Product Description

Many of us have struggled with getting a grip on eating, exercise, or health habits, breaking the yo-yo diet cycle, or overcoming a complicated relationship with food. Now Weight Watchers, one of the world's leaders in providing weight-loss information and services, opens its doors so readers everywhere can read the motivational stories of people who've lost weight successfully-and changed their lives along the way. Start Living, Start Losing shares 100 stories of everyday people and celebrities who reveal in compelling, moving, and sometimes humorous detail their journeys toward slimming down.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14473 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

From the Inside Flap

Who doesn't want more energy or greater self-confidence? No one understands the rewards (as well as the challenges) of weight loss better than those who have lived through it and found success. The good news is that losing weight and living a healthier, happier life is possible—others have achieved their goals, and reading about their experiences can help motivate you to create your own personal success story too.

In Start Living, Start Losing, Weight Watchers, a leader in weight management, opens its doors to share the stories of more than 70 people who have lost weight, learned how to maintain the weight loss, and, in the process, changed their lives. This collection of first-person stories supplies you with an up-close look at the countless benefits of living a healthier lifestyle. What's more, you'll read about how those successful at weight loss put their plans in motion, overcame obstacles, and persevered to reach their goals. The stories of the women and men highlighted in these vignettes come from around the globe, some from celebrated actors and authors. All share a common goal: to lose weight and find a healthier lifestyle.

The profiles in Start Living, Start Losing reveal in detail their journeys toward slimming down, and their stories will entertain, move, and inspire you to do the same. At the end of each story, you'll find a Take-Away tip with practical solutions to everything from putting portion control into practice to finding the time for fitness to dealing with pesky saboteurs. Journal pages at the end of each chapter will help you stay engaged and motivated as you work toward your own smart eating and exercise goals.

So start reading . . . start living . . . and start losing!

Weight Watchers International, Inc., is the world's leading provider of weight management services, operating globally through a network of company-owned and franchise operations. Weight Watchers holds over 50,000 weekly meetings where members receive group support and education about healthy eating patterns, behavior modification, and physical activity. WeightWatchers.com provides innovative subscription weight management products over the Internet and is the leading Internet-based weight management provider in the world. In addition, Weight Watchers offers a wide range of products, publications, and programs for those interested in weight loss and weight control.

To see and hear several Weight Watchers success stories online, log on to WeightWatchers.com/startliving.

From the Back Cover

What Makes a Great Weight-Loss Success Story?

Over 70 real women and men

(including a few celebrities!) share their stories and strategies for finding a healthier life

If you've ever admired a friend, colleague, or relative who has lost weight and wondered, "How did they do it?", this is the book you've been waiting for. In Start Living, Start Losing, Weight Watchers brings you some of its best-ever and most inspiring stories of women and men who have lost weight and kept it off. In their own voices, these people share their personal experiences of slimming down and reveal their practical tips and secrets for success. Read about what worked for them and hear what they had to say:

About Food

"I've learned that you can eat everything—but just not in one day. The best weight-loss advice I ever heard was 'one bite tastes like the rest.' For my son's graduation, he wanted me to taste the cake so I took one forkful. He said, 'That's all you're going to have?' and I said, 'Now I know what it tastes like. I don't need any more.' It has to be looked at one bite at a time, one portion at a time, one day at a time."

Susan, 43, New York, receptionist

About Exercise

"Now I think of exercise as if it's a relationship—you have to keep it alive, varied, and vibrant, or it will stagnate. I cross-train, which keeps me from getting bored and tones different muscles."

Nazalee, 37, Ohio, fund-raiser

About Maintaining Weight Loss

"I'm now in the maintenance phase of my weight loss and will always track my POINTS® values because that's how I maintain my weight. The sooner you see that you're losing control, the sooner you can pull yourself together."

Sarah, Duchess of York, author, philanthropist

See inside for a shot of pure inspiration and more great ideas!

About the Author
Weight Watchers International, INC., is the World's leading provider of weight management services, operating globally through a network of company-owned and franchise operations. Weight Watchers scolds over 50,000 weekly meetings where members receive group support and education about healthy eating patterns, behavior modification, and physical activity. Weightwatchers.com provides innovative subscription weight management products over the Internet and is the leading Internet-based weight management provider in the world. In addition, Weight Watchers offers a wide range of products, publications, and programs for those interested in weight loss and weight control.

Customer Reviews

Infomercial in book form
If this was the first book of inspiration I had ever read, I might be a bit more impressed. I got as far as the first two chapters and then tossed the book into my pile of stuff to sell at a garage sale.
This collection of weight loss tales is pure formula non-fiction. What to expect:
My name is _____. I overeat because _____. I realized I had to lose weight when _____. Then I joined Weight Watchers. My tip to lose weight is _____ (typically something like don't eat before going to bed - yawn).
Folks what I'm saying is there is nothing new here. If the concept of losing weight is not 100% new to you, you've heard all of this before. Each fluffy tale of weight loss success is only about two pages long, and to me, said nothing substantial. The book "Body for Life" provides much more genuine inspriation to make lifestyle changes.

Inspiring
Its good to read about people weight-losses and how they achieve. That is an inspiration for me.

Encouraging reading
I ordered this for my husband who is struggling to lose weight but likes filling out his weight watchers form on line each night (which is an excellent way of tracking how much you eat, and showing you where you are falling short!)
He liked it and read it, finding it encouraging. It's not deep, and you can dip in and out of it, like a magazine, but it's much better for you than a candy bar, and that's how he avoided fattening treats at the airport, he sat and read this instead!