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How to lose weight properly, keep it off easily, and feel energized with handheld weights and without deprivation-from the popular fitness guru.
Everyone knows that dieting without exercise doesn't work. But not all exercises are equally effective. Weights for Weight Loss explains why weight training is the best way to get in shape and provides readers with a comprehensive program that will guarantee success. The author dispels the five myths of...
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On TV's The Biggest Loser, Harper gives contestants the practical tools and psychological insights they need to get into shape. In his book, he offers a strategy for getting at the root of negative thought patterns, an easy-to-follow eating plan, and a fitness plan geared to make exercise an integral part of daily life.--From publisher description.
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[2008]
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This diet is an eating plan grounded in cutting-edge science and is the safest, most satisfying way to lose weight. It is based on new research that has found a link between MUFAs (monounsaturated fatty acids) and the acculmulation of belly fat. The secret to this no-hunger plan is eating four meals a day, each featuring one of the five MUFAs: oils, olives, nuts and seeds, avocados, and dark chocolate.
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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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"You are not a failure. And you are not alone. You are being scammed by a system that promises quick fixes that fix nothing and sells you money-sucking programs that do nothing but fuel overeating. At each meal, 93 million overweight American adults and 14 million overweight children and adolescents risk their lives. More than 300,000 die unnecessarily every year from obesity-related diseases.Hazel Dixon-Cooper was a size 22 woman in a size 2 world...
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The Inspiration You Need to Make Healthy Habits Stick—for Life.
Monday is for dieting. Tuesday is for cravings. Wednesday is for getting on the scale. And Thursday is for reflecting. Between struggling with cravings, deciphering nutrition labels, facing the scale, controlling portions, and setting realistic goals, it's no wonder most diets fail... until now.
With a dose of Chicken Soup (low-fat, of course!), you can: Control...
Monday is for dieting. Tuesday is for cravings. Wednesday is for getting on the scale. And Thursday is for reflecting. Between struggling with cravings, deciphering nutrition labels, facing the scale, controlling portions, and setting realistic goals, it's no wonder most diets fail... until now.
With a dose of Chicken Soup (low-fat, of course!), you can: Control...
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[2013]
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Presents a flexible and workable diet plan that will help readers lose weight, restore health, prevent disease and ultimately add years to their lives while also explaining all of the potentially fatal health risks associated with an unhealthy diet and the specific food groups that can act as medicines to attain immediate results.
The Doctor's Diet is the cure to unhealthy eating--an American epidemic with a death toll higher than that of car accidents,...
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Forget fad diets-here's a proven program based on good sense and good scienceHere are just a few of the bewildering pseudoscientific suggestions found in some of the bestselling diet books: abandon starch; eat all the fat you want, but count protein grams; eat dessert, but no fat; never mix proteins and carbohydrates; customize your diet based on your blood type; forget counting calories; seek emotional solutions to your weight issues. Even books...
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The human body has the amazing ability to switch which fuels it uses for energy based on what fuel is available at the time--researchers call this metabolic flexibility. Bodies that are able to make this switch can burn sugars, proteins, and other food nutrients when available, and then switch to burning the body's fat storage or fatty acids when food calories are not available. It turns out that losing weight is not just about burning calories, it's...
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From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life," one of the world's leading experts on how the brain works, comes a practical, prescriptive step-by-step program that reveals how to boost one's brain in order to lose weight and keep it off for a lifetime.
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"Dr. Li introduces the surprising new science of weight loss, revealing healthy body fat can help you lose weight; your metabolism at 60 can be the same as when you were 20; yo-yo dieting can be good for your health; 8-hour fasting windows can be as effective as 12-hour fasting windows; and losing just a little bit of weight can have big impacts on your health. Eat to Beat Your Diet shows readers how adding the right foods to your diet can heal your...
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"A month from now, you'll wish you had started today.Yes, a month is all it takes to see long-term results.And seriously-even YOU can lose that weight! Food and exercise fads come and go, mainly because they just aren't sustainable. After a few days, you're hungry, bored, or hungry AND bored. That's why the Today show's very first lifestyle and fitness correspondent, Jenna Wolfe, created her famous 30-Day Fitness Challenge for her viewers. The challenge...
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New York Times best-selling author offers a one-of-a-kind program to help readers finally become happy, thin, and free! Sustainable weight loss expert Susan Peirce Thompson builds on the success of her Bright Line Eating Boot Camps and best-selling book with: The Official Bright Line Eating Cookbook! The Official Bright Line Eating Cookbook is designed to help readers transition to this transformative way of life as smoothly and solidly as possible....
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"Beck [posits] that when it comes to losing weight, it's not just about what we eat. It's also about how we think. To consistently eat differently, we must learn to think differently. Diets fail us because they don't offer effective strategies for overcoming the common traps--emotional eating, social pressure, dining out--that can derail us"--Amazon.com.
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"Muffin tops, love handles and potbellies have finally met their match. Created by fitness, nutrition and weight loss expert Traci D. Mitchell, The Belly Burn Plan will help you shed belly fat fast and for good by focusing on three components that are essential for eliminating weight through the midsection: Body Type Eating: Eating the appropriate amounts of protein, carbohydrates and fat for your body type to manage the hormones responsible for...
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The author of Body love returns with custom 21-day eating plans tailored to four different types of women: "The Girl on the Go" for the woman who wants to eat healthy while managing a hectic schedule, "The Domestic Goddess" for the woman who loves to spend time in the kitchen, "The Plant-Based Devotee" for the woman who avoids animal products, and "The Red-Carpet Ready" for the woman who wants to look and feel her best for an upcoming special event....
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