From the Author
There are thousands of diet and nutrition books flooding the market. Yet, Americans are more overweight and unhealthy than ever. The conclusion: There’s something amiss in the weight loss world. But don’t despair— we have the answers!
After reviewing some of the most popular nutrition books, the top diet programs, and the latest and greatest fitness and health magazines, here’s what we found: an abundance of very sound, valuable, and useful information in every form and fashion, that clearly conveys what we should do to be healthier and thinner. And here’s what we didn’t find: a one-stop resource that not only told us what to do, but showed us how to do it every step of the way!
We were looking for a weight loss and nutrition program that didn’t exist. We wanted a plan that would take us by the hand and make the process simple. That would explain the most important information in a fun and easy-to-read format. That would show us how to personalize a plan for our individual lifestyles. That would show us exactly what to buy at the grocery store, down to the last detail. That provided the tools for creating, implementing, and tracking a new eating plan--for life. And, most important, one that would provide a central headquarters for everything we need--when we need it. So, to fill the void in the weight loss world, we took these key elements and used them as the blueprint to create this book, and more specifically, our turnkey eating plan that we call Simple Nutrition For Life. Now you know why this will be The Last Diet Book Standing on your bookshelf—it’s the total package for all your weight loss and nutrition needs!
About the Author
Kerry McLeod is a graduate of the University of Texas, with a B.S. in Psychology. She spent the first 15 years of her career working for Fortune 500 companies such as Cox Enterprises, Inc., and McGraw-Hill Publishing in various sales and marketing positions. In 2001, nine months after the birth of her daughter, she left the safe world of the corporate "gravy train" and cautiously entered the challenging and oftentimes treacherous world of the stay-at-home/working-from-home mom’s club. Currently, she is a freelance marketing consultant and a Sport Nutrition Certified Instructor.
Kerry also has the title of "recovering junk-food junkie" on her resume. For most of her adult life, her diet consisted of empty calories from highly processed foods, sans anything remotely healthy. In her early thirties, she decided it was time to change her evil diet and nutrition ways and began looking for an easy-to-implement eating plan that she could apply to the real world—hers. Over the next seven years, she tried many diet plans, but found that they were either too complicated, too labor-intensive, or too restrictive—no dairy, no mixing carbs and proteins, low carb, high protein, and of course the dreaded—no sugar! Although she was eating better, she still hadn’t found a healthy plan that she could follow for life, and so the search continued.
Then one day several years ago, she had her light-bulb moment: If she was having this much trouble figuring out the whole nutrition and weight loss game, then what were other women going through who weren’t as informed as she? This is when she decided there was a real need for a no-nonsense, simple nutrition and weight loss program that could be applied to any lifestyle. With this, she set out to create the ultimate eating plan for women! And the rest, as they say, is history.
