Synopses & Reviews
The only book to go to the real experts on how teens lose weight successfully: teens who have actually done it.
Using the approach that made her book Thin for Life an award-winning bestseller, Anne M. Fletcher interviewed and surveyed more than 100 teens who had lost weight - some as much as 100 pounds - as well as their parents. Many of these teens came from overweight familis and had been heavy since childhood. Yet they were able to turn things around and make important lifestyle changes.
How did they do it? What works? What doesn't? And what can families do to help?
In Weight Loss Confidential, you'll meet:
-Taylor S., who lost 100 pounds when he was sixteen and has kept the weight off for about four years.
-Joelle T., who watched the scale climb beyond 200 pounds when she was in the eighth grade. She's lost 55 pounds.
-Robin S., thirteen, who weighed 170 pounds by the time she was nine and who has since slimmed down. I have a lot more friends now and more energy, she says.
-Wes G., Fletcher's own son, who was inspired to lose 65 pounds after meeting another boy who had lost weight. That's when Fletcher realized that teens listen more readily to other teens than to adults.
Challenging conventional assumptions about teen weight loss, fletcher distills the results of the latest scientific studies and findings of the countless authorities in the field, weaving them together with her own conclusions. In so doing, she shows that there is no one-size-fits-all presccription for teen weight loss but a variety of strategies that make a difference.
With thenumber of overweight children and teens skyrocketing, Weight Loss Confidential offers solutions - healthy approaches that families can use for a lifetime.
Review
"Eye opening and useful." - Holly Wyatt, M.D., University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
"A must-read book for teens and their parents." -James O. Hill, Ph.D., author of The Step Diet Book, professor of pediatrics
"it's rare to find a book like this one. It tells it like it is." -John Foreyt, Ph.D., Behavioral Medicine Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine
"Inspiring, informative, engaging...."- Nancy Sherwood, Ph.D., psychologist and adolescent researcher, Health Partners Research Foundation (Minneapolis, MN)
"Sensible and realistic guidance" - Julie N. Germann, Ph.D., clinical director, FitMatters Program, La Rabida Children's Hospital (Chicago, IL)
"I can't wait to share it with my teen clients who are trying to lose weight." Kerri Boutelle, Ph.D., adolescent weight and eating disorders expert
"This book offers hope and help to both children and parents." Ann S. Litt, M.S., R.D., nutritionist, Washington Redskins
This pioneering look...will inspire and motivate your entire family to embrace healthy habits.” Barbara Rolls, Ph.D., author "The Volumetrics Eating Plan"
"Engaging, authoritative, and above all hopeful" - Sharron Dalton, Ph.D, R.D., author, "Our Overwight Children and Associate Professor, New York University
Synopsis
Despite the alarming rise in teen obesity and the serious health problems associated with it, talking about weight loss with children is still often considered taboo. Many experts think it leads to further weight gain or triggers eating disorders. But when her son finally lost more than sixty pounds after years of struggle, the award-winning health journalist Anne Fletcher wondered whether other teens had made similar turnarounds and, if so, what role their families played. Using the approach that has made her previous books bestsellers, she conducted in-depth surveys and interviews with more than 100 young people across the United States and Canada who had lost as much as 100 pounds in a healthful way and maintained that loss.
Based on firsthand accounts from teens and their families and bolstered by the latest studies, Weight Loss Confidential shows that the problems teens confront when losing weight are quite different from those faced by adults. It reveals what strategies helped them lose excess pounds, which tactics can create a healthful food environment at home, and which ones backfire.
Weight Loss Confidential is the first book to go to the real experts on teen weight loss, teens themselves. Like Thin for Life, it contradicts conventional thinking and gives hope to millions of young people and their families.
Synopsis
The author of Thin for Life draws on firsthand accounts from teenagers and their families to describe the unique problems and issues confronting teenagers when trying to lose weight and offers a series of strategies designed to help teens lose excess pounds, create a healthful food environment at home, and more.
Synopsis
The only book to go to the real experts on how teens lose weight successfully: teens who have actually done it.
Using the approach that made her book Thin for Life an award-winning bestseller, Anne M. Fletcher interviewed and surveyed more than 100 teens who had lost weight - some as much as 100 pounds - as well as their parents. Many of these teens came from overweight familis and had been heavy since childhood. Yet they were able to turn things around and make important lifestyle changes.
How did they do it? What works? What doesn't? And what can families do to help?
In Weight Loss Confidential, you'll meet: -Taylor S., who lost 100 pounds when he was sixteen and has kept the weight off for about four years.
-Joelle T., who watched the scale climb beyond 200 pounds when she was in the eighth grade. She's lost 55 pounds.
-Robin S., thirteen, who weighed 170 pounds by the time she was nine and who has since slimmed down. "I have a lot more friends now and more energy," she says.
-Wes G., Fletcher's own son, who was inspired to lose 65 pounds after meeting another boy who had lost weight. That's when Fletcher realized that teens listen more readily to other teens than to adults.
Challenging conventional assumptions about teen weight loss, fletcher distills the results of the latest scientific studies and findings of the countless authorities in the field, weaving them together with her own conclusions. In so doing, she shows that there is no one-size-fits-all presccription for teen weight loss but a variety of strategies that make a difference.
With the number of overweight children and teens skyrocketing, Weight Loss Confidential offers solutions - healthy approaches that families can use for a lifetime.
Synopsis
As any parent knows, teens listen to teens -- more than to anyone else. Hailed by leading doctors, nutritionists, and journalists, Weight Loss Confidential is the only book to go to the real experts on teen weight loss: adolescents who have succeeded. Using the approach that made her book Thin for Life an award-winning bestseller, Anne M. Fletcher interviews more than one hundred teens who have lost weightsome as much as one hundred pounds -- to discover what works. Bolstered with the latest scientific research, Weight Loss Confidential challenges conventional assumptions and empowers teens and parents in the struggle against our number-one health problem today.
Inside Weight Loss Confidential:
9 myths about weight loss
Top 10 reasons for teen weight gain
Teens advice to parents on how to help
10 teen strategies for changing eating habits
6 tactics parents often resort to that make things worse -- and what to do instead
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About the Author
Anne M. Fletcher is a nationally known health and medical writer. Her best-selling book, Thin for Life: 10 Keys to Success from People Who Have Lost Weight and Kept It Off, with a foreword by Jane Brody (Houghton Mifflin, 1994), has sold more than 300,000 copies. Thin for Life won a National Health Information Award and was nominated for a Julia Child writing award. Fletcher's book Eating Thin for Life: Food Secrets and Recipes From People Who Have Lost Weight and Kept It Off won a National Health Information Award as well as the Beth Fonda Award for medical writing for a lay audience. Fletcher's articles on subjects ranging from osteoporosis to heart disease have appeared in Prevention, Redbook, Better Homes and Gardens, McCall's, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Cooking Light, Reader's Digest, Parenting, and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. In 1993 Fletcher received a William Harvey Award for medical writing. Previously, Fletcher was executive editor and chief writer of the Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter and a contributing editor for Prevention. She also taught nutrition and biochemistry for Pennsylvania State University and was an assistant director of the Frances Stern Nutrition Center at New England Medical Center Hospital in Boston. She counseled hundreds of people with nutrition-related medical problems at the New England Institute of Nutrition and Health. Fletcher has appeared on The View, The Today Show, Donahue, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Cable News Network, and The Larry King Radio Show.
Table of Contents
Foreword xv Introduction 1
1 Turning Things Around: Moving Beyond Weight Problems 7 2 Being Realistic: Finding a Just-Right Weight 33 3 Letting Teens Take the Lead: How Parents Help (and Dont Help) 51 4 Discovering What Works: Individualizing Weight Loss Strategies 72 5 Getting Movingand Having a Good Time 110 6 Eating to Keep It Off: The Teens 10 Keys to Success 132 7 Keeping Track: Developing a System of Checks and Balances 156 8 Tuning In: Putting Mind and Body Together 171 9 Staying Pumped: Remaining Motivated to Keep the Weight Off 181
Weight Programs Used by the Teens 193 Internet Resources for Teens and Parents 226 Web Sites Recommended by the Teens 232 Selected References 234 Index 243