Walk Away the Pounds: The Breakthrough 6-Week Program That Helps You Burn Fat, Tone Muscle, and Feel Great Without Dieting [Paperback]

Leslie Sansone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 27, 2005

Losing weight has never been easier or more fun than with Leslie Sansone's WALK AWAY THE POUNDS. For over twenty-five years, Leslie has helped more women get off the couch and onto their feet than anyone else in the fitness industry. Her secret? If you can walk, you can achieve the weight-loss goals you dream about...with none of the intimidation or negative messages that have stopped you from succeeding before. Whether you are a beginner or have been walking with Leslie for years, whether you are a teen or a senior or somewhere in between, you will see results. You will lose real weight, and keep it off-twenty pounds, forty, sixty, or even more. All you need is fifteen minutes a day for starters, two feet, and a willing attitude. There is no fancy equipment to buy, no fad diet to follow, and no fitness club to join. The revolutionary program in WALK AWAY THE POUNDS is designed to keep everybody on the path to success, especially those who have never been able to complete a weight-loss plan before. It's a simpler approach to fitness, one that can change your life. Leslie's step-by-step workbook format sets up the program day by day. You just wake up, flip open the book, and follow the directions. You'll get a combination of in-home walking (that's right, you can do it right from the comfort of your own living room!), simple strength training, motivational breakthroughs, and commonsense advice to help you burn fat, tone muscle, reduce stress, avoid illness, shake off the blues, and boost your energy level sky high. It's never been easier. Women all across America have dropped between 20 and 150 pounds with Leslie Sansone. Now you can too!

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Twenty-five-year fitness industry veteran Sansone, whose videos have been megahits for the shopping network QVC, shares a nonintimidating, friendly workbook that promises to help overweight adults (she targets women, though men could certainly benefit from her advice, too) drop pounds and pick up energy. "Walking just thirty minutes a day, three times a week," she says, "reduces the risk of death from natural causes by 55%." That being fit will help you live longer isn't news, but Sansone's simple approach is refreshing. She details a six-week program that combines walking and basic strength training, promising readers they'll burn calories, lose fat, firm muscle, boost energy and reduce stress. With its daily log and continual encouragement, the book will best suit those new to exercise who aren't sure how or where to begin and need constant assurance (though Sansone does include a power walk program for readers who are already walking regularly or have completed the basic program). She interweaves her program notes with personal stories from women who've successfully "walked away the pounds" (20, 60 and even 100 pounds). This nonthreatening, accessible exercise plan should be a boon for those who are reluctant or unable to practice more intense exercise.
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About the Author

AUTHORBIO: Leslie Sansone lives in New Castle, Pennsylvania --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Center Street (December 27, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446693359
• ISBN-13: 978-1931722568
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.7 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #262,136 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #43 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Exercise & Fitness > Walking

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68 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT book!, January 3, 2005

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Tera "Tera" (SAN DIEGO, US, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Walk Away the Pounds: The Breakthrough 6-Week Program That Helps You Burn Fat, Tone Muscle, and Feel Great Without Dieting (Hardcover)

Leslie Sansone has created a great book! I follow her videos at home and reading this book has really helped me understand a few more things about her goals and what we need to do to achieve them. I read this book yesterday and I could not set it down! I finished it with tons of new information that I will be able to use!

She is an amazing person and she expalins her theory on losing weight and how we can try it as well. She creates a helpful log for each day to keep us on track and motivated. She also explains how and why she got into this business.

If you are ready to lose weight then this is the book for you! You should also check out some of her walking videos. I was so dumb to buy a 1,000 elipitical! I use her every morning before breakfast while my eliptical is folded!

Check out www.lesliesansone.com

Good Luck!

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice way to ease into an exercise, October 28, 2005

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Rebekah Lynn "rebekahthelynn" (Jackson, MS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Walk Away the Pounds: The Breakthrough 6-Week Program That Helps You Burn Fat, Tone Muscle, and Feel Great Without Dieting (Hardcover)

This book has been helpful to me because it eases me into exercising without overwhelming me with alot of 'rules' I need to follow.

The book has an introduction that gives you the scoop on why walking is such an effective workout, why walking is good for you health and informs you on a few things you need before you begin the program.

The next section deals with the actual exercises you will be doing during your 6-week challenge. Leslie has plenty of pictures of how to do the stretches, strength training moves and basic walking moves. Leslie is pictured using weighted gloves, weighted balls, an ab belt, and stretch band. If you want to see these images before you purchase the book, check out her website at [...]

Part 3 of the book is titled, "The Program" and is basically a place to journal your progress through the 6-week program. At the beginning of each week, you are asked to write down your goals for that week and what you accomplished the week before. There is also a walk booster for every week and they involve things such as, taking a multi-vitamin, drinking plenty of water, adding strengh training, self-acceptance, and sleep.Leslie makes it very clear that you can choose whether or not you want to do the walk booster every week. She really just wants you to start walking! In the daily journal pages, you are asked when you will walk that day, did you walk that day, did you take your vitamin, how did you feel and a beautiful thing. As the program progresses, you will also keep up with water intake and how much sleep you got. There are a few pages that also give you the opportunity to keep the program going after the six weeks by walking longer distances. Chapters on walking during and after pregnancy, senior walking, and changing your eating habits are included.

Finally, the 4th section of the book is titled "Making Life Work." Leslie tells you a little bit about herself, how to deal with stress, and motivation.

The book includes a DVD but I was disappointed with it. The walking pace didn't match the pace of the music. I highly recommend Leslie's other walking tapes. She has a great many to choose from on her website and most come with a video preview you can see right on your computer screen.

I have enjoyed doing the program so far and once again, it eases you into every step without having to do everything at once.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Leslie does it again!, January 13, 2005

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Julie Lovisa (Indiana USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Walk Away the Pounds: The Breakthrough 6-Week Program That Helps You Burn Fat, Tone Muscle, and Feel Great Without Dieting (Hardcover)

I am a total addict of Leslie Sansone's Walk Away programs - I had many exercise videos, but never stuck to anything until I found her energizing, fun, and most of all easy workouts.

In her personal, talking-to-you-like-a-best-friend style, Leslie shows you how regular exercise benefits you in all ways from your health to your body to your mind and then presents her easy to follow basic workout which consists of three walking steps that are interchanged and sometimes modified while doing the program.

There is no dieting in this program! She is a strong proponent of getting up and moving to better your life and shows it here by offering a few modifications you can make to your way of eating to help you lose weight, but no real diet, which I think is great! It helps to show that the real health factor is getting the exercise you need, not feeling deprived of the food you want which is why many diets fail.

She has many success stories to motivate you peppered throughout the book and closes with a discussion about how stress affects your life and how you can beat it through exercise.

I love Leslie! She is personable, motivating, and a great teacher - I am forever grateful to her for getting this former couch potato, at-home mom to stick to an exercise routine that I know will always benefit my life.