Weight Watchers Coach Approach: How to Motivate the "Thin" You [Hardcover]

Weight Watchers (Author)

Book Description

Series: Weight Watchers | Publication Date: December 20, 1997

Everyone knows that regular exercise and sensible eating are the key to long-term weight loss, but getting started and staying motivated to do both can be a challenge. If hiring a personal trainer isn't an option, Weight Watchers Coach Approach can help provide the guidance, support and information you need to succeed.

Coach Approach provides the latest information on nutrition basics, weight-loss drugs, strength training, and aerobic exercise. It also provides up-to-the-minute tactics and advice for changing and rearranging your eating and exercise habits. It includes questions to help you determine your fitness level, as well as whether you're mentally ready to lose, and more importantly, control your weight.

In addition to the physiological aspects of weight loss, Coach Approach addresses the emotional and psychological issues as well, including body image, maintaining motivation, setting realistic goals and rethinking food attitudes. One section even features solid advice and how-to's on how to develop a sense of style when the body is a work in progress. You will learn how to navigate the supermarket and give your kitchen a makeover. As a bonus, there are 75 easy recipes for favorite dishes -- think of them as the only recipes you'll ever need. With Weight Watchers to back you up, motivation and staying power are sure bets. Coach Approach will give you the tools you need to devise a weight loss strategy that works for you.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Coach Approach from Weight Watchers is a personalized weight-loss plan with information about nutrition, exercise, and motivation, and with psychological pointers to help you understand how to overcome your barriers and succeed at losing weight. First you look at whether you are really ready to lose weight through self-tests that help you examine your attitudes, eating patterns, roadblocks, body fat, and body image. You learn nutrition and exercise basics, the facts about weight-loss supplements and gimmicks, how to get the most from an aerobics class, and hints for dressing in a stylish and flattering manner. The cooking section shows you how to create a "lean, mean kitchen," and includes tips for shopping. All the information is sensible, practical, and up to date. More than 70 heart-healthy recipes include traditional dishes like Quick Classic Meat Loaf and Spaghetti Bolognese, comfort foods like Peanut-Butter-Caramel Sandwiches (20 percent fat) and Chocolate Mousse (30 percent fat), and modern fare such as Sun-Dried Tomato-Tofu Dip and Lemon-Lime Swordfish with Mango Salsa. The nutritional breakdown for each recipe gives calories, total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates, fiber, protein, calcium, and the points allotted by the Weight Watchers 1•2•3 Success program. A handy spiral binding lets the book lie flat for writing and cooking. --Joan Price

From the Back Cover

"This is an important book for women. Every doctor should have a copy in his or her waiting room."—Marianne J.Legato, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University, New York If you're looking for the latest information on weight loss and maintenance, Weight Watchers Coach Approach is for you. Packed with the most up-to-the-minute thinking in the fields of weight loss, nutrition, fitness and behavior, this intelligent guide provides you with the goods you need to take charge of your weight and succeed in creating a healthy, fitter body. Inside you'll find:

• Thought-provoking quizzes and questions to help you better understand your behaviors toward weight loss, food, and fitness
• Sound information on the latest advances in obesity research, nutrition, and exercise
• Clear, doable advice on how to reorganize your eating and exercise habits
• Up-to-the-minute information on weight loss drugs
• Help in creating and maintaining a healthy body image so you'll be more comfortable, no matter what your size
• Tips on developing a sense of style when your body is a work in progress
• Advice on how to give your kitchen a makeover, the right tools for healthy cooking, and how to navigate the supermarket safely
• Insight on how American eating habits went from sparse to supersized
• Easy, recipes—75 in all—that follow Weight Watchers 1•2•3 Success^™ plan, include points, are no fuss in preparation, and truly fabulous in taste
• Plus, a ten week diary for you to chart your goals, and exercise and eating habits

Visit Macmillan at http://www.mcp.com/mgr/cooking and Weight Watchers^® online at http://www.weight-watchers.com

Product Details

• Hardcover: 275 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (December 20, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028622189
• ISBN-13: 978-0028622187
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,202,790 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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102 of 103 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT BOOK, March 23, 2000

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This review is from: Weight Watchers Coach Approach: How to Motivate the "Thin" You (Hardcover)

I love this book! I have been a Weight Watchers member for a while now, so I thought that the book would be a bit motivational, but I probably wouldn't learn anything new. I was so wrong. There is info on nutrition, exercise, weight loss drugs, the list goes on and on. The book is so interesting and motivating. It asks questions in the beginning of the book to determine weight loss readiness and to help you see where your weak points for weight loss may be and how to correct them. Also at the end of each chapter, there is a section called "Something to Think About," that gives you something to think about and right those thoughts or feelings right there in the book. That really helps me. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about weight loss and living a more healthy life!

83 of 84 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This an EXCELLENT book!, January 20, 2001

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This review is from: Weight Watchers Coach Approach: How to Motivate the "Thin" You (Hardcover)

I love this book, it is full of useful information in an easy to read format (not to mention the spiral bound hardcover). You will find just about everything you could possibly want in a book about health, nutrition and excercise as well as a lot of "extras" such as "larger-size sources" a list of body-friendly clothing lines and "How to build a transitional wardrobe". The book also gives differant advice to women who want to lose 10 or 25 pounds than it does to someone who wants to lose over 50 pounds. It would be a great resource for someone on the Weight Watchers program, as well as someone like me who just wanted some additional information and advice. The price here is really great too,...I will never buy a book without checking Amazon first!

41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, easy to read book with many great ideas, August 4, 1999

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This review is from: Weight Watchers Coach Approach: How to Motivate the "Thin" You (Hardcover)

One of the best books I've read regarding weight loss. I am currently on the WW program and I refer to this book very often, however, I think it would be helpful for anyone, not just a WW member. Teachs concepts in an easy to read and understand format. Also includes self tests to judge readiness for lifestyle changes. This book is an excellent tool for anyone who is interested in bettering their body and attitude....