BodyFueling: Stop Watching Your Weight, Start Fueling Your Life [Paperback]

Robyn Landis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 24, 2000

Most Americans don't know how to fuel their bodies for high performance - or even to meet their basic needs. Many think they know because the news or fashion media toss them an occasional piece of information. You manipulate and regiment your diet, but you do not simply eat with confident knowledge about exactly what your body needs, and when, and why. BodyFueling changes that with user-friendly education about eating and fitness that translates basic science into everyday terms, and deprograms diet thinking - the prevailing body of unhealthy attitudes and beliefs about food and fitness. BodyFueling offers a clear-headed and refreshing look beyond thoughtless diet platitudes, assumptions, and trying to "fix" your body - and a provocative, positive perspective on investing in your health and future. Eating to fuel your life, you'll enjoy more productivity, stamina, energy, vitality and leanness - and, most importantly, freedom from concern about fat, weight, and food. Eating will become joyful, healthful and satisfying. You'll be a powerfully informed consumer, not a sound-bite victim or a target for fads and fallacies. You won't "have to change your eating" - you'll want to fuel your body. BodyFueling is not a program. It's not about what you are "allowed" or can't have. Instead of giving you something to follow, it gives you knowledge - and the power to make truly informed choices for the rest of your life.

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About the Author

Author/health advocate Robyn Landis founded The BodyFueling Workshop in 1990 and wrote the bestselling BodyFueling to promote "fueling" for high performance, health, productivity and pleasure. She has taught thousands of people, working with schools, welfare reform programs, eating-disorder groups, health-care professionals, athletes, and executive development programs. Landis is also the author of Herbal Defense. Her website is www.bodyfueling.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: IUniverse (July 24, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595001068
• ISBN-13: 978-0595001064
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,314,986 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life-Changing, October 25, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: BodyFueling: Stop Watching Your Weight, Start Fueling Your Life (Paperback)

I highly recommend this book. I picked it up during a period when I was having a lot of headaches, fatigue and dizzyness. I suspected it was connected to my diet because the symptoms seemed to get worse after I ate. This book offers great information as to how your body actually metablolizes carbohydrate, protein and fat-in layman's terms-and it's fascinating. The author makes a very convincing case for the importance of eating frequently and plentifully (and how/why NOT eating will make you fat). While I don't subscribe to the bread and pasta she advocates, the book helped me understand how my body worked and the source of my problem-too much high glucose food. Like just about everyone else in this country, I thought bagels, pasta, fruit juice, etc. make a healthy diet. Once I changed my eating habits, using the information from this book, my symptoms diasappeared. Also, while I was never overweight, I lost ten pounds and virtually ALL the cellulite I'd had on my body. I wish I'd read this book as a teenager-and would recommend it to any parent with a teenage daughter who has issues with weight control/diet. Another excellent book about nutrition is Bob Arnot's Revolutionary Weight Control Program.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Okay, so I lost a lot of weight, too ..., July 2, 2005

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Cici (Urbana, IL, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BodyFueling: Stop Watching Your Weight, Start Fueling Your Life (Paperback)

I'm a pasta and bread sorta person. While listening to my friends complain about headaches and always being hungry while they went the avoid carbs and heavy-on-the-protein diet route, I followed Ms. Landis advice. One year of lots of pasta and bread and munching on carbs whenever I felt hungry, I feel great and look great too! What more could you want? Okay, so I lost a lot of weight, too, without the hunger or the headaches! I'm 32 pounds lighter and gone from size 18 to 14. Next year, maybe size 12, hm?

I also recommend: Eat More, Weigh Less by Dr. Dean Ornish

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Throw away all the "diet" books!, October 19, 2003

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"washingtondiane" (Port Ludlow, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BodyFueling: Stop Watching Your Weight, Start Fueling Your Life (Paperback)

After reading book after book looking for the magic "plan" I finally came across Body Fueling. I wish I had read this book 30 years ago before I started the diet roller coaster, I would be way ahead of the game...plus I would have established a happier and healthier relationship with food. Robyn has a great way of explaining food and fueling for life. Her emphasis on setting a vision or goal more encompassing than "losing 20 pounds" or "wearing a size 8" creates a psychological foundation for long term success. Best of all her approach is so freeing. Two months into applying her principles has made a wonderful difference in my life...this is really a sustainable solution for long term results.