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Weight Loss Books

These are our recommended books, which contain up to date information on weight loss. Unfortunately, most books on weight loss don't work because they are based on ideas that have been shown to be untrue, but they are so widely believed that they still sell, and people still follow them, until they find that they don't work, and so they try another diet book, and so on..

Books On Weight Loss

Most books on weight loss are wrong. They do not understand the fundamentals of nutrition and biochemistry, and the information they contain isn't correct, or what you need to help you lose weight, and continue at your ideal weight on a permanent basis. We have recommended these books because they start by debunking the myths about nutrition that we have all been brainwashed into believing, such as basing meals on carbohydrates, that fat is bad for us, that we should count calories to lose weight, and that to lose weight we have to eat less and exercise more. These ideas are all wrong and have lead to the current obesity epidemic. - Colin Winstanley (SuperLiving's Pharmacist)

The Lunch Box Diet

The Lunch Box Diet works because it solves one of the big problems that cause other diets to fail. It isn't based on starving yourself but on a clever way of organising your life so that it's easy to eat healthily. It doesn't feel like a diet because you eat breakfast and evening meals with your family as usual and pack a healthy lunch box to eat in between, so that you are not tempted by unhealthy smacks. After you have lost weight the same diet then keeps the weight off. Lose weight, keep it off and be healthier. Recommended by SuperLiving. Read our review of The Lunch Box Diet

Think Yourself Thin

Information about healthy eating is widely available and there are more commercial diets to choose from than ever before. Yet, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 1.6 billion adults around the world were overweight in 2005 and this figure is set to rise to 2.3 billion by 2015. An awareness of what and how much we should eat to be a healthy size is not enough in the battle against weight gain, because our eating habits are influenced by our unconscious emotions and past experiences.

Changing the way you think about yourself, your weight, and the food you eat, whilst managing stress and being positive yet realistic about the benefits of weight loss, could help you lose weight.

The first step to losing weight is to accept responsibility for your size. If you usually blame your excess weight on your genes, your metabolism, your age, or your glands - stop! Although recent research suggests that around one sixth of the population have inherited a ‘fat gene’ that can make them around 3kg (7lbs) heavier, only about a third of people with one fat gene and two thirds with two fat genes, are thought to be affected. What you’re more likely to have inherited from your family are the poor dietary habits and low activity levels that cause weight gain.

Read the full article on Think Yourself Thin by the author Wendy Green