The Real You Diet: Your Personal Program For Lasting Weight Loss

The Real You Diet: Your Personal Program For Lasting Weight Loss

From one of the nation's leading weight-loss specialists, the diet and nutrition expert from theToday show and iVillage.com?tools thatreally work to lose weight and keep it offAs a clinician, researcher, and media expert, Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom knows how you can lose weight. Her toolbox approach to weight loss is different from standard one-size-fits-all programs because you don't need to adapt to the plan; this plan adapts to you. It introduces you to the four types of tools that must work together for effective weight loss: eating, activity, behavior, and medical/biological. Do you overeat from stress or boredom? Do you like to exercise alone or with a group? The answers to these questions and others will unlock the unique weight-loss toolkit that's right for you. With some honest self-evaluation, you'll be able to explore and compare all of the options for weight loss in a single book. The right combination of tools, hand-picked by you, will support your weight loss and, later, weight stability over the long haul.Helps you develop your own unique path to weight loss?not a one-size-fits-all approachAddresses the four key areas for successful weight loss: eating, activity, behavior, and medical/biologyIncludes self-assessment quizzes and mini-tools to put into action right awayShows you how to keep going through plateaus and how to overcome obstaclesFernstrom guides you through each step of your weight-loss journey to help you make and keep a personal connection and commitment to your goals as you work to achieve them?your way.Amazon.com ReviewFrom one of the nation's leading weight-loss specialists, the diet and nutrition expert from theToday show, and iVillage.com tools thatreally work to lose weight and keep it off.As a clinician, researcher, and media expert, Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom knows how you can lose weight. Her toolbox approach to weight loss is different from standard one-size-fits-all programs because you don't need to adapt to the plan; this plan adapts to you. It introduces you to the four types of tools that must work together for effective weight loss: eating, activity, behavior, and medical/biological. Do you overeat from stress or boredom? Do you like to exercise alone or with a group? The answers to these questions and others will unlock the unique weight-loss toolkit that's right for you. With some honest self-evaluation, you'll be able to explore and compare all of the options for weight loss in a single book. The right combination of tools, hand-picked by you, will support your weight loss and, later, weight stability over the long haul.Helps you develop your own unique path to weight loss, not a one-size-fits-all approach Addresses the four key areas for successful weight loss: eating, activity, behavior, and medical/biology Includes self-assessment quizzes and mini-tools to put into action right away Shows you how to keep going through plateaus and how to overcome obstacles Fernstrom guides you through each step of your weight-loss journey to help you make and keep a personal connection and commitment to your goals as you work to achieve them your way.Set Goals for the Real You Amazon-exclusive content from Madelyn Fernstrom, Ph.D., C.N.S., author ofThe Real You Diet We all make fantastic promises to ourselves, but when real life intervenes and derails our good intentions, it can seriously demoralize us. Your strategy should be to set goals that will work in the real world, not the perfect one. Once you?ve agreed to that plan, your tools will fall right into place. Here are many of my favorites. Once you get started, you?ll be able to think of many others that work for you.The Perfect World versus the Real WorldPerfect world: Never eat after 7 p.m. Real world: Allow one mini-meal at night (up to 200 calories).Perfect world: Avoid all fast food. Real world: Choose a kids? meal.Perfect world: Visit the gym every day. Real world: Go to the gy