A singing dieter? Dieters don't sing... they mumble, they grumble, and they growl (at least their stomachs do!). Confessions of a Dieter: Musical Scales can change all that! Through the power of music and humor, author Carol Krogh uncovers the sometimes secret, always quirky habits of a dieter. Well-known melodies, which are fun and easy to sing to, are the framework for the new dieters? lyrics. If you've ever dieted, you'll love singing these songs'they're certain to touch a familiar chord or two, and they'll transport you to a comfortable place of understanding and camaraderie. Music is such a vital part of our lives; Confessions of a Dieter presumes that dieting simply will not function successfully without it.

Katheryn has one major dilemma: should she focus on her diet and forget her social life, or engage in social activities and ruin her diet? With an eagerness to control and indulge in both, Katheryn spirals into a world of obsessive dieting. That is, until she takes a trip abroad that forces her to question everything she had learned from diets. Now 40-pounds lighter despite still being an afternoon tea aficionado, Katheryn reveals how to create a life you love in your body and with food, and be free from worrying about your diet.

There are no recipes in this book. There are no diets as if you needed another one.This is a book about dieting, not a how-to diet book, even though I tell you what I did. It is about a personal weight loss journey. It is not a pep talk on how to stay positive when hunger pangs stab like sharp spears, not the supposed gentle waves that come and go.How bad does it get? try living with no results for 3 years. I suffered struggles of lethargy, depression, irritability, frustration and defeat. It's like when I'm walking on the local jogging path. People run past me. Go around, please. I'm slow. No matter. I'm getting my walk in.It takes as long as it takes. Call me cynical. Call me negative. Call me irresponsible.However, I was able to lose weight and keep it off.There is hope and it is possible to reach the finish line.I wrote this because I believe that you can do it, too.

This book "charts the highs and lows of A.J. Rochester's incredible journey, from her first close encounters with a nutritionist, personal trainer and psychiatrist to overcoming an early setback - waking up in hospital with a broken leg after downing an illicit cocktail on an empty stomach - and the triumph of shedding the first, and last, kilo. The result is a funny, insightful and inspiring account of a woman who lost 40 kilos without losing her sense of humour - and discovered a whole new life." - back cover.

For anyone who has ever tried to lose weight, a funny, inspirational and unique recipe for success from someone who looked like the last of the lost causes... When A.J. Rochester is singled out for a television show on obesity, she is at first appalled and then resolved. Enough is enough. She vows to change her ways and lose weight – not because she yearns to become a pretzel, but so she can keep up with her little boy and turn her life around at last. But after years of fighting a losing battle against her weight, A.J. knows she needs a miracle. So she volunteers to be a human guinea pig and record her weekly progress in front of a camera for a television program on body image. Confessions of a ReformedDieter charts the highs and lows of A.J.’s incredible journey, from her first close encounters with a nutritionist, personal trainer and psychiatrist to overcoming an early setback – waking up in hospital with a broken leg after downing an illicit cocktail on an empty stomach – and the triumph of shedding the first, and last, kilo. The result is a funny, insightful and inspiring account of a woman who lost 40 kilos without losing her sense of humour – and discovered a whole new life.

“Hunger is the loudest voice in my head. I’m hungry most of the time.” William Leith began the eighties slim; by the end of that decade he had packed on an uncomfortable amount of weight. In the early nineties, he was slim again, but his weight began to creep up once more. On January 20th, 2003, he woke up on the fattest day of his life. That same day he left London for New York to interview controversial diet guru Dr. Robert Atkins. But what was meant to be a routine journalistic assignment set Leith on an intensely personal and illuminating journey into the mysteries of hunger and addiction. From his many years as a journalist, Leith knows that being fat is something people find more difficult to talk about than nearly anything else. But in The Hungry Years he does precisely that. Leith uses his own pathological relationship with food as a starting point and reveals himself, driven to the kitchen first thing in the morning to inhale slice after slice of buttered toast, wracked by a physical and emotional need that only food can satisfy. He travels through fast food-scented airports and coffee shops as he explores the all-encompassing power of advertising and the unattainable notions of physical perfection that feed the multibillion dollar diet industry. Fat has been called a feminist issue: William Leith’s unblinking look at the physical consequences and psychological pain of being an overweight man charts fascinating new territory for everyone who has ever had a craving or counted a calorie. The Hungry Years is a story of food, fat, and addiction that is both funny and heartwrenching. I was sitting in a café on the corner of 3rd Avenue and 24th Street in Manhattan, holding a menu. I was overweight. In fact, I was fat. Like millions of other people, I had entered into a pathological relationship with food, and with my own body. For years I had desperately wanted to write about why this had happened — not just to me, but to all those other people as well. I knew it had a lot to do with food. But I also knew it was connected to all sorts of outside forces. If I could understand what had happened to me, I could tell people what had happened to them, too. Right there and then, I decided that I would do everything to discover why I had got fat. I would look at every angle. And then I would lose weight, and report back from the slim world. —Excerpt from The Hungry Years