Being able to lose weight (and lose thigh fat) is all about being empowered with knowledge. When you have complete knowledge about why and how a diet works, it’s a lot easier to stay motivated. Here are three of the best selling, best reviewed, most results-oriented weight loss books around. I personally chose the ones that are the most helpful for not just learning how to lose thigh fat, but how to live a more healthy, weight-balanced life, without the strain of constant diets. If the power to motivate yourself from within and take charge of your weight loss is something you’re interested in, consider the following books. They will change your life:

This first book is one of the only books I’ve ever seen to have nearly purely 5 star ratings, and for good reason:

This is likely the best reviewed diet book on Amazon.com, the world’s largest online book retailer, if that says anything. The flawless reviews are for good reason — this is one of the most compelling diet books in existence. The Full Plate Diet by Teresa Sherard, Stuart A. Seale, and Diana Fleming, is truly amazing, and worshipped by doctors and dieters alike.

Slim Down, Look Great, Be Healthy–The Full Plate Diet (TM) is based on eating foods our Moms said we should eat– fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans & peas, and nuts & seeds. You can eat meat–just follow Mom’s advice. No yo-yo–you can stay on this diet because you won’t feel deprived–won’t have to eat tiny portions. You get started by making small changes, not big ones. No hassle–you don’t have to count calories, you can shop at your regular grocery store, and spend less on food. Big health payoffs include heart health, cancer fighting, diabetes friendly, more energy, and long life. Lots of medical research backing The Full Plate Diet (TM).

Two actual customer reviews:

I was a really huge guy. Nearly 300 pounds. In the first 3 months I lost 45 lbs just following the concepts you can find in the book. I was so glad to see the recipes and concepts laid out for everyone to follow. I ended up coming down to 192 lbs. I really didn’t exercise at all. My weight has not gone back up. This IS the real deal.

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If it’s been more than 3 months since I visited with friends, they actually don’t recognize me until I actually tell them who I am.

This is an outstanding diet book because it is based on sound nutritional principles. I’m a retired family physician who has studied nutritional principles all my professional life. I’m usually skeptical of books with “Diet” in the title, because they usually promote some kind of fad diet, and I’ve seen dozens of such diets come and go. This book is different.

This next book suits “diet smarter, not harder” to a T – You can eat the same foods you love while losing dramatic amounts of weight. It’s especially great for people with busy, fast-paced lifestyles. This is one of the best reviewed diet books in existence, getting praise from people like Oprah, Ellen Degeneres, Dr. Oz, and much much more:

“Eat This, Not That” by David Zinczenko clears up tons of food misconceptions that you may have never considered. This book will help you out tons when out to eat, whether it be at a fast food place or a sit-down restaurant. The object of it is to let you know which menu items work and which don’t for losing weight. Here’s an example:
Did you know:

· Choosing Prime Rib over Baby Back Ribs at Outback will save you more than 2,000 calories?
· You can save nearly 500 calories and more than 20 grams of fat just by ordering your banana split at Dairy Queen instead of Baskin-Robbins?
· A Stouffer’s White Meat Chicken Pot Pie has as much saturated fat as 6 scoops of ice cream? (Choose our alternative and save more than 900 calories!)

Not everyone has the time and money to buy fancy diet foods and cook every meal from scratch. If you have busy lifestyle that requires you to eat out, this book is a treasure-trove of waist-saving secrets and substitutions to help you shed pounds without dramatically turning your eating habits upside down. It also has some great tips for the grocery store.

“Eat This, Not That! is an intriguing approach to thinking about how to educate America about making smart food choices.”
– Dr Mehmet Oz, on Oprah Radio

“Eat This, Not That! is gonna freak the weight right off of you.”
– Ellen DeGeneres

“These books are a great guide to carry around and have with you whenever you’re not sure what to choose.”
– Oprah Winfrey on Oprah

One of the best selling diet books ever, the updated 2010 edition is out in paperback. When was the last time 10 dollars changed your life? With how easy it is to integrate the advice and knowledge in this book into even the most busy lifestyles, it’s a total no-brainer.

This next book is about real food to live a healthy, well balanced life. It’s one of the best selling food-related books of all time, and goes well with any diet book for someone interested in living a slim and healthy lifestyle.

There’s a great chance you’ve already heard of In Defense Of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned about how unhealthy food in America has become. It shows you how to go back to eating “real” food in order to prevent obesity, disease, aging, and overall, live a longer more energetic life.

Here’s a great customer-written description that includes a few shocking facts of the book

What’s better for you — whole milk, 2% milk or skim?

Is a chicken labeled “free range” good enough to reassure you of its purity? How about “grass fed” beef?

What form of soy is best for you — soy milk or tofu?

About milk: I’ll bet most of you voted for reduced or non-fat. But if you’ll turn to page 153 of “In Defense of Food,” you’ll read that processors don’t make low-fat dairy products just by removing the fat. To restore the texture — to make the drink “milky” — they must add stuff, usually powdered milk. Did you know powdered milk contains oxidized cholesterol, said to be worse for your arteries than plain old cholesterol? And that removing the fat makes it harder for your body to absorb the fat-soluble vitamins that make milk a valuable food in the first place?

About chicken and beef: Readers of Pollan’s previous book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”, know that “free range” refers to the chicken’s access to grass, not whether it actually ventures out of its coop. And all cattle are “grass fed” until they get to the feedlot. The magic words for delightful beef are “grass finished” or “100% grass fed”.

And about soy…but I dare to hope I have your attention by now. And that you don’t want to be among the two-thirds of Americans who are overweight and the third of our citizens who are likely to develop type 2 diabetes before 2050. And maybe, while I have your eyes, you might be mightily agitated to learn that America spends $250 billion — that’s a quarter of the costs of the Iraq war — each year in diet-related health care costs. And that our health care professionals seem far more interested in building an industry to treat diet-related diseases than they do in preventing them. And that the punch line of this story is as sick as it is simple: preventing diet-related disease is easy.

In just 200 pages (and 22 pages of notes and sources), “In Defense of Food” gives you a guided tour of 20th century food science, a history of “nutritionism” in America and a snapshot of the marriage of government and the food industry. And then it steps up to the reason most readers will buy it — and if you care for your health and the health of your loved ones, this is a no-brainer one-click — and presents a commonsense shopping-and-eating guide.

If you are up on your Pollan and your Nina Planck and your Barbara Kingsolver, you know the major points of the “real food” movement. But if you’re new to this information or are disinclined to buy or read this book, let me lay Pollan’s argument out for you:

– High-fructose corn syrup is the devil’s brew. Do yourself a favor and remove it from your diet. (If you have kids, here’s a place to start: Heinz smartly offers an “organic” ketchup, made with sugar.)

– Avoid any food product that makes health claims — they mean it’s probably not really food.

– In a supermarket, don’t shop in the center aisles. Avoid anything that can’t rot, anything with an ingredient you can’t pronounce.

– “Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does.”

– “You are what you eat eats too.” Most cows end their days on a diet of corn, unsold candy, their pulverized brothers and sisters — yeah, you read that right — and a pharmacy’s worth of antibiotics. And they bestow that to you. Consider that the next time there’s a sale on sirloin.

– “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” By which Pollan means: Eat natural food, the kind your grandmother served (and not because she was so wise, but because the food industry had not yet learned that the big money was in processing, not harvesting). Use meat sparingly. Eat your greens, the leafier and more varied the better.

In short: Kiss the Western diet as we know it goodbye. Look to the cultures where people eat well and live long. Ignore the faddists and experts. Trust your gut. Literally.

In all this, Pollan insists that you have to save yourself. And he makes a good case why. Our government, he says, is so overwhelmed by the lobbying and marketing power of our processed food industry that the American diet is now 50% sugar in one form or another — calories that provide “virtually nothing but energy.” Our representatives are almost uniformly terrified to take on the food industry. And as for the medical profession, the key moment, Pollan writes, is when “doctors kick the fast-food franchises out of the hospital” — don’t hold your breath.

“You want to live, follow me.” I loved it when Schwarzenegger said that in “Terminator.” It matters much more when, in so many words, Michael Pollan delivers that same message in “In Defense of Food.”

If you’re currently using a gym, then all the better, but it isn’t necessary. Here are some easy yet effective maneuvers:

Weighted lunges are a powerful way to affect nearly all muscles of the lower body, including stabilizers, and can be done in nearly any room or hallway. Simple hold a dumbbell, or two equal-weighted objects in your hands, and take long steps forward, lowering yourself to the ground by bending at the knees. Your back knee should barely graze the floor. Simple take 10 steps at a time, and move up to 15 and 20 when you feel comfortable.

Doing jumping squats is another powerful way to tone up your thighs by activating your fast twitch muscle fibers. Simple keep your feet planeted slightly wider than shoulder width, come to the ground by bending at your knees, and then hop up. Make sure you keep your back tight and straight, don’t bend at the lower back.

In order to really let the toned look pop out, here are some basic diet principles to begin shedding the fat around your thighs and belly:

It’s vital to raise your metabolism, especially if you don’t want to drastically eat less and alter your day to day lifestyle. Here are some easy, manageable additions to your day:

1) Drink a cup of green tea after every meal. Not only does green tea boost metabolism to let you burn more calories naturally, but it’ll squash your appetite to help you avoid junk foods.

2) Have plenty of cold water between meals. The coldness of the water will cause your body to kick into metabolic high-gear to regulate your internal temperature. Like green tea, water will decrease your appetite.

3) Split your meals from 3 big ones to 6 smaller ones. Digestion uses a lot of calories, and as long as your innards are churning (as gross as that sounds), you’ll burn many more calories.

Losing weight permanently without suffering a sacrifice in lifestyle is all about knowledge and empowerment. Ditch gimmicky diet pills and plans forever to lose thigh fat at an alarmingly steady rate. If ten dollars and a few hours of reading can change your life, why wait?

Your body has something called “metabolism”. Odds are you’ve heard of it, but many people don’t understand exactly what it does. Metabolism, as far as dieting is concerned, is simply the measure of how many calories your body naturally burns at a resting rate to stay alive. This includes a ton of functions, everything from digestion to breathing to keeping your body warm, even powering brain activity. If you can tweak your habits slightly to trick your body into shoveling more caloric coal into the metabolic oven (if you will), you can lose thigh fat and other fat without even doing exercises or dieting too hard.

One way to trick your metabolism into raising up is to keep your digestive system working all day. Believe it or not, digestion uses up a ton of calories. Your digestive tract is basically entirely muscle, and to keep foods moving and churning requires a lot of energy. Instead of eating 3 big normal meals daily, split it up into 6 smaller ones. This way you’re going to be digesting all day, and will burn a signficant more amount just sitting around while your body does the work on the inside.

Another powerful and often overlooked way to lose thigh fat via metabolism is to drink plenty of cold water. Drinking water is a long-standing diet staple, but you really need to do it consistantly to see results. Having a big glass of COLD water after every meal will not only keep you fuller longer, but it’ll raise your metabolism. In order to regulate your internal temperature, your body has to burn calories. The cold water chills your insides, and you will definitely see a raise in calories burn to even things out.

Losing weight permanently without suffering a sacrifice in lifestyle is all about knowledge and empowerment. Ditch gimmicky diet pills and plans forever to lose thigh fat at an alarmingly steady rate. If ten dollars and a few hours of reading can change your life, why wait?

Metabolism is a confusing word, but it’s relatively simple when applied to dieting. Metabolism is simply your body’s way of turning the calories you eat into fuel to keep your body up and running. Everything is tied to metabolism – staying warm, digestion, thinking, movement, breathing, and regulating temperature to name a few. Now that we know what metabolism is, lets talk about some common mistakes that affect it.

Crash dieting is the fastest way to shut down your metabolism. When you go on extreme fad diets and drop calories sharply, your metabolism slows way down into survival mode. Although you’re barely eating anything (or doing something crazy like being on a liquid or fruit only diet), your metabolism is at a standstill. What this means is you not only won’t lose weight fast or effectively, but you’ll feel like you’re starving. Worse yet, the weight will come right back days after the crash diet is over.

If you keep your calories at a deficit, but something healthy (such as 1200-1800 calories, whatever works for you), you will lose weight steadily, healthily, and your metabolism will only slow down 5% instead of 90%. The most important part of weight loss is sustainability, and this is the way to do it.

Losing weight permanently without suffering a sacrifice in lifestyle is all about knowledge and empowerment. Ditch gimmicky diet pills and plans forever to lose thigh fat at an alarmingly steady rate. If ten dollars and a few hours of reading can change your life, why wait?

Tip one: Drink water before and after every meal. This will trick your stomach into thinking it’s full of food, and keep you full for much longer than a small meal alone.

Tip two: Space out your meals. Digestion takes up a lot of calories, and the longer you do it, the more you’ll burn. 6 small ones beats 3 big ones any day of the week.

Tip three: Set exercise goals that are realistic. You should do at least 15 minutes of brisk walking every day to get active and stay motivated, but don’t kill yourself and get burnt out.

Tip four: GREEN TEA, and lots of it. Green tea is one of the most amazing metabolism boosters and appetite suppressants out there, and not many people utilize it properly. One cup after every major meal will shock you, and the results are undeniable.

Tip five: Get some sun. Being outside or even reading a book in a well lit window will give you a gentle boost of metabolism and energy.

Tip six: Cut out sugary fruit drinks and yogurts. Even fruit juices are absolutely loaded with sugar, and have little nutritional value. This is hands down one of the most important things to remember

Tip seven: Switch to diet soda and tea. Like above, sugar turns your body into fat storage mode. Bad news, especially for summer.

Tip eight: Eat more protein, especially towards dinnertime. Lean meat and fibrous veggies will fill you up and preserve your natural muscle mass.

Losing weight permanently without suffering a sacrifice in lifestyle is all about knowledge and empowerment. Ditch gimmicky diet pills and plans forever to lose thigh fat at an alarmingly steady rate. If ten dollars and a few hours of reading can change your life, why wait?

Make sure you cut down on sugar. Not only is sugar calorie dense while lacking nutrition, but it triggers an insulin response in your body. What this means in terms of dieting, is your body goes into “hey it’s time to store fat ASAP” mode, turning all that sugar and anything that goes down with it into squishy awful looking fat. If you can reduce your sugar intake, even by cutting out sugary fruit juices or switching to diet soda, you’re going to lose fat rapidly.

While cutting out sugar is the number one way to lose weight, increasing your metabolism is right up there. When you increase metabolism, your body goes into fat burning mode, and your appetite drops. One of the most powerful ways to accomplish this is by drinking one cup of green tea either before or after each meal. Your energy will boost for hours after, your metabolism will increase, and your appetite will take a serious hit (for the better).

A 3rd and solid way to lose weight is to do some light exercise. You don’t need to kill yourself at the gym and get militant to work out. Even two brisk 15 minute walks per day will tighten up your thighs and core, which will allow a more athletic toned look to come through as the fat wears off, in addition to burning lots of calories.

Losing weight permanently without suffering a sacrifice in lifestyle is all about knowledge and empowerment. Ditch gimmicky diet pills and plans forever to lose thigh fat at an alarmingly steady rate. If ten dollars and a few hours of reading can change your life, why wait?

The first thing we need to look at is metabolism. Simply put, metabolism is the measure of how many calories your body burns at a natural resting pace to stay normal and alive. If you can increase your metabolism, your body is going to be shoving more and more calories into the fire without you even lifting a finger. What can you use around the house to raise metabolism?

One simple yet overlooked way is cold water. When you drink a glass of cold water, not only is your appetite suppressed, but your metabolism fires up to regulate your internal temperature.

Another powerful metabolism booster is green tea, and to a lesser extent, other teas. One cup of green tea before or after meals will help raise metabolism, fill you up, and give you some much needed energy to stay motivated.

Spacing out meals to eat more frequently is another great way to boost metabolism. Digestion burns a ton of calories via metabolic pathways. Eating 5 smaller meals instead of 3 big ones will keep your digestive system burning calories all day. It’s also important to eat breakfast, so this metabolic oven gets fired up first thing in the morning.

Losing weight permanently without suffering a sacrifice in lifestyle is all about knowledge and empowerment. Ditch gimmicky diet pills and plans forever to lose thigh fat at an alarmingly steady rate. If ten dollars and a few hours of reading can change your life, why wait?

Macro nutrients are important to consider. This is simply fat, carbs, and proteins. To lose weight, one most clearly cut down calories and raise metabolism. Unfortunately, with the advent of bad fad diets (as well as detoxes, juice diets, cleansing diets, south beach, etc), most people stop eating proteins, lean meat, and complex carbs. When you go on a fruit diet or simply cut calories, you’re just losing vital mass while retaining squishy, soft fat.

When cutting calories, sugar is the number one enemy. When you consume sugar, your body stores fat via an insulin response. You can start by switching sugary drinks to either teas, or tea sweetened with splenda. Green tea is a great choice because it boosts your metabolism and decreases appetite. You should also cut down on bad fat, and simple carbs, such as bleached bread and white rice.

You should definitely consume more lean meat. While you shouldn’t eliminate carbs (which is unhealthy and miserable), make sure you’re getting a good source of protein in with every meal, and try to eat only protein and a fibrous carb (such as broccoli or beans) before bed. Using this method your weight loss is going to be mainly fat and a little bit of water and bloat, leaving your naturally occuring muscle poised to give you a more toned and athletic look.

Losing weight permanently without suffering a sacrifice in lifestyle is all about knowledge and empowerment. Ditch gimmicky diet pills and plans forever to lose thigh fat at an alarmingly steady rate. If ten dollars and a few hours of reading can change your life, why wait?

The number one way green tea helps is by cranking up your metabolism. Simply put, metabolism is the caloric sum burned while keeping up your normal body processes, like staying warm, pumping blood, and virtually everything else. If you can increase your metabolic burn, you’ll lose weight much faster. G. Tea works to boost this up through an array of natural compounds, which will not only give you a steady and comfortable boost of energy and motivation, but will help you burn calories even while you’re just sitting around. If you’re stuck at a weight you’re unhappy with, you’ll absolutely lose pounds every week by simply having a cup of green tea after every meal.

Another great way this works is to squash your appetite. Metabolism and appetite often go hand in hand – when your metabolism is boosted, your appetite is down while your body is burning. You have to consider how potent this two-fold approach is. While your body is burning more calories, you’re not even preoccupied with eating! If you can avoid eating as much food as you normally do, in addition to a metabolic boost, you’re going to rapidly lose weight. The best part about green tea is it’s only a few dollars per week if drank, and only a few more dollars usually if you purchase an extract in pill form. Both are just as effective.

Losing weight permanently without suffering a sacrifice in lifestyle is all about knowledge and empowerment. Ditch gimmicky diet pills and plans forever to lose thigh fat at an alarmingly steady rate. If ten dollars and a few hours of reading can change your life, why wait?

The beauty of green tea, whether you want to take it in pill extract or actual tea format, is it literally contains dozens compounds and properties that all are super-beneficial to weight loss. One of the most potent is its effect on your metabolism.

Metabolism, in a diet context, is simply the measure of how many calories your body is burning just to stay alive. You can think of it as a coal oven on an old-style train that someone is shoveling coal into. The more you raise your metabolism, the more coal gets shoveled in there, and for our purposes, the more calories get burned. This tea provides a powerful boost to your metabolism. Drink a cup after every meal, and you’re guaranteed to burn hundreds more calories per day without lifting a finger.

If you supplement with a hot cup or dose after every meal, not only are you boosting metabolism, but you’re also going to be suppressing your appetite. The same properties that give you energy are going to squash your desire to eat, which will have you losing thigh fat in no time. If you’re not using this two-pronged assault on thigh, stomach, and other fat, strongly consider.

Losing weight permanently without suffering a sacrifice in lifestyle is all about knowledge and empowerment. Ditch gimmicky diet pills and plans forever to lose thigh fat at an alarmingly steady rate. If ten dollars and a few hours of reading can change your life, why wait?