and willing to try a more holistic approach to weight loss and healthy living.

Armchair Interviews says: More than just a diet book, this combines the mind, body and spirit for weight-loss success.

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The true secret to weight-loss success is all in your head.

Nordine Zouareg has helped thousands of clients get healthier, be happier, and lose weight for good. And in the process, he's discovered something astounding: the mental work his clients do before they start their diet and exercise plan is actually just as (if not more) important than the plan itself.

In Mind Over Body, Nordine describes how everyone can find this mental motivation -- what he calls our "core desire" -- and then master the tools (visualization, meditation, affirmation) to keep on track with weight-loss goals. After readers develop this foundation, they move on to the inspiring nutrition and exercise plan--a simple, effective program developed to help shed weight and keep it off forever. You'll learn:

-- The fool-proof method for preparing your mind -- and your body -- before you diet
-- Thirty delicious foods that are the staples of the Mind Over Body eating plan
-- When to cheat -- without blowing your diet
-- How to get an effective workout in just 24 minutes a day
-- The 10 commandments of mindful strength training

As the fitness coach at Miraval Life in Balance spa, Nordine has worked with celebrities, business leaders, discerning travelers, and soccer moms all across North America. Rated the #1 spa by Conde Nast Traveler, the #1 destination spa by Travel and Leisure, and the top spa in American by Zagat, Miraval has become the premier destination for bringing people?s lives into balance and teaching them how to live mindfully. Now, in Mind Over Body, Nordine teaches the same program that has proven wildly successful for his clients (and himself!) for the past twenty years. Learn how to determine your true fitness goals...and get the tools you need to finally make it come true!

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Outrunning My Shadow: Surviving Open-Heart Surgery and Battling Obesity/The Decision to Change My Life (Paperback) Review

I picked this book up and did not put it down until I turned the last page. If you are overweight, you will relate. If you are unhealthy (but not willing to admit it out loud), you will relate. However, if you are thin, and don't understand the overweight population, you need to read this book, so you can relate. This book left me feeling; if he can do it, I can do it. This book also provides great insight to the inner workings of our bodies and what we need to achieve balance both physically and mentally. Thank you for sharing your story.

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Outrunning My Shadow: Surviving Open-Heart Surgery and Battling Obesity/The Decision to Change My Life by Keith Ahrens is a fascinating and highly informative memoir about the author's confrontation with mortality and his determination to save his own life. In this self-help book, the author shares the experience of weighing more than 400 pounds, suffering lightheadedness, and finally seeing a physician. When this sedentary man learned that he had suffered a heart attack and that open-heart surgery was his only option for survival, his efforts toward his recovery became dramatically proactive. The spirit of this book is not a confrontation for readers who are overweight, but a supportive and encouraging reminder that everyone deserves to have a long and healthy life, and that paying attention to how we live; food, exercise, regular checkups; goes a long way toward good health. For anyone seeking the inspiration and encouragement to pursue longevity, this is the place to start.

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