The Good Mood Diet Feel Great While You Lose Weight

by Kleiner, Susan M; Condor, Bob

• ISBN13: 9780821280041
• ISBN10: 082128004X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-02
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Summary

The first diet that will help you feel good while losing weight written by a respected nutritionist and author of the bestselling books Power Eating and Power Food. Dr. Kleiner is a leading nutrition authority on eating for strength who has put together a diet that has already been successfully tested in a Seattle weight-loss group and documented in a series by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. This book proves that you can choose healthy foods that both make you feel great and, when eaten according to the plan, help you lose weight. Most diets cause chemical changes in the brain that make the dieter feel depressed. The typical plan is often too low in calories. In THE GOOD MOOD DIET the participants eat feel-good foods with both ideal timing and ideal combinationsa balance of protein and fats to go with carbohydrates. Eating from a list of feel-good foods, including fish, flax seed and eggs, and eliminating feel-bad foods including refined sugar, helps dieters feel better and lose weight. However, sweets and alcohol are not tabooeating a bit of chocolate and drinking a glass of red wine a day is okay once youre two weeks into the diet.

Author Biography

Dr. Kleiner has written Power Eating-« (Human Kinetics, 2001), which is in its third edition and has sold 75,000 copies. She is also the author of Power Food (Rodale Press, 2006). She is the Nutrition Consultant to the Seattle Sonics and the Seattle Seahawks, the media spokesperson for Brita, and she's worked with Quaker Oats, General Nutrition Corporation, Clif Bar, and other corporations.
Bob Condor is the Living Well Columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He is a former syndicated health columnist for the Chicago Tribune, and has been nominated twice for a Pulitzer Prize. He's authored or co-authored six books. His articles appeared in Esquire, Self, Shape and TV Guide.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Feel Great While You Lose Weight	1	(12)
1 Feel-Great Foods	13	(25)
2 Feel-Bad Foods (It's a Short List)	38	(14)
3 The Good Mood Plan and Fourteen Days of Menus	52	(42)
4 The Good Mood Kitchen	94	(24)
5 The Good Mood Traveler	118	(12)
6 Good Mood X-Factors: Exercise and Rest	130	(13)
7 Good Mood Momentum: Keeping It Going	143	(9)
8 Good Mood Recipes: From Soup to Smoothies	152	(53)
Appendix A: Good Mood Food Groups	205	(8)
Appendix B: Good Mood Log	213	(4)
Appendix C: Added Sugar in Processed Foods	217	(4)
Chapter Notes	221	(10)
Acknowledgments	231	(4)
Index	235