You: On a Diet: The Insider's Guide to Easy and Permanent Weight Loss

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Editorial reviews

Book Description
`YOU on a Diet' is not another faddy crash-diet weight loss
plan: you will lose weight - and a lot of it - but you will also gain the
knowledge, insight and power to keep off the pounds you lose. Knowledge is
the most powerful motivator when it comes to making the right food choices:
know the `why' and you'll successfully handle the `how'.

Find out your ideal shape - and how to reach it.
Lose weight without hunger - you need only 100 calories less a day.
Enjoy flexibility - you can still indulge in treats.
Rebalance body chemicals and hormones - these, not willpower, dictate what
you eat.
Stop worrying about what you weigh - it's your waist size that counts

Roizen and Mehmet's clear plan combined with:

Amazing YOU facts (e.g. 95% of your body's serotonin is found in your
intestines - there's only 2-3% in your nervous system).
Eating tips (e.g. eating a small handful of nuts before your meal tricks
your body into thinking that you are fuller sooner).
Interactive questionnaires (e.g. are your emotions affecting your food
choices?).

Make this diet one of the most cutting-edge and easy-to-follow of our time.
Successful long-term weight loss is only found in one place: YOU.

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Synopsis
This is the first completely honest diet book that will help you tailor a programme to fit you, with a diet for every body: six diet plans that can be customised to any body type, by the authors of the worldwide bestseller "You: The Owner's Manual". The only way to achieve your health and weight loss goals is to ask yourself one question: What's your ideal body? It's no secret that countless people are desperate for help to lose those extra pounds. It seems no matter how many times we think we've finally found a magic bullet for weight loss, it just doesn't work out. And this trend will continue until we recognize that the key to effective and lasting weight loss cannot be found inside a book on cutting carbs, in a video on aerobics, or in a tape on weight loss meditations. Instead, the key to successful long term weight loss can only be found inside one place: you. Welcome to "You: On a Diet" - a book that finally makes sense of weight control and weight loss and that gives you a specific action plan for helping you define your ideal body and finding the means to achieve it.

Ultimately, weight control isn't about getting as thin as possible - a fact that virtually goes unacknowledged by most diet plans. There are medically obese people who live with no risk of health problems, and there are so-called thin people whose risk of dying is terribly high. Successful weight control is about finding your ideal body. In "You: On a Diet", we redefine what a healthy figure is and give you the tool kit to figure out yours. We believe that when you understand your anatomy, you'll better understand - and appreciate - what you need to do in order to maintain it. This anatomical approach will be one of the things that differentiates us from most plans. This book will teach you everything from what fat looks like to how skin expands. Know the why, and you'll successfully handle the how.

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From the Publisher
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Back for another highly entertaining round of Biology 101,
the team behind YOU: The Owner's Manual applies its signature wit and
wisdom to food metabolism and nutrition. According to Roizen and Oz, waist
measurement, not weight, is the most important factor in mortality related
to obesity, and understanding the relationship between chemicals and
hormones influencing hunger and those signaling satiety is the key to
ending yo-yo dieting. Most diets fail, Roizen and Oz conclude, because body
chemistry overrules the best plans and intentions. To restore the body's
natural ability to balance hunger and satiety and offset the effects of
stress on food choices, they list foods and supplements that fight fat,
decrease appetite and combat inflammation that causes disease. Roizen and
Oz pack in a lot of material--quizzes, "factoids" and "myth busters" along
with diet and exercise plans, recipes and a two-week "rebooting"
program--in bite-sized portions, giving readers a chance to absorb and
apply what they learn. For those considering medical intervention, they
discuss current options for drugs and surgery. (Oct.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All
rights reserved.

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From the Author
Whether you're carrying a few extra pounds of fat on your thighs or a
suitcase's worth in your belly, it's hard not to think about fat. You feel
it when you walk, you roll on it when you sleep, and you curse it when you
try to slide into last year's jeans. But while most of us are intimately
familiar with how fat looks on the outside, we're not quite as familiar
with how it works on the inside.
As we explain in YOU: On a Diet, we believe that to change your body, you
need to know your body.

In the simplest form, everyone knows the formula for gaining weight. Daily
buckets of ranch dip plus photo-album-sized hunks of cheesecake plus a life
of couch-dwelling equals a very unfortunate conclusion: too-frequent popped
buttons.

But many of us really don't know how fat works and how it works against us.
Here's the inside story on the story of your insides.

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About the Author
Michael F. Roizen, M.D. created the RealAge® concept and is the
author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller, RealAge. He is a professor of
anesthesiology and internal medicine and chair of the Division of
Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Comprehensive Pain Management at
the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio.

Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., is a professor and vice chairman of surgery, medical
director of Integrated Medical Center and director of the Heart Institute
at the New York Presbyterian-Columbia University.

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Customer reviews

review by: Eeeyow! date: 2008-08-27 rating:
Simplistic but good
"You on a Diet" is a great guide for choosing food that it healthy. The doctors explain the differences in fats and tell you what you should and should not be eating in a simple, easy to read way. It includes recipes and tips.

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review by: date: 2008-01-24 rating:
It supplies the information on health everyone should have
Michael Roizen helps you learn how your body works and how to get in touch with it. The only criticism I have of the book is that Roizen advocates a special diet, rather than focusing on what your body tells you what it needs. None the less, This book is your own owners manual for your own body. To be healthy you have to understand all of the various bodily functions, not just the dogmatic views other books discuss, and what you need to do to keep everything running smoothly and remain and maintain a healthy state.

Michael Roizen supplies us with relevant information, dispels myths and gives us real, no-nonsense advice about our bodies and makes you pay attention, understand and make choices. You; provides the necessary information in simple terms as a guide to take care of your body from your internal organs point of view.
It tells you the type of food that will help your body run well. The main focus is the heart and digestive system which I've found to be tremendously helpful. Very well written and put together. It supplies the information on health everyone should have.

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review by: date: 2007-11-07 rating:
Great informative book
My husband and I both love this book. We learned so many things about how our bodies work. We both feel good about practicing what they teach. This book is healthy and balanced; it's not like others that may deprive your body of Carbo's or Protein. It just feels right and the work out is great too. I would recommend this book to all. Not just the people who need to loose a few pounds. If you are interested in being healthier and understanding how your body process food, then you should read this book. Enough typing, now back to reading.
Also recommended, one of my favorites, Understanding: Train of Thought.

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review by: whiteravenfire date: 2007-08-24 rating:
Makes you think
This book will really make you start to think about what you eat during the day.
I have used the information in this book to alter my diet and I have lost inches and feel fantastic. Don't think of it as a diet book though as it's not aimed at that. The book also makes a point of saying that everyone will slip and have chocolate or something.


review by: date: 2007-08-11 rating:
May or may not be for YOU
I have mixed feelings about this book. Even though we are all hoping to open up a weight loss book and find an effortless way to lose those unwanted pounds, we all know that the only way to lose weight is by eating less, exercising more, or both. Hence, if you strip away all the elf pictures and humor, 'You: On a Diet' really has nothing more to offer than that. So if you're looking for a new slant to things, or some cutting edge weight loss plan, you'll probably be disappointed. For example, one of the exercises the book tells you to do to lose weight is to walk. But I guess that might be good advice for readers who never thought of doing that to lose weight?

Having said that however, for what it is- a quite entertaining weight loss book that explains in plain language how your body gains/loses weight and details a sensible diet and exercise plan- it is well worth your time and money. Also recommend 'The Sixty-Second Motivator' because dieting and exercise are useless unless you're motivated to stick with them.

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