The Diet Trap by Pamela Smith, R.D. Regnery Publishing; ISBN: 0895262592 Hardcover - 308 pages (May 1, 2000) Dimensions (in inches): 1.30 x 9.32 x 6.40 Your seven week plan to lose weight without losing yourself Learn the shocking truth about deceptive diets Unleash your body’s natural ability to lose weight permanently Overcome stress and soar with energy Recognize the long-term dangers of low-carb diets Activate your metabolism and balance your hormones Nourish your soul and spirit Here are the keys to free you from the “diet trap” and live well for life. Do you feel that too often, you’re seduced by the newest diet as a way to regain control of your weight, image, and life — but that the diet ends up controlling you instead? On any given day, about one-third of all adult women (that’s 30 million) are desperately trying to lose weight. In fact, Americans — both men and women — spend $40 to $60 billion every year on dieting. So why aren’t we getting thinner and healthier? The truth is most diets are designed to trick your body into short-term weight loss — pounds that don’t have a chance of staying off. Worse yet, these diets are bad for you in more ways than one. As Pam Smith says: “Sure you can shed ten pounds in ten days — by shocking your body into dehydration and muscle cannibalism. But at the same time, you put a deadly strain on every organ in your body. You could be shedding pounds, but shaving years off your life.” In this ground-breaking new book, Pam Smith draws back the curtain on the headline diets of the day, from high-protein to low-carb, and reveals how these diets set us up for failure. “Although you could live a lifetime without sweets and white bread, you won’t live long, or well, without healthy forms of carbohydrates; no one can sustain a diet without them. Eventually your cravings win over — but rather than steering you towards healthy brown rice, carrots, oats, or broccoli, you fall headfirst into nachos and pizza.” If that has been your experience or you just know, deep in your soul, that these quick weight-loss diets are wrong, Pam Smith offers you: The Smart Weigh sm — a common-sense plan to nourish your body with the right foods at the right time and to liberate your natural ability to lose weight — an ability that is scripted into every cell of your body. Whether you need to lose weight, gain weight, control overeating, or simply get well, The Diet Trap will bring you nutritional reason and words of hope — it will get your body working for you and with you. “For whatever reason, when life leaves us hungry and empty and looking for a quick fix, the bait is set for the diet trap…. The real issue is not getting touched, and it’s the issue of our souls.” Pamela Smith, R.D., nutritionist, culinary consultant, and best-selling author, is the founder of The Smart Weigh program through which thousands of people have found freedom from excess weight and dieting — and have won back their health. She has coached professional, corporate, and life athletes in winning plans — from the NBA’s Shaquille O’Neal and the Orlando Magic to Walt Disney World, Darden Restaurants, and Hyatt Hotels and Resorts. Her best-selling books include Eat Well-Live Well, Food for Life, The Good Life, Healthy Expectations, and The Energy Edge. Pam Smith may be seen on The Health Network’s High on Health, and her daily feature “Living Well” may be heard on radio stations nationwide. She has been featured on the Today show, CNN News, Lifetime Television, The TV Food Network, and Focus on the Family. She lives in Orlando, Florida, with her husband Larry and their two daughters, Danielle and Nicole. Break Free From the Diet Trap! Do you dream of looking great? Is your dieting roller-coaster making you sick and tired? Have you spent your hard-earned money on fad diets, only to regain the weight you’ve lost — and then some? Do you want to tame your appetite and release stress? Do you want to lose weight for good, and gain energy for life? Then let Pamela Smith, R.D. — America’s foremost nutritionist and best-selling author — show you how to BREAK FREE FROM THE DIET TRAP AND LIVE WELL FOR LIFE! In The Diet Trap, Pamela Smith will show you: How to lose weight — without losing health, focus, energy, and control of your life Why most fad diets are guaranteed to fail The seven top Diet Myths and six Weight-Loss Schemes to avoid How to unleash your body’s natural ability to lose weight Why losing weight depends on when you eat, not just what you eat How to nourish your body with the right foods at the right time featuring The Smart Weighsm plan — the safest and most effective means to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. With The Diet Trap you can: Throw out your diet books — and say no to the next “diet miracle” that comes to you via your friends, family, or coworkers. Refuse to sacrifice your health and your energy at the altar of potentially dangerous weight loss gimmicks, including: Atkins’ high-protein/low carb diet, Ornish’s high-carb/low-fat diet, the Fit for Life food-combining diet, semi-starvation diets like Slim-Fast, blood and body type diets, and “lose-it-while-you-sleep” diets like Metabolife. Make the decision, today, to get off the depressing diet treadmill, and get on the road to looking and feeling better. Click here to order from Amazon: