This guide explains why we gain weight and what we can do to lose it. Without advocating any particular diet, it details a mind-body strategy for realistic lifetime weight management.

Written by a respected physician who has been through the journey of weight loss

Anticipates readers' concerns by including the questions, quandaries, and solutions of patients with whom she has worked

Primes readers with not only the physical challenges but also the mental challenges of weight loss

Presents helpful tables including a "weight-disruptive shopping plan"

Includes a bibliography that may be referenced for further reading

Explains what to look for in a physician to help with weight control in an appendix