On Target Living Nutrition: The power of feeling your best [Paperback]

Chris Johnson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 2007

Thousands of people of all ages and life stages have attended Chris Johnson's On Target Living seminars. As a result, a better understanding of simple nutrition has not only improved their health, but changed their life. At the core of On Target Living is the Food Target, an easy-to-use device to help make better choices. Use this simple guide to balance carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, while also selecting healthier foods towards the center. Put simply, On Target Living Nutrition will give you the power to feel your best.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Finally, a nutrition book that is straightforward, brilliantly simple and profoundly effective in helping anyone achieve and maintain vibrant health. This book is packed full of tools that allow people of all ages to live healthier --Deborah Wilcox, B.S., C.Ht

This book made such a differencei n my life. I feel I must spread the word. I want everyone to have the opportunity to feel as good as I do--I truly believe this book saved my life. If I can do it, so can you. There is hope. --Karen Griffin

This comprehensive book is a fun and creative approach to wellness that is clinically proven. It is a guide to living well for all, whever level of health you desire. If you use these simple yet effective concepts you will avoid diseases assocaited with poor healty and develop a stronger immune system. I recommend this book to all my patients. --Dr. Steve TePastte, M.D.

This book made such a differencei n my life. I feel I must spread the word. I want everyone to have the opportunity to feel as good as I do--I truly believe this book saved my life. If I can do it, so can you. There is hope. --Karen Griffin

This comprehensive book is a fun and creative approach to wellness that is clinically proven. It is a guide to living well for all, whever level of health you desire. If you use these simple yet effective concepts you will avoid diseases assocaited with poor healty and develop a stronger immune system. I recommend this book to all my patients. --Dr. Steve TePastte, M.D.

About the Author

Chris Johnson is a nationally recognized speaker and author. As the Director of Health, Wellness and Fitness as Sparrow Hospital's Michigan Athletic Club for over fifteen years, he pioneered one of the most successful personal training programs in the country. Chirs has earned and maintained the reputation of providing lifestyle modification strategies with integrity and compassion. He holds a Masters degree in Exercise Physiology from Michigan State University, and certifications from the American College of Sports Medicine, National Academy of Sports Medicine and the American Council on Exercise, along with over 16,000 hours of one-on-one personal training. Chris's mission is to help improve the health of the United Stats population one personat a time.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: On Target Living International; First edition (November 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972728147
• ISBN-13: 978-0972728140
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #421,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Meet Chris Johnson

Chris began his career working for Butternut Bread and Frito Lay delivering white bread, cupcakes and potato chips. This kicked off his training ground for learning the science behind navigating the grocery stores. While working in this arena, Chris finished his Master's degree at Michigan State University in Exercise Physiology before going on to help build one of the largest personal training programs in the world at the Michigan Athletic Club.

It was during personal training sessions that Chris realized many of his clients lacked the basic understanding of health and nutrition. So he began hosting seminars, educating on the benefits of eating whole foods and the importance of rest and rejuvenation. Chris Johnson works extensively with top performers in the world of financial services and has spoken to thousands of financial advisors, investment associates, and client associates across the country.

In 2006, after 25 years and 17,000 one-on-one personal training sessions, Chris started his company, On Target Living. On Target Living is a program designed for living a life in balance, with energy and vitality.
In his spare time, Chris has authored several books, produced exercise DVD's, and masterly crafted his signature product "The Food Target". As the CEO and founder of On Target Living, Chris currently travels around the world educating and empowering people to take small steps...one day at a time in order to live life optimally and to the fullest!

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing (if you really want to be healthier read this book), February 1, 2008

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Brian Koch "Aspiring Photographer" (MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On Target Living Nutrition: The power of feeling your best (Paperback)

It all started about 2 years ago when the author of this book gave a talk at my company to about 2,000 people. At the time I was lazy, obese, and didn't know the first thing about true health and well-being. I was just like most everyone else there, I thought all fat was bad, carbs were bad, and didn't even realize the PH imbalance due to my diet was what was causing my acid reflux. I used to lift weights when I was younger and I had done some dieting in college and lost a lot of weight, but it soon came back and I was nearing my all time high of 240 and 40 inch waists were only a few weeks away.

So after Chris spoke to us I had some really conflicting concepts, he made me question what I thought about eating healthy. I ended up buying his first book and applied a few of his ideas from the seminar to my daily life...but for some reason I still didn't get around to reading the book for almost a year so not much really changed for me in that first year. Then I read the book and all of those seeds of knowledge that he had planted the year before began to grow and I couldn't believe how clearly I was starting to see things. Don't get me wrong there is no one thing that just clicked, we are talking about extensive diet changes, but if you make them a few at a time they are entirely attainable.

So over the last year I started riding bikes, lifting weights again and trying to eat healthy. I went from 240 in January to about 210 in October and then things kind of stopped. Then I heard that there was a new book out, so I got it as soon as I could and read it. This time around the seeds that started to grow when I read his first book (which is very much the same as his second) really took off. As I read a chapter about fat or protein or what we drink I actively applied that to my life. I now try to eat much closer to whole unrefined foods and try to make sure to eat 5-7 smaller meals a day and many of the other things outlined in the book. I am now down to 192 and falling fast and the great thing about this whole thing is that it is NOT A DIET...I am not hungry, I have lots of energy, I feel great. I simply replaced crappy low quality refined foods with balanced, high quality, whole foods that taste great and make me feel better than I have ever felt.

I no longer take my acid reflux pills, I don't get headaches anymore, I'm not always tired like I used to be, I need to buy new clothes because mine are too big instead of the other way around and my overall outlook on life has never been better, words can't say enough about how much this has changed my life, it has been a 2 year process so far, and things just keep looking better.

There is nothing complicated about this book, all of the chapters are very well organized and easy to understand and relatively short and to the point. There is also a food target in the back of the book that gives great examples of poor, fair, good, better, and best food choices from fats, carbs, and proteins...the closer to the center of the target you eat the healthier you become I have done this and it is amazing. So if you really want to know how to be healthy and don't want any gimmicks or fluff this book is by far the best thing I have ever seen or heard on the topic. I hope you can benefit from it as much as I have and continue to do, it is my one and only reference when I have questions about food. I think about the only thing that would be better is if Chris were my own personal trainer so I could get constant feedback and updates on what he has learned. I really hope he does more books in the future to keep things updated.

Read this book and take some of the steps it outlines, you will not be disappointed.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get This Book!!!, December 24, 2007

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An Avid Book Lover (Okemos, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On Target Living Nutrition: The power of feeling your best (Paperback)

I bought this book and was hoping it wouldn't be one of those very complicated diet books that I have so many of. The buzzword these days for diets is "it's a lifestyle change" - so many times I haven't been able to sustain those "lifestyle changes" because I bit off (pardon the pun) more than I could chew. Each time I thought "this is IT" - I get it now and now I've got the magic key to get healthier.

As Chris says, there is no magic key here. That's another thing I've heard before. What's nice about this though is he gave me enough nutritional knowledge in layman's language to really get the effects of my current lifestyle. I know intuitively why want to get healthy more clearly - I can imagine having more energy now in a way that I couldn't before because he gives lots of options for "baby-stepping" your way through this. Many of them are such common sense and things we have to do anyway.

One of those common sense options is breathing. We have to breathe anyway as long as we're living and it doesn't take any longer or cost anything to take deeper breaths. That increases our metabolism as well.
Such a simple thing. . . .I'm doing it anyway. . . . and so are you if you're reading this. So, take a deep one right now. . . see, doesn't that feel better!

It puts exercise, lifestyle and nutrition all together in simple layman's terms and takes out the overwhelm replacing it with sensible alternatives that you can choose based on whatever suits you.

Well done, Chris!! Thank you for a priceless addition to my library.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars On Target Living Nutrition, August 8, 2009

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Karen Kornick "book maven" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On Target Living Nutrition: The power of feeling your best (Paperback)

I love this book!!!!! It is the most conclusive and accurate nutrition book out there!!!! This book includes the reasons why we should be eating certain foods and the effects it has on our life. I highly highly recommend this for yourself and anyone else who you care about their health.