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Ultimate Weight Solution for Teens: The 7 Keys to Weight Freedom

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I am 12 years old and 35 pounds overweight. I got this book about 2 months ago. It had alot of great ideas that really worked. I put this book to the test and in the past month i've lost 10 pounds. I reccomend this to teens(or preteens) who have tryed to lose weight with other diets and had no success. Overall, I think this is a wonderful and really helpful book.

Wow. I got this book in December and in the last month I have lost 15 lbs. This book has helped a lot. I could feel the difference right when I started to read the book. Before I was depressed and hated my body and now I am going strong. I was 295 lbs at 15 and now I am 280 lbs at the age of 16 (my birthday was last week). I tried Dr. Phil's book but it wasn't working and now that Jay came out with this book, I am amzaed and it makes much more sense. I just want to say buy the book, it really does help.

Like his dad, this author can say it like it is, hit the nail on the head with important information that will make a difference for teens. More than a diet, of course, and can't be compared to diets because it is much deeper. Just great and in the must read category. Also recommended is Effortless Wellbeing: The Missing Ingredients for Authentic Wellness, by Evan Finer. I wish I had both of these books when I was a teen, and for that matter when my daughters were teens!! EXCELLENT and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

This book is great is you are overweight. It challenges the way the think about food and helps you realize your cues (things that make you overeat). This book also addresses eating disorders like bulimia and anexoria. Althought a chapter is dedicated to eating disorders, I wouldn't recommend people with eating disorders to buy it. It stresses weight loss, but not weight gain. This book also teaches you how to make goals and how to follow through with them. I loved this book! Buy it!

Although I think that all of the keys are very significant and help you in different ways, my favorite is Key 4: Mastery Over Food and Impulse Eating. This one held the most significance for me- as an emotional eater.
This chapter explains the "quick fix"or "immediate payoff" you experience when you eat and eat and eat, or you go on fad diets, or you starve yourself. they give you immediate control and satisfaction about yourself- they are your reward to yourself. So why stop when what you are doing is making you happy on some level. It goes on to show you how negative thoughts about what you look like and about who you are inside are instigating your need to "reward" yourself in these negative ways. You have to change those negative images of yourself and begin to see the ultimate negative that could be turned into a positive by turning around your reward system. Food (or lack) is not a healthy reward, but going out with friends, driving around with your windows rolled down and the music blaring, or even allowing yourself an hour of freetime every day to do something fun are all healthy rewards that you can do easily.
I really thought this one was the one that spoke the most to the way I live. This book has keys that will help everyone I think.

You always need a place to start when you want to get in shape. I think The Ultimate Weight Sulution for teens is perfect for this. It gets you in the mood to look and feel better. I think that this book will have a lasting impact, eventhough it is still too new to tell.

IF you feel like you need a place to start I recommend this book, because it is smart, fun and about the things that matter-you and how you should be feeling about yourself. It also does not stay on the topic of losing weight, but also acknowledges that their is more to weight issues than being overweight.

I would also recommend "Toning for Teens" by Joyce Vedral. It is a great book about weight lifting and toning that is built souly on how teens build muscle and how they can do it right. Both of these authors do a good job focusing on teens and their needs.

I bought this book for my daughter last week, but instead of giving it straight to her I gave it to her older sister to read over the holidays. Tennagers are a bit hard to gage and I wanted to make sure that this book would not lead her into the wrong impression of what it means for her health to be an overweight teen.
My eldest daughter came back with a raving review of the book. She said that it was not solely or even mostly about how to lose weight but more closely relating the problems that arise from an obsession with weight furing your teen years. The book acts as a rational for why the focus on weight and looking good needs to be turned to thinking about staying healthy and away from the eating disorders that plague teenagers.
It gives teeangers a way to see their way out of unhealthy eating choices. I suggest this book for every teen with a weight problem, whether it is obseity or an eating disorder of any kind.

Key One: Right Thinking
Success from the Inside.

Teaches you how to understand the myth of willpower, getting real about the media, and how to change your body image by changing the way you think.

Key Two: Healing Feelings
The end of eating emotionally, purging, or doing other unhealthy things to your body.

This one helps you to understand your feelings, why they happen, and how to eventually control in a way that will not have you focusing on food.

Key Three: A No-Fail Environment
Cruise control for getting Fit.

How to make the right choices about where you are and how you live that will help you to stay away from temptation. Example: Don't work in an ice cream shop or a fast food restaurant.

Key Four: Mastery Over Food and Impulse Eating
Get it together: no more bad food habits.

How to gain control over the eating habits that have lately been controlling you and your weight.

Key Five: Jay's Portion Power Plan
Warning: This is no-diet territory

How to become a former sugar-addict, how to down-size instead of super-size, and how to recognize your satisfaction level and stop eating.

Key Six: Intentional Exercise
The fun factor in fitness

How to get in shape with exercise that is fun. Yes, this takes work but it does not have to be a chore. Taking up a sport, going dancing with friends, or walking to your friends house instead of driving are all fun, good ways to exercise and have a good time while you are doing it. They are intentional practices that can be habitual to the point that they don't "feel" like you are doing exercise.

Key Seven: Your Circle of Support
Friends are for helping- and keeping you accountable.

This is a part of the environment that you have to set up around you to make sure that you do not fall back into bad habits. The support group that you choose will keep you on track (accountable for your choices) and will lend you the type of love and comfort that you will need to understand how important this is not only to the way you look, but to the way you look at the world.

Let your true self shine with the 7 Keys of Weight Freedom.

This book was filled with a lot of information. Even though i'm not currently sticking to the "program", I found out a lot of information that I could share with others who are trying to get into a healthy life-style. If I ever get sick of being so over-weight, then I would find this book very useful. The only thing it did not do was make me realize how much I need to lose weight. But that isn't the book's fault. It's mine because nobody can get it thru my head that if I don't lose weight, I could have very bad health problems later on.

Prior to reading this book, I had read Dr. Phil's adult counterpart. As an 18-year-old reader, however, I often felt that the book wasn't wholly appropriate for me as it referred to having responsibilities such as a career, kids, bills, etc. It also would include phrases like, "I want the body I had when I was in highschool!" This is obviously not relevant to someone that is still a teenaged student. At the time, I wasn't aware that Jay's book existed, but as soon as I saw it, I decided that I had to buy it.
Although this book is definitely more appropriate for a teenager, I think it is certainly written for a younger teen. Upon first starting the book, I was annoyed by the colloquial tone it used to establish a, "Hey, I'm young too!" type deal. He started the book with a line like, "What's up?" and uses words and phrases like "crap," "bs," "stuff," etc. He also frequently interjects anecdotes about his friends, family, and life experiences, and repeatedly talks about his involvement in school as a law student. Although I do think it's admirable that he is trying to establish a connection with his reader, it is a little over-done.
Aside from this being written for a younger person, it seems also to focus on severely depressed people with low self-esteem. For me, as someone who has never been picked on, has never had an issue with low self-esteem, and has no means to relate to the quotes in the book like, "I hate myself!!!," I found most of these parts boring. There is also an entire chapter devoted to those suffering from anorexia and bulimia that I completely skipped over.
You definitely get over it fast though, and this book was somewhat amusing and as easy read (written on probably a sixth grade level). I was able to read it in two days and found it difficult to put down. My above comments were not at all to criticize the author or discourage someone from reading this, but I would advise an older teenager to perhaps look into other options or even consider reading Dr. Phil's book and deal with the irrelevant parts.
The bottom line, though, is that this book is definitely helpful to anyone of any age. I personally liked the suggestions of ways to distract myself when I want to snack (I now will take a shower, go for a walk, or paint my nails). The nutritional plan is well-organized and easy to follow, and I actually like this chapter more than the one in Dr. Phil's book. There are certain "fluff" keys I think are used only to make the book longer, but the ones that help really do get the job done. I wish the best of luck to anyone embarking upon a weight loss journey; this book will definitely give you the push you need!