Beschreibung:
Each person faces unique challenges when trying to lose weight. As director of the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center, Lawrence J. Cheskin, M.D., and his team of experts have had remarkable success in helping thousands of individuals develop successful plans of action. Each plan contains the crucial ingredients for healthy success: an attainable goal, an appealing diet, and a practical program of physical activity. Based on the latest research in medicine, psychology, nutrition, and exercise physiology, the Personal Plan of Action offers a unique approach that recognizes the different reasons people gain weight -- and why they have trouble losing that weight and keeping it off.
Contents: Preface Acknowledgments ONE - Why Lose Weight? TWO - Getting Ready THREE - Beginning Your Self-Assessment FOUR - Developing Your Personal Plan FIVE - Why Do You Eat? SIX - What's a "Good" Diet, Anyway? SEVEN - Exercise That Works For You EIGHT - Keeping It Off Pyramid Food Tables for Weight Management and Pyramid Pattern Menus Index