Weight Control

Losing 100 pounds is NOT easy! This audiobook is NOT filled with the latest promises and solutions for fast weight loss. You can find plenty of other books on those topics if you're not ready to give up the rollercoaster ride just yet.

One-size-fits-all diets don’t work, and neither does counting calories alone. Biochemical Engineer and fitness expert Christine Hronec has discovered that the key to fat loss and feeling your best is eating the optimum ratio of macronutrients—protein, carbohydrates, and fat—for your unique body. Through years of coaching and research, Hronec has pinpointed five macro types, a bio-individual nutritional blueprint based on your body type and carb tolerance.

No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of diabetes or heart disease--yet two thirds of Americans do precisely that. Even though we know better, we often eat too much. Why does our behavior betray our own intentions to be lean and healthy? The problem, argues obesity and neuroscience researcher Stephan J. Guyenet, is not necessarily a lack of willpower or an incorrect understanding of what to eat.

America's Angriest Trainer, Vinnie Tortorich, exposes the nasty underbelly of the fitness industry while getting you into the best shape of your life. For over 20 years, Vinnie has been Hollywood's go-to guy for celebrities and athletes looking to get fit fast. Now, in this hilarious and often R-rated memoir, he holds nothing back. What's the best piece of fitness equipment money can buy? What's the fastest way to lose weight: diet or exercise? Why are health clubs worse than used car lots? In Fitness Confidential, Vinnie tells all.

Forget everything you've been taught about dieting. In Always Hungry?, renowned endocrinologist Dr. David Ludwig explains why traditional diets don't work and presents a radical new plan to help you lose weight without hunger, improve your health, and feel great. For over two decades, Dr. Ludwig has been at the forefront of research into weight control. His groundbreaking studies show that overeating doesn't make you fat; the process of getting fat makes you overeat.

In this groundbreaking work, Alan Levinovitz, PhD, exposes the myths behind how we come to believe which foods are good and which are bad and points the way to a truly healthful life, free from anxiety about what we eat.

The Lose Your Belly Diet is built around a very clear, research-based concept: eating food that nourishes and protects the microbes in your gut paves the way for weight loss and a slimmer middle. Most importantly, having great gut health is linked to good health and well-being throughout your body. Scientists in this rapidly growing field are finding connections between the gut microbiome and a healthy immune system and gastrointestinal system, as well as autoimmune diseases.

This three-part program is a unique blend of counseling, hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming, and conscious reinforcement. It is simply the most comprehensive weight loss program on the market today.

Modern womanhood often means juggling multiple roles - businesswoman, mother, spouse, homemaker, and more - all while being expected to look perfectly composed. In other words, it means being superhuman. The truth is, it can seem impossible to maintain physical health while navigating our busy lives. In Super Woman Rx, Dr. Taz sets out to treat "super woman syndrome" by offering five prescriptive plans based on a woman's unique blueprint, or Power Type. A fun quiz will help you narrow down your type and figure out which strategies will work best for you.

Do you want to lose fat and stay young, all while avoiding cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and a host of other illnesses? The Paleo Solution incorporates the latest cutting-edge research from genetics, biochemistry, and anthropology to help you look, feel, and perform your best.

The pile of recent dieting books is growing faster than the average American's waistline. From the well-known programs that deprive and restrict to ones that rely on juice alone, it seems that everybody has an answer to the growing problem of obesity. When Jon Gabriel's life took an unexpected turn, he suddenly was awakened to the marvelous gift that he had been given - the opportunity to live - and was disgusted at how he had treated his body.

Despite what you might have heard, diabetes is not a lifelong condition. It does not have to shorten your life span or result in high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, or other life-threatening ailments. In fact, most diabetics can get off medication and become 100 percent healthy in just a few simple steps. In The End of Diabetes, Dr. Joel Fuhrman shows how you can prevent and reverse diabetes and its related symptoms and lose weight in the process.

In Bariatric Mindset Success, you will be guided by Kristin, a professional psychotherapist and a successful gastric sleeve post-op patient, through her most coveted weight-loss surgery success strategies. She'll guide you through the weight-loss surgery basics as well as advanced mind-set, motivation, and emotional techniques to help you stay focused and on track through the ups and downs of life.

From the New York Times best-selling author, this guide to healthy living features the latest science and research and a Mediterranean diet-inspired meal plan to make this the most healthy and effective DASH diet ever. The DASH diet has been a staple of the dieting world, recommended by doctors, nutritionists, and crowned the US News and World Report's number one best diet for eight years in a row.

Have you ever wished to lose weight and maximize your energy, performance, and overall health? Are you at a plateau with your current diet or workout? Are you on a low carb diet but miss eating carbs (healthy or unhealthy)? With engaging background information and research derived from the efforts of nutritional experts, this book infuses you with the best knowledge on carb cycling and carbohydrates overall.

The devastating truth about a class of chemicals called "estrogenics" and how your daily exposures can cause weight gain, depression, infertility and many other exploding health problems.

The Renaissance Diet 2.0 provides the most up-to-date scientific information to help you lose weight.

Most of us have heard of gluten - a protein found in wheat that causes widespread inflammation in the body. Americans spend billions of dollars on gluten-free diets in an effort to protect their health. But what if we’ve been missing the root of the problem? In The Plant Paradox, renowned cardiologist Dr. Steven Gundry reveals that gluten is just one variety of a common, and highly toxic, plant-based protein called lectin.

It's time to explore and build new, positive relationships with food, moving away from restriction, deprivation, and obsession with body image. The Intuitive Eating Plan provides you with the information and steps necessary to heal your relationship with food and accept your body's beautiful intuition.

We all know the dangers of sugar and salt: but the danger attributed to the second white crystal has more to do with getting too little of it, not too much. Too little salt can shift the body into semi-starvation mode, causing insulin resistance, and may even cause twice as much fat to be absorbed for every gram that's consumed. Too little salt in certain populations can also actually increase blood pressure as well as resting heart rate.