Hobbs lost 200 pounds without the help of surgery, pills, point systems, or a trendy diet. And just as important, she has kept the weight off. In this work, readers get straight talk on developing the determination, commitment, and personal responsibility it takes to achieve weight loss that lasts.

Imagine a graph with two lines. One indicates happiness, the other tracks how you feel about your body. If you’re like millions of people, the lines do not intersect. But what if they did? This practical, inspirational, and visually lively book shows you how to create a healthier and happier life by treating yourself with compassion rather than shame. It shows the way to a sense of well-being attained by understanding how to love, connect, and care for yourself—and that includes your mind as well as your body. Body Kindness is based on four principles. WHAT YOU DO: the choices you make about food, exercise, sleep, and more HOW YOU FEEL: befriending your emotions and standing up to the unhelpful voice in your head WHO YOU ARE: goal-setting based on your personal values WHERE YOU BELONG: body-loving support from people and communities that help you create a meaningful life With mind and body exercises to keep your energy spiraling up and prompts to help you identify what YOU really want and care about, Body Kindness helps you let go of things you can't control and embrace the things you can by finding the workable, daily steps that fit you best. Think of it as the anti-diet book that leads to a more joyful and meaningful life!

The DASH Diet Action Plan is the user-friendly teaching guide to the DASH diet. Initially, many people find it difficult to follow the DASH diet. This book makes it simple to understand and put into practice. The book makes it easy to lose weight with the DASH diet, and it has realistic ways to add exercise. Although the book was not intended to be an aggressive weight loss book, people are writing to say that they have surprised themselves by finding it easy to lose weight following the plan! Many people find the DASH diet to be hard to implement and sustain in a hectic lifestyle. The average American gets 2 - 3 servings of fruits and vegetables combined each day, so following the DASH diet may seem daunting. The DASH Diet Action Plan book is designed to help you with more than just "what" is involved with the DASH diet, it also shows you "how." How to follow the DASH diet in restaurants, how to lose weight, how to make over your kitchen to make it easy to follow your plan, how to fit in exercise, how to reduce salt intake, how to add vegetables even if you "hate" vegetables. And the book helps you make your own personal plan with specific steps you will take to fit the DASH diet into your daily routine. Our readers say that this is the best DASH diet book! Your step-by-step plan will include: setting your goals for blood pressure and cholesterol, determining the calorie-level you need for maintenance or weight loss, developing meal plans, developing a realistic exercise plan, adjusting the DASH diet to accommodate other health problems, choosing the key DASH diet foods, reading food labels, and learning how to incorporate more vegetables in your diet, and setting up your kitchen to make it easy to stay on track. This book was written by a registered dietitian who is experienced in helping people make sustainable behavior changes, and make healthy eating part of their real lives. She knows that people need flexibility and options to choose different approaches, since not everyone has the time or the interest in cooking or making drastic changes in how they eat. The book incorporates tools that will help you plan the specific steps you will take to adopt the DASH diet. Research shows that people who make concrete plans are more likely to be successful with adopting new health behavior. This should improve your ability to lower your blood pressure (and cholesterol), without medication.

By applying the principles of clean eating to a realistic lifestyle, top journalist and working mom Dari Alexander shows how you can achieve your best body and keep that promise to yourself: to finally look like that gorgeous person you know exists. Changing your mindset and consuming foods closest to their natural state will change the way you feel every day—this back-to-basics, no-nonsense, weight loss and maintenance program will not only make you thinner, it will also increase your energy. Most importantly, it promotes life-long good health. The Quick & Clean Diet is all about whole grains, lean proteins, and good fats. It shuns pre-packaged, heavily processed, refined, and fast foods. It’s not about eating only low-carb, nor about going fat free. It’s about good fats. Expect to eat plenty of chicken, turkey, and fish. You will also get an endless choice of vegetables, and a plethora of spices. Your food will never taste boring, nor will you feel deprived; in fact, expect to eat a lot. Three levels form the basis of the diet—for each of which the book provides delicious recipes. The High Motivation segment is the rapid weight loss phase, a time designed to whip you into shape, kill your cravings, and shrink your stomach. Within about three days, you will feel unstoppable. The Grounding segment is where you continue to lose weight while reintroducing a wider variety of foods. And finally the Stability segment will become your roadmap for eating well for the rest of your life.

If you've dreamed of a way to safely and quickly lose weight while still eating foods you love, then this book by bestselling weight loss authors Jennifer Jolan and Rich Bryda could be exactly what you're looking for.The 1-Day Diet is changing the diet and weight loss world. Based on hard science, it works without constantly dieting for days, weeks, and months at a time... without planning special meals...without counting calories... and without needing to exercise.The idea behind this diet was first discovered by professional athletes (who wanted to lose body fat without starving or feeling tired) and then perfected for women by a world-class diet expert.In fact, it's not unusual to lose 2-5 pounds the first day and up to 30 pounds the first month without fat returning. The Best Part? You're only allowed to do the diet 1-3 days per week. The rest of the week you can eat all your favorite foods (even "bad" foods) as long as you follow a few simple guidelines. Some of the secrets in this fascinating book include:The science behind why it's almost impossible to fail here. (Even if everything else hasn't worked.) - How to diet 1 day a week to KEEP fat off forever. (No yo-yo effect or worrying about fat creeping back on.) - A simple 5-minute exercise that can double your weight loss speed on the 1-Day Diet. (Exercise is NOT required-but you can lose weight TWICE as fast by doing this simple exercise that takes only 5 minutes per day.) - How to use the 1-Day Diet Plan to cut your food bill almost in half. - How to prevent fat gain even while pigging out on holidays and weekends. - How the 1-Day Diet naturally eliminates cravings and thinking about food. - A spice that lowers blood sugar levels, makes you more insulin sensitive (that's really good thing), and helps you lose weight. - The 1-hour "window" to eat as bad as you want without gaining fat. (If you really want to indulge, eat your bad meals at this exact time to carbs turn into energy instead of fat.) - Why the 1-Day Diet is NECESSARY for pre-diabetic people... or who have full-blown diabetes. (Millions of people are pre-diabetic and don't even know it.) - Why typical dieting and exercise are often no match for CRAZY, out-of-control hormones... and how to fix your hormones so weight loss follows. - The culprit found in processed foods at a rate of 1,000,000 times higher than estrogen found in women's breasts! A disaster for weight loss. - How our foods became so nutritionally empty that it now takes 26 of this fruit to equal the nutrition of 1 of them from 1914! - You know second-hand smoke is bad for you, right? Well, this common food is like the equivalent of second-hand smoke. Bad news... and you're eating it without even knowing it. - Women hold fat because they have 1,000 TIMES the concentration of these versus men (a big reason why women usually have a harder time losing weight). - This cheap substance has 84 different minerals... the version you probably get has only 2. Get the right one and start losing weight!Want more?10 FREE Bonus Reports are Linked on the Last Page of the Book:1. How to Lose Weight Spinning in a Circle like Kids2. The 20-Second Bathroom Trick for a Super-Charged Metabolism and a Flood of Energy3. One Tablespoon of this $6 Supplement Detoxes 900 Yards of Toxins from Your Body4. Do-It-Yourself Face-Lift: How to Look 5 Years Younger in 2 Weeks - Got 5 Minutes a Day?5. The 50-Cent Miracle Weight Loss Food You're Not Eating6. #1 Cheap Supplement that Reverses Gray Hair & Infuses Health into Your Body7. How to Get Rid of Allergies in 90 Seconds with Water 8. The Ultimate 3-Second Fountain of Youth "Neural" Fat Loss Exercise9. The 15-Second "T-Tap" for Overcoming Hypothyroidism & Sluggish Energy10. How to Make Healthy Ice Cream in 2 Minutes and Other Sweet Surprises!