YOU: Losing Weight: The Owner's Manual to Simple and Healthy Weight Loss

by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz

From the YOU doctors Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen, using information from their multimillion copy bestselling On a Diet, comes this small guide to losing weight and turning your life around in sixty days.There are no shortcuts when it comes to weight, and waist, loss—no twenty-pounds-in-three-days formulas, no way to get from size XXXL to size S by the end of the weekend. But you can diet smart, not hard. In Losing Weight, the doctors behind the bestselling On a Diet offer their best ninety-nine tips and strategies for getting your body into the shape and with the waist size that you’ve always wanted. Dieting can’t be hard if you are to succeed for a lifetime, and it should never feel like a sacrifice. With the right strategy, you can make the lifestyle changes that you need to lose weight and get healthy for good. In this handy waist-loss guide, Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz use their signature wit and wisdom to boil down the science and strategies for you. They keep their usual no-nonsense approach to explaining the human body to outline why crash dieting can’t work for the long term. More important, America’s Doctors share their favorite weight-loss super-foods recipes and provide exercise suggestions for how to get the most from any kind of workout. With food plans, shopping lists, and comprehensive advice on the science of waist loss, this pocket-size paperback is packed with everything dieters need to know about how to develop better habits that will keep pounds off for good.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

115 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 28, 2011

About the author

Michael F. Roizen, MD

Reviews

[Phyllis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Informative, but just okay. There are a lot of references to You on a Diet, which I also read. You: Losing Weight was a scaled down version of You: On a Diet.

[Pat Murray · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have read several Dieting books. This one was different because it was practical, not preachy and demanding. The authors give you proven tips that have worked for others and do not call for major lifestyle changes.

[May · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have issues with any book that devotes a whole chapter to explaining various types of exercises that one should do but not show any illustrations or pictures of how to do these exercises. While a plank maybe easy to do for some, having an illustration of plank would certainly help. I am a visual learner so I found this chapter to be very disappointing. Most of the advice listed in the book is pretty common sense if you have read enough of these weight loss books. I was hoping something new but this book seems to cover the same tired ground.

[Lesley Albers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although this book was only 115 pages I still feel like I learned a lot. This book is a simplified version of his YOU on a diet . The book was very big on explaining how your body works, in a scientific way, but I think that's a good thing. It also explains how diets don't work but being able to eat well can help you understand how your body works and why it does what it does is actually the way, and the key, to healthy weight management for yourself and it also has had good healthy recipes.
Was a quick read at only 115 pages but I still feel like I walked away with pertinent information!

[Claudia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Waaaay too much chemistry for me in the beginning. I never liked chemistry. Recipes are ones I'd rarely use...the exercise segments were interesting, especially the visual of the muscles we usually work when we work out, and why those are not the right ones.

I appreciated the fact they are promoting laifestyle changes. I know that's the only way to make lasting changes.

Now, if I'd only stop reading it and start following it.

[Shawna Troyer · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is apparently a fast, over-view version of "You: On a Diet". There were some good points, and the recipes actually sound good and do-able, unlike some diet books I've read. There are other weight loss books that I like better, but it could just be the condensed nature of this one that left me uninspired.

[Janel G. B. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I learned quite a bit from all the chemical and biological explanations at the beginning of the book. I enjoyed the humor and metaphors the authors used, as it helped this non-science minded individual to really understand what is going on inside my gut.

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good summary of YOU: on a diet, so you can quick reference.

[Fadhal Fatani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful .. An amazing starter for the world of eating healthy

I don't think it's for experts at all.

[Gia Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The YOU series of books are always interesting, well written and a good read.

[Marcia Barnes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great simple tips for results.

[Monica · Rating 4 out of 5]

At 115 pages this was a fast read full of common sense approaches to healthy lifestyle choices and recipes.

[Andrea Kostelić]

interesting advice from dr. Oz