The Eatingwell Diet: Introducing The University Tested VTrim Weight-Loss Program

A science-based plan that brings together cutting-edge, university-tested weight-loss strategies with delicious, quick and easy recipes and an arsenal of self-help tools.

Funded by the National Institute of Health, the ground-breaking VTrim behavioral weight-management program is at the heart of The EatingWell® Diet by providing dieters with the steps that are clinically proven to work, including:

• How to become your own weight coach
• Learn to eat and shop for food mindfully
• A simple formula for working better exercise and eating habits into your busy life
• How to recover from inevitable trip-ups
• Long-term maintenance strategies to keep the weight off
• ...and a 28-day fast-track program to get you started toward a new, thinner life.

More than 100 recipes from EatingWell Magazine's enormously popular "Healthy in a Hurry" column provide real-life eating options and menus that will leave your taste buds delighted and your stomach full, including delicious choices for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, guilt-free desserts, snacks, and even entertaining. In addition, an impressive collection of self-help tools and charts allow you to keep track of weight measurement, calculate your BMI, waist measurement, portion sizes, calorie counts, and more! Full-color throughout, appendices, index.

Jean Harvey-Berino, Ph.D., R.D., is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Vermont, one of the world's leading centers of behavioral weight-management research. An accomplished obesity treatment researcher, she has appeared on the Today Show, National Public Radio, and in numerous newspapers and magazines as an expert on the subjects of weight loss, obesity and nutrition. Harvey-Berino lives in Hinesburg, VT. Joyce Hendley, M.S., is the Nutrition Editor for EatingWell Magazine, and, since 1994, a contributing editor to Weight Watchers magazine. A frequent contributor to Weight Watchers cookbooks, she was also the writer for Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York's best-selling Win the Weight Game (2000) and The EatingWell Diabetes Cookbook (Countryman, 2005) which was nominated for a 2006 James Beard Award. She lives in South Burlington, VT. EatingWell, Where Good Taste Meets Good Health, is recognized by consumers, journalists, nutritionists and health-policy makers as the most reliable and sensible source for current nutrition and healthy eating information. The publication was named the winner of the James Beard Award for Food Journalism in 2003 and again in 2004 and the winner of the Folio Silver Eddie Award for Epicurean Magazines in 2004. The Essential EatingWell Cookbook was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2004. The magazine's headquarters are in Charlotte, VT.