Product Description

The No-Beach, No-Zone, No-Nonsense Weight Loss Plan: A Pocket Guide to What Works analyses decades of weight-loss research to present one dependable plan that really works. Now you can take weight off and keep it off using a combination of proven diet and exercise strategies that require no special props or aids. Information on calculating calorie needs, determining BMI (body mass index) and working out the percentage of fats, carbs and proteins in your daily diet are included. This book is based entirely on: an analysis of scientific studies, so that it is fact-based; research on successful dieters that shows how they got the weight off and kept it off; and, diet and exercise strategies that can be done at home. What is currently on the market - a lot of diet and weight loss books with gimmicks and a lot of fluff, but very few theories that are supported by randomised controlled trials. The No-Beach, No-Zone, No-Nonsense Weight Loss Plan: A Pocket Guide to What Works is the antithesis of these books. The author has reviewed the weight loss literature, found proven solutions and put it all in a digestible format for the lay person.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62795 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author

Jim Johnson, P.T., is a physical therapist who has spent over eighteen years treating both inpatients and outpatients with a wide range of pain and mobility problems. He has written many books based completely on published research and controlled trials including Treat Your Own Knees, The Sixty-Second Motivator, Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff, The 5-Minute Plantar Fasciitis Solution, Finding Happiness in a Frustrating World, and Exercise Beats Depression. His books have been translated into other languages and thousands of copies have been sold worldwide. Besides working full-time as a clinician in a large teaching hospital and writing books, Jim Johnson is a certified Clinical Instructor by the American Physical Therapy Association and enjoys teaching physical therapy students from all over the United States.

Customer Reviews

Need a good diet book? Your weight is over.
A rare find indeed among the bazillions of weight loss books available these days. And probably the only weight loss book you'll ever read whose strategies to lose weight come directly from what the author calls "controlled trials." Here's a little of what you'll find:

Chapter 1- busts all the popular myths about weight loss
(talk about an eye-opener)

Chapter 2- a good chapter that tells you the key to getting
yourself motivated and staying motivated to lose
weight (the best plan in the world is useless if
its never carried out as the book says)

Chapter 3- discusses the truth about diet and exercise as
ways to lose weight- all according to what the
scientific literature says (it could save you a lot
of trial and error time)

Chapter 4 and Chapter 5- the exercise and diet plans that have
proven to work in long term weight
loss studies

Chapter 6- reviews the literature that has studied people who
have successfully lost weight and kept it off--
their secrets

Chapter 7- how to put the whole program together, what to do in
the long run (shows how to use the program
successfully for the rest of your life- the book
is not just a quick fix)

All in all this is a great book, and is worth every penny.

It is what it says - no nonsense
I've got the Zone Diet, the Food Combining, the Hip and Thigh, the Eat More Weigh Less books, but really this one beats the lot. It is what it says - no nonsense, down to earth, bottom line truth about how to lose weight properly and keep it off. It is absolute sense, no frills. Refreshing, galvanizing, easy to understand. You won't need another diet book if you are serious about changing your eating habits for life. This isn't the quick fix fad diet.