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Neither this diet program nor any other diet program should be followed without first consulting a health care professional. If you have any special conditions requiring attention, you should consult with your health care professional regularly regarding possible modification of the program contained in this book.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Young, Lisa R., author.
Title: Finally full, finally slim : 30 days to permanent weight loss one portion at a time / Lisa R. Young, PhD, RDN.
Other titles: Portion teller plan.
Description: First edition. | Nashville : Center Street, 2019. | Revision of: Portion teller plan / Lisa R. Young. c2005. 1st pbk. ed. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018029927| ISBN 9781478993025 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781549199868 (audio download) | ISBN 9781478993018 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Weight loss. | Reducing diets. | Food portions. | Nutrition.
Classification: LCC RM222.2.Y683 2019 | DDC 613.2/5dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018029927
ISBNs: 978-1-4789-9302-5 (hardcover), 978-1-4789-9301-8 (ebook)
E3-20181207-JV-NF-ORI
In FINALLY FULL, FINALLY SLIM, Lisa Young gives portion control the respect it deserves, while respecting the challenges of getting portions right without going hungry. Providing a comprehensive array of empowering strategies to make your diet better and turn the right amount of food into enough, this book is a feast of informationperfectly spiced with both humor and wisdom.
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, founder of True Health Initiative, author of The Truth about Food
FINALLY FULL, FINALLY SLIM tackles one of the biggest challenges to reaching and keeping a healthy weightportion sizes. The supersizing of restaurant meals, sodas, burgers, fries, cookies, shakes, candy, and more has caused a national epidemic of portion distortion. Youngs book teaches people how to normal-size their meals and, eventually, their bodies.
Margo G. Wootan, DSc, vice president for nutrition, Center for Science in the Public Interest
Dr. Young broke new ground with readers with her first book, The Portion Teller. Understanding how portion sizes can easily be underestimated and derail your diet is critical to healthy eating and weight control. In her new book, Dr. Young teaches readers how portion control, mindful eating, and other life patterns can positively and permanently impact eating behaviors. Recommendations based on time-tested research help readers to actively make adjustments to their eating habits for a healthier lifestyle.
Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, editor of DietDetective.com and executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center
Living a slim life is not about diet. Its about smart, educated enjoyment of food and the healthy lifestyle that goes with it. Lisas advice and strategies make it easy to start and stay on a path to living a slim life.
Sarah Hiner, CEO, Bottom Line Inc., publishers of Bottom Line/Personal, Bottom Line/Health, BottomLineInc.com
Dr. Lisa Youngs new book, FINALLY FULL, FINALLY SLIM, tackles THE biggest issue in weight loss: portion control. Her science-based approach offers readers realistic ways to get control of their portion sizes, without feeling deprived. If you struggle to lose weight, this book is for you.
Nicole Avena, PhD, author of What to Eat When Youre Pregnant
When it comes to controlling your portions to manage your weight, Lisa Young really knows her stuff! Shell show you how to limit your portions of certain foods while letting loose with others (like fruits and veggies), while maintaining a healthy diet. This way, you can enjoy the foods you like and get (or stay) slimwithout feeling deprived. Its a smart and simple approach that works for life!
Stacey Colino, award-winning health writer
FINALLY FULL, FINALLY SLIM is smart, accessible, and a good readthree essentials if youre looking to make a change in your life.
Joe Dziemianowicz, NY Daily News
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To Mom and Dad, for teaching me to never give up and that anything worth having in life is worth fighting for
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day, youre off it.
Jackie Gleason
As a nutritionist, I am often asked, Whats the best way to lose weight? People share with me the super restrictive (and often scary) plans theyve tried or radical approaches theyve heard about. When I mention portion control, they say, Yes, you are rightportion sizes are too big, but its difficult to eat less. Its easier to just omit an entire food group. Yet they still wonder how to lose weight and keep it off.
Many diet plans out there are only temporary fixes that leave us struggling with weight and obsessing about food. Portion control is different. You dont have to cut out any food groups. You just have to right-size your portions.
In Finally Full, Finally Slim, I teach you how to enjoy food as nature intendedby consuming healthy portions of foods from all of the food groups. I dont ask you to banish nutritious foods from your table or buy miracle ingredients. (There really are none!) You dont have to eat anything you dont like. You can eat three meals a day, with snacks in between. Youll possibly be eating more than you do now. Youll learn which foods you can pile on your plate (and still lose weight) and discover that any food can be eaten in the right portions. And you never have to be hungry. Finally Full, Finally Slim is about losing weight while feeling fulland not even realizing youre on a diet. Its about understanding the power behind portion control.