BOOK #5
Monday, 01/28/07 to Sunday, 02/04/07
ISBN-10: 0743292545
ISBN-13: 978-0743292542
Diet & fitness books are always quite popular at the beginning of every year... so I felt somewhat of an obligation to include one in my review. However, any of you who know me know that I am not a diet girl. I can't handle all of the rules and lists and measuring and counting or the pedometers and barbells and steps and elastic bands. It's all too much. And - let's be honest - diet & fitness books are not typicallly thought of as "good reading." With all of the above in mind, I set out to find a book that:
- Had an easy, real life approach (i.e. no counting, measuring or fitness equipment involved),
- Was enjoyable to read - at least as much as possible, and
- Didn't seem gimmicky or unnatural (like taking certain "supplements" or only eating one food, etc.)
Believe it or not, I found all of those things in YOU On A Diet. I actually enjoyed the book. Here's the thing, though: we all know that the bottom line for weight loss or fitness is "eat healthy foods in moderation and exercise." That's pretty much it. But the guys who wrote this book, both medical doctors, provide the how and why - in a clear - and often humorous - manner. Plus, they throw in lots of neat drawings. And they wrap it all up with a sensible, doable, real life, no-exercise-equipment needed plan. So, for those reasons, this diet & fitness book gets my vote.
Book Description:
For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting--and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat.
Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America's most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist. They're going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body's fat-storing and fat-burning systems work, you're going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management.
Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information, motivation, and change-your-life action to show you how your brain, stomach, hormones, muscles, heart, genetics, and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium. In YOU: On a Diet, Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take you through an under-the skin tour of the organs that influence your body's size and its health. You'll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat.
Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail spammers, you'd think that just about all of us would know everything there is to know about dieting, about fat, and about the reasons why our bellies have grown so large. YOU: On a Diet is much more than a diet plan or a series of instructions and guidelines or a faddish berries-only eating plan. It's a complete manual for waist management. It will show you how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to which any weight-loss system can be explained. YOU: On a Diet will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution in our dieting software. After you learn about the biology of your body and the biology and psychology of fat, you'll be given the YOU Diet and YOU Workout. Both are easy to learn, follow, and maintain. Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to two inches from your waist right from the start.
With Roizen and Oz's signature accessibility, wit, and humor, YOU: On a Diet--The Owner's Manual for Waist Management will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the food you consume, so that you'll diet smart, not hard. Welcome to your body on a diet.
Related Books:
Here are a couple of other books in the diet & fitness category that are current "best-sellers" at Eldora's:
The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene
ISBN-10: 1416540660
ISBN-13: 978-1416540663
Book Description:
From the bestselling author of Get With the Program! and Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover comes The Best Life Diet, a lifetime plan for losing weight and keeping it off. Bob Greene helped Oprah achieve her dramatic weight loss, and he can help you too. You'll eat the same delicious food that Oprah enjoys, and, just like Oprah, you'll have Bob to encourage you at every step. Unlike a celebrity, however, you don't need to hire a staff of experts to aid and advise you, because Bob's plan, easily tailored to an array of tastes, lifestyles, and activity levels, acts as your personal trainer and private nutritionist. Just open the book and let Bob help you get started down the path toward your best possible life.
30-Minute Get Real Meals by Rachael Ray
ISBN-10: 1400082536
ISBN-13: 978-1400082537
Book Description:
In Rachael Ray’s 30-Minute Get Real Meals, the bestselling cookbook author and Food Network star serves up another helping of creative, hassle-free recipes that are ready to rock your tastebuds in less than thirty minutes. The latest addition to Rachael’s runaway hit series of 30-Minute Meals cookbooks is designed for cooks who want to look and feel great but long for the fun and the flavor that’s missing from their extreme low-carb meals.
Why fill your shopping cart and your stomach with processed, low-carb cereals and breads that taste like cardboard when you can eat the foods you crave? Here, at last, are recipes for those who just cannot and will not live totally carb-free: Pasta dinners made mostly with proteins and vegetables and only a couple of ounces of pasta per servings, fresh Thai and Mexican lettuce wraps, take-out-style stir-frys, and tons of burger ideas—with and without the buns.
And when you’ve just got to satisfy that sweet tooth, even nonbakers (like Rachael) will flip for Nutty Creamsicle Pie, Stuffed Roasted Strawberries, and other surprisingly easy dessert recipes.
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