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

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. 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