Feel Good Naked: 10 No-Diet Secrets to a Fabulous Body (Paperback)

~ Laure Redmond (Author) "Why is it that deprivation seems to go hand-in-hand with being an American woman?..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Drink water, not soda. Stand up straight. Exercise 10 minutes a day. These are the kinds of simple lifestyle changes that Laure Redmond advocates in Feel Good Naked: 10 No-Diet Secrets to a Fabulous Body. Drawing from her experience as a fitness therapist and exercise instructor (she had a stint on ESPN's Body Shaping), plus her own struggles with body image and weight, she shows how these steps can help women lose weight without deprivation. Her primary message, however, is that how you feel about your body is more important than your actual weight, and she urges women to be comfortable with a figure that isn't stick-thin.

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Product Description

Some women are obsessed with their bodies, never happy with how much they weigh or how they look. Laure Redmond used to be one of those women, paralyzed by female body hatred, insecure and uncomfortable with her overweight appearance. With self-motivation, her specially-designed 10-step program (and a few setbacks along the way), Laure changed her perspective and her appearance. She has spent the last 20 years counseling other women with a unique 10-step program that sheds pounds easily and naturally while building self-esteem. Her clients are always amazed at ho good they feel – lean, energetic, and most important, confident! Laure’s Feel Good Naked program is the secret to finally loving the way you look.

Her fabulous innovative program has worked for countless women all over the country, and ten of these women share their success stories in Feel Good Naked.

You’ll meet: Erin, who needed to exercise less and eat more to lose weight Susan, who lost 100 pounds – without dieting Kathy, who saved her marriage by learning to feel better about herself and her body

The 10 steps are simple, gradual, and require no special equipment, foods, or gadgets. All you need is the desire to feel better about yourself!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Fair Winds Press (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931412154
• ISBN-13: 978-1931412155
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #434,727 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an inspiration for all women, February 4, 2002

By	"danclaro" (Irvington, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feel Good Naked (Hardcover)

Laure Redmond asks us to examine our predisposition toward hating our bodies and offers us real-world alternatives: a different way to be in our skin, a different way to look at life, a different way to look at ourselves. It's a great gift she offers, made especially powerful by the fact that it is within reach. Redmond's program is down-to-earth and do-able. And her own story is so inspiring, you want to start following her advice as soon as you finish chapter 1; I implemented a couple of the steps she presents right away, and I felt uplifted immediately.

I particularly liked the voice of the author. The honesty with which Redmond talks about her own trials makes me wish I could call her up on the phone and spill my guts to her. She's warm and understanding and has been through a lot. Because she's so frank about her own life--and she treats it all as grist for the learning mill--she makes me less afraid to look at myself, warts and all, and try to make changes.

This is a great book.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A total breakthrough in confirming what is real!, January 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Feel Good Naked (Hardcover)

Yesterday while in a favorite bookstore, I happened upon Laure Redmond's amazing and inspiring book, Feel Good Naked. The cover and the title were enough alone to get my attention as well as pique my curiosity. For the next hour, I read nearly seventy pages with so many emotions. I knew that I had to buy this book because I wanted it to be the blueprints for my health for the rest of my life. Once I was home, I could not put this book down! I felt such a connection with Laure and the other women's stories, it was almost as if I was reading my own autobiography because the thoughts and feelings that were expressed were identical to what I've felt for my entire 21 years of living.
I have been struggling with body hatred and a number of eating issues for over a decade of my life. I've spent so much time on every diet imaginable. The most debilitating "diet" of all has been my 11 year struggle with bulimia. I've been in and out of treatment programs trying to get help, but all the while, I thought by getting help, I should also find a panacea for my ugly, fat body. This book helped me realize that what I truly need is a cure from my own self-loathing when it comes to my body. Never before have I read a health book that affirms every woman's right to recognize her own individual worth. Several of Laure's statements had me in tears because they were so powerful and filled with love. Laure offers a rare kind of empathy for all women faced with body hatred because she herself experienced it on very dangerous levels. The statement that jumped off the pages at me was that a woman's worth is not measured by her dress size. It is how she lives and how she loves. I do not reccomend this book for women-I URGE EVERY WOMAN TO READ IT AND APPLY THE 10 STRATEGIES!!! :) The 10 strategies are not only practical and indicative of what our bodies have told us all along, they are so incredibly doable. This is a philosophy and movement that needs to be applied to our lives and the lives of future generations of all women from all walks of life in all parts of the world. I guarantee that this book will strike a chord with your own personal life in some respect, and you will come away with a sense of self-love that radiates from within.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesomely Real and Inspirational, April 3, 2002

By	leigh ann (WI, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feel Good Naked (Hardcover)

I just love the candor of Laure's writing. She is so open, genuine and tells it like it is. I could completely relate to her story and the stories of the other women in the book. I think that too much emphasis is placed on having a perfect body, instead of having a fit and healthy body. Laure helps women (and men) get to the root of their weight issues and overcome them. She creatively makes it fun to exercise and eat more healthy. She makes people be accountable for their own actions without blasting them and making them feel awful.

I would DEFINITELY suggest this book to anyone that struggles with unhappiness about their appearance. Laure will help inspire you into taking charge of your own life and making it what you want it to be.