Skinnygirl Solutions: Your Straight-Up Guide to Home, Health, Family, Career, Style, and Sex

Manufacturer: Avery

A customizable-and realistic-fitness program specifically created for midlifers who want to lose weight, revitalize energy, and build habits for increased longevity. Today's exercising adults are caught in a bind: Those who take it seriously and work out aggressively end up with chronic aches and pains in midlife because they don't know how to adjust their programs as they get older. And those who take it easy end up with overfed, underdeveloped bodies that don't respond well when they decide to get serious about exercise. Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove, fitness experts and authors of The New Rules of Lifting series know all too well that these readers need a program of their own. That's because they are these readers. Schuler started working out in his early teens. After forty years, he realized he couldn't do the programs in his own books without lots of modifications. And Cosgrove, a former European champion in tae kwon do, is a two- time survivor of stage IV cancer who found himself with limited endurance and a body that stubbornly refused to add muscle or shed fat. So the authors set out to create a new template for exercise, one that delivers serious results but is also flexible enough to accommodate individual limitations. The New Rules of Lifting for Life offers a six-month plan that balances total-body strength, endurance, mobility, balance, coordination, and athleticism. The workouts are challenging and, in conjunction with the suggested diet modifications, will help readers change the way their bodies look, feel, and perform. And not just temporarily- The New Rules of Lifting for Life allows you to enjoy productive and pain-free workouts for many years to come.

Manufacturer: Ulysses Press Brand: Brand: Ulysses Press

Mastering Cortisol explains why the fat that collects around the middle of the body can't simply be blamed on eating too much or not exercising enough. The real cause is stress, which triggers an imbalance of the hormone cortisol that in turn tricks the body into creating unnecessary belly fat. It's all part of the fight-or-flight response dating back to the caveman that tells the body to store up fat in times of peril.But the cycle can be stopped: Mastering Cortisol details specific ways to counter the cortisol with a tailor-made exercise plan that will slim the belly. Based on breakthrough genetic tests, the program also recommends specific vitamins and minerals and explains which foods will work best for the reader.

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.