There are many small ways we sabotage our health without realizing it. By recognizing these bad habits and developing good ones through small changes, we can see big results. Using her proven six-week-plan format, Leslie teaches readers how to eat healthier and smarter one habit at a time. Because we are all created differently, a quick quiz about your current eating habits will help you customize Leslie's plan to your own needs and lifestyle. Each week you will learn a different habit with numerous tips on how to apply it effectively, including:
- Intentional eating-how to improve your enjoyment of food
- Breakfast-why it really is the most important meal of the day
- Portion control-recognizing what a normal serving size looks like
- Slow eating-food choices that are sure to fire up your metabolism
- Snacking-are you a traditionalist or a grazer?
- Restaurant dining-six strategies that will guarantee healthier meals out
You'll also learn about special focus foods that have remarkable abilities to help you lose weight and get healthy without dieting. You'll discover smart and tasty ways to incorporate these foods into your diet, along with an extensive section of quick and easy recipes for delicious meals and snacks. At the end of each week, a progress report will help you to apply the habit of the week, track your improvement, and record the eating habits you choose to adopt along the way. Before you know it, you'll be looking better, feeling healthier, and eating smarter!
This perky little lesson offers a six-week diet and exercise program that provides a workable framework for implementing better eating and exercise habits. Avoiding hype and na•ve optimism, the author does a fabulous job of selling the ideas of conscious eating, conscious living, and continuous improvement in all areas of life. She makes her ideas sound attainable by affirming the primordial urge we have to become more fully functional people. More than anything, her plan is flexible, respectful of individual differences, and forgiving. You can try and fail with various parts of this plan without feeling like a failure. The enhanced CD contains a printable plan for busting old habits and a nice selection of recipes. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
Fitness shouldn't be intimidating," is Leslie's Sansone's philosophy for weight-loss and exercise programs. It is the foundations of what has become the fastest growing indoor fitness program in the country: In-Home Walking.
Leslie Sansone has always been concerned with fitness. Seeing people struggle and fail on fad diets and exercise regimens. Leslie was determined to make exercise accessible to all. Part of her formula included taking the intimidation away from exercise. That's where the idea of In-Home Walking came in. If she could remove all of the factors that usually turn people off from maintaining a regular exercise program - expensive gym memberships, other gym-goers, strenuous exercise that leads to burnout, fancy work-out clothes, expensive exercise equipment - she knew that she could develop a program that people could stick with.
Leslie developed In-Home Walking, an idea that became the fastest-growing indoor fitness program in the country. 2004 will be Leslie's 25th year in the fitness industry, she is the creator of the #1 best-selling hugely popular Walk Away the Pounds. Leslie has more than 60 In-Home Walking videos and accessory products, and is the owner of Studio Fitness in New Castle, Pennsylvania.
Leslie has coordinated fitness programs for public schools and hospital-based weight-loss programs, and has held walks for the American Heart Association, Muscular Dystrophy Association, American Cancer Society, and Multiple Sclerosis, among many other organizations. Leslie is certified by six prestigious fitness organizations including the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the Cooper Institute: Group Exercise Leader. She has also served on the Leadership Council for IDEA International Fitness Professionals. Leslie was the first-ever guest on QVC to promote her own product. Leslie's In-Home Walking and Walk Away the Pounds videos continue to be the most successful walking program on QVC and the top-selling fitness videos in retail outlets as charted by Video Scan.
Leslie maintains high-profile relationship with Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers, and was recently appointed contributing editor to Woman's Day Magazine with a regular column on the benefits of walking. She was also a spokesperson for Easy Spirit.
Having traveled the world and led millions of people in their quest for fitness and health, Leslie says her original mission has remained the same. "I would speak to the person who is having trouble with motivation and hasn't exercised in years than the fitness buff looking for the latest workout trend."
Leslie is the proud mother of three children, Andrew, Marie Ellena, and Joseph.
