Maximize Your Body Potential

Over 75,000 copies sold

Joyce D. Nash, Ph.D.

Here in one book are all of the tools that anyone can use to develop ways to be successful in managing body weight. Using selftests, checklists, and fill-in forms, Maximize Your Body Potential shows the reader how to make a commitment, how to set realistic goals, and how to design an individualized exercise and eating program. With the unique information that is developed by the reader and the basic material drawn from so many resources by Joyce Nash, it is possible for anyone to create a program that is unique and individual. Maximize Your Body Potential goes beyond diet and exercise to address behavior patterns and the psychological components that all have a role to play in successful weight loss and long-term weight management.

Additional features include:

• The latest nutrition information and guidelines for eating a healthy diet
• Behavior change techniques for improving eating and exercise habits
• Positive self-talk and thinking skills for achieving success
• Coping skills for managing stress and overcoming emotional and binge eating
• How to maintain success as a thinner person

Rave Reviews

"This book is absolutely fabulous...one of the most thorough books on body potential I've ever read. I'm very impressed by it." —Siri Khalsa, Nutrition News

Winner of the American Medical Writers Association Award.

Table of Contents

• Section 1
  The Context of Weight Management
• Section 2
  Understanding Weight Management Nutrition and Food Choices
• Section 3
  Changing Behavior Patterns and Eating Habits
• Section 4
  Physical Activity and Exercise
• Section 5
  Psychological Influences

Author

Joyce Nash, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and the author of five other health-related books. She won an American Medical Writers Association Award for Maximize Your Body Potential. Dr. Nash divides her time between writing and her clinical practice in San Francisco and Menlo Park, California.