This guide explains why we gain weight and what we can do to lose it. Without advocating any particular diet, it details a mind-body strategy for realistic lifetime weight management.

• Written by a respected physician who has been through the journey of weight loss

• Anticipates readers' concerns by including the questions, quandaries, and solutions of patients with whom she has worked

• Primes readers with not only the physical challenges but also the mental challenges of weight loss

• Presents helpful tables including a "weight-disruptive shopping plan"

• Includes a bibliography that may be referenced for further reading

• Explains what to look for in a physician to help with weight control in an appendix