The Real You Diet: Your Personal Program for Lasting Weight Loss - Hardcover

by Madelyn Fernstrom (Author)

From one of the nation's leading weight-loss specialists, the diet and nutrition expert from the Today show and iVillage.com?tools that really work to lose weight and keep it off

As a clinician, researcher, and media expert, Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom knows how you can lose weight. Her toolbox approach to weight loss is different from standard one-size-fits-all programs because you don't need to adapt to the plan; this plan adapts to you. It introduces you to the four types of tools that must work together for effective weight loss: eating, activity, behavior, and medical/biological. Do you overeat from stress or boredom? Do you like to exercise alone or with a group? The answers to these questions and others will unlock the unique weight-loss toolkit that's right for you. With some honest self-evaluation, you'll be able to explore and compare all of the options for weight loss in a single book. The right combination of tools, hand-picked by you, will support your weight loss and, later, weight stability over the long haul.

• Helps you develop your own unique path to weight loss?not a one-size-fits-all approach
• Addresses the four key areas for successful weight loss: eating, activity, behavior, and medical/biology
• Includes self-assessment quizzes and mini-tools to put into action right away
• Shows you how to keep going through plateaus and how to overcome obstacles

Fernstrom guides you through each step of your weight-loss journey to help you make and keep a personal connection and commitment to your goals as you work to achieve them?your way.

Front Jacket

Do you overeat when you feel bored or stressed out? Do you like to exercise alone or with a group? When it comes to diet and weight loss, no two people are alike. That's why one-size-fits-all programs that use the same approach for everyone are doomed to fail--and why The Real You Diet can help you succeed.

Created by Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom, one of the nation's leading weight-loss specialists and a regular diet and nutrition expert for the Today show and iVillage.com, The Real You Diet helps you develop a personalized program to lose weight and keep it off for good. First, Dr. Fernstrom guides you through a self-evaluation process to pinpoint the areas you need to focus on most and honestly assess the body, mind-set, and lifestyle factors that may be sabotaging your weight-loss efforts. She gives you a comprehensive set of tools to effect change in the four major areas that are crucial to losing weight: behavior, eating, activity, and medical/biological. The right combination of these tools, hand-picked by you for your personal toolkit, will support your weight loss and, later, weight stability for the long haul.

Each area tackles major stumbling blocks you may encounter and shows you how to overcome them. You'll make the most of:

Behavioral tools. Change habits, minimize mindless eating, and reward yourself without using food.

Eating/food tools. Avoid portion distortion, use reverse calorie counting, and become a positive snacker.

Activity tools. Understand your physical activity, temperament, start moving every day, and much more.

Medical/biological tools. Learn how to talk to your doctor, identify your biological barriers to weight loss, and make sense of supplements and medications.

Once you assemble your toolkit and put it to work, you can begin to see results in just eight weeks, and a twenty-one-day meal plan will help you get started. Along the way, you can add or take away tools as needed. Bored with your plan? Just replace some worn-out tools with new, more effective ones. Dr. Fernstrom guides you through each step of your journey to help you make, and keep, a personal connection and commitment to your goals as you work to achieve them--your way--and discover the beauty of the real you.

Back Jacket

"As a contributor on Today. . . Madelyn serves up no-nonsense nutritional advice that is always easy to digest. Now she's taken it one step further by tailoring her tips to the individual. Madelyn Fernstrom as your personal guide to a better 'you'--now that's a recipe for success!"
--Meredith Vieira, co-anchor, NBC's Today show

"There is one thing we know by now. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to anything in medicine--especially weight loss. Fernstrom breaks through the clutter and, with real people's stories, shows us how to transform our lives and diets by giving us the tools that are workable and sustainable. The Real You Diet works."
--Nancy Snyderman, M.D., Chief Medical Editor, NBC News, and author of Medical Myths That Can Kill You

"If you have an appetite, read this book."
--David Zinczenko, author of Eat This, Not That!

"The Real You Diet is a practical and motivating guide to weight management. Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom, one of the nation's top nutrition communicators, has developed an innovative, scientificallysound program that will empower you with a personalized set of tools to successfully achieve and maintain a healthy weight."
--Barbara Rolls, Ph.D., professor and Guthrie Chair in Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, and author of The Volumetrics Eating Plan

Author Biography

Madelyn Fernstrom, Ph.D., C.N.S., is the Diet and Nutrition Editor for the Today show and Health Editor-at-Large for iVillage.com, for which she writes the popular blog Health Journal. She is a full professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology, and Surgery, and the founding director of the Weight Management Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Her work has been covered in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Self, Fitness, and many other publications.