Weight Loss Confidential

As any parent knows, teens listen to teens -- more than to anyone else. Hailed by leading doctors, nutritionists, and journalists, Weight Loss Confidential is the only book to go to the real experts on teen weight loss: adolescents who have succeeded. Using the approach that made her book Thin for Life an award-winning bestseller, Anne M. Fletcher interviews more than one hundred teens who have lost weight'”some as much as one hundred pounds -- to discover what works. Bolstered with the latest scientific research, Weight Loss Confidential challenges conventional assumptions and empowers teens and parents in the struggle against our number-one health problem today. Inside Weight Loss Confidential: 9 myths about weight loss Top 10 reasons for teen weight gain Teens' advice to parents on how to help 10 teen strategies for changing eating habits 6 tactics parents often resort to that make things worse -- and what to do instead

Anne M. Fletcher is an award-winning health and medical journalist and the author of the national bestsellers Thin for Life, Eating Thin for Life, and Sober for Good, as well as Weight Loss Confidential Journal and Thin for Life Daybook