A diet proven to be good for your figure, your heart and your health

Written by a French-born and bred author, this book shows how to eat with balance and control. It combines memoir, wisdom, wit, delicious recipes, and French common sense.

Essentially a low-carbohydrate plan, the Atkins Diet boosts your metabolic rate and, once your metabolism is changed, your body adjusts to a new way of burning fat. With this regime you can lose weight without reducing or counting calories.

From Dr Phil McGraw, the author of Self Matters , Relationship Rescue and Life Strategies , comes a powerful and no-nonsense programme for losing weight and keeping it off.

Drs Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz, authors of the million-copy bestseller 'YOU: The Owner's Manual', have devised a diet that is so effective you'll notice changes in your body immediately. Starting with a Two-Week Reboot that will help you lose up to two inches around your waist, you will shed your unwanted weight forever.

Follows the twists and turns of Shauna Reid's adventure as she curbs the calories and learns to love the gym. This title includes travel tales from Red Square to Reykjavik, as well as romance and intrigue as she meets the man of her dreams during a pub quiz in Glasgow.

James Professor Puff Henry may as well have loser stamped on his forehead. Divorced, overweight, shy and living at home, he relies on books and his favourite snack - cheese puffs - for sweet relief from his problems. To improve his social life and waistline, he joins a supper club for dieters who lovingly call themselves the Flab Five.

Bridget Jones wants to have it all - and once she's given up smoking and got down to 8st 7 she will. Based on Helen Fielding's diary in the Independent newspaper, this is a novel about a year in the life of a single girl on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement and Inner Poise. First published in 1996.

Originally published in 1989, a book offering advice on conquering food obsessions and compulsive eating in order to give up dieting and bingeing, claiming this will lead to increased self-esteem.

Tells the truth about food so that readers can make informed, educated decisions about what they put in their bodies. This work outlines a way of life that helps readers make healthy choices.

A diet and lifestyle programme that allows you to eat unlimited portions of the foods you like. Fit for Life reveals: principles to bring permanent weight loss and high energy; the secrets of timing and food combining that work with your natural body cycles; and a four-week meal plan, menus, recipes and shopping tips.

A guide to what to eat at home, the supermarket, as well as a fast-food restaurant. It also provides nutrition secrets that may lead to fast and permanent weight loss.

When the author is selected to appear on a television show about obesity, she is at first appalled then resolved. After years of quick-fix diets and faddy exercise equipment, she realises that a new approach is required - one that involves discovering her own inner strengths.

What began as a small weight loss chain run by an expert nutritionist, has now become the fastest growing franchise. In this text the Curves plan is brought to the general reader so that everyone can benefit from this easy-to-follow and fast-working programme.

Virginia has a larger-than-average body and some inferiority complex. Her mum is an exercise fiend, her dad whistles at skinny women, and her siblings are gorgeous and impossible to live up to. They're all people Virginia thinks the world of. In fact, Virginia thinks the world of everyone but herself. Then, a phone call changes everything.

This guide addresses the source rather than the symptoms of weight problems. Scientifically based, this diet plan has had a proven 80 percent success rate, because it is safe, enjoyable and remarkably easy.

How I Changed My Fattitude. A graphic novel memoir, combining gorgeous artwork by a well-known cartoonist with advice on losing weight.

Whether we are overweight or suffer from an eating disorder, learning to eat mindfully can liberate us from the suffering we experience with food. This title explores how and why to apply the Zen art of mindfulness to transform our issues with food. It explains what mindfulness is and how it can help us create a healthier relationship with food.

Long before she was a glamorous young divorcee and superstar blogging mistress, Stephanie Klein was a seventh grader with a weight problem. Sharing the story of her adolescence, this book is about what we all go through: finding friends, learning about ourselves, and realizing that who we are has remarkably little to do with our waistline.

Offers a low-carb, low GI plan that caters for various types of dietary requirements. This plan is vegetarian-friendly and nutritionally-balanced, allowing for sinful foods including pasta, pulses, fruit and puddings. This work sets out to counter the criticisms of those who argue that low-carb lifestyles can be detrimental to health.