These days it's all about balance and uncomplicated diets that fit your busy lifestyle. Choose any of the following books and you can't go wrong. You'll lose weight, get a handle on healthy eating, and you won't feel like you're being tortured or deprived.

The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life This book written by those wise guys over at Men's Health will make you laugh and teach you how to make better choices. The success stories and food guides are totally adaptable to every lifestyle and they show you how people just like you do it every day.



The 3-Hour Diet: How Low-Carb Diets Make You Fat and Timing Makes You Thin Easy dieting for those who can't give up their favorite treats. This plan is all about eating all food in moderation. It emphasizes portion control, food timing, and allows sweets as well.


Eating for Life: Your Guide to Great Health, Fat Loss and Increased Energy! (Body for Life) How to eat for pleasure, energy, and results. If you're active and want a simple way of eating that fuels your activites this is the plan for you. You'll learn to eyeball your portions, eat often, make better choices, and strengthen your mind to conquer all food obstacles. You'll also enjoy an occassional free day.


The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health Bob Greene is the man responsible for helping Oprah look better at 50 than she did at 30. He discusses how to eliminate emotional eating, and promotes eating breakfast, setting a cut off time, and other sensible tips that are easy to follow but get results. Exercise tips included as well.