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Thin for Life Daybook: A Journal of Personal Progress
 
 
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Thin for Life Daybook: A Journal of Personal Progress [Plastic Comb]

Anne M. Fletcher M.S. R.D. (Author)
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March 31, 2003
Lose weight and change your eating habits one step at a time. Based on the best-selling books Thin for Life and Eating Thin for Life, this inspiring journal gives you techniques that worked for hundreds of people who lost weight permanently.

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Thin for Life Daybook should be the constant companion of anyone seeking to lose weight. This spiral-bound journal combines the best of a diet counselor and weight-loss support group, and makes you an active participant. To teach tactics that work for long-term weight control, author Anne Fletcher has studied 200 "masters of weight control" who have succeeded at losing at least 20 pounds (average: 64 pounds) and keeping the weight off for 3-plus years (average: 10 years). They have found the keys to personalizing a weight-loss program and making it a way of life. Fletcher shares their strategies in her earlier books, Thin for Life and Eating Thin for Life.

This book, which is organized into a year's worth of weekly sections, lets you examine and record your own weight-loss process. Each week offers "Weekly Wisdom"--tips from the masters on a theme such as behavior modification, avoiding deprivation, committing to exercise, and specific ways to change eating choices--along with a menu suggestion. The reader fills in "goal(s) for this week"; "anticipated obstacles"; "possible solutions"; an "exercise plan"; a daily log of food, exercise, and accomplishments; and "what really helped this week." Using the Daybook is a valuable step toward becoming a "master" yourself. --Joan Price --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Thin For Life Daybook is Fletcher's spiral-bound companion workbook that helps readers tackle one issue at a time over the course of a year.

Each week begins with a message from one of the masters of weight control and then an explanation of how that message could be used. Readers are given space to outline their goals for the week, anticipate obstacles and exercise plan. Every day there is space to keep track of foods the dieter has eaten and exercise that has been accomplished.

The daybook provides a framework that is so often missing from popular diet books. It's a perfect tool for people who want to take positive steps, not just to lose weight but to incorporate better eating and exercise patterns into their lives -- USA Today, 1-7-98 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


Product Details

  • Plastic Comb: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Rejacketed edition (March 31, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0618344241
  • ISBN-13: 978-0618344246
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,369 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Anne M. Fletcher, M.S., R.D. is a nationally known, award-winning health and medical writer, speaker, and consultant on the topics of weight management, lifestyle change, and recovery from addiction. She is the author of seven books, including the award-winning national bestsellers Thin For Life: 10 Keys to Success From People Who Have Lost Weight & Kept It Off and Sober for Good: New Solutions for Drinking Problems - Advice From Those Who Have Succeeded. Anne is currently writing a book on addiction treatment for Viking Penguin.

Anne's latest book, Weight Loss Confidential: How Teens Lose Weight & Keep It Off - And What They Wish Parents Knew, was featured on the Today Show, on the CBS Early Show, and in The New York Times, USA Today, US News & World Report, and USA Weekend. She has been recognized with a dozen prestigious awards, and all of her current books are published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

A frequent guest of the national media, Anne has also appeared on The View, the Today Show, Donahue, Good Morning America, CNN, National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, and The Larry King Radio Show.

As a registered dietitian with a B.S. degree from Cornell University and an M.S. from Drexel University, Anne has counseled hundreds of people with weight problems. She is a former executive editor and chief writer of the Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter and was a contributing editor for Prevention Magazine. Her articles have appeared in Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Shape, American Psychologist, Cooking Light, Bottom Line Personal, Readers' Digest, Restaurant Hospitality, Parenting, Journal of Food Science, Eating Well, The Humanist, American Psychologist, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, and Obesity Management.

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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Very motivational journal October 16, 1999
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
This journal is one of the best I have seen. I am a Personal fitness trainer and I give each one of my clients a copy of this to help them while they reach their fitness goals. I have looked at alot of different journals and this one is the best I have seen yet. Everyone of my clients love the inspirational quotes from the people who have lost weight and been able to keep it off. My business is called Motivations- Natural Health & Fitness Training so you can see why I really was impressed with how motivational this journal really is.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
deeply disappointed December 11, 2001
By Just Jo
Format:Hardcover
After reading the reviews for this journal, I placed it on my wishlist and received it in the mail today. I am very disappointed with it.

There are many good points about the book: It has a complete year in one book, the quotations/inspirations, the recipes. However, the space to record your daily intake is way too small. There is no room to write your daily weight, the date, the calories, fat, protein or carb grams....or points, if you're doing Weight Watchers as I am.

The book is broken down by weeks. The first page for the week is Weekly Wisdom. It's great. Very motivational, informative, and excellent for a journal. This section is reminisce of the author's wonderful book, Thin for Life. The next page is Weekly Forecasts. It has a section for Goal(s) for this week, Anticipated Obstacles, Possible Solutions, Exercise Plan and finally Try this for Supper. That all takes up one page. Then The next two pages are the journal for the week. The first page of the journal has room for Monday through Thursday, with each broken down into Morning, Afternoon and Evening What I Ate sections. The bottom of each section is Exercise/Accomplishments. This is where the journal goes bad, because there is such inadequate space to write here. I'm sure I will be writing outside of the margins to include weight, date, water, and vitamin. Finally, the second page has Friday through Sunday, and at the bottom of the second page of the journal, there is a What Really Helped This Week section. I think this could be very useful; however, I'd much rather have that extra space for my journal entries.

Overall this is a well-organized, thought-provoking journal. It's just not something to use if you write big, can't see small print, and do many calculations regarding calories or points.

If they could possibly enlarge the food journaling section, this would be an excellent choice.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this diary to monitor my food intake when I was "recovering" from yo-yo dieting. The beginning of the diary is helpful, as each week starts with a page that you fill out to see if you are on the right track as far as weight loss efforts go, for example a page about what you like and dislike to do when you are trying to lose weight, and then an analysis to see if a commericial diet plan, a do-it-yourself or a guided weightloss is best for you. But this kind of pages doesn't last for the entire diary and after being used to them for some weeks you get a feeling that the diary is no longer helping you to taylor your regimen to your needs and goals. Instead, the first page of the month becomes a weekly suggestion about modifications you can apport to your routine, that won't actually fit all lifestyles/people. The suggestions are from the high-carbohydrate/low-fat diet current, one that didn't and doesn't work for me personally, as I am sugar sensitive, so I was not very eager to read the weekly suggestions anymore.

The next page in each weekly "space" is my favorite, the one for which I gave it 3 stars. A space to record your goal(s) for the week, any interference you expect happening and any remedies so that you can get back on track in case those interference do hinder you getting to your weekly goal(s). Then a space for you to establish an exercise schedule for the coming week. This page was the most helpful part because I could predict things better and therefore control them better, and also preparing an exercise schedule was fun and it helped me keep exercise regular.

The next 2 pages of each week are for the daily food intake and daily accomplishments. Definitely too little space on each day to track the food in a way that it could easily be referred to later (food diaries are mostly used to define patterns in your food intake and your allergy symptoms/weight gain/craving/etc., so you need to have the food intake clearly written down in order for the diary to serve its purpose). I would have preferred the diary to last 6 months instead of 1 year, or even 3 months, but have more space for the daily food intake and accomplishments, so that the info recorded could be tidy and useful for later, too.

All in all, not a bad product, but also not as good as it could have been.

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Thin for Life Daybook
This is a great journal for anyone who is managing their weight. I am a registered dietitian and we use this book for our weight management program. Read more
Published on April 5, 2008 by Nancy Kure
Keep yourself on your own mental leash
I love food, I always blame it on my husband feeding me and the hectic days I work so I don't work out. Read more
Published on April 12, 2006 by GRACE
Excellent food & exercise journal.
I read Thin for Life, the book that this journal is based on, in the fall of 2003 when I was still new to healthy eating. Read more
Published on April 21, 2005 by Sheri in Reho
An Inspiration!!
I am a Weight Watcher member and lost 80 pounds on their program. I have been incredibly worried about my ability to keep the weight off. Read more
Published on July 12, 2002 by Nancy
A Constant Companion
I have lost 77 pounds (and maintained it for over 6 months) using the Thin for Life Daybook as a journal to complement the commercial weight loss program that I am... Read more
Published on December 2, 2001 by Stephanie Mc
Excellent Information but Too Large to Carry
This is a truly motivation book. It is well organized. I found the weekly recipes helpful and tips from the "masters" inspirational. Read more
Published on May 1, 2001 by K. Simmons
Excellent book for ideas, encouragement on dieting
The only reason that this book didn't get a "5" star rating is due to the part that you record what you eat on a daily basis is small with no space to record calories and... Read more
Published on November 16, 1999 by Diane R. Schafer (haroldds@netnitco.net)
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