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Summary: Listening to this Tape started my Success Story
Review: 10 months ago, I found this tape, by accident, in our local library. Having just started to focus on losing weight through eating right (NOT dieting! ) and exercise, I took it on a trip with me. To this day, I remember first hearing parts on this tape like it was yesterday - the stories shared are inspiring, and common sense information that Anne shares is so to the point. I can say without hesitation, that I've listened to this tape (I've since bought it from Amazon for myself) over 20 times since I began my weight loss. It stays in my car and I listen to it once or twice a month as time allows. Since last summer, I've lost over 100 pounds, and attribute my success in large part to motivational books and stories, and this book is at the very top. This is NOT a "do this and you'll lose weight" plan. It's about people who have been where I was, and how they, through common sense and sheer determination, were able to overcome their weight problem. This is more about motivation than mechanics. Anne Fletcher, if you're out there, I've been looking for you on the Internet to thank you - post your e-mail, mailing address, whatever!
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Summary: The ONLY book on MAINTAINING weight loss - must read!!
Review: As a person who has lost 115 pounds and kept the weight off for fifteen years, I know how hard it is to find information on the very important topic of MAINTAINING weight loss. Amongst the hundreds - possibly THOUSANDS - of weight-related books, the fad diets, the gimmicks, the celebrities and the profiteers is this GEM of a book. This ain't no 'magic miracle diet' - Thin For Life is the REAL DEAL. Any jaded dieter who has read the popular diet books trying to lose PERMANENTLY is sure to find this book a much-needed breath of POSITIVE fresh air! As one of the moderators at 3FatChicks' forum (which features a long-established Maintainers Forum with great information) Ms. Fletcher's book is perhaps THE most consistently recommended. (It's the BIBLE of the Maintainer's Forum!) Definitely worth more than a read - this book's a KEEPER. THANK YOU MS. FLETCHER!
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Summary: This book got me motivated to lose weight!
Review: I bought and read this book just over a year ago. Having been bombarded with stories about how diets don't work in the long term like many of us have been I was really amazed to read about people who had lost weight and kept it off for years - all kinds of ways. I was convinced by the facts in "Thin for Life", and as a result got down to losing weight after 20 years of avoiding it. When friends, co-workers, and family told me it wasn't worth dieting because "I would just gain it back and more" - I was able to draw inspiration from the book and keep going. I lost 40 lbs in the first 6 months after reading the book with the help of joining Weight Watchers (only one of the many ways to do it according to the book), and have kept it off ever since. When you know that real people can become thin and stay that way for years it is possible to make your own life change.
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Summary: www.ThinChoices.com
Review: I find Anne's book to be highly motivating for those who are struggling with weight issues. I often read quotes from her "masters" to my weight loss clients. My goal is to help them learn how to identify their own "light bulb moment" when they finally take control of their weight. Anne's masters prove that by changing your mind, you can change your body. These masters do make thin choices everyday.
Jill Fleming, MS, RD
Author of Thin People Don't Clean Their Plates.
www.ThinChoices.com
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Summary: Too many statistics
Review: I found it interesting but only when I was half way through the book. Too much statistical info which makes you lose interest,
i.e. 50% of people did this, 20 out of 30 did that, 40 out of 50 in 4 years did this & kept it off for 3 years, which is 30%,
etc., etc. At least the author wasn't trying to push any one diet and talked about several different ones.
All in all, there are better books out there.
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Summary: Possibly the best book ever on the topic of weight loss.
Review: I have been heavy pretty much my whole life (I'm 51) and have dieted and gained countless times. I've read MANY books about weight loss and have found some helpful, but I have never felt such a profound benefit as I have gained from Thin for Life. This may not be the perfect book for someone who needs an extremely prescriptive plan...every step written out for you, every morsel of food planned and scripted. But, if like me, you are mostly going it on your own and you are looking for tools and resources to help you, this is THE PERFECT BOOK. What could be more motivational than a bunch of people who have not only lost weight but kept it off? I don't agree with every single person's methods of either getting it off or keeping it off; however, COLLECTIVELY, their advice is gold. SO helpful. If you are looking for that elusive key to doing this RIGHT for once and for all, READ THIS BOOK. If you just want validation that you're already on the right track, READ THIS BOOK! Thank you to Ms. Fletcher and to all the "masters"...you have touched me, inspired me and shown me that thin for life does not have to be a fantasy. And for that, I am forever grateful.
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Summary: this is reality, not a gimmick
Review: I ordered this book along with some others and I have to say that this book is excellent by leaps and bounds over the others. If you have been on the diet roller-coaster, then this book will give you hope and a sense that you can do it to just like the 'masters'. I liked that there is so much commonsense in this book. I was especially encouraged with the comments about what it's like at the maintenance level. We hear so much about people losing weight and just putting it right back on and then some. Or we think you have to live on lettuce leaves and celery the rest of your life, but this book just shows how 'normal' the new thinner 'masters' are doing. Heck...they're eating well and enjoying their lives. I enjoyed the wide variety of comments too. Not all the same. Different things worked for different people. Approaches to weight loss and maintenace was different between different people. These people are just like you and me. This book has been such a great help to me. Read it and see for yourself. This is the type of book that I think I will re-read several times over. Why? Because it is just the type of book that makes so much sense out of all this losing weight stuff we are constantly reading about and wishing it would work for us. This book will have the same effect on you as a good cup of coffee first thing in the morning.
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Summary: Afraid you'll lose weight, just to gain it back? Read this!
Review: I've been on Weight Watchers for about a year, and have lost 45 pounds. I have another 15 to go to get to a "normal" weight, as defined by body mass index, and I've been struggling. I picked this book up and it really gave me the motivtion not just to finish what I started, but to remember really what I'm doing. Fletcher emphasizes that this isn't just about getting to a magic number, but about changing your life in ways that you can live with, and that you can maintain. I found the case studies fascinating -- glimpses into how people lost a lot of weight and kept it off for years. The circumstances and methods were different, but the motivation and determination in each one of these successful weight loss masters was evident. It really encouraged me. Fletcher also talks about people who lost weight and didn't keep it off. By comparing the two groups (those who lost a lot of weight and kept it off, and those who lost a lot of weight and did NOT keep it off), she can give some great advice on how to maintain your weight loss. For example, most "weight loss masters" tried to lose weight several times before they finally got it all off and kept it off. That's encouraging - just b/c you've failed before does not mean you will fail again. In fact, if you use those "failures" to learn, you are now more likely to succeed! It's motivational advice, backed by research, like this that makes this book so wonderful
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Summary: An Empowering Book Based On Success Stories
Review: In this highly readable and motivational book, nutritionist Anne Fletcher explains that, just as no two people are alike, there is no single right way to lose weight. Thus, this is not a diet book per se, but a list of 10 principles that successful dieters have in common, and to which I refer frequently when I find myself slipping in my resolve. Fletcher calls these successful dieters "masters:" people who have kept off at least 20 pounds for at least 3 years. (Many of her masters have lost and kept off much more.) The two things I like most about this book are: 1) Rather than taking a theoretical and single-minded approach to dieting, the author relies on a wide variety of actual true long-term success stories and quotes the masters themselves extensively. 2) The author takes a practical, common-sense, long-term approach rather than the usual quick-fix mentality of most diet books. Bottom line: this book worked (and is still working) for me!
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Summary: this is reality, not a gimmick
Review: Now that I am in my mid-thirties, I am in the process of losing the extra weight that I've been carrying since high school. I found this book through a search on Jane Brody, who wrote the introduction and whose nutrition book has also been helpful to me. Thin for Life is an inspiring, carefully written book that focuses on people's attitudes and behavior that worked while they were losing weight and maintaining their goal weight. I read it cover to cover the first time, and now I re-read portions of it when I need a reminder or a boost. If you are interested in changing your life and losing weight slowly and successfully, I highly recommend this book.
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