The Power: How Women Just Like You Become Weight-loss Winners - Hardcover

The first diet book to empower women with what they need to do about the 11 unhealthy ways they gain weight This book shows women how to lose weight their way. Based on scientific breakthrough thinking over a half century in the making, this is the first book ever to detail the twelve ways women become overweight. These overweight styles include: Daily Hassles Fat (caused by stress), Anger Fat, Binge-Eating Fat, Night-Eating Fat, Medication-Caused Fat, Polycystic Ovary Fat, and more. Through interactive quizzes, personalized sections, and the inspiring and dramatic stories of "weight-loss winners" who have done it their way, prize-winning investigative medical reporter Sue Ellin Browder provides women with a warm, down-to-earth, and highly effective individualized method for taking excess weight off and keeping it off. Based on impeccable cutting-edge medical and scientific research and interviews with the top weight-loss experts from Harvard, Stanford, and other major international medical centers, this book is The Power every woman must have to take charge of her weight for life.

If youre reading this, it's because youve tried everything to lose weightlow-carb diets, high-carb diets, high-protein ones, calorie-counting, fat-watching, and all the rest. You dont need yet another surefire, one-size-fits-all weight-loss program.

The Power is not just another diet plan. Its a completely new way of dealing with your battle against fatand of seeing yourself. As one of the many superconfident women profiled in this book puts it, "Its not willpower, but power" that will create positive, permanent change for you. That power is within you waiting to be tapped.

When youre struggling with your weight you feel out of control. Anxious to get back in control, you tend to look for authoritative solutions. You run to doctors, clinics, exercise trainers, nutritionists, or diet gurus. But, as prizewinning author Sue Ellin Browder explains in this revolutionary book, when it comes to weight loss, you have a big advantage over even the worlds best experts: You know your own body like nobody else. You can be your own best diet doctor.Drawing on the latest cutting-edge medical research from all over the world as well as interviews with hundreds of women, Browder gives you the facts and the guidance you need to be the scientist of your own body and take control. In The Power, Browder tells you whats known about womens weight and how you can use that knowledge, including:

• How to identify your overweight type andits causesincluding Anger, Binge-Eating, Daily Hassles, Depression, Lazy Thyroid, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, and more
• The different kinds of fatwhich ones are unhealthy and which arent (some may actually protect your heart)
• Practical strategies for combating each type of unhealthy fat
• Why the #1 villain isnt food, its stress
• How to choose to take charge and become a superconfident weight-loss winner

Filled with inspiring stories of weight-loss winners and down-to-earth advice, The Power overthrows many of the weight-loss myths that have defeated you beforeand gives you new freedom to find unique solutions that really work for you. Read The Power and embark on a process of self-discovery that will transform more than just your body. It will change your life.