The Change Your Biology Diet : The Proven Program for Lifelong Weight Loss

Overcome addictions to sugar, fat, and salt—and achieve permanent weight loss—with advice from the New York Times bestselling author of The Skinny . Louis J. Aronne, M.D., internationally recognized weight-management expert and director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center at Weill-Cornell Medical College, has created the Change Your Biology Diet, a proven program that helps people break through weight loss "resistance" to drop excess pounds and keep them off. Dr. Aronne's approach, unlike fad diets, focuses on biological factors that cause weight gain. For example, overeating the wrong kinds of food—namely highly processed, starchy, sweet, fatty food—damages neurons in the brain's appetite center that lead to weight gain. Following his plan can reverse this process. With the support of his extensive knowledge and the latest research, readers learn Twelve Breakthrough Strategies for Successful Weight Management, such as how the order in which food is eaten affects weight loss. He provides two different adaptable diets so that readers can personalize a program that works for them. There are meal plans, delicious recipes for protein shakes, soups, sauces, salad dressings, main courses, side dishes and desserts as well as three high-intensity workouts that require no equipment and can be done in less than ten minutes anywhere. Beyond diet and exercise, Dr. Aronne covers the most recent developments in weight loss medications and bariatric procedures. The Change Your Biology Diet provides readers with everything they need to know to lose weight successfully from one of the pioneers in the field of obesity medicine. "Let Lou help how you think and eat. He might save your life as well."—David Letterman, from the Foreword A best-selling doctors life-changing program and diet plan to effectively overcome addictions to sugar, fat, and salt, and achieve permanent weight loss Louis J. Aronne, M.D., an internationally recognized weight-management expert and the director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center at Weill-Cornell Medical College, has created the Change Your Biology Diet, a proven program that helps people break through weight loss resistance to drop excess pounds and keep them off. Dr. Aronnes approach, unlike fad diets, focuses on biological factors that cause weight gain. For example, overeating the wrong kinds of foodnamely highly processed, starchy, sweet, fatty fooddamages neurons in the brains appetite center that lead to weight gain. Following his plan can reverse this process. With the support of his extensive knowledge and the latest research, readers learn Twelve Breakthrough Strategies for Successful Weight Management, such as how the order in which food is eaten affects weight loss. He provides two different adaptable diets so that readers can personalize a program that works for them. There are meal plans, delicious recipes for protein shakes, soups, sauces, salad dressings, main courses, side dishes and desserts as well as three high-intensity workouts that require no equipment and can be done in less than ten minutes anywhere. Beyond diet and exercise, Dr. Aronne covers the most recent developments in weight loss medications and bariatric procedures. The Change Your Biology Diet provides readers with everything they need to know to lose weight successfully from one of the pioneers in the field of obesity medicine. Louis J. Aronne, M.D., an internationally recognized weight-management expert and the director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center at Weil-Cornell Medical College, has created the Change Your Biology Diet, a proven program that helps people break through weight loss?resistance? to drop excess pounds and keep them off. Dr. Aronne?s approach, unlike fad diets, focuses on biological factors that cause weight gain. For example, overeating the wrong kinds of food? namely highly processed, starchy, sweet, fatty food? damages neurons in the brain?s appetite center that lead to weight gain. Following his plan can reverse this process. With the support of his extensive knowledge and the latest research, readers learn Twelve Breakthrough Strategies for Successful Weight Management, such as how the order in which food is eaten affects weight loss. He provides two different adaptable diets so that readers can personalize a program that works for them. There are meal plans, delicious recipes for protein shakes, soups, sauces, salad dressings, main courses, side dishes and desserts as well as three high-intensity workouts that require no equipment and can be done in less than ten minutes anywhere. Beyond diet and exercise, Dr. Aronne covers the most recent developments in weight loss medications and bariatric procedures. The Change Your Biology Diet provides readers with everything they need to know to lose weight successfully from one of the pioneers in the field of obesity medicine Author's note: The #1 health care problem Introduction: Have you ever noticed that your weight goes up but won't go down? Part 1. It's not your fault 1. A plan that works 2. Fattening factors 3. Why don't people just lose weight? Part 2. The Change Your Biology program 4. Winning the hunger games 5. The breakthrough dozen: 12 proven strategies for lifelong weight control 6. The Quick Start Change Your Biology diet 7. The Change Your Biology diet 8. 14 days of Change Your Biology diet meal plans 9. Quick, easy, and delicious recipes 10. Stand up and start moving Part 3. Beyond diet & exercise 11. Medications: a new frontier 12. The surgical solution for severe obesity. Louis J. Aronne, M.D., an internationally recognised weight-management expert, has created the Change Your Biology Diet, a program that helps people lose weight, and keep it off, while understanding the hows and whys every step of the way. "Presents a weight loss plan that combines a diet and exercise regime designed to alter the body's biological processes in order to promote weight loss"-- Provided by publisher