You on a Diet: Lose Up to 2 Inches from Your Waist in 2 Weeks. Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz with Ted Spiker, Lisa Oz and Craig Wyn - Softcover

Michael F. Roizen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007264402 ISBN 13: 9780007264407

Publisher: Thorsons Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

Drs Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz, authors of the million-copy bestseller 'YOU: The Owner's Manual', have devised a diet that is so effective you'll notice changes in your body immediately. Starting with a Two-Week Reboot that will help you lose up to two inches around your waist, you will shed your unwanted weight forever. '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. / 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 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'. Roizen and Mehmet's diet is one of the most cutting-edge and easy-to-follow of our time. Including: / 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?) Successful long-term weight loss is only found in one place: YOU.

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For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting--and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat.

Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America's most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist. They're going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body's fat-storing and fat-burning systems work, you're going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management.

Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information, motivation, and change-your-life action to show you how your brain, stomach, hormones, muscles, heart, genetics, and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium. In YOU: On a Diet, Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take you through an under-the skin tour of the organs that influence your body's size and its health. You'll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat.

Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail spammers, you'd think that just about all of us would know everything there is to know about dieting, about fat, and about the reasons why our bellies have grown so large. YOU: On a Diet is much more than a diet plan or a series of instructions and guidelines or a faddish berries-only eating plan. It's a complete manual for waist management. It will show you how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to which any weight-loss system can be explained. YOU: On a Diet will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution in our dieting software. After you learn about the biology of your body and the biology and psychology of fat, you'll be given the YOU Diet and YOU Workout. Both are easy to learn, follow, and maintain. Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to two inches from your waist right from the start.

With Roizen and Oz's signature accessibility, wit, and humor, YOU: On a Diet--The Owner's Manual for Waist Management will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the food you consume, so that you'll diet smart, not hard. Welcome to your body on a diet.

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"Fat Chances: The Secret Story of What's in Your Belly" by Michael F. Roizen, MD, and Mehmet C. Oz, MD
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 (R) 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorsons Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0007264402
• ISBN 13: 9780007264407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368