Mastering Cortisol: Stop Your Body's Stress Hormone from Making You Fat Around the Middle

Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin

Eat 100 counts a day, and walk 10,000 steps—losing weight doesn't have to mean doing without your favorite foods—even chocolate or a glass of wine.

Manufacturer: Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Lose weight and change your eating habits one step at a time. Based on the best-selling books Thin for Life and Eating Thin for Life, this inspiring journal gives you techniques that worked for hundreds of people who lost weight permanently. Thin for Life Daybook should be the constant companion of anyone seeking to lose weight. This spiral-bound journal combines the best of a diet counselor and weight-loss support group, and makes you an active participant. To teach tactics that work for long-term weight control, author Anne Fletcher has studied 200 "masters of weight control" who have succeeded at losing at least 20 pounds (average: 64 pounds) and keeping the weight off for 3-plus years (average: 10 years). They have found the keys to personalizing a weight-loss program and making it a way of life. Fletcher shares their strategies in her earlier books, Thin for Life and Eating Thin for Life. This book, which is organized into a year's worth of weekly sections, lets you examine and record your own weight-loss process. Each week offers "Weekly Wisdom"--tips from the masters on a theme such as behavior modification, avoiding deprivation, committing to exercise, and specific ways to change eating choices--along with a menu suggestion. The reader fills in "goal(s) for this week"; "anticipated obstacles"; "possible solutions"; an "exercise plan"; a daily log of food, exercise, and accomplishments; and "what really helped this week." Using the Daybook is a valuable step toward becoming a "master" yourself. --Joan Price

Manufacturer: America Media International Brand: Brand: America Media International

From one of the top nutritionists in the United States comes a revolutionary diet plan. The keys to overweight are liver toxicity, waterlogged tissues, fear of eating fat, excess insulin, and stress, asserts nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman. Her Fat Flush Plan addresses these problems with a targeted diet. The Fat Flush Plan, filled with nutritional analysis and detailed explanations, is not a quick read. Despite Gittleman's assertion that the plan is "as easy as 1-2-3," it is quite regimented. No white flour, white sugar, margarine, vegetable shortening, artificial sweeteners, or caffeine. The diet emphasizes essential oils (e.g., flaxseed and GLA), protein (eight ounces or more, plus two eggs a day), vegetables, thermogenic spices (e.g., ginger and cayenne), water, and diuretic beverages (eight glasses/day of diluted, unsweetened cranberry juice). In its first two-week phase, the plan is a rigid, low calorie (1,100-1,200 calories/day), low-carb (no grains or starchy vegetables) diet. Phase two lets you increase your calories to 1,500 and add two "friendly carbs." Phase three, the "lifestyle program," moderately adds more dairy, carbs, and calories. Gittleman promotes walking and recommends strength training in phase three. The book includes 41 recipes such as Grilled Lamb Chops with Cinnamon and Coriander, Breakfast Egg Fu Yung, and Cumin Sautéed Scallops. The Fat Flush Plan is recommended for dieters willing to commit to a strict plan for weight loss. --Joan Price

Manufacturer: Benjamin Cummings Brand: Get Fit, Stay Well! Brief Edition (2nd Edition)

Get Fit, Stay Well! meets you where you are and gives you the targeted, personal guidance you need to get where you want to be.   Already the most modern, student-centric, action-plan-oriented fitness and wellness textbook on the market, the Second Edition of Get Fit, Stay Well! takes its mission a step further by becoming the most personalized and proactive book on the market as well. The Second Edition maintains the highly praised hallmarks of the first edition—integrated case studies, 3-pronged labs, a fresh graphical approach, and extensive strength training and flexibility photos and videos—and adds to them a coaching component in the form of progressive personal fitness plans, expanded exercise video options, and interactive media to get you started, keep you motivated, and take you to the next level in your own fitness and wellness.

Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

New Pritikin Program

Manufacturer: Transformation Media Books

EAT IT UP! incorporates a whole person, mind/body/spirit approach to prevent weight regain in the months and years following weight loss surgery. Each chapter explains obesity's negative impact and offers skills and strategies to overcome difficulties following surgery. Written with humor, compassion and a "firm and fair" approach, EAT IT UP! is a must-have for the millions who are obese or overweight. Regaining weight in the months and years following bariatric surgery is a devastating reality - one that can be prevented.

Manufacturer: Basic Books

This approach to weight control contends that no matter what diet one tries, it is doomed to fail because each body has a certain "setpoint" or level of stored fat.

Manufacturer: Francois Lepine Brand: Brand: Francois Lepine

If you want to be bigger, stronger, faster and more powerful, you have found the book to get you there. This is a great book because it was written by a great coach: Christian Thibaudeau. Like all respected and influential coaches, Christian has a strong background in athletic training, but he's not confined by it. He blends his education and his hands-on experiences into a training philosophy that can benefit anyone from elite athletes to weekend warriors to those of us who just want to look great naked.

Manufacturer: Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Fully revised and updated, Eater's Choice recommends a simple method to reduce your risk of heart disease by up to 60 percent. Eater's Choice, a nationwide bestseller, is recommended by doctors and professional dietitians more often than any other book for people who want to lower blood cholesterol and live longer, healthier lives. The cornerstone of the Goor series, this fully revised edition recommends recent groundbreaking methods to control cardiac risk factors and provides information about the latest cholesterol-lowering drugs. Updated food tables make it easier than ever to choose the right foods for your diet.