The Power
How Women Just Like You Become Weight-loss Winners
Sue Ellin Browder(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 13. December 2000
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-471-37968-3 (ISBN)
Description
The first diet book to empower women with what they need to do about the 11 unhealthy ways they gain weight This book shows women how to lose weight their way. Based on scientific breakthrough thinking over a half century in the making, this is the first book ever to detail the twelve ways women become overweight. These overweight styles include: Daily Hassles Fat (caused by stress), Anger Fat, Binge-Eating Fat, Night-Eating Fat, Medication-Caused Fat, Polycystic Ovary Fat, and more. Through interactive quizzes, personalized sections, and the inspiring and dramatic stories of "weight-loss winners" who have done it their way, prize-winning investigative medical reporter Sue Ellin Browder provides women with a warm, down-to-earth, and highly effective individualized method for taking excess weight off and keeping it off. Based on impeccable cutting-edge medical and scientific research and interviews with the top weight-loss experts from Harvard, Stanford, and other major international medical centers, this book is The Power every woman must have to take charge of her weight for life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 162 mm
Weight
539 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-37968-3 (9780471379683)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction. PART ONE: EMBRACE YOUR INDIVIDUALITY. The Weight-Loss Winners. One Size Does Not Fit All. Find Out Why You're Overweight. Superconfidence and How to Get It. PART TWO: BECOME THE SCIENTIST OF YOUR MIND-BODY. Body Fat and Disease. How You Form Unhealthy Fat Patterns. Do You Have Unhealthy Fat? Choose to Take Charge. PART THREE: BE A WEIGHT-LOSS WINNER. Losing Daily Hassles Fat. Losing Depression Fat. Losing Lazy Thyroid Fat. Losing Anger Fat. Losing Two Kinds of Binge-Eating Fat. Losing Polycystic Ovary Fat. Losing Night-Eating Fat. Losing Post-Pregnancy Fat. Losing Medication-Caused Fat. Losing Post-Trauma Fat. PART FOUR: YOUR WEIGHT, YOUR WAY. Design Your Superconfidence Diet. Become an Exercise Winner. Afterword: Toward Health and Healing. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index