The New Healthy Eating & Weight Management Guide

The NEW Healthy Eating & Weight Management Guide (4th edition; revised)- comprehensive guide to lifestyle change, has a loyal following among professionals who have been using it in hospital employee wellness programs, hospital and fitness center weight loss classes, one on one lifestyle change coaching, and additionally as a college course text in several programs for the past 15 years. A comprehensive practical guide—presented in an innovative concise and easy to read format—which covers the foundations, key skills, and behaviors needed for success with lifestyle changes and ultimately weight management. There are two modules which stand on their own: Healthy Eating, and Weight Management. Each section is a quick read (2 to 5 pages), and is broken up with subheads, colorful charts, and sidebars. The Healthy Eating section includes: Water & Beverages, Fruits, Vegetables and Legumes, Fats, Whole Grains, Fish, Poultry and Lean Meat, Special Report: Protein’s Role in Weight Loss. The Weight Management section includes: Manage Your Mindset, Keep Right-Tracking, Stick to Structure, Problem Solving and Plan Making, Physical Activity, Food & Calories, Recording Keeping, Stimulus Control, and Support Networks. The workbook section provides twenty worksheets which dovetail with the Healthy Eating and Weight Management modules. It also includes handy charts on physical activity expenditure (walking, running and several dozen other popular activities), net-maintenance-calorie multipliers (REE), plus additional editorial on BMI (body mass index), popular notions regarding human metabolic rate, and weight loss plateaus. The NEW Healthy Eating & Weight Management Guide is an ideal tool for a variety of professionally provided classes on the practical aspects of Healthy Eating and Weight Management.