What is it about people's attitude toward "dieting" that is so absolutely negative? How do we get into this mental state where we accept our overweight condition? Why is it that we have such a difficult time addressing our unhealthy lifestyle?Well, the answer is rather simple. Going on a diet is difficult. It ain't fun ! It is not an enjoyable experience. We don't want to spend hours in a gym. We don't want to eat the special microwave meals that we have to buy or that are delivered to our front door. We don't want to be required to use a calculator to determine if we can or cannot have any particular item for a snack.We enjoy our current lifestyle. We don't want to change the way we live or stop eating the things we love. And therefore, we determine that dieting is "not for me." We think, I'm not about to undergo some miserable experience to lose weight . My happiness is important. It's definitely more important than shedding some pounds.If dieting were fun, we'd all be skinny as a rail. But we all realize, or at least we should realize, that being overweight is unhealthy. Many of us realize that we really should address this issue. But we think, I just don't want to go through the whole dieting thing. It's hard ... it's difficult ... it's not fun. And many of us have tried dieting. And it either didn't work for whatever reason, or the weight came right back.What if I told you of a way to lose weight where you don't have to stop eating the things you love. And you don't have to join a gym and go on some exercise regimen. What if I told you that I know of a way to enjoy the experience. What if I told you of a process where it's not difficult to lose weight. And what if I told you this process will vastly improve your chances of keeping the weight off for the rest of your life.I invite you to go on a journey of discovery. A journey where you will discover the reason you are heavier than you should be; and probably heavier than you would like to be. It's a journey where you will learn to slowly modify what you eat in terms of both quantity and quality. You will not have to give up the things you love while on this journey. You will teach yourself to east less of these items and less frequently. It's a journey where you will teach yourself to slowly modify your lifestyle. And the important word here is SLOWLY.This is not a fast weight-loss process. How long will it take to lose the weight? How long is the journey? That's entirely up to you. This is a self-directed and self-controlled journey to an improved lifestyle.THE JOURNEY DIET is a book I've written that documents my journey to a vastly improved lifestyle. It is not a diet book. I invite you to take this journey. If you embark on and complete this journey, you will lose the weight you want to lose and will vastly improve your chances of keeping the weight off.

The Living Diet invites us to consider our relationship to food from a Christian perspective. Food: can’t live with it or without it. We are bombarded with messages that the secret to health and weight loss can be unlocked with the right product or magic discipline, but we are getting neither thinner nor happier. Reports suggest that we are losing our battle with obesity, while the anxiety people experience in relationship with food increases. We are taught that bodies are fundamentally a problem to be solved, or worse, a war to be won, while a misguided worldview suggests that our food choices are of concern to us alone; an individual act of pleasure or consequences. Few resources speak to our food problem from a distinctly Christian perspective. Drawing on a rich assemblage of personal and collected stories grounded in the teachings of Jesus, The Living Diet offers a joyful alternative to the desperation and dissatisfaction that have become cultural norms for both eating and body image, inviting us to consider our choices in the context of community. Ancient wisdom yields a surprisingly modern response to the dieting dilemma, as well as to the realm of public, or popular, theology, helping the reader discover the real joy of eating and the true gift of embodied living.

Two thirds of the US population is overweight or obese. One hundred million Americans are pre-diabetic or diabetic. What causes obesity and diabetes? By now most of us agree: Carbohydrates. Our government and medical societies disagree. They are still on the "fat makes us fat" bandwagon. This book describes the pseudoscience of the low fat diet and debunks the thinking of our government and medical societies

Hundreds of diet books have been written on the subject of weight loss. Perhaps you thought this was one of them? No, this is not a diet book! In fact, it defies all the existing diets. This book's approach to weight loss is about you-a holistic plan that focuses on you as an individual. As you explore the question "What am I?" you will discover that the tools you need to create lasting change already exist within you. Learn to use them, and your capabilities will seem almost magical-you will be empowered to make amazing strides in improving your overall wellness and losing weight-progress that used to feel impossible. Combining the best of Western and Eastern medicine, Svetlana Kogan, MD, guides you on a journey that will align your mind and body. The path to a healthier you doesn't have to be miserable. Diet Slave No More! makes the journey enjoyable and entertaining. No restrictions. No pills. Just-finally-weight loss that can last! To make this journey even more fun and easier, the author recommends a follow-through virtual companion phone app called "Diet Slave No More!" separately available on iPhone and Android platforms.

The I AM DIET is not your average weight loss book. While most weight loss books focus on a particular diet, this unique perspective focuses on exercising the muscle of your brain to reprogram your thoughts and emotions. You will not only learn how to retrain your brain to have the thoughts and emotions of a thin, happy, healthy person, you will discover who you really are. All aspects of your life will improve as you bring out the thin and happy person within. This is a journey of Body, Mind and Spirit.The I AM DIET shares Sierra Goodman's personal weight loss journey and teaches you the I AM DIET method in an easy to follow manner. It includes processes geared to bring you to an healthy and happy mindset and finally lose the weight and become the thin person that you are inside.This book will help you get clear on what you desire and help you to change your thoughts and emotions to think and be thin now. Lots of great tips, tricks and inspiration for using deliberate thinking to create your life and your body size. Let's get down to it!

THE BEST DIET BOOK EVER: The Zen of Losing Weight, is a ground-breaking book that offers a fresh new perspective on the weight-loss journey: the freedom to enjoy positive choices rather than the pain and sacrifice of strict diets. Easy to read and simple to apply, the tools in this book will empower you to fulfill the goals of the best diet program there is-your own. Poor decisions are what make you gain weight and good choices are what enable you to lose weight. Your brain will respond to the changes you make, and your body will, too. Instead of recipes and requirements, you'll receive time-tested techniques for being more present and mindful while cultivating good eating and exercise habits. THE BEST DIET BOOK EVER provides great information and practical strategies that will help you become the lighter, slimmer you that you long to be.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Foreword by John Robbins, author of the international bestseller Diet for A New America In this book, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. shares the groundbreaking weight-loss solution based on her highly acclaimed Bright Line Eating Boot Camps. Rooted in cutting-edge neuroscience, psychology, and biology, Bright Line Eating explains why people who are desperate to lose weight fail again and again: it’s because the brain blocks weight loss. Bright Line Eating (BLE) is a simple approach designed to reverse that process. By working with four "Bright Lines"—clear, unambiguous, boundaries—Susan Peirce Thompson shows us how to heal our brain and shift it into a mode where it is ready to shed pounds, release cravings, and stop sabotaging our weight loss goals.Best of all, it is a program that understands that willpower cannot be relied on, and sets us up to be successful anyway. Through the lens of Susan’s own moving story, and those of her Bright Lifers, you’ll discover firsthand why traditional diet and exercise plans have failed in the past. You’ll also learn about the role addictive susceptibility plays in your personal weight-loss journey, where cravings come from, how to rewire your brain so they disappear, and more. Susan guides you through the phases of Bright Line Eating—from weight loss to maintenance and beyond—and offers a dynamic food plan that will work for anyone, whether you’re vegan, gluten-free, paleo, or none of the above. Bright Line Eating frees us from the obesity cycle and introduces a radical plan for sustainable weight loss. It’s a game changer in a game that desperately needs changing.

Discover a menu of ten behaviors you can add to your way of living and thinking to enhance every day’s journey through the unpredictable terrain of your existence. Add these behaviors gradually and watch your life become steadily more vivid and satisfying. Or you can go on a “crash Joy Diet” to help you navigate life’s emergencies. The ten menu items are: • Nothing: Do nothing for fifteen minutes a day. Stop mindlessly chasing goals and figure out which goals are worth going after. • Truth: Create a moment of truth to help you unmask what you’re hiding—from others and from yourself. • Desire: Identify, articulate, and explore at least one of your heart’s desires—and learn how to let yourself want what you want. • Creativity: Learn six new ways to develop at least one new idea to help you obtain your heart’s desire. • Risk: Take one baby step toward reaching your goal. The only rule is it has to scare the pants off you. • Treats: Give yourself a treat for every risk you take and two treats just because you’re you. No exceptions. No excuses. • Play: Take a moment to remember your real life’s work and differentiate it from the games you play to achieve it. Then play wholeheartedly. • Laughter: Laugh at least thirty times a day. Props encouraged. • Connection: Use your Joy Diet skills to interact with someone who matters to you. • Feasting: Enjoy at least three square feasts a day, with or without food. No matter what your long-term goals are, The Joy Diet, written with Martha Beck’s inimitable blend of wisdom, practical guidance, and humor, will help you achieve the immediate gift of joyful living in the here and now. Begin your journey today.

Isn’t your desire to overeat really spiritual hunger? “I can stop in the middle of a candy bar and have no desire to eat the second half if my stomach is not calling for it.” - Gwen Shamblin Do you eat and eat and never feel full? Rise above the magnetic pull of the refrigerator and turn to the bounty offered to thousands who have embraced a liberating weight-reduction program in churches across America. The Weigh Down Diet gives new hope to millions who have failed on conventional diets and guides readers to the richer satisfaction that comes not from food, but from faith. Gwen Shamblin’s The Weigh Down Diet is a groundbreaking approach to weight loss. People who have known no end to their hunger and who have no control over their late-night binges have learned through the Weigh Down Workshop that they can remove the irresistible desire for food. This is not a diet like others, because it is not food-focused. It contains chapters such as “It’s Not Genetics or Your Mother’s Fault,” “I Feel Hungry All the Time,” and “How to Eat Potato Chips and Chocolate.” So, as you can see, here is a very different approach to weight loss. Weigh Down gives back hope to dieters who will learn that God did not put chocolate or lasagna on Earth to torture us – but rather for our enjoyment!

Esther has written this book in response to requests from her Facebook followers but her daily words will offer encouragement to any reader who has tried everything to lose weight and has almost given up hope. She will take you on her personal journey for a whole year. These daily posts will give you new insights on how you can be your best both physically and spiritually as you navigate your own journey. These posts can be read on a daily basis to inspire you. You are not alone. Help is on the way.