Reader's Digest Starts Weight Loss Program

You either love them or you hate them. Mail-order book company Reader's Digest have produced books covering virtually every subject imaginable. They have produced a fair number of books related to nutrition and diet.

Recently they began their own diet program - called "Change One". The online format is based on the book (which appeared in 2003). The book was authored by the Reader's Digest nutrition writers.

As a diet book, there's nothing new or breakthrough about it (will there ever be?). But the idea is great - instead of embarking on a radical dietary change, you slowly incorporate changes one at a time (Change One - get it?). The idea is to move towards a healthy lifestyle where you are not completely restricted.

It's a good idea. You can see the Change One program here. They always seem to be running free trials or giveaways of some sort.

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Bonnie Trent

What do you think of Julia Havey's LifeChanger Program...She claims this is not a diet ????

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Danielle

Sounds like another way to take money from desperate people while offering the same information in a fancier package. (that's aimed towards the LifeChanger program) The Change One program seems to be another membership thing, but the website has a lot of free information that could be useful to anyone.

Really, if it's just one change every week, I'd rather have an exercise/weight loss buddy to help motivate me to make that change rather than an expensive set of DVD's or a web-site subscription. It's a good idea, for people that have a hard time starting, but it wouldn't work for me. I'm too much of a procrastinator to have a new change every week. I'd keep pushing it off to "tomorrow." I have to make a radical change - from day one, in order to stick with it. That was the nice thing about getting onto the Sonoma Diet. The first thing I did was get rid of all the trouble foods in the house and then go restock with healthier alternatives. I'd never get to week three on a gradual change program.

-Danielle

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Danielle

Sorry about the double post, sometimes my computer thinks I've double clicked. It gets too excited, I guess.

-Danielle

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Julia Havey

Danielle, how are you doing with the Sonoma Diet?

I am really surprised to see your comments that my LifeChanger program is about taking money from desperate people.

I give my program away for free to the wife or girlfriend of any deployed soldier.

I have given it to countless numbers of "desperate" women who email me and can't afford it. I probably give away more than I sell if the truth be told.

I have seen first hand that simple changes make HUGE changes in your life and body over time, did for me and thousands of my readers.

I encourage drinking water, getting rid of a person's worst habits and slowly but consistently getting exercise as a routine part of one's life. I offer CD's to help motivate along the way, a journal to help with self discovery. and I personally answer my emails and phone calls and post my personal number on my site and emails for any of my readers to call me for help.

Please, explain to me where I am not doing everything within my ability to actually try to solve the Obesity crisis and do so personally and with compassion.

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