Yes You Can: The Achievable Diet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478207474)

A leading health and wellness expert, author Diana Le Dean is a specialist in weight loss counseling who has worked with private clients around the world, including many models and celebrities. She also founded Counseling on the Move, an innovative weight loss program that integrated traditional counseling and power walking on the treadmill. She is a former professional roller skater and a consultant for the World Champion Team in Melbourne. Qualified as a master trainer and counselor of nutrition and sports performance, Le Dean also is a keen student of psychology and has obtained a master's cqualifications in neurolinguistic programming . She is currently working on her second book, Italy Lite in collaboration with Dr. Lapsys and Italian food critic, Marco Lombardi. The book presents lighter, healthier variations of traditional Italian recipes, as created by twenty of Italy's most respected chefs. Diets work. Really. There are dozens of legitimate formulas for losing weight. But which can end a toxic relationship with food, and supplant complicated, painful and unhealthy eating habits? Sadly, very few weight loss methods embrace the premise that we must change our minds before our waistlines. They don't recognize that terminating an abusive relationship food and weight is as difficult as ending a hurtful marriage. But this truth is the root of Diana Le Dean's road map for weight loss. And now she has written down the method that has worked for hundreds of her clients across the globe. Yes You Can: The Achievable Diet is a synthesis of many successes, and can lead all readers to their own weight loss success. Le Dean provides an indispensable list of healthy food choices. She requires the reader to savor their favorite foods once each week without guilt or feelings of failure. She provides the insights and actionable steps that will help break sugar addiction, gently turn away diet saboteurs and at last overcome personal demons responsible for endless weight fluctuations. As the reader absorbs key insights about food, Le Dean simultaneously provides gentle but direct reminders that exercise is indispensable to weight loss success. She encourages each individual to commit to the form of exercise they most enjoy while making small, but vital steps to incorporate more movement into every day. Her book fosters a positive mindset and provides the emotional support that will turn a futile chore into an incredible, wonderful journey that concludes with a slim body and well-deserved happiness. In a revitalized frame of mind, readers won't get lost in a torrent of rules, calorie counts and measurements. The Le Dean process of losing weight isn't complicated, unless a reader chooses to make it complicated. Yes, You Can is the product of exhaustive research and Le Dean's collaboration with experts in nutrition, fitness and psychology. It synthesizes the wisdom, hard lessons and insights of hundreds of her successful weight loss clients, as well as the secrets of those who stay slim simply by doing what they love. The diet she has constructed is healthy, delicious and sustainable. It includes a plan that adjusts your eating patterns, incorporates movement into your daily life and rewrites old, negative storylines that perpetuate the myth of the hapless diet victim. Le Deanis determined that every reader can emerge as the ultimate diet decision maker. All people can succeed if they have steps to follow, celebrate every accomplishment and build confidence with one small change at a time. This is the Le Dean method, and it's the essence of Yes You Can: The Achievable Diet.

Author: Diana Maree Le Dean
ISBN-10: 1478207477
ISBN-13: 9781478207474
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2013
Pages: 222
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2013