Fight Fat After Forty: How to stop being a stress eater and lose weight fast - Softcover

It's not only food and inactivity that can make you fat in midlife- so can stress. After the age of forty, the accrued stresses of a lifetime and the inevitable onset of the perimenopause begin to take their physical toll on a woman. This toxic stress builds emergency fat inside the body and leads to bad eating regimes, particularly in the over-forties. In Fight Fat After Forty renowned clinician and scientist Dr Pamela Peeke explains her revolutionary plan for fighting stress-eating and shedding 'toxic weight' forever. Reveals that stress makes you fat! Offers a revolutionary three-pronged approach of stress-resilient nutrition, stress-resilient physical activity and stress-resilient 'regrouping' (keeping motivated). Helps you identify your stress profile and eating pattern and offers a healthy eating programme to suit your body. Contains a weekly exercise and stress-reducing programme Helps you to boost midlife metabolism and lose weight fast

Dr Pam Peeke MD, MPH devoted three years to investigating the link between stress and fat at the National Institutes of Health as a senior research fellow. She is an internationally recognised expert and speaker in the fields of nutrition and stress as well as the newly evolving field of integrative medicine. She regularly appears as a science and health news commentator and has appeared on Oprah. She is Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Arizona Medical Centre.