The Complete Idiot's Guide to Healthy Weight Loss, 2E (Complete Idiot's Guides) [Kindle Edition]

Lucy Beale (Author), M.S., R.D., LDN, Sandy G. Couvillon (Author)

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Product Description

Shed those pounds the healthy way.

This brand-new edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Healthy Weight Loss not only gives readers critical information on nutrition and health—it also delivers everything they need to know about the mental and exercise pieces of the weight- loss puzzle. In addition, it presents a comprehensive overview of today’s most popular diets, chapters on such major diet types as low-fat, low-sodium, low-carb, and low-cal, as well as chapters on dieting for kids, dieting for diabetics, dieting for heart health, and more. Best of all, readers will find five unique diet plans to help them lost weight— and keep it off—starting today!

-Features new research on how nutrition and certain foods affect body weight -Expanded information on surgical and pharmaceutical options for weight loss, plus the skinny on supplements and over-the-counter remedies -Upload exercise chapters with more fat-burning exercises and updated charts for calorie burning (including suggestions for meeting the U.S. Government’s new exercise recommendations)

About the Author

Lucy Beale is creator of the bestselling CD and speaking series Be Thin in Body, Mind & Spirit. She’s the author of several books, including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Low Carb Meals, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Terrific Diabetic Meals, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Glycemic Index Weight Loss.
Sandy G. Couvillon, MS, LDN, is a registered dietician who has taught seminars on the benefits of wholesome nutrition for 25 years, and has been featured on television and radio and in nationally syndicated newspapers. She is the co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Low-Carb Meals.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 2189 KB
• Print Length: 400 pages
• Publisher: Alpha; 2 edition (December 6, 2005)
• Sold by: Penguin Publishing
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001NH4AXW
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #283,260 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars success at last, March 26, 2007

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Brian Robert (Dallas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Healthy Weight Loss, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

I am a big fan of this book. I have read it from cover to cover many times and it has helped me tremendously in my weight loss. I have lost 32 pounds. I have love the fact that it is basic common sense, no tricks or magic potions. Your information wasn't a repeat of many diet programs that tell me only what to eat and when -- this book gave me emotional support and suggestions for eating in difficults situations, as at parties and when feeling lonely. Sure I learned what to eat and when, but this book instilled in me a way to gain control of my eating and myself. I realized that I like to eat as a thin person and the weight has stayed off.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fast weight loss, March 27, 2007

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Sara Sunshine (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Healthy Weight Loss, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

This isn't a diet book - and it works. I lost 5 pounds in my first 10 days by following the eating and thinking recommendations. As I used affirmations and visualizations, plus a food diary, and carefully ate any foods provided I didn't overeat - I was amazed. I had a tough weight problem, being pre-diabetic. The authors explanations fo how food works in the body, and how to deal with the psychology of eating made sense to me. Buy this book - you won't be disappointed. I'm on my way to my ideal size - and you will be, too.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works for me, March 20, 2007

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Suzi Johnson "Suzi" (Kansas City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Healthy Weight Loss, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

I lost 50 pounds by using the techniques in this book. And I never felt that I was dieting or depriving myself of my favorite foods. I used the all-important concept of thinking, eating, and living as a thin person and found it easy to eat, as the authors say in the book, Eat 0-5. Now that I know how to listen to my body's hunger signals, I know that I can maintain this weight loss for the rest of my life.
The scientific and research information on how fats, carbs, and proteins work in the body helped improve my food choices. This info was presented in a friendly and upbeat way that was comfortable and inviting, without being preachy or intimidating.
I highly recommend this book. I love the results.