Weight Success for a Lifetime

Book excerpt: Do you know why 92 percent of all diets fail? It's because they don't deal with the complexity of weight management. Losing weight is not simply a matter of cutting calories or increasing exercise. The body's management of calories involves every organ system and is influenced by such far-ranging variables as food and environmental allergies; prescription medications; environmental toxins; sexual, emotional, or physical abuse; and other highly personal factors. In fact, the secret of weight management is that it must be geared to your particular body and your special needs. Weight Success for a Lifetime is designed to help you discover how to understand your particular body, so you can lose unwanted pounds and keep them off forever. Noted weight-management expert Carol Simontacchi has designed this comprehensive weight-management program based on a 48-week curriculum, with twelve lessons in four modules. In the first module, Living Successfully with Food, she discusses such topics as what makes a healthy diet, why most diets don't work, and how to change your set point to help you lose weight more easily. She also covers how to cope with food cravings, food allergies, and binge eating. The second module, Getting the Body Back into Shape, covers such lifestyle issues as how to create a personal exercise plan, digestion, and ridding the body of toxins. The Hidden Issues of Weight Management, the third module, is devoted to medical issues, including depression, hormone dysfunction, problems related to stress, and side effects of prescription medications. The final module, Healing the Heart and the Mind, delves into how to have fun with food, dealing with abuse issues, fear of success and body image, dressing for personal beauty, and making health a lifelong journey. This all-inclusive, time-tested program is designed to help you achieve permanent weight loss forever. Book jacket.