Kristeller, Jean
Summary: "Anyone who's tried to lose weight through sheer will power knows how difficult, if not impossible, it can be. In this practical and paradigm-shifting book, Dr. Jean Kristeller presents a new alternative--a program for weight loss based on her successful Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training Program. Instead of frustration, deprivation, backsliding, guilt, and a lack of results, The Joy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee, an impring of Penguin Random House LLC 2015
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Summary: "Over the last 25 years, our longing for thinness has morphed into a relentless cultural obsession with weight and body image. You can't be a woman or girl (or, increasingly, a man or boy) in America today and not grapple with the size and shape of your body, your daughter's body, other women's bodies. Even the most confident people have to find a way through a daily gauntlet of voices and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lifelong Books/Da Capo Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 BRORossy, Lynn
Summary: In The Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution, Rossy provides an innovative and proven-effective program to help you slow down, savor each bite, and actually eat less. This unique, whole-body approach will encourage you to adopt healthy eating habits by showing you how to listen to your body's intuition, uncover the psychological cause of your overeating, and be more mindful during mealtime. If you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 ROSBedrick, David
Summary: Why is today's diet industry pulling in 70 billion dollars every year, while when people go on a diet, only five percent of them succeed and the rest gain weight or stay the same? Here's why: A heavy, shamed body is a body with an unheard message and a thwarted quest, and until the secrets are unlocked and the wisdom is harvested, that impasse will be unbreachable. In these pages, Bedrick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belly Song Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 BEDWoolf, Emma
Summary: The Ministry of Thin takes a controversial, unflinching look at how the modern, international obsession with weight loss, youth, beauty, and perfection has spun out of control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 WOOHarper, Bob.
Summary: "Bob Harper lets us in on the secret behaviors of people who not only lose weight but keep the pounds off for good--and make it look easy. In Bob Harper's #1 New York Times bestselling book The Skinny Rules, the trusted trainer and coach of NBC's The Biggest Loser laid out the twenty nonnegotiable eating rules for getting thin. In the process of helping countless men and women reach their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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Summary: "A guide to recognizing and combating the external factors that cause weight gain and make it difficult to lose weight. Tackling a weight problem is often viewed as a personal responsibility that requires making healthier choices. The latest research, however, shows that external factors--from family and friendships to advertising and the workplace environment--make an equal, if not greater,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.398 WILBeck, Judith S.
Summary: A guide to permanent weight loss introduces the five phases of learning how to "eat thin," offering different food plans based on five calorie levels to suit individual needs, as well as a slow, medium, or fast weight-loss progression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 BECMann, Traci.
Summary: "A provocative expose of the dieting industry from one of the nation's leading researchers in self-control and the psychology of weight loss that offers proven strategies for sustainable weight loss.From her office in the University of Minnesota's Healthand Eating Lab, professor Traci Mann researches self-control and dieting. And what she has discovered is groundbreaking. Not only do diets not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 MANSummary: Shares 100 stories of everyday people and celebrities who reveal in compelling, moving, and sometimes humorous detail their journeys toward slimming down. Readers will get an intimate glimpse into how those successful at weight loss set their plans in motion, how they overcame obstacles, and how they changed internally along the way. Plus, in each story, readers will gain practical advice on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 STAGreene, Bob (Bob W.)
Summary: Teaming up with prominent psychologist Anne Kearney-Cooke and eating disorder expert and nutritionist Janis Jibrin, Greene helps readers recognize how their mindsets might be preventing them from achieving their fitness goals and gives them the tools they need to break down these barriers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 GREDuncan, Oonagh
Summary: "Join the Movement. Ditch the Diet. Who's ready to stop thinking about weight loss? To free their brain from thoughts about ketones, calories, and fasting? Who wants life to be more effortless, energetic, and empowered? Welcome to a refreshing and gloriously unapologetic conversation about health, fitness and habits. Award-winning trainer Oonagh Duncan cuts through the wellness clutter to drop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 DUNWilliamson, Marianne
Summary: "21 spiritual lessons to help you surrender your weight forever. These lessons form a holistic paradigm for weight loss, addressing the spiritual, emotional, and psychological elements involved in what Willimason refers to as 'conscious weight loss. Addresses the true causal root of your weight-loss issues: a place within you where you have forgotten your Divine perfection. This forgetfulness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2010
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Summary: A life coach and intuitive counselor presents a weight loss program for sensitive people, demonstrating how to manage empathy overload and deal with challenging situations that trigger disordered eating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 BARWansink, Brian
Summary: "In Slim by Design, leading behavioral economist, food psychologist, and bestselling author Brian Wansink introduces groundbreaking solutions for designing our most common spaces--schools, restaurants, grocery stores, and home kitchens, among others--in order to make positive changes in how we approach and manage our diets. Anyone familiar with Wansink's Mindless Eating knows this is not a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 WANSmith, Ian
Summary: America has lost millions of pounds following Dr. Ian Smith's Fat Smash diets. Now, Smith has developed a program that allows readers to avoid the normal pitfalls of dieting: boredom, no treats allowed, too much repetition, plateauing. The 4 Day Diet is a program of four-day modules: Induction (detox/cleansing); Transition (to reintroduce all food groups); Protein Stretch (to avoid plateaus);...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 SMITribole, Evelyn
Summary: "First published in 1995, Intuitive Eating has become the go-to book on rebuilding a healthy body image and making peace with food. We have all been there, angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet. But the problem is not us; it is that dieting, with its emphasis on rules and regulations, has stopped us from listening to our bodies. Written...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2012
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Summary: Albers takes aim at the fifty most common self-sabotaging thoughts and excuses that keep you from eating right and looking great. She dismantles each excuse and offers a mindfulness exercise to help reroute your thoughts so you can meet your health goals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House 2007
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Summary: "Combining the authors' personal weight-loss stories with their passion for economics, this bold new behavioral approach to dieting recommends micro habits and meta-rules that will enable dieters to control their impulses to overeat, approach food in a healthier way, and lose weight once and for all. Chris Payne and Rob Barnett are two formerly obese economists who met while working at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Nu PayneHarrison, Christy
Summary: "68 percent of Americans have dieted at some point in their lives. But upwards of 90% of people who intentionally lose weight gain it back within five years. And as many as 66% of people who embark on weight-loss efforts end up gaining more weight than they lost. If dieting is so clearly ineffective, why are we so obsessed with it? The culprit is diet culture, a system of beliefs that equates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 HARSummary: "The Noom Mindset, created by the leading digital health company that has helped millions achieve their weight and health goals, deconstructs habits around the core drivers of body weight: what we eat and how much we move. You'll discover how your habits around eating and weight management are impacted by your own self-confidence, stress, habits, lifestyle choices, and the rollercoaster of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Builds on extensive research to demonstrate how couples can support each other's health goals without becoming saboteurs, sharing strategic advice based on in-depth analysis of the way partners affect health-care habits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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Summary: Drawing on the largest-ever survey of American diet and lifestyle, features three prescriptive weight-loss plans, advice, and research insights that will help readers get healthy, stay vital, and lose weight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2013