Refuse to Regain!: 12 Tough Rules to Maintain the Body You've Earned

by Barbara Berkeley

Overview

Diets work, but what good are they if the weight returns? Statistics show that 80 to 90 percent of dieters regain every lost pound. This fact represents the largest and least addressed problem in obesity management. The recidivism of dieters fuels a $30 billion weight-loss industry, an industry that would shrink like Al Roker's waistline if the newly-thin could only make weight loss stick. But here is the problem: The skills needed to maintain a new, smaller body size are not obvious or intuitive; they must be taught. Inexplicably, books that deal successfully with ways to prevent regain have gone unwritten. Refuse to Regain, by longtime weight-management authority Barbara Berkeley, MD, fills this void. Berkeley, former medical director for the Optifast program and founder of Weight Management Partners, is a board-certified internist. She continues to have close ties to Novartis Medical Nutrition (recently acquired by Nestle), producer of the weight-loss supplement Optifast, which has 300 weight-loss centers nationwide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610352093
Publisher:	Linden Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Barbara Berkeley, a former medical director for the Optifast(R) weight-loss program and founder of Weight Management Partners, is a board-certified internist. For 20 years she has devoted her practice solely to medical treatment of obese patients, and in Refuse to Regain! share her strategies.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xv

Terms Used in this Book xvii

Section 1 Ten Foundations

1 The Maintenance Junior 3

2 Become a Warrior: Banish Guilt and Commit Yourself 15

3 When Fat Is Fatal: Metabolic Syndrome and Other Nasties 25

4 A Body Built for Lean Times 39

5 Eating With Your Genes: Becoming a Primarian 45

6 Practical Ancient Eating 61

7 The S Foods or That's Not Spaghetti in Your Blood 73

8 Understanding Your New Metabolism 83

9 Staying Afloat in the Food Flood 91

10 Expect Sabotage 101

Section 2 The 12 Tough Rules

11 The 12 Tough Rules 109

Section 3 Five Lives in Balance

12 Junior, Senior, Mentor 153

13 Five Lives in Balance 157

14 Six Final Thoughts 171

Section 4 Primarian Meal Plans and Recipes

Seven Primarian Days 179

Recipes 183

Resources 209

References 213

Index 223

Editorial Reviews

"'The best move would be to stop making excuses for your weight, ' says Barbara Berkeley, MD, author of" Refuse to Regain!" 'That's the first step to getting healthy, ' she says. Her other weight-loss strategies will help take you the rest of the way." —"Women's Health Magazine"

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