Outwit Your Weight: Fat-Proof Your Life With More Than 200 Tips, Tools, & Techniques to Help You Defeat Your Diet Danger Zones [Hardcover]

Cathy Nonas (Author), Julia VanTine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 3, 2002

Get ready to discover a totally new way to think about weight control-- a system that virtually guarantees success!

Years of working with overweight men and women has convinced weight-loss expert Cathy Nonas that there's only one surefire way to lose weight and keep it off. And it isn't dieting.

It's learning to use tools-- small, yet ingenious tips, tricks, and techniques that help keep your eating and exercise habits on track-- no matter what diet you're on. Here, Cathy reveals more than 200 tools "road-tested" by her thousands of clients that will help you eat smarter, get and stay active, and break through self-destructive thinking patterns and behaviors that have sabotaged your weight-control efforts in the past.

You'll also find:

* The Eating Assessment Test (EAT), which helps you decipher your eating style and discover the patterns and pitfalls that stand in the way of having a slimmer, healthier body.
* The Top 40 Diet Danger Zones-- the traps and pitfalls that typically cause us to abandon our weight-control programs.
* Worksheets and quizzes throughout the book that allow you to think about weight loss from your own perspective.

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Outwit Your Weight

Cathy Nonas, R.D., knows the secret to successful weight loss. The director of the VanItallie Center for Nutrition and Weight Management at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City, Cathy has shared the secret with thousands of her clients, who have lost thousands of pounds between them. In Outwit Your Weight, she'll share this secret with you.

You'll learn that weight loss has nothing to do with what you eat. The key is how, when, and why you eat. In this book, you'll discover your own unique diet personality and uncover your Diet Danger Zones, the situations that trigger you to overeat. Then Cathy will arm you with personalized tools to overcome them. Here's a sampling of Cathy's favorite tools.

* To remember to eat slowly, eat with chopsticks for a week.
* If you're a "mindless eater," stick a strip of masking tape across the doorway to your kitchen between meals. It will remind you to stay out of the kitchen.
* If you're dining out, order before you have a cocktail. Alcohol loosens your inhibitions, making it easier to order the fettuccine Alfredo instead of the grilled salmon.
* When you begin a meal, set an egg timer for 5 minutes. When it buzzes, decide whether you're still hungry and whether you want to continue to eat.
* If you have a TV in your kitchen, remove it. It's a primary cause of "eating amnesia"--forgetting that you ate, let alone how much.

This book won't tell you what you can and can't eat. Instead, it's bursting with weight-loss-success strategies-- more than 200 ways to keep eating and exercise behaviors on track. You can use this book alone, or with any other diet plan, in virtually any situation, no matter what your schedule, habits, or lifestyle.

Most important, this book is totally customizable for you. Use one tool, or 20, or more than 200. Choose the techniques that work best for you. To customize it further, use the book along with its companion diary, the Outwit Your Weight Journal. This unique book offers six journal styles to choose from-- tailor-made for your unique weight-loss personality.

This is the book you've been searching for-- the road map to weight-loss success!

About the Authors

Cathy Nonas, M.S., R.D., C.D.E., is director of the VanItallie Center for Nutrition and Weight Management, an arm of the New York Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City. The Obesity Research Center is one of four federally funded centers for investigating the causes and treatment of obesity in the United States.

Julia VanTine is a health journalist whose most recent books include Maximum Food Power for Women and Energy for Everything: Rejuvenation for the Mind, Body, and Soul.

From the Back Cover

Get ready to discover a totally new way

to think about weight control--a system that

virtually guarantees success!

Years of working with overweight men and women has convinced weight-loss expert Cathy Nonas that there's only one surefire way to lose weight and keep it off. And it isn't dieting.

It's learning to use tools--small, yet ingenious tips, tricks, and techniques that help keep your eating and exercise habits on track--no matter what diet you're on. Here, Cathy reveals more than 200 tools "road-tested" by her thousands of clients that will help you eat smarter, get and stay active, and break through self-destructive thinking patterns and behaviors that have sabotaged your weight-control efforts in the past.

You'll also find:

The Eating Assessment Test (EAT), which helps you decipher your eating style and discover the patterns and pitfalls that stand in the way of having a slimmer, healthier body. The Top 40 Diet Danger Zones--the traps and pitfalls that typically cause us to abandon our weight-control programs. Worksheets and quizzes throughout the book that allow you to think about weight loss from your own perspective.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (May 3, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579544827
• ISBN-13: 978-1579544829
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,354,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Weight control made simple!, May 8, 2002

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Lee Mellott "Skin Care For Wrinkles" (Frederick, Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Outwit Your Weight: Fat-Proof Your Life With More Than 200 Tips, Tools, & Techniques to Help You Defeat Your Diet Danger Zones (Hardcover)

Cathy Nonas RD author of "Outwit Your Weight" recognizes that everyone is different. In her book she gives a number of tips, tricks and tools to help you lose weight and get fit.

The key according to Cathy is to incorporate weightloss strategies that are simple to do and will work best for you.

The book opens with a section on determining your individual fat traps. Are you a chronic snacker, nightime eater, weekend binger?
Do you skip meals, eat from stress, have all or nothing thinking? Once you have identified your weaknesses (and there may be more than one!) Cathy gives you over 200 tools to pick and chose from.

Tools are simple techniques you can incorporate into your daily life that will help you manage your eating weaknesses and achieve your weight loss goals. Tools aren't one size fit all!
She describes a variety of tools to help with your diet danger zones. If you don't like one tool - pick another!

Cathy includes fitness tools, mood tools, behavior and food tools. Many of these tools are fun to try and can add up in pounds lost. For example to teach yourself to slow down when eating, Cathy suggests you use chopsticks for a week. Or you can take a ten minute break in the middle of your meal.

The book also includes tons of recipes like Peanut Noodles with Chicken and Watercress, Garlicky shrimp in mustard sauce, Black Bean Burritos and Potato Chips! Cathy also addresses diet danger zones like holidays, fatigue, and lack of willpower.

The book is chock full of great ideas to incorporate in your life to help you get slim and trim!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally! A weight loss plan that works for ANYONE!, May 24, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Outwit Your Weight: Fat-Proof Your Life With More Than 200 Tips, Tools, & Techniques to Help You Defeat Your Diet Danger Zones (Hardcover)

This is one of the best weight loss books I've ever read (and I've read them all). It is clear and well-written, non-gimmicky, with great tips for every situation. If you want to lose weight and you think you've tried everything, this book is for you.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Registered Dietitian from San Antonio, May 23, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Outwit Your Weight: Fat-Proof Your Life With More Than 200 Tips, Tools, & Techniques to Help You Defeat Your Diet Danger Zones (Hardcover)

This is a wonderful book. It contains the most current research in the field of weight management in a format lay people can easily understand. Cathy, very courageously, does not offer a quick fix. She over and over demystifies the weight loss experience, and honors how difficult it is to change behavior and keep it changed. The overeating stories are an absolute hoot! I know I will recommend it to my clients and use it for myself.