Sorry to shout! I have another question for everyone on the board to post an answer and I promise not to make any long-winded or any comment, just a place to post your opinions for anyone to read!
So, the question is: (Ta-da) What in your opinion are the best "diet" or "fitness" or "weight-management related" books you've EVER read and that you'd recommend to anyone?
Please post your picks if you so desire!!! Mine are:
1. A book I read in the late 1980s sometime about a university program that taught people that hunger was felt in different ways and in different sites in the body and how to identify exactly how one felt hunger and learn to satisfy that. Couldn't tell you the name, author or anything else, but I wish I still had this book.
2. Anything by Prevention Magazine, latterly I've had The Peanut Butter Diet and The Ice Cream Diet. Though these have improbably glitzy popular "diet" book type titles, they are sensible weight loss programs that promote good habits and contribute to all facets of health. For instance, The Ice Cream Diet is similar by design to the medical DASH diet for high blood pressure and stroke prevention. These are really fun little books that pack tons of good information in a drugstore paperback. (P.S., I don't work for Prevention, just wish I did!!!)
3. A report on the results of the National Weight Loss Registry's study of people who have lost significant amounts of weight and maintained the loss for (I think) 10 years. I shouldn't recommend this because I haven't actually read it yet. It's in bookstores here but I'm waiting a bit to buy it. I've heard a lot of the results discussed, though, and it seems the findings of why these people have succeeded contain factors that I used to lose 100 pounds and maintain it for five years (before relapsing a bit)!