Secrets of the Lean Plate Club: A Simple Step-by-Step Program to Help You Shed Pounds and Keep Them Off for Good [Hardcover]

Sally Squires (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 4, 2006

Sally Squires M.S., writes The Washington Post's nationally syndicated Lean Plate Club column, and has put her nutritionally sound principles into a new book that no dieter should be without. As all the recent studies have shown, you can lose about the same amount of weight on any of the most popular diets out there. The problem is keeping it off. Here, in what can be called an encyclopedia of nutrition, you will learn how to pick the best diet tailored to your own personal needs and then you'll learn how to incorporate the tools offered by Sally to make any diet work better for you.

The Lean Plate Club philosophy is unique--it focuses on how to add food. Yes, that's right--adding new food, habits, skills, and activity to your life will all help you to achieve a healthy weight. It's this kind of 'non-diet' approach that has helped millions of Lean Plate Club members from across the country shed pounds and keep them off without special foods, weight loss medications, or weight loss surgery.

Secrets of the Lean Plate Club features tips and techniques to help you:


*Rediscover the joy of eating well
*Avoid nutritional mischief and exercise boredom
*Recover from "slips" so that they don't become slides into failure
*Learn from "successful losers" with strategies, suggestions, and inspiration for healthy habits, grocery shopping and recipes.

With her eight-week customized, personal weight loss program, Sally offers the strategies for making weight loss results stick! Secrets of the Lean Plate Club is the first and only step you'll need to keep the weight off and learn how to live a leaner life.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The seasoned creator of the hot Washington Post diet column elegantly coaxes us through an 8- week balanced program for sustainable and healthy weight loss that everyone can follow. Climb on board."--Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., co-author of the New York Times Bestseller You: The Owner's Manual

About the Author

SALLY SQUIRES has a master's degree in nutrition from Columbia University and is an award-winning, nationally syndicated columnist with The Washington Post. She is the co-author of The Stoplight Diet for Children. She lives in Washington, DC.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (April 4, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312339178
• ISBN-13: 978-0312339173
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,324,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help & Inspiration are Here!, July 31, 2006

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Ballad Singer "Blanche" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Secrets of the Lean Plate Club: A Simple Step-by-Step Program to Help You Shed Pounds and Keep Them Off for Good (Hardcover)

I discovered the Lean Plate club column (every Tuesday in the Washington Post) & the Lean Plate web chat (12-2pm Tuesdays) a year ago. I look forward to Tuesdays, knowing Help & support as well as fresh ideas are on the way via the column & web chat. This is what I find in Sally Squire's book: good common sense advice, inspiration & help . There are short tests you take that help you see where you are- motivation-wise & where you are in your (in my case) lifelong struggle with weight issues. There is solid nutritional information. There are recipes for food & exercise. This book is packed with facts and do-able suggestions for how to approach and maintain your own weight loss plan. Sally Squires approaches the facts in a fun, no-nonsense- positive way. I highly recommend this book. I keep it with me all the time. I lost a lot of weight (100 pounds) & reached my goal over a year ago, but the struggle now to maintain new habits & keep the weight off is very challenging & difficult. This book gives me inspiration & hope.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good health advice, April 4, 2006

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Sam Watson - See all my reviews

This review is from: Secrets of the Lean Plate Club: A Simple Step-by-Step Program to Help You Shed Pounds and Keep Them Off for Good (Hardcover)

Hey, I just picked up this book after following Sally's columns in The Washington Post for the last few years and just want to say to others that Sally really gets it -- the ups and downs of weight loss, the challenge to get rid of my "spare tire" and eat well. It's refreshing to have someone so knowledgable and supportive.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing advise, December 13, 2006

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Janet F. Doyle "Senior health nut" (Laurel, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Secrets of the Lean Plate Club: A Simple Step-by-Step Program to Help You Shed Pounds and Keep Them Off for Good (Hardcover)

THis book encourages the reader with tips from people who have successfully lost weight by making permanent changes to their diet, caloric intake and who are thrilled with the results they have had. I can assure the readers who don't like to exercise that they would be surprised by what they are accomplishing by the end of the eight week program. You are gently, subtly coaxed into increasing your energy level. Sally also carefully selected the recipes which are easy to prepare but delicious beyond what you thought healthy eating should be.