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Summary: Not Your Usual Diet Book
Review: This book is full of useable information, great advice and something you can "get going on" the day you get it. It's not about a radical or fad diet - it starts with first monitoring your current moving (steps) and eating patterns. Only after some beginning self monitoring (for seven days) and then to a two week phase of showing you why you are continually gaining weight does it switch to trying to actually lose weight by taking more steps each day and turn passive overeating into healthy eating. It tells you step-by-step how to change unhealthy fully ingrained habits and gradually change to a lifestyle that allows you not just to lose weight, but to keep it off. It's a gradual but effective process. It teaches you to stop relying on "willpower" and instead makes you face tough choices, such as if it's REALLY worth it to supersize that fry or eat a Whooper instead of a regular hamburgar. A step counter is included in the book - but the book itself is the big value. When using the stepcounter, I noticed that when I placed it over my stomach, it doubled the amount of steps I take (probably because I carry most of my weight in my stomach). So I followed the advice on page 2 and switched the counter to my hip area so that it counts the steps accurately. It has you take a "test walk" of 100 steps to check the accuracy of the step monitor. This is a fantastic book for anyone wanting to permanently get and STAY in shape. There are no magic pills . . . or easy magic formulas . . . but this is a healthy way to obtain real results.
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Summary: Best walking advice ever
Review: This book is very easy to understand and implement at a comfortable pace. I like the fact that the changes are implemented in a manageable way. The authors examined what it takes for successful weight loss and maintenance. The charts were very informative and the suggestions excellent. I began to implement them right away. It is the simple things like walking from the farthest parking spot instead of the closest one. I'm amazed how many more steps I can add by small changes. The included pedometer is the key.
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Summary: Best walking advice ever
Review: This book is very easy to understand and implement at a comfortable pace. I like the fact that the changes are implemented in a manageable way. The authors examined what it takes for successful weight loss and maintenance. The charts were very informative and the suggestions excellent. I began to implement them right away. It is the simple things like walking from the farthest parking spot instead of the closest one. I'm amazed how many more steps I can add by small changes. The included pedometer is the key.
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Summary: Excellent Weight Loss Book..
Review: This book is very good and a novel approach to losing weight. I think this book is especially good for the past fifty crowd. Its easy and fun. The pedometer that comes with the book is pretty cheesy..I would recomend getting a better one from a sporting goods store. Overall the book is well written clear, except in figuring out the mega-steps.. That could have been written a little clearer. Overall the book tells the truth about weight loss and gives a plan to keep it off. That is the problem...keeping it off. Much better than the fad diets that get the weight off but since they are so restrictive the weight eventually returns and then some. This book gives you the tools and knowledge to only have to get the weight off one more time and then know how to keep it off. Excellent book for anyone stuggling with obesety.
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