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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Learn the most simple and effective way to adhere to the widely popular ketogenic diet, and lose up to twenty pounds per month with easy meal plans and recipes containing no more than six ingredients. The ketogenic diet, which promotes weight loss from being in the metabolic state of ketosis, is one of the most popular and effective diet plans in recent years, and it continues to grow in popularity as people across the country learn more and more...
83) The bulletproof diet: lose up to a pound a day, reclaim your energy and focus, and upgrade your life
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In his midtwenties, Dave Asprey was a successful Silicon Valley multimillionaire. He also weighed 300 pounds, despite the fact that he was doing what doctors recommended: eating 1,800 calories a day and working out 90 minutes a day, six times a week. When his excess fat started causing brain fog and food cravings sapped his energy and willpower, Asprey turned to the same hacking techniques that made his fortune to "hack" his own biology, investing...
84) One fat summer
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1991, c1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
An overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turning point summer in which he learns to stand up for himself
Author
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
A cutting-edge weight-loss approach for fighting fat at its source--within the cells. For anyone who battles the bulge, whether it is the dreaded five pounds or significant weight loss, Never Be Fat Again offers a refreshing new lifestyle approach to weight control. The secret is in understanding that overweight is a disease. Weight-loss diets don't work because you cannot cure this disease by dieting--the weight is merely a symptom, and this symptom...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
There's nothing like a makeover story to get people hooked, and America is certainly addicted to the weight-loss saga of once celebrated actress Dona Papalardo. Plus-sized P. I. Savannah Reid is no exception although she can't imagine wanting to shed her own hourglass figure by undergoing gastric bypass surgery like Dona did. After Dona's personal assistant is shot dead in the star's mile-long driveway, Savannah becomes her bodyguard. The victim was...
90) Ballet beautiful: transform your body and gain the strength, grace, and focus of a ballet dancer
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Artistic. athletic. attainable: these three words represent the promise of Ballet Beautiful, a transformative approach to reshaping your body so that it becomes slender, long, and lean--with the strength and grace of a ballerina. Founder Mary Helen Bowers has used this method to help women lose weight, turn fat into lean muscle, and re-contour their bodies to achieve the regal posture, strength, and elegance of a ballerina. Helps you: achieve the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"With EAT, Dr. Ian Smith has created a diet book in the flexible spirit of Mireille Guiliano's French Women Don't Get Fat or Michael Pollan's The Food Rules: it doesn't dictate quantities, portion sizes or verboten foods. Instead, it intelligently and persuasively lays out the ten simple rules anyone can internalize and follow in any situation for stress-free weight loss and lifetime maintenance. Dr. Ian's rules are straight-forward and simple: once...
Author
Publisher
Perseus Running [distributor]
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the highly acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Rose and An Obsession with Butterflies, here takes us on a tour of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to seven days and beyond. What Russell finds-both in our bodies and in cultures around the world-is extraordinary. It is a biological process that...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The classic bestseller about rejecting diet mentality. Now revised and updated for the intuitive eaters of today. Since it was first published in 1995, Intuitive Eating has become the go-to book on rebuilding a healthy body image and making peace with food. It shows us that the problem is not us; it's that dieting, with its emphasis on rules and regulations, has stopped us from listening to our bodies. Written by Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., and Elyse...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of the revolutionary The 17 Day Diet returns with a three-step weight loss program that promotes plant-based eating and other accessible strategies that will effectively reset your bad habits and help you learn how to automatically make healthy decisions for life." -- inside front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Eat well. Enjoy life. Lose weight. This completely revised and updated edition of the popular Mayo Clinic Diet is a practical, no-nonsense approach to weight loss designed to help individuals lose weight and, most importantly, keep it off. The book includes to step-by-step advice on key behavior changes to promote weight loss, plus four weeks of daily menus and all-new recipes. The Mayo Clinic Diet is based on years of experience with literally thousands...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
For the first time, Family Power provides a revolutionary program that gives you proven, practical solutions for achieving a healthy weight and maintaining it as a family. Filled with the motivational stories of families who have achieved healthy-weight homes as well as expert advice from their coaches, Family Power gets your family up, moving, and improving health together as no other book ever has before.
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Dr. Agatston shows how to rev up your metabolism and lose weight faster while following the proven healthy eating principles of the original diet: choose good carbs, good fats, lean protein, and low-fat dairy. Collaborating with Dr. Joseph Signorile, a professor of exercise physiology at the University of Miami, Dr. Agatston presents a cutting-edge, three-phase workout that perfectly complements the three phases of the diet itself. Based on the latest...
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