No points. No calorie counting. Just trust pleasure and the wisdom of your body. “The key to losing weight is not about enjoying less,” teaches Jena la Flamme, “it’s about enjoying more.” This revolutionary insight has allowed thousands of Jena’s students to lose weight without boring food plans, arduous rules, or punishing exercise. Why does it work? Because pleasure is the secret to switching off the stress triggers that are the real culprit behind emotional eating and weight gain. With Pleasurable Weight Loss, Jena invites you to discover to a graceful, feminine way for attaining the body of your dreams, featuring: • Taking the “guilty” out of pleasure—why pleasure is a trustworthy and intelligent guiding force in your life • Accessing your body’s wisdom—embracing your “animal nature” and turning your instincts and cravings into allies • Discovering your “ideal ecology”—creating the right conditions for weight loss with your food choices, thoughts, and lifestyle • Making it safe to be sexy—untangling the social and psychological issues of body image so you can feel good while looking your best • Exercise, cooking, and savoring life—everyday tips and no-stress practices for liberating your natural radiance How you feel about your body and how you relate with pleasure matters more than what you eat when it comes to successful, sustainable weight loss. With Pleasurable Weight Loss, Jena la Flamme brings you a comprehensive, life-changing approach that starts with your mind—helping you relax, build self-esteem, and develop a sense of joy and trust in your body. Filled with inspiration, recipes, and practical guidance for women of all ages and body types, here is a powerful guide for transforming your relationship with food and exercise—a natural, enjoyable, and lasting path for looking and feeling your best.

The authors offer unique insights into the factors that make us susceptible to dietary and lifestyle excesses, and present ways to restore the biological processes designed by nature to keep us running at maximum efficiency and vitality. A wake-up call to even the most health conscious people, The Pleasure Trap boldy challenges conventional wisdom about sickness and unhappiness in today's contemporary culture, and offers groundbreaking solutions for achieving change. Authors Douglas Lisel, Ph.D., and Alan Goldhamer, D.C., provide a fascinating new perspective on how modern life can turn so many smart, savvy people into the unwitting saboteurs of their own well-being. Inspired by stunning original research, comprehensive clinical studies, and their successes with thousands of patients, the authors construct a new paradigm for the psychology of health, offering fresh hope for anyone stuck in a self-destructive rut. Integrating principals of evolutionary biology with trailblazing, proactive strategies for well

The author who lost 160 pounds and has kept it off for ten years "counsels enjoyable eating and taking pleasure in the process of losing weight."

No points. No calorie counting. Just trust pleasure and the wisdom of your body. "The key to losing weight is not about enjoying less," teaches Jena la Flamme, "it's about enjoying more." This revolutionary insight has allowed thousands of Jena's students to lose weight without boring food plans, arduous rules, or punishing exercise. Why does it work? Because pleasure is the secret to switching off the stress triggers that are the real culprit behind emotional eating and weight gain. With Pleasurable Weight Loss, Jena invites you to discover to a graceful, feminine way for attaining the body of your dreams, featuring:- Taking the "guilty" out of pleasure-why pleasure is a trustworthy and intelligent guiding force in your life- Accessing your body's wisdom-embracing your "animal nature" and turning your instincts and cravings into allies- Discovering your "ideal ecology" - creating the right conditions for weight loss with your food choices, thoughts, and lifestyle- Making it safe to be sexy-untangling the social and psychological issues of body image so you can feel good while looking your best- Exercise, cooking, and savoring life-everyday tips and no-stress practices for liberating your natural radianceHow you feel about your body and how you relate with pleasure matters more than what you eat when it comes to successful, sustainable weight loss. With Pleasurable Weight Loss, Jena la Flamme brings you a comprehensive, life-changing approach that starts with your mind-helping you relax, build self-esteem, and develop a sense of joy and trust in your body. Filled with inspiration, recipes, and practical guidance for women of all ages and body types, here is a powerful guide for transforming your relationship with food and exercise-a natural, enjoyable, and lasting path for looking and feeling your best.

We've all been there-angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet that was supposed to be the last one. But the problem is not you, it's that dieting, with its emphasis on rules and regulations, has stopped you from listening to your body. Written by two prominent nutritionists, Intuitive Eating focuses on nurturing your body rather than starving it, encourages natural weight loss, and helps you find the weight you were meant to be. Learn: *How to reject diet mentality forever *How our three Eating Personalities define our eating difficulties *How to feel your feelings without using food *How to honor hunger and feel fullness *How to follow the ten principles of Intuitive Eating, step-by-step *How to achieve a new and safe relationship with food and, ultimately, your body With much more compassionate, thoughtful advice on satisfying, healthy living, this newly revised edition also includes a chapter on how the Intuitive Eating philosophy can be a safe and effective model on the path to recovery from an eating disorder.

Dr. Ian demands big results from his diet plans: whether on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club, State Farm's 50 Million Pound Challenge or his numerous inspirational appearances across the country, his advice has helped countless numbers of dieters lose millions of pounds. With over twenty years of experience watching how and why dieters lose weight—and how they don't—Dr. Ian developed a program that actually retrains the brain to diet naturally. In The 4 Day Diet, Dr. Ian distills that program into the acronym SMARTER: --Sense of where you are: don't fool yourself about your habits and what kind of shape you're in --Make realistic goals: don't sabotage your success by trying to do too much too fast --Activate your motivational engine: learn how to be your own best diet coach --Resist temptation: how to put yourself in an environment that supports your diet and keeps you disciplined --Think thin: why visualization works --Every bite counts: track your intake, but learn how to enjoy what you eat more at the same time --Reward yourself: indulge yourself in small and big ways along the road to permanent weight loss

What if you woke up every day feeling that your life was a work of art-in-progress that took shape hour by hour, culminating in a lifetime of satisfaction and fulfillment? And what if you, the artist of this life, were able to sculpt the events and opportunities in your future not merely through physical action, but by using a far more powerful and subtle type of energy? There is such an energy, and it stirs just below the surface, creating the blueprints for everything that erupts in your physical existence. And you can learn to use it. Creative Flow dreaming reveals a powerful, precise, and beautiful method for manifesting in which you become an artist of living. Youll learn about this world of the manifesting practitioner, who guides the flow of living energies, as Summer McStravick gives you an intimate glimpse into her own pioneering practice. Forget everything youve learned about needing tough ''lessons' or ''learning experiences.' With Creative Flow dreaming, you learn that life is not a ladder to be climbed or a series of obstacles to get through. Life is about long-term financial security, relationships that feed your soul, robust health, and doing something with your time that you find meaningful and enjoyable. Creative Flow dreaming, and the path of the manifesting practitioner, reveals the way to harness the power of Flow - the energy of ease, perfection, and bubbling potential that is forever at your fingertips.