Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less. A Formula for Weight Loss and Better Health.
Getting back to what’s true, real and good for you. At your own pace .

Diet books, diet centers, diet websites, diet gurus! They keep proliferating, and showing up in different shapes, colors and sizes. And that just makes it harder to figure out what will work—and work for you. So why one more? Well, for exactly that reason. It’s time to dial down the noise and get back to the real foundations of healthy weight and lifelong wellness: eating what’s good for you, combined with regular exercise. The Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less program will show you how with over 100 new recipes from Mollie!

Our message is not gimmicky or trendy, but then, neither is your health. It’s important. It deserves truth, not hype. So we set out to strip away all the conflicting information, misinformation, and pseudo-information and went back to bedrock: decades of solid research, fundamental truths about nutrition, and natural foods that have always been our best source of life and health.

Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less is based on the best available evidence from studies conducted around the world, including Walter’s 30 years of research about diet and long-term health. It is the result of ongoing, large-scale studies from which many other diets borrow when they need science to support their claims and assumptions. This book will take you right past all the flashy fads and half-truths, straight to what you need to know to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.

Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less is a set of principles, guidelines, menus, recipes and real-life tools, designed to give you just the essential, practical information you need, so that, through a series of gradual shifts—not radical changes—you will be eating better and better (and looking and feeling better, too) over time. We call these shifts the Nine Turning Points, and we’re going to show you exactly how to make them a part of your life.

The Body Score Principle

To make it all more manageable, we’ve devised a helpful tool, The Body Score. It distills the Nine Turning Points into a single, motivating number that you can use to track your progress. The premise is simple: Raise your score and you’ll lower your weight and improve your health over the course of your life.

As the saying goes, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day; teach him to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” This book is designed to do both: In addition to suggestions and prescriptions for what, when, and how to eat, you’ll gain solid knowledge and tools that will help you figure this out on your own. That means you’ll be equipped to achieve and maintain a healthy weight and fight chronic illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Along the way, your appreciation of good food will deepen—and this, in and of itself, will help reduce stress and increase enjoyment. It’s a win-win-win fishing lesson!

Most diets will work in the short term, just because they cause you to be more conscious about the food choices you make and the limits you set. But most are not designed for the long haul. They tend to be too monotonous, deprivation-driven, or extreme to stick with. And to the degree that many popular diets are all of the above, their effects tend to be easily reversed, leading many dieters into an agonizing loop of gaining, losing and gaining again—which is as bad for health as it is for morale.

To make matters worse, many diets can be socially isolating, making the dieter feel like the odd person out a good deal of the time. You need a plan you can live with—and we hope you will live for a very long time. So, we are pleased to present the Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less program, designed both to extend your life and become a central part of it.

What’s different about Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less is that it’s based on the idea of gradual shifts toward positive things. These shifts are easy to achieve, because they’re not so much about subtracting negatives as they are about adding more of what’s good and good for you. The more of these principles you adopt, the more you will find that they naturally nudge out what’s bad for you.

And these shifts are designed with the long term in mind, so this isn’t just a temporary plan for when you’re feeling bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and motivated. (We all have days like that…but then there’s the next day.) These are changes you can incorporate into your life—painlessly and sensibly and at your own pace. What we offer is nothing less than an opportunity for a lifelong positive adjustment to your relationship with food.

Along with science, there’s something equally important going on here: The Pleasure Principle. Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less is for people who love food. It doesn’t draw a line in the sand with you on one side and good food on the other. The truth is, you can eat beautifully for the rest of your life and be truly satisfied, even as you get healthier and slimmer. Win-win-win! Our guidelines and recipes show you the way to both health and real satisfaction. Instead of starving yourself, you’ll eat delicious meals and snacks that will leave you feeling pleasantly full and happy—and sustain your body with the kind of slow-burning fuel it runs best on.

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