The Good Mood Diet: Feel Great While You Lose Weight

By Bob CondorSusan M. KleinerSusan M Kleiner PhD RD, et al.

Book Overview

From a nutritionist and bestselling author of Power Eating and Power Food comes a book guaranteed to help you feel good and lose weight.

Dr. Kleiner is a leading nutrition authority on eating for strength who has put together a diet that has already been successfully tested in a Seattle weight-loss group and documented in a series by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. This book proves that you can choose healthy foods that both make you feel great and, when eaten according to the plan, help you lose weight.

Most diets cause chemical changes in the brain that make the dieter feel depressed. The typical plan is often too low in calories. In THE GOOD MOOD DIET the participants eat feel-good foods with both ideal timing and ideal combinations-- a balance of protein and fats to go with carbohydrates. Eating from a list of "feelgood foods," including fish, flax seed and eggs, and eliminating "feel-bad foods" including refined sugar, helps dieters feel better and lose weight. However, sweets and alcohol are not taboo--eating a bit of chocolate and drinking a glass of red wine a day is okay once you're two weeks into the diet..

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082128004X
• ISBN13: 9780821280041
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great diet information

The book had good usuable information. I found the foods recommended were readily available at the supermarket. Most of the foods are loved by all. My mood did lighten up and I lost weight the first week. As a personal trainer I have recommended it to my clients.

Feel Better and Look Better!

WOW! I have tried them all....but this diet is first about feeling great, and then you shed pounds and fat at the same time. I followed the plan and found a new level of energy I didn't know I had,and all the time I was losing weight. It is so much easier to follow a plan when you are upbeat and energetic. I find that it works even when I travel, have business dinners, etc. I have turned friends onto the plan and everyone loves it!

not a hard diet to follow

I found this diet to be an easy to follow plan and I felt better after a few days of following it. I wake up in a good mood and I don't feel as if I am depriving myself of anything that I like to eat-chocolate anyone? The website is a great source of support. Thank you Dr. Kleiner for putting me in a "good mood".

Great Advice. Great Diet.

Finally, a diet that helps you feel good while you're losing weight. I never thought that food could actually have an effect on mood. Dr. Kleiner's plan is eye-opening, as well as easy to follow, and doesn't feel restrictive (I can even have a little bit of chocolate). Most important, I'm learning how to eat in a healthy way. And it's working! Highly recommended.

Love this book!

This book is not only a diet in meaning one that helps you lose weight, but also a book that teaches you the foods that you should eat to be healthy, happy, and satisfied with your eating and yourself. Within days of starting to eat the foods suggested. I found myself feeling happier, more awake and more energetic, and I am not restricting the foods that I enjoy! I was suprised at many of the foods that were suggested to eat every day. I have had a hard time with not wanting to "diet" or restrict what I eat, and this helps retrain my thinking about what foods and fats are appropriate to eat to help me feel better! I suggest this book to anyone, whether or not they are looking to lose weight.