The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weight Loss [Paperback]

Lucy Beale; Sandy G. Couvillon; Beverly Donnelly; Katherine A. Hutcheson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: Alpha (2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028643852
• ISBN-13: 978-0028643854
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #553,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lucy Beale takes a gentle approach to eating, wellness, and weight loss. She encourages her readers to eat well while savoring wonderful tastes and, yes, even comfort foods. She shows her readers how to tune into the body's needs for nourishment, comfort, and pleasure.

Over 20 years ago, Lucy was 50 pounds overweight and after years of diets, counting calories, and disappointments, learned to listen to her body, lost the weight and has stayed at a size 4/6 since then.

Lucy is a wellness coach who speaks professionally on Body, Mind & Wellness. Her blog is at http://lucybeale-weight-loss.blogspot.com/.

Lucy graduated Phi Beta Kappa in chemistry from the University of Colorado Boulder and is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. As a teenager, Lucy was a State of Colorado winner in the Pillsbury Bake-Off, which sparked her love of writing recipes and interest in cooking.

Lucy enjoys watercolor painting, Pilates exercise, and hiking the Utah mountains and canyonlands with her husband, Patrick.

Customer Reviews

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41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Common Sense on a Cracker!, June 22, 2004

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Sondra K Russell (Norman, Oklahoma) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weight Loss (Paperback)

I have been doing Weight Watchers off and on for about three years. I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds, and I have gotten nowhere near my "goal weight". Why not? No one mentioned the common sense guidelines that I got from this book in the first five minutes of reading it: eat according to your appetite and eat balanced meals that satify (rather than stuff) you. FINALLY! Very very great information about nutrition (with no hocus-pocus studies or extreme recommendations) and about how each meal should be balanced for maximum satisfaction and metabolism, and how to increase your physical activity (moderately) to support your weight loss. After only a few days I feel, for the first time in my life, a) satisfied after every meal, b) the excess weight coming off (already!), and c) completely confident that I can meet my goal weight without completely disrupting my life or suffering at the hands of the dreaded "WW points". I can do this for the rest of my life. Buy this book!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous non-diet book, November 13, 2002

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Mary Croft (Minneapolis) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weight Loss (Paperback)

I am thrilled to have this book. You need this book if you want to lose weight. I am now eating based on my hunger and the info in this book and it is working. I have lost a dress size already -- in just 2 weeks. Lucy's formula worked for her to lose 50 pounds and keep it off for 20 years and thank goodness, she is now sharing it with all of us. She is a true inspiration. Plus, I am learning how to be thin in not just my body, but also in the way I think and live. My life and attitudes are changing in wonderful ways -- and I still can eat and enjoy my chocolate! The book is a delight to read - and it feels as if Lucy knows exactly how I feel and think. Yes, this is a warm and cuddly weight loss book. It is extraordinary and it works!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the lobster of weight loss books!!, November 22, 2002

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D. Lowell (Malott, Wa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weight Loss (Paperback)

I have learned more from half this book than I've learned half my life. This book has taught me all the things I've done wrong in trying to lose weight and how to fix them. Why all my efforts have failed, or if I did loose some weight why I did not keep it off. This is not a diet book it is a living book. This book is exellent "food for fat"