Product Description

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, a global leader in weight management, brings you some of its best-ever and most inspiring stories of more than 70 women and men who have lost weight and kept it off. In this groundbreaking book, real people share their personal experiences, giving you an up-close and personal look at how they put their plans in motion, overcame obstacles, and persevered to reach their goals.

The stories of the women and men in this book come from people from all walks of life, some from celebrated actors and authors. Yet all of them share a common goalâto lose weight and find a healthier lifestyle. Each story features a Take-Away tip with practical solutions to everything from putting portion control into practice to finding time for fitness. Journal pages at the end of each chapter will help you stay 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #324816 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470376164
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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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

Real accounts
The books reports over sixty success cases of losing weight by various people (mostly women). When reading the stories one realizes how important is the real commitment to losing weight. Believing in yourself and your ability to succeed is very important but equally important is supporting environment. The reports are from people who lost as little weight as 20 pounds and as much as 100 pounds and more.

What I particularly like about the book is the fact that it is not a promotional book for Weight Watchers, as it also presents critical reports of people who were critical of Weight Watchers.

I think this book is indeed valuable for people struggling with weight problems as it gives the reader real accounts of real people with their successes and sometimes failures. Unlike many other books dealing with the issue, "Weight Watchers Start Living, Start Losing" does not glorify any particular diet. Being real and down to earth, it will still inspire and motivate the reader to try his own program enriched with the wisdom of over sixty others who did the program already.

There is another important title that needs to me menioned. In my opinion "Can We Live 150" is probably the best book ever published on the topic of weight control, longevity and health in general. The chapter about Obesity in that book is probably all you need to know to keep your weight in check...

A must for every WW member and those need to lose
I loved the stories in this book. The people who wrote their short, personal stories are so real that I actually shook my head and agreed with them while reading.
Some had 10 pounds to lose and some over 200. Most of the people in this book are maintaining as opposed to losing.
Each story has a theme that is reinforced at the end of that particular person's chapter (about 1 1/2 to 3 pages each) Also at the end of the story, there is an motivational statement from WW, giving you a helpful hint or strategy to help with your weight loss journey. These statements are very useful to any dieter, WW or not.
I attend WW meetings weekly and we always have theme each week to motivate us and give us a focus for the upcoming week. I think that if you are an online WW dieter, this book would be very useful as a weekly motivator and to give you a focus for the week.
There is so much useful and interesting information in this book that it should be a permanent addition to the library of any person losing weight. No fast fixes, just real advice from real people.

This should motivate you to eat healthier and lose weight!
START LIVING, START LOSING - Weight Watchers
Rating: 4/5 stars

April 12, 2008


START LIVING, START LOSING is a collection of short inspirational pieces written by people who have had success with Weight Watchers and lost and kept off the weight. What I especially liked about this book is that it gave me ideas on what I was doing wrong with my own weight loss program, as well as help motivate me to change my current eating habits and try something different. A lot of the advice is common sense and obvious but I think to have it written down on paper makes it all more valid for me. Stories came from 'average every day people' to celebrities such as the Duchess of York, and the amount of weight loss varied from 10 lbs. to hundreds of pounds.

So for those who feel that they only have to lose 10 lbs. and yet feel bad that it's not what is considered conventional in terms of joining Weight Watchers (many in this book had hundreds of pounds to lose), this book will make you feel that it's all relative. It's just as hard to lose a measly 10 lbs. as it is to lose 100. It's a matter of eating right and exercising. And for those who have to lose hundreds of pounds, START LIVING, START LOSING is what can motivate you to change your bad habits and find inspiring ways to lose the weight and be healthy. It's not all about looks, but it's an issue of healthy living.

I recommend START LIVING, START LOSING to anyone trying to make a life change and wanting to lose some weight. There are a lot of great ideas in this book. It's fast reading, too, so for those who aren't big readers shouldn't be intimidated by it. Read a chapter a day, if that's what it takes.