Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!

This diet book was written to be a frank, "get real" approach for those who have tried without success to lose weight and keep it off. The authors include advice to readers such as what they must get rid of in their everyday eating: sugar first, followed by meat and dairy. A vegan lifestyle is recommended, and more than 75 vegan recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacking are provided. The authors address such topics as mental denial about bad food habits, and how to make responsible food choices without denying cravings and appetite.

The All-Pro Diet: Lose Fat, Build Muscle, and Live Like a Champion

This book, written by Atlanta Falcons record-holding tight end Tony Gonzalez and Mitzi Dulan, RD, includes recipes, strategies for adhering to a new diet and muscle-building exercises used by professional athletes.

101 Things to Do Before You Diet

This book is based on the premise that most women today are well aware that dieting and food deprivation is no way to lose weight. In this book, author Mimi Spencer shares tips, tricks, and solutions that finally helped her lose weight with the “anti-diet.” Spencer offers readers 101 ways to flatten a figure, from choosing the right fashion to staying away from fat traps and calorie pitfalls.

Sustainable Weight Loss: The Definitive Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Body Weight and companion Sustainable Weight Loss Workbook

Sustainable Weight Loss was written and published in 2011, to help people: (1) lose weight sensibly, and (2) maintain their body weight for life.  It is based on an easy to understand analysis of the latest scientific research (i.e. approx 1,100 citations) covering the fields of diet, exercise, genetics, hormones, psychology, motivation, and much more.  The last chapter is a "how to" guide giving readers the tools necessary for them to develop a high impact, personalized success plan.

The companion Sustainable Weight Loss Workbook is an expanded version of the book's final chapter with in-depth dialogue, charts, worksheets and plenty of room for journaling.  The workbook is used to not only walk the user through the decision-making steps required for them to successfully achieve their goal, but also to provide them with encouragement and a place to document their decisions.

The Biggest Loser 30-Day Jump Start

This book was written to bring all of the secrets of The Biggest Loser into one’s home. The Biggest Loser experts—the same ones who advise the contestants—walk readers through a 30-day plan designed for weight loss and help build new, healthy habits. The book contains menus, recipes, exercise plans and motivational strategies for each day of the week.

Frumpy to Fabulous: One Change a Week To a Healthier You!

Frumpy to Fabulous by Josette Puig is a motivational weight-loss book featuring 52 changes that people can make over the course of a year to lose weight and live more healthfully.

Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-free Eating in the Real World

The author wrote this book with strategies in mind for dealing with restaurants, travel, cocktail parties, junk food and cravings. She aims to give dieters a breakfast-to-dinner approach to eating lighter with recipes which enlist low-cal substitutes for traditional ingredients.

Flat Belly Diet

This book is based on Prevention’s Flat Belly Diet! which identified food and attitude as the secret ingredients to targeting belly fat. Designed as a journal, the book includes a “4-Day Jumpstart Menu,” MUFA Serving Chart and “Flat Belly Workout Basics.”

Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide

This book was designed to provide an insider’s guide to smart, healthy, low-cost food choices. From the produce section to the frozen-food aisle, the book claims that supermarkets are loaded with 50,000 food choices. The book sets out to uncover fake “healthy” foods and rip-off supermarket “bargains.” The book provides an illustrated guide to thousands of foods—along with the nutrition secrets intended to lead to fast and permanent weight loss.