Christmas Gift Ideas – 10 Diet and Weight Loss Books
You cannot go far wrong with a good book at Christmas. Diet and weight loss books contain valuable information on healthy eating as well as recipes, and often meal plans. All good to have close at hand in the New Year! Here are our top 10 diet and weight loss books for Christmas 2009:
- Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide – There is so much conflicting information these days about what to eat and what not to eat, that it is hard to know who to believe. This book sets most things straight, helping you to understand more about food labels, what the worse foods are and how to shop sensibly and healthily too.
- Flat Belly Diet! Cookbook. Simple guide to preparing meals that will help you to lose stomach fat. Exercise is essential too, but this book will teach you to eat your way lean.
- Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets – This book is from The Biggest Lower trainer Jillian Michaels. It teaches how to maximise energy and reduce wasted calories and how to eat the right foods to help burn fat.
- Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200: 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories – The title says it all, 200 recipes to produce low calorie meals and snacks. Makes calorie counting easier.
- Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet – This book helps you to understand your blood type so that you can eat the right foods to ensure that you are healthy and do not put on weight, and stay healthy.
- Skinny Bitch. This one provides some good information, although at times is a little aggressive in its attitude to other diet styles. Nevertheless, a good read and full of useful information.
- The Mediterranean Prescription: Meal Plans – Essential reading for anyone wanting to adopt the Mediterranean Diet, which has been shown to help reduce cancer, heart disease and obesity.
- The Gabriel Method: The Revolutionary DIET-FREE Way to Totally Transform Your Body – This book is written by Jon Gabriel, it is really his journey on the road to health and fitness. It helps to explain why we get fat, and why it is not really our fault. It teaches how to trick your body into wanting to lose weight.
- Green Smoothie Revolution – We love green smoothies (see our own green smoothie recipes) but here is a book devoted to them.
- The Eat-Clean Diet: Fast Fat-Loss that lasts Forever! This is really Tosca Reno’s story of how she lost 60 pounds by eating healthy food. Inspirational because it is so simple.
Recommended Reading
- South Beach Diet
- Proactol – Clinically Proven Fat Binder
- AOL Health
- Smart For Life – Lose weight with the Cookie Diet
- Tesco eDiets (UK)

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