The Pocket Food & Exercise Diary (paperback)

This 10-week food and exercise diary is simple to use and very effective. University studies show that persons who use a food diary not only lose more weight, they also keep it off! It is non-dated so can be started anytime. There are separate columns for food calories and exercise calories. At the end of the day columns are totalled and exercise calories can be deducted from food calories. A further column allows for fat grams. Also included are a Weekly Summary Page and room for the counselor to add comments.

By: Allan Borushek

Price: $3.99

The LEARN Program for Weight Management (paperback - January 2004)

Now in its 10th edition, The LEARN Program for Weight Management continues to be the most up-to-date, comprehensive, scientifically sound, safe, and effective weight management program available today. The LEARN Program's step-by-step approach first helps individuals become students of their unique behaviors. Program participants develop a unique awareness of when, how, and why their individual behaviors occur and, more importantly, how to adopt new, healthier habits. The focus is on lasting, permanent change. Students of LEARN gain empowerment to make lifestyle changes by learning to set realistic, achievable goals, making informed choices, and developing new skills to counter today's environmental pressures to overeat and be physicially inactive.

By: Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D.

Price: $25.00

The Rules of Normal Eating (paperback - January 2005)

Written in easy-to-understand, everyday language, The Rules of "Normal" Eating lays out the four basic rules that "normal" eaters follow instinctively - eating when they're hungry, choosing foods that satisfy them, eating with awareness and enjoyment, and stopping when they're full or satisfied. Along with specific skills and techniques that help promote change, the book presents a proven cognitive-behavioral model of transformation that targets beliefs, feelings, and behaviors about food and eating and points the way toward genuine physical and emotional fulfillment. Readers learn how to reprogram their dysfunctional beliefs, manage uncomfortable feelings without turning to food, and establish new eating habits that tune their bodies into natural sensations of hunger, pleasure, satisfaction, and satiation. Filled with humorous insights, compassion, and practical wisdom, the book outlines balanced attitudes and patterns that benefit all types of eaters.

By: Karen R. Koenig, LICSW

Price: $14.95

The Appetite Awareness Workbook (paperback - January 2006)

People with normal eating patterns eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. But people struggling with binge eating relate very differently to this most basic need, often risking depression, gastrointestinal problems, and even death because of their problems with food. This book offers an eight-week, cognitively based program to help you learn to pay attention to hunger cues, keep track of your feelings about food, and develop an eating schedule that discourages binge eating.

In a series of easy exercises, the book guides you toward taking control of eating habits. First, gradual changes help you eat only when hungry or when a mealtime is scheduled. Then, awareness exercises help you stop eating when moderately full. Finally, by using cognitive techniques to control the tendency to eat for emotional reasons and journaling exercises to stay motivated and on track, you’ll learn how to retrain yourself to maintain normal and healthy eating habits for life.

By: Linda W. Craighead, Ph.D.

Price: $18.95

The Zen of Eating (paperback - March 1998)

When it comes to weight loss, the emphasis today is shifting away from fad diets and compulsive workouts toward sane, sensible techniques that incorporate both the mind and the body. This is the first book to apply the 2,500-year-old principles of Zen Buddhism to the modern struggle with the vicious cycle of dieting, losing, and regaining weight. From a Buddhist perspective, overeating is a disorder of desire. This book will teach readers how to find freedom from eating problems and the tyranny of desire that triggers them. Filled with concrete, practical exercises and the wisdom of the ages.

By: Ronna Kabatznick

Price: $13.00

Meal by Meal: 365 Daily Meditations for Finding Balance Through Mindful Eating (paperback - June 2004)

Meal by Meal is a book of comfort, guidance, and insight for anyone with an unhealthy relationship with food. Its power is in its approach: each day is a self-contained journey of conscious eating to help people nurture new and sustainable attitudes and practices. Although bad habits cannot be changed overnight, the author, Buddhist devotee Donald Altman, shows how to find peace by focusing on food issues one meal at a time. He shares inspirational daily meditations, including quotes from Zen stories, Native American practices, Hindu scriptures, the Bible, and sages from all major wisdom traditions. He also explores food preparation, rituals, and social attitudes and examines questions like "How can we learn that eating is not a pleasure race, but an area to find grace?" and "How can we stop using food to fill ourselves up, and instead use it to fulfill ourselves?" Through daily reflections, Altman enables people to make wise food choices and create balance in their lives.

By: Donald Altman

Price: $14.00

Thin for Life (paperback- March 2003)

What a novel idea: if you want to know how to successfully lose weight, study the real experts--the people who have done it! Registered dietician Anne Fletcher did just that. She surveyed 160 "masters" who succeeded in losing at least 20 pounds and keeping the weight off for at least 3 years. This was the minimum; most lost far more weight--an average of 63 pounds--and more than one-third have kept the weight off for a decade or more.

How did they do it? Thin for Life presents their success stories, strategies, motivation, inspiration, and tricks. Most had tried "many times and many ways" to lose weight before discovering what worked for them and how to prevent and recover from relapses. Some techniques worked for many--such as keeping a food diary and increasing exercise. Others were highly individual and will spur you to do your own creative thinking. Fletcher compiles the "10 keys to success" that emerged most often, lets the masters speak for themselves throughout the book, and fills in additional, valuable information and resources. Whether you have 10 pounds to lose or 100, this book will help you do it--safely, effectively, and permanently. Highly recommended.

Winner of the 2004 National Health Information Award

By: Anne R. Fletcher, M.S.,R.D.

Price: $15.00

Eating Thin for Life (paperback - January 1998)

Anne Fletcher is a registered dietician who studied 208 "masters" who succeeded in losing an average of 64 pounds and keeping the weight off. She revealed their keys to success in Thin for Life. In Eating Thin for Life, Fletcher explores the eating habits and recipes of these weight-control successes. They share how they ate when they were heavy, how they motivated themselves to change, what eating plans helped them lose weight, and how they continue to keep their weight low. The masters share the strategies that help them stick to healthy, slimming eating choices--and enjoy the foods they choose. The book is particularly remarkable because there isn't some celebrity or expert telling you what to eat: The people who have accomplished their goals in diverse ways describe how they did it, with Fletcher filling in nutritional information to supplement the masters' points.

Eating Thin for Life is divided into food secrets (such as how to control binge eating and how to eat in restaurants), menu plans (with calorie and fat analysis), and 122 favorite recipes (with nutritional breakdowns). Quotes and stories from the masters make you feel that if they could do it, so can you.

By: Anne R. Fletcher, M.S., R.D.

Price: $15.00

Thin for Life Daybook (spiral bound - March 2003)

Lose weight and change your eating habits one step at a time. Based on the best-selling books Thin for Life and Eating Thin for Life, this inspiring journal gives you techniques that worked for hundreds of people who lost weight permanently.

It contains a "Weekly Wisdon": motivational messages from people who have succeeded and simple strategies to keep you on track; "Weekly Forecast": helps in setting weekly goals, anticipating obstacles and making an exercise plan you'll enjoy; "Weekly Diary": Space to record your eating and exercise habits - and a place to record your successes; "Healthful Meals": favorite quick breakfasts, lunches, dinners, desserts and snacks from the recipe collections of those who've lost weight.

By: Anne R. Fletcher, M.S., R.D.

Price: $16.00

Life is Hard Food is Easy (hardcover - April 2004)

We all give in to "emotional eating" sometimes. Food is an easy solution to dealing with—or avoiding—uncomfortable emotions. But when you’re trying to lose or maintain weight, emotional eating can sabotage everything you’ve worked so hard for.

Linda Spangle, founder and director of the highly successful WINNERS for Life wellness and weight-loss clinic, offers hope to those who want to take control over their eating habits and lose weight for good. Life Is Hard, Food Is Easy will completely change the way you think about food, giving you a powerful strategy for conquering your emotional eating habits and achieving lasting weight-loss success. With Spangle’s approach, you can succeed on any plan.

By: Linda Spangle, RN, MA

Price: $19.95

100 Days of Weight Loss (paperback - January 2006)

Based on the nationally-acclaimed book Life is Hard, Food is Easy, author Linda Spangle provides day-by-day lessons that will keep dieters focused and committed to their programs for at least three months and longer. Readers will learn simple tools and concepts they can slip into their daily routines, helping them reach their goals and maintain their success long-term.

By: Linda Spangle, RN,MA

Price: $14.95

Think Thin Be Thin (paperback - December 2004)

If you've been struggling with your weight, you know how hard it can be to lose those extra pounds and keep them off. In Think Thin Be Thin, the authors assert that the true key to a healthy body weight is a healthy attitude toward food and exercise. Their logic is simple: Your brain ultimately controls what you eat and whether you work out. If you change the way you think, you can change the way you behave. And you can lose weight.

Using proven psychological strategies and scientifically based exercises, you will learn how to harness your thoughts to transform your behavior, body and life. With practical advice on such troublesome issues as curbing emotional eating, motivating yourself to exercise, and overcoming weight plateaus, this book is the ideal complement to any weight-loss program.

By: Doris Wild Helmering and Dianne Hales

Price: $12.95

The Joy of Weight Loss (paperback - February 2001)

On September 6, 1989 Norris Chumley was at a crossroads. At 330 pounds and rising, it was simply a matter of time before he would again tip the scales at the 400 pounds he had reached many times before. He had been on virtually every diet, and they’d all failed. He felt hopeless, and, in rare glimpses of honesty, secretly admitted he was slowly committing suicide.

The Joy of Weight Loss is the dramatic story of how Norris Chumley turned his life around. It details how Chumley came to accept his conflict about food and body image and finally looked long and hard at his weight fluctuations and diet history. Chumley shares his experiences and secrets of success—of how he discovered joy and lasting happiness, with permanent freedom from obesity.

Unlike other weight-loss or diet books, The Joy of Weight Loss is a weight-management book that offers a fresh new solution to everyone’s quest for health and happiness. There are no magic pills, no starvation or binge diets. There are no crash courses or deprivations. Chumley instead counsels a sensible diet, taking pleasure in pleasurable movement rather than a punishing exercise regime, and, most importantly of all, learning to surrender yourself to a higher power and discover a true form of self-love that is at once accepting and transforming.

By: Norris Chumley

Price: $15.00

The End of Diets (paperback - November 2003)

The End of Diets: Healing Emotional Hunger is not only an insight into the world of an emotional eater, a profile most ‘normal’ people seldom get to see. More importantly, the book is an examination by a world-class professional analyst of why an emotional eater cannot be successful with the traditional methods and what tools are available to end the emotional eating and finally be successful in long term weight loss.

By: Dilia De La Altagracia

Price: $19.95

Dr. Susan's Girls-Only Weight Loss Guide (paperback - March 2006)

This enlightening guide enables adolescent girls to address more than just weight loss—it explores concepts such as empowerment, self-esteem, and healthy lifestyle choices. Teenage girls are given the tools to recognize and break away from unhealthy patterns, including harmful diets, by discussing the many ways in which depression, anger, and low self-esteem can translate into eating and weight gain and how to find healthier, less destructive ways of coping. Supportive information details what girls can do to attain a healthy body and mind, and provides tips on how to help parents be more supportive. Educational but fun quizzes and games focus on diet and exercise, as well as coping mechanisms for dealing with the media, peer pressure, and eating disorders.

By: Dr. Susan S. Bartell

Price: $14.95

The Ultimate Weight Solution for Teens: The 7 Keys to Weight Freedom (paperback - November 2003)

As Jay McGraw says, The Ultimate Weight Solution for Teens is a book that will change lives. Weight issues are one of the leading causes of teen depression, and The Ultimate Weight Solution for Teens is being published at a time when weight is the top issue in so many teens' lives. Inspired by the enormous success of the #1 bestselling The Ultimate Weight Solution by Dr. Phil McGraw, Jay McGraw has written a book that deals with the specific issues teens face when it comes to weight matters. It's hard enough to be a teen, it's even harder to be an overweight teen. No one knows that better than the young people who suffer the teasing and name-calling that seem to resonate daily through their school halls. But what do you do when your friends are scarfing pizza and cheese fries and you're trying to lose weight? With this book, Jay addresses this and other problems in a way that they have never been addressed before -- in a way that actually works! Just as he did in his bestselling books Life Strategies for Teens and Closing the Gap, Jay talks directly to teens and young adults in a way to which they can relate. Jay gets it and he knows how to give it to them straight. The result is a book that can do what teens all over have been looking for -- a way to totally transform their bodies, minds, and lives.

By: Jay McGraw

Price: $15.95

Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy (paperback - July 2002)

In Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy, Dr. Walter Willett, of Harvard Medical School, explains why the USDA guidelines--the famous food pyramid--are not only wrong but also dangerous. Debunking current dietary myths, Dr. Willett sets an all-new nutritional standard.

By: Walter C. Willett, MD

Price: $15.00

The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan (paperback - January 2000)

The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan introduces the concept of "energy density" — concentration of calories in each portion of food.  Here you'll learn how to avoid high energy  — dense foods, and how such different nutritional factors as fat, fiber, protein, and water affect energy density and satiety.  You'll discover which foods,  eaten under which circumstances, allow you to consume fewer calories and still be satisfied.  And you'll get to know the hidden calorie traps, seemingly innocuous foods that can sneak unwanted calories into your body.  Finally, the authors offer 60 sensible, tasty and easy recipes, plus an integrated program of exercise and behavior management that can be sustained over a lifetime.

By: Barbara Rolls, Ph.D.

Price: $13.00

You: The Owner's Manual (hardcover - May 2005)

This is a nuts-and-bolts guide to your body and its component parts and processes, plus how the owner (you) can prevent disease. Each chapter is devoted to an integral part of the body and tells its story, from the industrious heart all the way to the smallest bones in your ear. The information is delivered in a humorous way--making it an easy and very informative read.

By: Michael F. Roizen, MD and Mehmet C. Oz, MD

Reg. Price: $24.95

Sale Price: $19.95

The RealAge Workout (hardcover - April 2006)

The RealAge® Workout offers a series of calculations that factor in age, genetics, and lifestyle so you can determine your overall status of health and create a program to help you plan and execute your goals. The RealAge® Workout then begins with a simple, yet life-changing premise -- just by walking 30 minutes a day, every day, you can roll back the years, significantly improve the status of your overall health, and have more energy to work and do the things you love.

After you've adjusted to this change in your lifestyle, The RealAge® Workout will guide you through a series of training phases during which you will steadily develop your foundation muscles and eventually add a stamina-building program to help you maintain improved health. You will learn how to lift weights safely and effectively through step-by-step instructions with photographs and easy-to-understand explanations. Additionally, there are charts that help you determine the RealAge effect -- the number of biological years younger you become with each change you make.

Along the way, The RealAge® Workout discusses common myths, addresses frequently asked questions pertaining to age and lifestyle choices, and offers tips to actually enjoy, yes, even love, exercise. So get ready to achieve optimal health and be as young as you can be!

By: Michael F. Roizen

Price: $24.95

Healthy Aging (hardcover - October 2005)

At the heart of Healthy Aging is Dr. Andrew Weil’s belief that although aging is an irreversible process, there are myriad things we can do to keep our minds and bodies in good working order through all phases of life. To that end, he draws on the new science of biogerentology (the biology of aging) as well as on the secrets of healthy longevity– diet, activity, and attitude–that he has gathered firsthand from cultures around the world.
In Part One–“The Science and Philosophy of Healthy Aging”–he explains how the body ages, and he explores the impact of gender, genes, environment, and lifestyle on an individual’s experience and perception of the process of aging. He describes the various would-be elixirs of life extension–herbs, hormones, and antiaging “medicines”–separating myth from fact and clearly delineating the difference between the spurious notions of preventing or reversing the process of aging and the real possibilities of inhibiting or delaying the onset of diseases that become more likely as we age. He writes movingly about the ways in which an acceptance of aging can be a significant part of doing it well, and of recognizing and appreciating the great rewards of growing older: depth and richness of experience, complexity of being, serenity, wisdom, and its own kind of power and grace.

In Part Two–“How to Age Gracefully”–Weil details an easy-to-implement Anti-inflammatory Diet that will protect the immune system and aid your body in resisting and adapting to the changes that time brings. And he provides extensive practical advice on exercise; preventive health care; stress management; physical, mental, and emotional flexibility; and spiritual enhancement–all of which can help you achieve and maintain the best health throughout the lifelong process of aging.

By: Andrew Weil, MD

Price: $27.95

The Hardness Factor (hardcover - May 2005)

Sexual fitness goes hand in hand with overall health: Good sex means a man is most probably in good condition. The Hardness Factor is a comprehensive guide to sexual fitness for men, pointing the way to an enhanced self image, better sex, and improved health, and detailing how to increase sex drive and develop a measurably harder erection in just four days. The advent of Viagra is a sign that we are entering a new era of male sexual health, in which erectile problems are glitches to be overcome, not sources of shame and anxiety. This is the first major trade book to identify and describe how to achieve and preserve optimal  hardness-and to show why the actual degree of hardness is the all-important barometer of a man's health.
Drawing on the cutting-edge research that he has carried out over the past several years clinician and researcher Dr. Steven Lamm explains his revolutionary approach to achieving and maintaining maximal male sexual performance, with easy-to-follow suggestions that translate to not only better sex, but greater emotional intimacy and a longer and more fulfilling life. Dr. Lamm gives men all the tools and information they need to take control of their bodies, including health quizzes and a simple at-home test to assess one's hardness. He also offers dramatic firsthand before-and-after case histories of patients and up-to-the minute information on the best natural erection-promoting supplements and prescription medications. The Hardness Factor shows just how easy it can be for men to take charge of their health and sex lives.

By: Steven Lamm, MD

Reg. Price: $25.95

Sale Price: $19.95

The Four Agreements (paperback - November 1997)

In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting agreements that rob people of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform anyone’s life to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. These agreements are deceptively simple: Be impeccable with your word (speak with integrity; say only what you mean); Don’t take anything personally (nothing others do is because of you); Don’t make assumptions (find the courage to ask questions and express what you really want); Always do your best (and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret).

By: Don Miguel Ruiz

Price: $12.95