Self Care before Sit Ups - online Guidebook
By Amy Lundberg

This is a woman’s guide to taking failure and frustration out of fitness.  Self Care Before Sit-Ups takes you through hands-on, practical exercises to help you learn and utilize over 10 life-changing strategies that range from discovering how your core values naturally ignite motivation to creating a fitness program that’s destined for long-term success.

Am I Hungry?
By Michelle May
What To Do When Diets Don’t Work

Am I Hungry? What To Do When Diets Don’t Work has been called “the antidote to ineffective dieting.” Am I Hungry? delves far beyond the obvious advice of eat less, exercise more. The “Ah Ha!” worthy solutions will enlighten and inspire you to make meaningful and lasting changes in the way you manage your weight.  This beautifully simple system uses the innovative Eating Cycle to re-establish hunger as your primary cue for eating, helps you balance eating for enjoyment with eating for health and discover joy in physical activity. Am I Hungry? will help you manage your weight and build a healthy, more fulfilling life. No dieting, no drugs, no deprivation.

• Rediscover simple, yet powerful tools for knowing when, what, and how much to eat
• Stop obsessing about food, eating, and your weight—and free yourself to live the fulfilling life you deserve
• Experience the pleasure of eating the foods you love without guilt
• Learn the truth about nutrition without confusing, arbitrary rules
• Never again exercise to earn food or punish yourself for eating
• Boost your metabolism and increase your energy and fitness painlessly
• Nourish your body, mind, and spirit to build optimal health, energy, and joy

Body Brilliance
By Alan Davidson
Mastering Your Five Vital Intelligences

This book is a warm, funny, encouraging, compassionate and deeply personal guide to waking your spirit fully in your body. It engages your “five essential intelligences”—physical, mental, emotional, moral and spiritual—and develops them fully. It provides powerful yet simple ways in which you can fully engage each level, by finding the wisdom that your body is trying to communicate with you—and then living that wisdom in powerful experience through your body. It teaches you to pay attention to your unique individual patterns, listening deeply to your body’s messages.

Body Brilliance is also full of practical exercises to awaken each level, and to encourage you to find your personal levels of peak expression in that domain. When you wake up fully in your body, and harmonize all five layers, you discover a result that is more than the sum of the parts; you fall deeply in love with being alive, and infatuated with being fully present in your life.

Big Fat Greek Diet
By Dr. Nick Yphantides

Do you struggle with your weight?  Dr. Nick Yphantides can relate.  Dr. Nick had often winked at his overweight patients as he doled out advice – “Do as I say, not as I do.”  But after being diagnosed with cancer, coming face to face with his own mortality, he embarked on a lifestyle-changing adventure that shed 270 pounds.

Since personal fitness cannot be achieved with a one-size-fits-all mentality, My Big Fat Greek Diet is a welcome antidote to boring diet plans and drastic bypass surgeries.  Through his own incredible experiences and hands-on expertise, Dr. Nick has developed his powerful Seven Pillars of Weight Loss and Maintenance, a game plan for attaining and maintaining God-given health.  Dr. Nick opens up his life with deep vulnerability, sharing the emotional pain and humiliation of being obese while giving you the inspiration and information needed to experience your own big fat Greek miracle.

Teenage Waistland
By Abby Ellin

A Former Fat Kid Weighs In on Living Large, Losing Weight, and How Parents Can (and Can't) Help
Abby Ellin, a journalist and former fat-camper whose parents' attempts to "save her" from fatness proved counterproductive, has had a lifelong interest in figuring out how they might have done it better, and an abiding compassion for overweight kids. In Teenage Waistland she shares the story of her own adolescent struggle with food and weight, and journeys with hope, skepticism, and humor through the landscape of today's diet culture.

Wake up Inspired
By Marian Baker

A former six-figure-income executive, Marian Baker brings the best of mind-body-spirit wholeness to professionals without too much woo-woo. She sets the stage in Section One, laying the foundation with an opening discussion of “Waking Up to a New Story”.  The metaphor at the heart of the book and Section Two is “Your Inspired Fitness Trail.” It’s a path to achieve integration, getting stronger with each repetition. While Baker’s path isn’t about physical fitness, it doesn’t ignore the body. Anyone seeking more vital and meaningful life and work, especially women experiencing dramatic life changes, will want to consider Wake Up Inspired as they take a spin along Baker’s Inspired Fitness Trail.

Soul-Full Eating
By Maureen Whitehouse

There are so many obvious ways we can miss the opportunity to live a supremely fulfilling life.  But what surprises most people is that fulfillment can be found through eating… that is, when you are choosing foods which resonate with your Soul!  In her provocative book, Maureen Whitehouse artfully combines her knowledge as an expert in nutrition and spirituality to guide you along a delicious and rejuvenating Soul-satisfying path.  It’s one based on the love of food that anyone – no matter what their faith, religion or personal philosophy – can follow.

Fries, Thighs, and Lies
By Deborah Arneson, BS, MS, LCN

“In this lively, contemporary book aimed squarely at women, author and clinical nutritionist Deborah Arneson fixes her sights on fat and the lies surrounding it.  Fries, Lies, and Thighs is written to demystify what Arneson refers to as myth-information, from the food pyramid to the wrongheaded low-carb, high-protein craze, or the amount of water you should drink.  There’s no technical jargon to wrestle down here, and gone are any traces of new, confusing-to-learn terms.  What’s left are easy-to-access, easily understood information, insights, hints and tips to empower the reader in her battle against the bulge.”

Thyroid For Dummies
By Dr. Rubin

Research has indicated that thyroid disease affects more than 200 million people worldwide. With Thyroid For Dummies, you can

• Explore how the thyroid dysfunction influences your mood.
• Determine the size, shape, and content of your thyroid gland.
• Understand what's happening when your thyroid works overtime or slacks off.
• Discover whether you're at risk.
• Look at the latest developments in diagnosis and treatment.
• Clarify the thyroid-weight connection.
• Deal with thyroid conditions in children.

About half (perhaps even more) of all the people with thyroid disorders are undiagnosed. Thyroid For Dummies can help you separate fact from fiction about thyroid function, testing, and treatment. With this reader-friendly guide, you're bound to build appreciation for the small-scale gland that's a major contributor to your overall physical and mental health.

The First Year Type 2 Diabetes- An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
By Gretchen Becker

Gretchen Becker was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1996.  Since then she has educated herself on every aspect of this chronic condition.  Now, as a "patient-expert," she guides all those newly diagnosed step-by-step through their first year with diabetes.  In this unique format, this book walks you through everything you need to learn and do each day of your first week after diagnosis, each subsequent week of the first month, and each subsequent month of the crucial first year.

By providing reliable, useful, empathetic, and up-to-date information you need to know when you most need to know it, The First Year-Type 2 Diabetes will be an indispensable book for everyone adjusting to life with diabetes.

Living Free- Simple and Easy Step to Manage and Prevent Diabetes
By Lisa Atkinson, Alice Greene, and Ann Seelye

No matter at what point you are in dealing with diabetes, the Living Free audio course will provide you the guidance and necessary strategies for taking positive steps to regain a sense of control, belief in yourself and freedom to live the life you deserve.

In Living Free, host Nancy Martin will be joined by the creators of Living Free, popular fitness, health and diabetes experts, Alice Greene, Ann Seelye and Lisa Atkinson.

Together they will provide you with a simple and easy to follow, life changing approach for managing and preventing diabetes. Separating fact from fiction, you’ll uncover the truth about diabetes on this unique, one of a kind audio course.

Hormonal Balance- Understanding Hormones, Weight, and Your Metabolism
By Dr. Scott Isaacs with Todd Leopold

Hormonal Balance suggests that hormones play a pivotal role in weight control, a role that physicians may have undervalued or overlooked.  It explains how to understand the symptoms of hormonal imbalance and how to find the changes in diet and or other remedies that can make a difference.  This book also teaches simple principles that enable readers to balance their hormones, allowing them to lose weight in many cases and keep the weight off for good.  Without hormonal balance, weight loss is inevitably temporary.

Balancing Hormones Naturally
By Kate Neil and Patrick Holford

A comprehensive, easy to understand approach to balancing hormones naturally. This book will help you understand the pros and cons of the contraceptive pill, HRT and natural hormone alternatives. Most importantly the book focuses on what changes you can make in your diet and lifestyle to optimise your hormonal balance and how nutritional supplements might help. The original edition of this book was among the first publications to bring to the publics attention the potential impact of environmental chemicals (xenoestrogens)on the health and well-being not only of women but also on the health of men, children and the development of the baby in the womb. There is much that women can do to avoid hormonal blues whether on a monthly basis, after pregnancy or pre and post menopausally. Applying several of the simple measures explained in this book could help you achieve hormonal balance.

Hormone Balance - Women's Guide to Restoring Health and Vitality
By Carolyn Dean MD

MOOD SWINGS.  WEIGHT GAIN.  FATIGUE.  And that's just on your good days.  Your hormones are out of whack-and you don't know what to do next.  With Hormone Balance as your guide, you'll call on both traditional and alternative solutions to get you off that hormonal rollercoaster for good.

No Matter what your age or your issues, medical authority and naturopath Dr. Carolyn Dean has a plan for you-one that will help you balance your hormones and achieve greater overall health.  Written in her engaging, easy-to-understand style, Hormone Balance is chock-full of information on all aspects of a woman's body.

Tired of Being Tired-Rescue-Repair-Rejuvenate
By Jesse Hanley MD

Most of us feel that loss of energy, weight gain, and decreases in health and vitality are inevitable consequences of our hectic modern life-style.  NOT SO, according to anti-aging pioneer Jesse Hanley, MD.  The stress, exhaustion, weight gain and overall decrease in health that both women and men experience is called ADRENAL BURNOUT—the all too frequent result of the drive that pushes us to achieve.  The consequences of Adrenal Burnout include everything from fatigue, to uncontrollable weight gain, from irritability to severe depression, from constant colds to life-threatening illnesses.   In her break through book, TIRED OF BEING TIRED, Dr. Jesse Hanley gives us the information, support and expert medical advice we need to get ourselves back on track.  

"TIRED OF BEING TIRED is loaded with accurate, practical, and helpful information guaranteed to help restore your energy so you can live your life as fully as possible."      
--Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

"I’ve been very lucky to be a patient of Dr. Jesse Hanley.  I am so happy that now everyone will be able to benefit from her healing and medical wisdom.  TIRED OF BEING TIRED is indispensable to anyone, like me, with a busy life!”
--Olivia Newton-John

Syndrome X- The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance
By Melissa Diane Smith, Jack Challem & Burton Berkson

Syndrome X. The name may sound unfamiliar but the prediabetic condition is quite common, affecting one-third of the American population, usually without their awareness. Syndrome X is a cluster of familiar heart-disease risk factors: abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, unhealthy cholesterol ratios (especially low HDL cholesterol), high triglycerides, and sometimes elevated blood sugar levels. The syndrome develops over time from our high-carbohydrate modern diet but can be prevented and reversed with a change in diet and proper use of nutritional supplements. The Syndrome X book tells all about the condition and what you can do to defy its development and thereby protect yourself from degenerative diseases related to it, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, some types of cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About: Premenopause
Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty
By Jesse Hanley MD

You could be experiencing unexplained weight gain, fatigue, mood swings, loss of libido, fibroids, tender or lumpy breasts, endometriosis, PMS, infertility, memory loss, migraines, very heavy or light periods, cold hands and feet, or a combination of these symptoms.  You may have been told they're "nothing", or stress, or even menopause - and offered surgery, antidepressants, or prescription hormones.  According to Dr. Hanley, the startling truth is that you may be suffering from premenopause syndrome-and there are simple, safe solutions.    Dr. Hanley brings you a revolutionary nonprescription "Balance Program" to restore your gynecological health, energy, and sex drive-and even slow the aging process before menopause, and beyond.

The Weight Loss God's Way Success System
By Dr. Frank Smoot

A book about the combined power of your body, mind, and spirit -- God's three greatest gifts to you!  Instead of merely "attacking symptoms" (like all diet / exercise based programs do), Weight Loss God's Way solves your weight problem once and for all -- at its root.

Qigong For Staying Young- A Simple 20 Minute Workout To Cultivate Your Vital Energy

by Shoshanna Katzman

Gentle movements from the ancient Chinese art of self-healing and fitness, to maintain youthful skin, eyes, and hair; improve sexual vitality; prevent arthritis, strengthen bones; and nurture your spirit. Qigong is the art of cultivating your vital energy through gentle movements and techniques that incorporate breath, sound, visualization, and self-massage. Qigong is about not only physical fitness, but also internal healing.

100 Days of Weight Loss
by Linda Spangle

In spite of their good intentions, most people average just three to four weeks on a diet before they fall off the wagon. The reason? Real life gets in the way. Now there’s an easy but powerful way to change this pattern. 100 Days of Weight Loss provides simple mini-lessons that will keep dieters focused and committed to their diet plans for a minimum of three months or longer. Drawing from a wide range of behavioral and motivational techniques, this book provides an easy system for learning life coping skills that will bring lasting weight-loss success.

Life is Hard, Food is Easy
by Linda Spangle

Emotional eating is what happens when people use food to appease an emotional or psychological need rather than true physical hunger.  Emotional eating is one of the most common reasons people fair at losing or maintaining their weight.  This book shares the secrets to overcoming the struggle with emotional eating and addresses why you eat when you aren’t hungry; how to get more control over food; ways to manage emotions without reaching for food; and provides the steps to unlinking food and emotions.

Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program that Works
By Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch

Make peace with food and free yourself from chronic dieting forever.  Intuitive Eating focuses on nurturing your body rather than starving it and encourages natural weight loss.  The book teaches you how to reject the diet mentality, how eating personalities define eating difficulties, and how to honor hunger and feel fullness.  It teaches a simple way to make positive food choices and listen to what the body needs.  It offers a safe and effective method for recovery from dieting and eating disorders. 

Eating on the Run
By Evelyn Tribole

Eat well despite your hectic schedule.  Eating on the Run provides tasty snack and meal choices to help you avoid unwanted pounds and boost your energy.  You’ll find options for managing weight yet still eating great; strategies for healthy, speedy grocery shopping; tips to help you eat right when away from home; advice on today’s most popular diets; and nutritional data on common snacks and foods.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Glycemic Index Weight
by Lucy Beale

This guide provides personal weight loss plans based on nutritious and delicious foods.  Understand the glycemic index and how to balance proteins, carbohydrates and fats to create meals that improve your health and well-being.  Also learn diet plans to avoid and foods that help with weight loss, greater energy and better health.  This a perfect tool for diabetics looking for great tasting foods.

Be Thin in Body, Mind & Spirit – CDs
by Lucy Beale

Learn simply, easy and do-able action steps in this CD to attain peak performance with high energy, increase wellness and stamina, get rid of low energy and slow metabolism, eat foods that best support your DNA, boost your metabolism naturally, manage anxiety and cortisol levels, and exercise with ease for stamina, strength and stress reduction.

You Time: How to care for you, while you care for them
by Aaia Sharif-Clark

You Time is designed to help women who care for children and aging parents care for themselves.  As women juggle their personal and professional demands, there’s often little time to care for themselves.  The book offers women fourteen (14) practical ways to improve their lives by renewing their spirit.