The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged: Lasting Fat Loss That's Better than Ever! [Paperback]

Tosca Reno (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 16, 2009 | Series: Eat-Clean Diet

The Eat-Clean Diet helped readers understand how to stay healthy and lean forever. Three years later, hundreds of thousands of superstars, personal trainers and regular everyday people have overcome their weight and health problems by following The Eat-Clean Diet.

This larger, revised and fully updated edition offers in-depth information on:

• non-threatening exercise
• extending and improving your life
• getting--and staying--motivated
• getting rid of cellulite
• tightening your skin
• combating the harsh effects of menopause

Plus! Nearly 100 new pages; Total redesign; 50 new recipes; Information on eating disorders; Menu plans for different diets; The Quick Eat-Clean Diet at a glance.

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About the Author

Since reclaiming her life, losing weight, getting in shape and becoming a fitness model in her 40s, New York Times bestselling author Tosca Reno has become the face and voice of inspiration for millions. In addition to her Eat-Clean Diet® series and other books, she writes monthly columns for Oxygen and Clean Eating magazines and articles for other fitness publications. She appears as an interview subject and expert on countless TV and radio programs, and has her own TV series.

 

Product Details

• Paperback: 362 pages
• Publisher: Robert Kennedy; Rev Upd edition (December 16, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1552100677
• ISBN-13: 978-1552100677
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (103 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #98 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diets & Weight Loss > Diets

More About the Author

Author, columnist, motivational speaker, reality TV star, radio personality, consultant, mother and wife, Tosca Reno has been inspiring millions with the Eat-Clean Diet series and sharing the success she's had with weight loss and Clean Eating.

At age 40, author Tosca Reno found herself miserable, overweight, stuck in an unhappy marriage, and living an unfulfilled life. Her self-esteem was at an all-time low. She barely recognized the woman she had become.

Tosca Reno found herself reborn when she realized she was the architect of her own destiny. She accepted new challenges to become super fit and healthy. She entered bodybuilding contests and started writing articles for Oxygen, a top fitness magazine. Her struggles and hardships in the past served to both inspire and motivate her in her career as a writer, motivational speaker and fitness celebrity. Her work encourages others to do for themselves what she has done - reinvent herself from being fat and frumpy to lean and purposeful.

Reno quickly earned her own monthly feature "Raise the Bar." The column targets women over 40 looking for motivation, nutrition and training advice. Reno shares her no-holds-barred wisdom in a firm but tender-hearted manner. Oxygen readers instantly connect with Tosca's advice, delivered with friendly compassion.

"Raise the Bar" readers wanted more. They wrote with countless questions, inspiring Tosca to craft the best-selling Eat-Clean Diet series. With her friendly arm-around-the-shoulder approach, Tosca teaches others how to alter their eating habits, to lose or maintain weight, gain muscle, boost metabolism, increase energy and be happier, healthier people living with purpose.

The Eat-Clean Diet series is a huge hit throughout North America, with over one million copies sold. Tosca has struck a chord with the diet-weary. In fact the most common response she gets is: "This just makes so much sense! I will never give up eating this way! It's so easy!"

Tosca has appeared on numerous national radio and TV shows and has been featured in countless magazine and newspaper articles. Extra TV in Los Angeles recently created a new feature specifically for Tosca, called "Tosca Reno's Eat-Clean Ambush Cleanse," in which she helps a young man with diabetes clean up his kitchen, his shopping cart and his attitude. Extra TV has since filmed several health-based segments with Tosca.

Canada's VIVA Network is airing Tosca's new TV show, Tosca: Flexing at 49, for eight weeks starting in June 2009. In the series, Tosca is followed by film crews as she goes about her busy life - meeting deadlines for her columns and books, giving seminars and making appearances, helping families with their health and diet struggles, answering emails from fans, dieting, competing and looking after her large family at the same time!

Tosca's latest book The Eat-Clean Diet for Men will be followed by a hardcover cookbook in Fall 2009. She's also working on a slew of writing projects to be released over the coming year, including a new book with Harlequin's new non-fiction division. Tosca continues to write her monthly column in Oxygen magazine, along with articles on motivation, life, training and nutrition in magazines including Maximum Fitness, Reps! and Clean Eating.

Tosca grew up in Kingston, Ontario and now lives in Caledon, Ontario. She turned 50 in May 2009.

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245 of 288 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Contains over 100 pages of new text, December 31, 2009

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Leanne (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged: Lasting Fat Loss That's Better than Ever! (Paperback)

I purchased the original _Eat-Clean Diet_ book when it came out a few years ago, and used the principles in it to lose sixteen pounds (two dress sizes). Recently, I've been a little more lax in my eating, so I purchased this book last week to help motivate me to get back on track with my eating for the new year.

Before purchasing this newer edition, I was worried that it would be very similar to the first version of the book, but, as Reno explains, it contains over 100 pages of new text. While there are some chapters that are similar in both books (like chapters on the importance of drinking water and eating breakfast), there are a lot of new ideas. If you are trying to decide whether to purchase the older, original edition of this book or this one, I would recommend buying this one since it contains more recent information about nutritional studies. If, like me, you already own the original book, I think you'll still find the ideas in here useful and inspirational.

I find Reno to be very motivating, and, if you're struggling to lose weight, you will probably find her books really helpful. The idea behind clean eating is that you eat foods that are as close to their natural state as possible, without adding in extra sugar, chemicals, etc. Eating six meals a day ensures that you never go hungry, and you don't have to worry about calorie counting.

Another great feature of this book is that she includes a vegan meal plan in it. The first edition was very centered around meat, which made it difficult for me (as a lacto-ovo vegetarian) to see how I could incorporate all of her suggestions since I wasn't about to gnaw on a chicken breast as my morning snack.

Reno also focuses much more in this edition on the environmental effects that our food choices have, citing Michael Pollan's work and the principles of films like _Food, Inc._. Since I am concerned with environmental issues, I really liked this new focus on eating locally and sustainably.

This book also contains 50 new recipes. I have not tried any of them yet, but will be sure to update my review after I have tried a few. The inclusion of quite a few vegetarian recipes is another nice feature.

I first discovered Reno in _Oxygen_ fitness magazine, where she is a monthly columnist, and last year was happy to see that Robert Kennedy Publishing (the group that publishes Reno's book and _Oxygen_) began a new magazine called _Clean Eating_. If you want even more seasonal, healthy recipes and nutrition tips, I definitely recommend subscribing to it. Just be warned, however, that it contains a lot of ads promoting Reno's books -- to an annoying degree. If you can look past those ads, it makes a nice addition to a clean-eating lifestyle.

UPDATE ON 3/1/10: I've made a few of the recipes, and all of them have turned out to be really good! In my original review, I accidentally said that the book has over 15 new recipes, but it actually has 50 new ones. If you have the original version of this, you definitely don't *need* this newer version, but the updates and success stories make it a nice addition to my collection of health books.

35 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A bit heavy-handed for me, October 29, 2010

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J. Webster (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This book is a reference manual for Tosca Reno's philosophy of life. Like some others, I was a bit put off by all the photos of her, particularly as I started reading the front end of the book. I tried to read the book, but I found it to be a very complicated Users Manual. My family is already on the leading edge of overall health and fitness. We eat very "clean", fresh and colorful, and we all train extensively (swim, bike, run, weights). But one thing I firmly believe is that in order to be truly changed, you must adopt a lifestyle that you can live with for the rest of your life. And I found Tosca's lifestyle to be too demanding, too detailed and too "unusual" - meaning that things aren't readily available in my local grocery or health store. And that statement is coming from someone, as I said, who has already adopted a very very healthy lifestyle. So for me, the book was just too heavy-handed.

58 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Narcissism Fluff and Drivel, December 24, 2010

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Laura C "Mystery Maven" (Alpharetta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged: Lasting Fat Loss That's Better than Ever! (Paperback)

I almost lost my healthy dinner of chicken breast and broccoli when early in the book I read the following: "I was recently surprised to read that a celebrity I admire, Angelina Jolie, Eats Clean. When I saw her at the Academy Awards in 2009, she looked so radiant that I wondered to myself whether she was following my eating plan. Her skin looked a lot like mine, which is why I suspected she might be on to what I had discovered...". Talk about an immediate turn-off - GACK!

I wish I had seriously read the lower rated reviews before I bought this worthless, self serving, self inflating tome. As a person committed to fitness and healthy diet I thought this would be a welcome addition to my library of resources and motivation. Instead, as other reviews state, it is a page after page advertisement to how "wonderful" Tosca thinks she is. Yes, she has achieved a great body and certainly seems healthy. However, I question her credentials. Her formal education and degrees are not related to nutrition.

Ms. Reno seems to be wonderful at self promotion and obviously has a slick designer. The book is colorful and well designed. Unfortunately the content is so obvious that unless you have been living on another planet you already know that "white sugar is the enemy". This book is simply chapter after chapter repeating the same information over and over. I kept waiting for her to teach me something concrete. Instead virtually every page has a picture of her in some form and/or a "testimonial" to how fabulous her plan transformed a life.

I returned the book and will gladly pay the $3.99 shipping fee to get this thing out of my house.