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In the US, millions of people spend billions of dollars on books, programs, drugs,or surgery that claim to offer a solution to obesity. It is a huge and exploitive industry that flourishes while, per capita, we are becoming heavier and unhealthier by the minute. None of the above fully address the core issue with weight and that is: why are we so hungry? Where do these cravings come from and how do we become craving free and empowered in our food...
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If you struggle with your weight, you know that most weight-loss programs focus on getting more exercise or following a strict, high-maintenance diet. The problem is that changing habits from the outside just doesn't last for most people. In Turning Fat into Love, Dutch dietician and nutritionist Pauline Kerkhoff explains that it is impossible to become happier and healthier by depriving yourself or judging yourself, but that love will transform you...
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Expert Health and Wellness guidance on creating your own healthy lifestyle change. You will learn the keys to building a healthy lifestyle that is tailored to you. You will achieve weight management, disease prevention/reparation, and practical methods to use towards better health. You will also get a meal plan, food challenge, exercise instructions, supplement suggestions, and so much more!
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The secret key to losing weight easily! Train your brain and say goodbye to diets forever! You think losing weight is all about diet and exercise. You think: If only I could just stick to that diet, resist the carbs and exercise daily, I would lose weight! But I am too weak and don't have the willpower You are stuck in a vicious cycle, going from failed diets to bouts of secret indulgence, from deprivation to frustration! What you don't know: You...
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Meet your new best yoga-and-healthy-eating friend in this smart, accessible, and funny memoir of dieting and discovery.
For years, Jessica struggled with fluctuating weight and bouts of unhappiness. Like many of us, she found comfort in food and craved cigarettes and self-confidence. Then one day Jessica took her first yoga class in Katmandu. She lost 40 pounds and changed her life forever.
In enLIGHTened, Jessica shares the core principles of yoga...
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By age 18, Melanie Weaver was a single parent with a traumatic past. By age 26, she topped the scales at 480 pounds and could barely walk without a cane. Bariatric surgery helped but didn't provide the lasting weight loss she craved. Then a miracle occurred. She learned she could change anything she wanted in her life through introspection and inner work. She woke up to her own worthiness and discovered a deep place of love, healing, and acceptance...
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Cut back or quit drinking entirely... simply!
Are you worried you're drinking too much? Has alcohol become a major part of your life? Do you fear it's affecting your health? Your relationships? Your career?
Millions of people are dependent on alcohol to self-medicate trauma, stress, depression, or succumbing to peer pressure to drink more than they want. They'd love to cut-back but fear losing the buzz they associate with alcohol, and mistakenly...
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"When we look in the mirror, so many of us see a 'before' picture: the miserable person in the side-by-side shot waiting for the 'glow-up' (read: weight loss) that will bring true happiness. But it's not our fault that we see our bodies as projects in need of constant work: this is just one of the beliefs that has been ingrained in us by diet culture. We have been taught to view ourselves as a collection of 'problem' areas for which the billion-dollar...
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For over a year John Ordover documented his struggle to lose weight, in the process creating a battlefield journal of the physical and emotional challenges he faced and how he worked past them. Here Ordover collects his weekly weight reports and adds wry observations on what he was doing and feeling, ways he coped with both setbacks and success, and a sharp push-back against society's unkind treatment of those with a weight problem. In his own illuminating...
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