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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.
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.
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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.
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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