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A gifted motivator and nutritionist extraordinaire, Jonny Bowden has helped over 75,000 women lose weight successfully through his hugely popular eight-week iVillage shape-up challenges. The key to his phenomenal success is his ability to help participants take back control of the power food holds over them, and to help set goals based on what "shaping up" means to each of us.Jonny Bowden's Shape Up! is like no other "diet" program: it takes into account personal factors such as commitment, self-esteem, body ...

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A gifted motivator and nutritionist extraordinaire, Jonny Bowden has helped over 75,000 women lose weight successfully through his hugely popular eight-week iVillage shape-up challenges. The key to his phenomenal success is his ability to help participants take back control of the power food holds over them, and to help set goals based on what "shaping up" means to each of us.Jonny Bowden's Shape Up! is like no other "diet" program: it takes into account personal factors such as commitment, self-esteem, body image, impulse control, and addictions, as well as issues like metabolic type, genetics, ethnic heritage, and hormones, and shows readers how to tailor consistent low-sugar, low-carbohydrate nutrition to fit individual needs. With humor and a down-to-earth style, Bowden presents realistic and simple week-by-week eating plans-as well as recommendations on vitamins, minerals, and food supplements-and the tools to customize the program for long-term success. He shows readers how to analyze food's effects on moods, cravings, and energy levels, and also demonstrates the how and why of light workout routines. A wise and empowering program, Jonny Bowden's Shape Up! will help readers everywhere take charge of their lives and make changes that will dramatically improve their health, weight, and state of mind.

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Popular fitness guru Jonny Bowden delivers a no-nonsense blueprint for getting in shape in this straightforward, energetic read. Emphasizing the importance of tailoring any diet or exercise plan to the specific individual, the book outlines an eight-week program guided more by principles and suggestions than by strict rules. But readers will make no mistake about the fact that Bowden's program requires a firm dedication to good health, as the author conveys his fitness strategies with a positive but resolute attitude that is as clear as it is contagious.

What makes the Shape Up program so unique is that it truly encourages -- requires, actually -- readers to probe their own eating and exercise habits and find an appropriate balance that works for them. To this end, Bowden offers thorough chapters on nutrition, food supplements, and the importance of making time to exercise. An excellent method for getting started involves writing down various positive steps that can be taken to introduce better eating and exercising habits into daily routines. The program itself is outlined, detailing specific journal entries, tasks, exercise and eating goals, and personal assessments for each of the eight weeks.

But the real gem here is Bowden's chapter on taking control of what the events in your life will mean to you, writing your own story instead of allowing life's occurrences to determine your reactions. This chapter alone provides plenty of motivation for even the most confidence-challenged reader. And choosing to view setbacks or difficulties in a personally advantageous light is a lesson that will prove valuable in other areas of readers' lives.

This personable read provides all the tools readers need to make smart choices about their personal fitness plan and to incorporate this plan into everyday life. (Karen Burns)

Bill Humphries
In my fifteen years as a trainer and a coach in the fitness industry I have prided myself and my company on our ability to get results, particularly with actors and models, whose careers depend on achieving them. Jonny Bowden has been my teacher; his input has been the 'secret ingredient' for many of my greatest successes.
Oz Garcia
Jonny Bowden is one of the most knowledgeable nutritionists I've ever known. I could not have written The Balance without his invaluable input and wisdom.
Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
In a previous life, Jonny Bowden was, like Eartha Kitt, a professional musician, touring with Herbie Hancock and Carly Simon. However, for the past three years, he has come to be known as the hugely popular weight-loss coach on iVillage.com. With Jonny Bowden's Shape Up!: The 8-Week Program to Transform Your Body, Your Health, and Your Life, he expands beyond the Web to reach fitness fanatics who want to own a copy of his program, which, he maintains, focuses on the individual, and not just her weight-loss or exercise goal. Confident, informative and direct, Bowden has a voice that commands attention. ( May) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780738204017
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press
  • Publication date: 4/1/2001
  • Pages: 260
  • Product dimensions: 0.75 (w) x 6.00 (h) x 9.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., is a certified nutritionist and longtime personal trainer. He has been answering reader questions on weight loss, exercise, and nutrition for the last three years on his weekly iVillage.com column and has the most highly rated daily online radio show on e-yada.com. The author of Jonny Bowden's Shape Up!, he lives with his wife in New York City.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
1 What Is the Shape Up Program? 1
2 Dieting or Strategy? 11
3 Calories and Hormones 31
4 Getting Started 43
5 Food 49
6 Supplements 75
7 Exercise 87
8 The Tools of the Shape Up Program 95
9 Weeks One and Two 107
10 Nutritional Controversies, Nutritional Heresies 113
11 Weeks Three and Four 135
12 Science, Sex and the High-Protein Diet 145
13 Weeks Five and Six 161
14 The Myth of Motivation: "It's the Action, Stupid!" 171
15 Rewrite Your Story 175
16 Weeks Seven and Eight 181
17 Being Is Believing 187
18 It's a War Out There 189
19 Weight Loss and the Pleasure Principle 217
20 A Plan for Life 223
Appendix Workout Plans for Levels Two and Three 225
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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 15, 2003

    Best Metabolism Booster

    I have done the exercises and diet recommended by Johnny and it actually helped me lose weight after 8 months of staying the same. It has given me energy and a postive attitude when I was about to give upl

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 24, 2001

    An Intelligent, Amusing with a touch of New York approach to shaping-up

    Jonny Bowden provides a thorough approach to setting one's priorities. It parallel's Oprah's with honesty and even humor as well as a whole universe look at your individual body, life styles, needs and even frustrations. The journal step is mystifyingly effective and provided the self-revelations I needed to not just lose weight and get fit, but clean my closets and put photos into books. That overwhelming feeling that used to lead me to the fridge now funnels into productivity in smaller accessible steps. In other words, the sympathy and 'holier-than-thou 'I did it you can too'' attitude is replaced with a great alternative: honesty with yourself and your habits, and being OK with both. Now let's work on them....

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