Review of Outwit Your Weight: Everything You Need to Make Any Diet Work-And Get Results That Last (Paperback)

Cathy Nonas RD author of "Outwit Your Weight" recognizes that everyone is different. In her book she gives a number of tips, tricks and tools to help you lose weight and get fit.
The key according to Cathy is to incorporate weightloss strategies that are simple to do and will work best for you.
The book opens with a section on determining your individual fat traps. Are you a chronic snacker, nightime eater, weekend binger?
Do you skip meals, eat from stress, have all or nothing thinking? Once you have identified your weaknesses (and there may be more than one!) Cathy gives you over 200 tools to pick and chose from.
Tools are simple techniques you can incorporate into your daily life that will help you manage your eating weaknesses and achieve your weight loss goals. Tools aren't one size fit all!
She describes a variety of tools to help with your diet danger zones. If you don't like one tool - pick another!
Cathy includes fitness tools, mood tools, behavior and food tools. Many of these tools are fun to try and can add up in pounds lost. For example to teach yourself to slow down when eating, Cathy suggests you use chopsticks for a week. Or you can take a ten minute break in the middle of your meal.
The book also includes tons of recipes like Peanut Noodles with Chicken and Watercress, Garlicky shrimp in mustard sauce, Black Bean Burritos and Potato Chips! Cathy also addresses diet danger zones like holidays, fatigue, and lack of willpower.
The book is chock full of great ideas to incorporate in your life to help you get slim and trim!

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So many weight-loss programs focus primarily, if not exclusively, on diet. But according to Cathy Nonas, R.D., the real issue is not what you eat but how, when, and why you eat. Depending on your personality, certain situations can propel you to make poor food choices or to nibble when you -really aren't hungry. So you end up gaining weight instead of losing it. In Outwit Your Weight, Nonas helps recognize and reinforce potential weak spots in your individual eating style with a collection of tools that target diet, exercise, mood, and behavior. Take the exclusive Eating Assessment Test (EAT) to zero in on your personal Diet Danger Zones. Then create your own toolkit of skills and strategies to outsmart your most likely saboteurs and increase your chances of weight-loss success. The same tools have helped thousands of Nonas's clients slim down to an ideal weight. The real beauty is, they work with virtually any weight-loss program-from high-carb to high-protein, and all the options in between. In no time, you'll be saying goodbye to those unwanted pounds for good.

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Review of Outwit Your Weight Journal: Lose Weight and Keep It Off with this Personalized Weight-Loss Diary (Paperback)

The book "Outwit Your Weight" by Cathy Nonas, R.D. was so jam packed with easy to follow new tips and ideas for managing weight I picked up her companion book, the "Outwit Your Weight Journal".
Studies show that the best tool for weight loss success is journaling. In one study it was shown that people gain as much as 500% more weight during the holiday season than during non-holiday weeks. But a few folks actually lost weight during the holidays. Who were these lucky people? The folks who kept journals.Another study showed that folks who kept food journals for 15 weeks lost 64% more weight than those who didn't!
Journaling can be key to a successful weight loss journey. Knowing how important this tool is Cathy developed the "Outwit Your Weight Journal". This is very different from your traditional journals. In this book Cathy works with you to customize a journal style that will meet your needs and that you will actually "do" to meet your weight loss goals.
Some journals focus on calorie counting, others on exercise or fat grams. Cathy's book focuses on what YOU need.
The book begins with a simple self assessment of your diet danger zones. Do you nibble to much. Eat when you are lonely or bored. Eat when you read or eat due to medications?
And what is your weight loss personality?Are you a restrained eater with periods of extreme eating styles? Are you an ostrich -in denial about what you eat?
Once you have identified your eating personality, Cathy introduces 6 different types fo journals that may suit your needs. She gives charts to fill in for the different styles.
You can stick to one type of journal or switch as your needs change.
Cathy also gives a lot of other information in the book. She includes "smart strategies" to make the best use of journaling. A full section is devoted to developing goals. Guidelines are given for exercise.
The one drawback to this softcover book is that it doesn't lay flat so writing in it can be awkward. But I think the author intends for it to be used as a stepping stone. That you try out different journal styles (or find one instantly) and use that style in a blank book or copy the pages.
By personalizing a journal to suit your needs and finding the journal style you are comfortable with you are more likely to use journaling which has led so many to weight loss success!

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The ultimate weight-loss tool is not a barbell. It's not a food scale. It's a pen!

Countless studies have proven that using a food journal is the most effective method of shedding pounds-- and keeping them off. Weight-loss expert Cathy Nonas, R.D., has created a revolutionary tool that's actually six journals in one, each designed to help you reach your goal quickly and easily. Discover your unique diet personality and learn which journal is right for you. Choose from:

* The Calorie-Counting Journal
* The Food-Mood Journal
* The Portion-Control Journal
* The Overeating Journal
* The Social-Butterfly Journal
* The Fullness Journal

Pick one, mix and match, or try them all!

Sprinkled throughout the book, you'll also find:

* More than 50 clever and practical weight-loss tips, tools, and techniques
* Clear advice on how to set and meet your weight-loss goals
* Calorie burn information for 250 exercises and common activities
* Fat, fiber, and calorie values for more than 500 of your favorite foods

Use this journal to make the most of the book Outwit Your Weight or any other diet system-- or even use it all on its own. This simple, customizable program will motivate and enable you to reach your ultimate goal-- a happier, healthier, fitter you!


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