Weigh Less, Live Longer: Dr. Lou Aronne's "Getting Healthy" Plan for Permanent Weight Control [Paperback]

Louis J. Aronne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1997

Let Dr. Lou Aronne help you achieve your goal of a longer, more vital life. His easy-to-follow diet and exercise plan shows you how to reach your healthiest possible weight based on your lifestyle, heredity, and metabolism. Discover the exact number of calories you need to lose weight, look great, feel more energetic, and be at the peak of health. Make your dream of permanent weight control a life-saving reality!

Complete menu plans for healthful meals
* Easy, appetizing recipes
* Plans for managing stress
* Fat and calorie-burning exercises.


"If you want to weigh less and live longer, this is the book to have." --robin leach

"Next to having Dr. Lou Aronne as your personal physician, Weigh Less, Live Longer is the best option for weight loss and good health." --erica jong.

"Dr. Lou Aronne succeeded in helping me and many notable friends to lose weight and live more healthful lives. Not only do I look and feel better, he made it easy!" --preston robert tisch, co-chairman of the board and co-Chief executive officer, loews corporation.

"Dr. Aronne is, without question, a fine doctor, a wonderful man, and always generous with tongue depressors." --david letterman.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Based on the author's own research and his work with other leading weight-control specialists, this book offers a lifetime eating plan designed to help readers lose as much weight as they safely and realistically can and keep it off indefinitely. Contains new information on how the body develops and stores fat, how and why people lose and regain weight including the latest research on the impact of genetics, metabolism and psychology. The program helps readers learn how to eat, how to exercise, and how they can control their relationship with food for the rest of their lives.

From the Inside Flap

Dr. Lou Aronne’s "Getting Healthy" Plan for Permanent Weight Control Lose weight safely, realistically, and permanently—without gimmicks, dietary supplements, or deprivation—with Dr. Aronne’s easy-to-follow diet and exercise plans, and life-changing advice. Your reward will be a firmer body and a longer, more physically vital life. Drawing on the latest genetic research and on the groundbreaking "set point" study conducted at Rockefeller University, Dr. Louis J. Aronne, a leading researcher and successful weight-control practitioner, explains why and how the body loses and gains weight. With his proven "Getting Healthy" plan, you’ll learn how to determine your healthiest possible weight based on your personal lifestyle, heredity, and individual metabolism. You’ll discover the exact number of calories you need to lose weight, look great, feel more energetic, and be at the peak of health. Weigh Less, Live Longer provides complete menu plans for healthful, well-balanced, and appetizing meals, along with a satisfying selection of low-calorie snacks so you never feel starved. Easy-to-follow recipes range from a delicious turkey chili to tempting cottage fries and chocolate shakes. Determine whether a low-fat, high-carbohydrate menu works best for you, or if a lower-glycemic menu, with emphasis on fibrous vegetables and legumes, will be your body’s best weapon against cravings that could be your downfall. Whichever you select, the interchangeable menu plans and recipes will help you rediscover the fun of eating while developing smart food habits. Completing the program are a series of calorie- and fat-burning exercises with illustrations, designed to help you look and feel your best. You’ll also find useful tips on what to do when eating out, attending those diet-challenging business and social gatherings, and shopping for food. By focusing on health and well-being—not merely losing unwanted pounds—Dr. Aronne’s "Getting Healthy" plan makes your dream of permanent weight control a lifelong, life-saving reality. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (December 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471239488
• ISBN-13: 978-0471239482
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #655,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just results, no gimmicks, August 20, 2000

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booklass "booklass" (San Angelo, TX, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weigh Less, Live Longer: Dr. Lou Aronne's "Getting Healthy" Plan for Permanent Weight Control (Paperback)

If you are looking for the latest gimmick, this is not the book for you. If you are looking for a way to lose weight forever, and not regain it again, then we have something here. Dr. Aronne provides the reader with an easy to follow nutrition plan that shows the reader what it takes to be permanently successful at weight loss. Chapter 8 alone was worth the price of the book. In that chapter he tells you how to decrease you calories gradually with each ten percent weight drop. In this way, you are able to eat a decent amount and still lose weight, as well as give your body time to adjust to the new weight. In the end, you still end up with a decent calorie intake, and should be able to keep it up over a lifetime. To me it has been a lot less painless than some diets I had tried in my past that required cutting out whole food groups, or excessively low calorie intake. Folks, the truth of the matter is, if you are taking in too many calories, no matter what kind, they are going to end up somewhere on your anatomy. If you want to live a decent healthy life, you are going to cut back. The question is how much, how long, and just plain HOW. Dr. Aronne answers all of that, and even has suggestions for those of you who are especially resistant to weight loss. It works, it works, it works. The little needle on the scale is finally moving downward for a change. What's more, the diet is nutritionally sound, so for people like myself who have other health conerns, it is safe. Blessings, Dr. Aronne!

22 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good backgroun info. but same old diet advice, November 8, 2000

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Felis Concolour "csjane" (Colorado Springs United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weigh Less, Live Longer: Dr. Lou Aronne's "Getting Healthy" Plan for Permanent Weight Control (Paperback)

This is a good book with a lot of useful information, but in the end, all it provides is the same old food exchange diet(with slight variations for lower glycemic foods).

Dr. Aronne also seems to contradict his own advice. He says in the book that weight loss must be slow to be permanent. He even tells you not to try and lose any more than 10% of your bodyweight at one time, but the diet section only provides guidance for three different calorie levels: 1200, 1500 and 1800.

This is way too few calories for almost anyone and it will put the body on starvation alert and provoke a binge response. When are doctors going to be honest and admit that decreasing calories by any more than 200 calories a day will trigger an impulse to overeat in most people? Decreasing your calorie consumption by 500 to 1000 calories a day or more is simply too much. Your body will always fight back.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Weigh Less, Live Longer, June 25, 2009

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M. A. Drolet (Rhode Island) - See all my reviews
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Very satisfied with my order. This book was in excellent condition. Would order more from this site.