10 Habits That Mess
Up a Woman's Diet
McGraw-Hill, 2005
ISBN 0-0714-6228-7 ($16.95, buy
now)
What’s sabotaging
your diet? Discover solutions to the 10 most common
diet mistakes!
Are you in a constant battle with your weight?
Do you feel like the scales are tipped against
you no matter what you do? You’re not alone.
Millions of women are stuck on a diet rollercoaster,
watching in frustration as their weight goes up
and down and up again. 10 Habits That Mess Up
a Woman’s Diet will help you get off--and
stay off--that roller coaster for good.
Elizabeth Somer has spent more
than twenty-five years on the front lines of nutrition
research and counseling. Now, in this first-of-its-kind
book, she reveals the bad habits, many so subtle
you don’t even know you’re doing them,
that stand in the way of successful weight loss
and offers easy, everyday solutions that really
work. 10 Habits That Mess Up a Woman’s Diet
includes real-life stories you'll identify with,
and self-assessment tests so you can learn what
you're doing wrong. Using checklists, menu plans,
snacking tips, and other successful tricks, you
can eat healthfully, lose weight, and turn your
life around--one habit at a time.
- Taste-test while cooking?
- Nibble off your partner’s
plate?
- Have trouble resisting
second and third helpings?
- Eat until you’re
uncomfortably full?
- Stretch the truth
when it comes to how much you eat?
- Forgo fruits and vegetables
in favor of fries?
- Make excuses for not
exercising?
- Drown your sorrows
in chocolate or chips?
- Waste calories on
soft drinks and cocktails?
- Consider yourself
"on" or "off" a diet?
With concise writing and solid clinical research,
registered dietitian Somer (Food & Mood) helps
readers identify and understand 10 common problems
that can stand in the way of losing weight and
provides the tools to change those habits. According
to Somer, at least half of people’s harmful
habits occur not at the dinner table, but in their
heads. Examples include eating without thinking,
not being honest about how much one eats and using
food to alter one’s mood. Somer identifies
practical mistakes, too, such as shopping the
wrong supermarket aisle and choosing the wrong
social drinks. An extremely helpful chapter uses
solid medical research to debunk many of the most
popular weight-loss myths. The author teaches
by example and offers intelligent quizzes that
help readers identify where they are faltering.
What sets the book apart from the many diet books
out there is that it not only works on its own
to improve eating habits and encourages healthy
weight loss, but its useable advice can make any
sensible weight-loss plan easier to follow.
- Publisher's Weekly
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