A balanced, sensible approach to a heart-healthy lifestyle introduces a simple method for calculating a person's ideal caloric intake, along with two weeks of menus, nutritional analyses, and two hundred new recipes, ranging from Sole Champignon to Vanilla Soufflé with Brandy-Plum Sauce. 50,000 first printing.

By now, you’ve heard of (and maybe tried) them all: the low-carb diet, the grapefruit diet, the miracle diet . . . the list goes on and on. Fad diets may promise a quick fix, but few deliver lasting results. If you’re like millions of other Americans, you’re still struggling to lose weight and get in shape—without harming your long-term health in the process. It’s time to leave behind the one-size-fits-all approach to dieting. Now, the American Heart Association, the nation’s most trusted authority on heart-healthy living, introduces its first-ever comprehensive weight-loss book. No-Fad Diet helps you create a personalized plan to lose weight in a healthful way. After a simple assessment of your current habits, you choose the eating and exercise strategies that best fit your needs. You’ll learn how to set realistic goals, eat well to lose extra pounds safely, and add physical activity to keep the weight off for good. This book offers more than 190 delicious, all-new recipes, including Cream of Triple-Mushroom Soup, Tilapia Cham-pignon, Chicken Pot Pie, Pumpkin-Cranberry Pancakes, and Vanilla Soufflé with Brandy-Plum Sauce. You’ll also find two weeks of sample menus, guidelines for meal planning, useful tips on dining out and food shopping, and sound advice for staying on track to reach your target weight. If you’re fed up with fads and want a diet that can provide a lifetime of effective weight control, No-Fad Diet is the book for you. Tired of losing weight and gaining it back? Sick of fad diets and gimmicks? Frustrated by crazy food restrictions? Try the No-Fad Diet What’s the only effective way to lose weight and keep it off? It’s simple: Calories in must be less than calories out. But since the factors that contribute to this not-so-magic formula are different for everyone, a one-size diet plan does not fit all. The No-Fad Diet includes: •Tips on turning negative thinking into positive rewards •Simple quizzes to find the approach that’s best for you •Diary pages to record and monitor your eating and activity habits •Strategies to reduce calories and increase your activity levels •Guidelines to help you prepare your own nutritious meals •More than 190 delicious and healthful recipes •Techniques to maintain your momentum The weight-loss strategies in this book are based on reliable scientific research and are backed by respected medical professionals. The American Heart Association has the information you can trust. Also available as a Random House Large Print Edition

Undieting: Freedom from the Bewildering World of Fad Diets is a unique, realistic, and approachable guide to breaking the cycle of dieting forever. Holistic nutritionist and popular TEDx speaker Lisa Kilgour teaches you how to eat intuitively by developing an understanding of your body’s unique needs and a mindset for lifelong success. Lisa’s straightforward and gentle approach takes the complexity and confusion out of nutrition and gives you a clear roadmap to developing a dietary model that works for you as an individual. By hacking through the misconceptions that define the dizzying world of fad diets, Lisa makes healthy eating easy with a simple and practical system for: • Understanding why what to eat has become so confusing • Moving out of a dieting mindset into real-life healthy eating • Knowing what your food cravings are really telling you • Enjoying better digestion and absorption • Gaining more energy and better sleep • Releasing guilt and bringing back the joy of cooking and eating This step-by-step guide teaches you to reframe your eating habits, interpret your body’s own language, and achieve your health goals, producing amazing results inside and out.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that describe various weight loss means and methods, including specific diets, support groups or services, and people who have influenced the way Americans eat, and includes an introductory essay that traces the history of weight-loss plans.

D-iscouraged with the way you look? I-nterested in long-term results? E-xcited for the new and improved you? T-ime to get a move on! Tired of the roller-coaster ride called dieting? You are not alone! Now, with nationally celebrated weight-loss expert Cyndi Targosz as your guide, you can say goodbye to fly-by-night fad diets, create a real plan for losing - and keeping off - the weight, and have a great time doing it! Complete with tips and tricks for curbing your cravings, personalizing your plan of attack, and embracing your new delicious life, you'll be on the track to a better you in no time. With Cyndi's Secrets' for success, you will learn how to: find out the real reason you're overweight Adapt the new Food Pyramid to your nutritional needs Shop, cook, and dine (in or out) and stay on course Let Cyndi and her one-of-a-kind program refresh, inspire, and energize you. With The Only Diet Book You'll Ever Need, your new life starts today. What are you waiting for?

No Snacks. No Sweets. No Seconds.* *Except on days that start with S (Saturdays, Sundays, and Special days). Developed by a problem-solving software engineer who was tired of diets that are too hard to stick with, The No-S Diet has attracted a passionate following online thanks to its elegant simplicity-and its results. Unlike fad diets based on gimmicks that lead to short-term weight-loss followed by backsliding and failure, The No-S Diet is a maintainable life plan that reminds us of the commonsense, conscious way we all know we should be eating. The book offers readers the tips, tricks, techniques and testimonials they'll need to stick with No-S for life