Refuse to Regain 33 Tough Rules to Maintain the Body You've Earned [Paperback]

Diets work, but what good are they if the weight returns? Statistics show that 80 to 90 percent of dieters regain every lost pound. This fact represents the largest and least addressed problem in obesity management. The recidivism of dieters fuels a $30 billion weight-loss industry, an industry that would shrink like Al Roker's waistline if the newly-thin could only make weight loss stick. But here is the problem: The skills needed to maintain a new, smaller body size are not obvious or intuitive; they must be taught. Inexplicably, books that deal successfully with ways to prevent regain have gone unwritten. Refuse to Regain, by longtime weight-management authority Barbara Berkeley, MD, fills this void. Berkeley, former medical director for the Optifast program and founder of Weight Management Partners, is a board-certified internist. She continues to have close ties to Novartis Medical Nutrition (recently acquired by Nestle), producer of the weight-loss supplement Optifast, which has 300 weight-loss centers nationwide.

'The best move would be to stop making excuses for your weight, ' says Barbara Berkeley, MD, author of Refuse to Regain! 'That's the first step to getting healthy, ' she says. Her other weight-loss strategies will help take you the rest of the way. -- Women's Health Magazine

Barbara Berkeley, a former medical director for the Optifast(R) weight-loss program and founder of Weight Management Partners, is a board-certified internist. For 20 years she has devoted her practice solely to medical treatment of obese patients, and in Refuse to Regain! share her strategies.