A leading dietitian's unique journey from overweight to permanent weight control, naturally. Join in! Being thin and healthy, eating what you like yet liking yourself, and controlling your weight without fixating on it for the rest of your life are not about natural gifts, but about the gift of knowing how. Susan Burke March is so different, because she inspires us by her personal weight control triumph as well as her professional expertise. An exciting easy-to-follow way of living that puts you in control of your weight and health. With Susan's Making Weight Control Second Nature, you can be that person, who makes deliberate choices-one day at a time, one meal at a time, one food at a time, and one walk at a time. Here's to your living thin, naturally.
A leading dietitian's unique journey from overweight to permanent weight control, naturally. Join in! Being thin and healthy, eating what you like yet liking yourself, and controlling your weight without fixating on it for the rest of your life are not about natural gifts, but about the gift of knowing how. Susan Burke March is so different, because she inspires us by her personal weight control triumph as well as her professional expertise. An exciting easy-to-follow way of living that puts you in control of your weight and health. With Susan's Making Weight Control Second Nature, you can be that person, who makes deliberate choices-one day at a time, one meal at a time, one food at a time, and one walk at a time. Here's to your living thin, naturally.
Name: Susan Burke March
Website: http://www.susanburkemarch.com
Susan is a registered and licensed dietitian and certified diabetes educator who has influenced the dietary health and well being of consumers worldwide, due in large part to her multi-year and faceted tenure with e-Health leader eDiets.com. As Vice President of Nutrition Services and Chief Nutritionist, she managed the creation and administration of the technology-enabled nutritional and wellness components of eDiets' products, programs and services.
Susan is the author of "Making Weight Control Second Nature: Living Thin Naturally" (Paperback, $26.95, ISBN 9781932421194), eDiets Pocket Guide of Dieting & Weight Loss, eDiets Dining Out Guide, as well a contributing author for the eDiets Weight Loss Solutions magazine and more than 400 nutrition and diet-related articles that have appeared in leading media outlets worldwide.
With advanced certificates in adult and adolescent and pediatric obesity, Susan has also served as Chief Clinical Nutrition Manager at Mt. Sinai Hospital of Queens, New York. She is a media spokesperson for the Florida Dietetic Association and has recently completed a two-year elected position as Secretary for the Weight Management Dietetic Practice Group, a professional practice group of the American Dietetic Association, and serves as External Relations Assistant Director.
Susan now devotes her efforts to public speaking, counseling individuals, and writing motivational and informative books and articles dedicated to helping people learn how to improve their health and accomplish their weight goals.
Foreword 9
Introduction 13
My Transformation From Naturally Thin to Compulsively Overweight 19
The ‘New Normal’ Growing Up in an Overweight World 25
Food Is Not the Enemy: Changing the Focus from Food to Behaviors 41
Motivation Doesn’t Just Happen: How I Turned Excuses into Opportunities 57
Keep Moving the Goal Post: Why Change is a Naturally Good Thing 79
My Favorite Diet—is No Diet At All: How All Diets Work—and All Diets Fail 109
Your Naturally Thin Diet: Make Smart Eating Second Nature 131
Simple Steps to Natural Fitness: Cement the Path to Permanent Weight Loss by Making Activity Second Nature 193
Dining Out Can Keep You Fat: Dine Out as a Naturally Thin Person 227
Help is Here: Programs and Resources to Help You Get Started and Stay Focused 291
Now You! Your Second Nature You 303
84 Tips for Living Thin Naturally: Living, Eating, Moving 309
References 319
Index 326
Acknowledgments