FULL A Life Without Dieting

The author’s natural enthusiasm and gee-whiz delivery give a boost to this exceptional guide to self-affirming weight management. His youthful, compassionate speaking style will motivate listeners to break free from daily obsessing about weight and self-loathing about lack of progress. A bariatric surgeon, he presents careful research on how to harness our body’s natural cycles of hunger, satiation, and pleasure to adopt a healthy relationship with food. He explains how people’s issues with authority and social disapproval can keep them from being kinder to themselves when doing something as emotionally exhausting as losing weight. Instead of calorie counting or rigid diet programs, he offers something more powerful—the humane strategies and encouragement we need to choose the best life possible. T.W. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2011]