Presents a weight loss and diet plan engineered to help readers lose up to ten pounds in two weeks through a reevaluation of nutrition and daily exercise, in a book that includes meal planners and healthy recipes.

Includes index.

Lose it! Ready, set, go ; Add 5 habits ; Break 5 habits ; Adopt 5 bonus habits ; What have you learned? -- Live it! Preparing to live it! ; Eating to the pyramid ; No food scales or calculators needed ; Burning calories ; A quick review ... and a look ahead -- All the extra stuff. Finding your healthy weight ; Understanding nutrition and weight control ; The Mayo Clinic healthy weight pyramid ; How to change behaviors ; So I slipped up--what do I do? ; Making meals easy ; Sticking to the diet when eating out ; Burning even more calories.