Complete Idiot's Guide to Weight Loss

by Lucy Beale, Sandy G. Couvillon, Sandy G. Couvillon M.S. L.D.N. R.D. M.S. R.D. LDN

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028643852
• ISBN13: 9780028643854
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Alpha Books
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 4.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An Educational and Common-Sense Approach to Weight Loss

This book is really terrific! After over two years of living a "controlled carb" lifestyle, my husband and I began to get concerned about our health. Even though we lost loads of weight and kept it off all that time, we felt we may be doing our bodies long-term damage. So we tried low-fat for a bit, but started gaining weight and so we went back to low carb. Desperate to find a way to lose weight and eat healthy, we bought this book. In a nutshell, it shows you how to balance it all out. Through educating you about metabolism and even how to "get in tune" with your own body, this book puts it all in perspective. No fad dieting ideas, no gimmicks, just REAL answers to why we eat the way we do and how to eat right for the rest of your life! Exercise and stop being afraid of food! Eat when you're hungry! Enjoy real ice cream, butter and mayonnaise! Just do it right. This book shows you how.

Common Sense on a Cracker!

I have been doing Weight Watchers off and on for about three years. I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds, and I have gotten nowhere near my "goal weight". Why not? No one mentioned the common sense guidelines that I got from this book in the first five minutes of reading it: eat according to your appetite and eat balanced meals that satify (rather than stuff) you. FINALLY! Very very great information about nutrition (with no hocus-pocus studies or extreme recommendations) and about how each meal should be balanced for maximum satisfaction and metabolism, and how to increase your physical activity (moderately) to support your weight loss. After only a few days I feel, for the first time in my life, a) satisfied after every meal, b) the excess weight coming off (already!), and c) completely confident that I can meet my goal weight without completely disrupting my life or suffering at the hands of the dreaded "WW points". I can do this for the rest of my life. Buy this book!

Practical, effective, and informative

Hooray! Finally a smart weight-loss approach that you can rely upon for the rest of your life. I love it! And it works. Never preachy, this book is helping me approach eating, food, my body, and getting to my ideal size without guilt or silly approaches to food.

This is the lobster of weight loss books!!

I have learned more from half this book than I've learned half my life. This book has taught me all the things I've done wrong in trying to lose weight and how to fix them. Why all my efforts have failed, or if I did loose some weight why I did not keep it off. This is not a diet book it is a living book. This book is exellent "food for fat"

Fabulous non-diet book

I am thrilled to have this book. You need this book if you want to lose weight. I am now eating based on my hunger and the info in this book and it is working. I have lost a dress size already -- in just 2 weeks. Lucy's formula worked for her to lose 50 pounds and keep it off for 20 years and thank goodness, she is now sharing it with all of us. She is a true inspiration. Plus, I am learning how to be thin in not just my body, but also in the way I think and live. My life and attitudes are changing in wonderful ways -- and I still can eat and enjoy my chocolate! The book is a delight to read - and it feels as if Lucy knows exactly how I feel and think. Yes, this is a warm and cuddly weight loss book. It is extraordinary and it works!