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Provides a guide to yoga for people of any size, including information about equipment, postures, and daily routines.

"Is it possible to eat anything you want, five days a week, and become slimmer and healthier as a result? Simple answer: yes. You just limit your calorie intake for two nonconsecutive days each week to 500 calories for women, 600 for men. You'll lose weight quickly and effortlessly, and the joy of the FastDiet is that the side effects are all welcome. The science is easy. Intermittent fasting takes your body out of go-go mode and puts it into survival...

The human body has the amazing ability to switch which fuels it uses for energy based on what fuel is available at the time--researchers call this metabolic flexibility. Bodies that are able to make this switch can burn sugars, proteins, and other food nutrients when available, and then switch to burning the body's fat storage or fatty acids when food calories are not available. It turns out that losing weight is not just about burning calories, it's...

"Jorge Cruise unleashes his new fitness and weight-loss series with one simple piece of advice: Work smarter, not harder. With his revolutionary 5-Minute Fitness Formula and 6-Day Challenge, he shatters the conventional wisdom that rapid, lasting weight loss can only be achieved through hours and hours in the gym, day after day. In Inches Off! Your Tummy, Jorge unveils the most effective exercise formula to optimize belly-fat burn all day--using compound...

Which is why the calories you eat should only be the most delicious and nutritious! With over a hundred recipes ready in under thirty minutes, The Fat Chance Cookbook gives us soul-sustaining food that will help you lose weight, get healthy, and really enjoy eating. With its great advice on stocking the pantry and easy ways to entertain, if s the essential cookbook for the whole family. Book jacket.

Popular Blogger Audrey Johns Lost 150 Pounds in 11 Months by Eating all the Foods She Loved. Now She Shares Her Secrets To Help You Lose Weight, Too! At 275 pounds, Audrey Johns was unhealthy and unhappy-until the day she vowed to give up the "fake food"-frozen "diet" meals, low-cal sodas, quick-to-make boxed foods-and taught herself to cook her favorites from scratch. In less than a year, Audrey mastered the kitchen and lost more than 150 pounds...

"From Yale-educated truck driver and fitness guru Siphiwe Baleka, a revolutionary metabolism-spiking program for anyone who feels they don't have enough time, equipment, or money to get in shape and lose those extra pounds. When Siphiwe Baleka, who had once been a NCAA Division I athlete, began truck driving in 2008, his whole lifestyle changed. Within weeks his metabolism slowed drastically and he gained ten percent of his body weight. He knew he...