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A world-class triathlete and a grandmother, Reynolds is proof that you can transform your life at any age. Her story is one of hope, tenacity, and faith, as she committed to doing whatever it took to be among the best triathletes in the world. It's a story about a unique intergenerational relationship between Reynolds and the young coach who earned her trust and helped her develop fitness and confidence. It's a story about the power of kindness and...
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The star of ABC-TV's hit show "Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition," and celebrity fitness trainer Powell offers more exercises, more nutrition tips, more recipes, more inspiration, and more weight loss success.
"A new inspirational and practical fitness book by celebrity trainer and bestselling author, Chris Powell, known to an audience of millions from the first and second seasons of ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition." His carb cycling...
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A personal trainer and fitness addict who had never been overweight recounts his six-month foray into the common American diet of fast food and refined, processed snacks during which he gained seventy-five pounds, and reveals how he got back down to a healthy weight.
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"In this empowering, invigorating book, Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs prove that fitness in a feminist issue. Inspired by a personal challenge to become the fittest they'd ever been by age fifty, the long-time friends, both feminist university professors and co-founders of the blog Fit Is a Feminist Issue, offer a new approach to athleticism--one that champions strength, health, and personal accomplishment over weight loss and aesthetics. They...
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How the Health Are You addresses the real causes for being overweight. These causes are, centered in the mind. Once this puzzle piece is in place, the rest becomes much easier to understand and control! This book is about losing weight, looking better, feeling better and developing wholeness of Body, Mind, and Spirit. This can give you a life of energy, abundance, passion, and enthusiasm for the rest of your life!
The principles and ideas, which are...
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After undergoing gall bladder surgery at age twenty-three, Jennette Fulda decided it was time to lose some weight. Actually, more like half her weight. At the time, Jennette weighed 372 pounds. Jennette was not born fat. But, by fifth grade, her response to a school questionnaire asking what would you change about your appearance was, "I would be thinner." Sound familiar? “Half-Assed” is the captivating and incredibly honest story of Jennette's...
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Discover "Burgers for Breakfast": Your Path to Sustainable Well-Being Without Diets!Dive into a revolutionary journey of weight management with our latest book, "Burgers for Breakfast: Break Free from Diets, Mini Habits for Weight Management." Say goodbye to frustrating diets and welcome to a world where health, enjoyment, and joy take center stage.Sustainable Well-Being: Learn how small habit changes can have a significant impact on your well-being....
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The brain likes the familiar, and that includes your body weight, even though it may not be healthy. This book, I Know How to Lose Weight so Why Can't I Keep It Off?, describes the biological obstacles that can make it extremely difficult to keep those lost pounds from coming back as your body fights to regain its comfort zone. Understanding how it all works is the first step in achieving your wellness goals. With this understanding, you'll realize...
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Lose weight, get fit, and stay healthy while you clean your house! With an endless to-do list getting in the way of her workout time, busy mom Carolyn Barnes decided to take matters into her own hands. She created the ultimate multitasking program: The cLEAN Momma Workout. Soon she was losing weight fast and her home was cleaner than ever. Barnes's Taskercise program will allow you to get fit, lose weight, and have fun-all while making your home sparkling...
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Growing up in small-town Wisconsin, Bob Brenner fed his addictions to food and football, becoming the biggest guy in his family of six siblings and on the defensive lines of winning team after winning team. Bob's size was an asset that he wanted to continue growing. Football carried Bob to the status of hometown hero on a college football team that he eventually coached. However, his education was all about pursuing his lifelong dream of being a police...
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It is very common to struggle with weight loss, and it can be common to not fully understand where to start to meet any weight loss goals. Diet and weight loss guides can be very helpful in providing a process on how to lose weight. This will allow someone to have a reference, and this can be very encouraging and positive in the process. A guide should be catered to specific needs in order to help those that need to lose weight to finally discover...
12) Weighing Love
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About 7 million women suffer from an eating disorder. By the age of 20, Paula Galli was descending into a personal hell - forever obsessed with food, body image and her weight. Life became a nightmare of deceit, sadness and self-hate. In Weighing Love, she analyzes through personal experiences overcoming her damaged self-image to help others learn how to rediscover their sense of self. With practical advice, encouragement and exercises her no-nonsense...
13) Running in Church Can't Count for Cardio: 12 Practical Prayers to Ignite Your Weight-Loss Journey
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Women of faith who have struggled with consistency in weight loss are, seeking something deeper than what the latest diet plan offers. They are, seeking the godly wisdom to overcome the unproductive thoughts and habits that sabotage their best efforts. This book will help you uncover ways to:
• Identify the underlying issues of your weight-loss setbacks
• Consider what God thinks about you based on His Word
• Develop an athlete's mindset to...
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Procrastinating, Stressing, Eating is for the thinking person, usually a woman, who is busy, probably cares for others (or has in the past), and probably also has paid employment. The demands on her time, and also, on her mental bandwidth, are constant. She recognizes her own health is important, that change is necessary (soon), but while, it is important, it is not essential right now. So, once again, change is delayed.
This book looks at why we...
15) Get It Done
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A unique, no-excuses, no-regrets body and mind revolution.
In his first book, personal trainer to the stars and Instagram sensation Bradley Simmonds reveals how to get the body of your dreams, and keep it.
Do you want to shred fat, get lean, tone up, be stronger, stabilise your core and access calm and focus?
Now you can, with Bradley's specially tailored food and workout plan.
A method seamlessly blending HIIT, body weight exercises, TRX and weight...
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When navigating the world of health and wellness, we desperately seek nutrition advice from newspapers, magazines, our "know-it-all" neighbor, our grandmothers' old wives' tales, the muscular guy at the gym, or "expert" health-care professionals. With good intentions to become healthier, we find ourselves confused by the conflicting messages that arise from mantras to "eat this, not that." These complicated trends leave us at a loss of what to eat...
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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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