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Editorial Review:
What Makes a Great Weight-Loss Success Story?

OVER 70 REAL WOMEN AND MEN

(INCLUDING A FEW CELEBRITIES!) SHARE THEIR STORIES AND STRATEGIES FOR FINDING A HEALTHIER LIFE

If you've ever admired a friend, colleague, or relative who has lost weight and wondered, "How did they do it?", this is the book you've been waiting for.

In Start Living, Start Losing, Weight Watchers, a global leader in weight management, brings you some of its best-ever and most inspiring stories of more than 70 women and men who have lost weight and kept it off. In this groundbreaking book, real people share their personal experiences, giving you an up-close and personal look at how they put their plans in motion, overcame obstacles, and persevered to reach their goals.

The stories of the women and men in this book come from people from all walks of life, some from celebrated actors and authors. Yet all of them share a common goalâto lose weight and find a healthier lifestyle. Each story features a Take-Away tip with practical solutions to everything from putting portion control into practice to finding time for fitness. Journal pages at the end of each chapter will help you stay motivated as you work toward your own smart eating and exercise goals. So start reading . . . start living . . . and start losing!

WEIGHT WATCHERS INTERNATIONAL, INC. is the world's leading provider of weight management services, operating globally through a network of company-owned and franchise operations. Weight Watchers holds over 50,000 weekly meetings where members receive group support and education about healthy eating patterns, behavior modification, and physical activity. WeightWatchers.com provides innovative subscription weight management products over the Internet and is the leading Internet-based weight management provider in the world. In addition, Weight Watchers offers a wide range of products, publications, and programs for those interested in weight loss and weight control.

To see and hear several Weight Watchers success stories online, log on to WeightWatchers.com/startliving.

Weight Watchers Start Living, Start Losing: Inspirational Stories That Will Motivate You Now Reviews:
NOTHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT...
2009-09-18 - This book gives one many short stories about losing weight. Unfortunately, they are not that interesting for the most part, nor are they particularly well-written. It is like reading articles in a magazine. A few may be of interest, but they are not book worthy. So, if it is motivation one is looking for, one would do better just to go to a weight-watchers meeting.

Daily inspiration
2009-09-13 - If you are struggling with weight loss, this is very helpful--shows how others have done it, a boost when you need it.

Great Motivational Tool
2009-05-28 - Looking for answers to help you lose weight? This book will do it for you. Full of ideas and motivation you'll find yourself looking at it over and over again.

no photographs of the WW members
2009-05-08 - Weight Watchers Start Living, Start Losing: Inspirational Stories That Will Motivate You Now

the writing by each success story member in the book is well done and detailed. they are fast reads too, spanning roughly 2 to 2.5 pages per person/writer.

however, i would have liked pictures of what the writers looked like after they had lost the weight. EVEN BETTER, before AND after "head to toe" pictures. they don't need to be wearing bikini's or tight clothing, but just so that we can see the transformation.

there's pictures of people's faces/headshots at the beginning of each chapter, but these look like models/actors (exactly like what you see on the cover of this book except the pics are in black and white). if they were indeed the writers of the success stories, great, but there's no description, so i am assuming they're models/actors. i don't doubt the success of WW, but pictures, as they say, tell a 1,000 words.

Infomercial in book form
2008-05-22 - If this was the first book of inspiration I had ever read, I might be a bit more impressed. I got as far as the first two chapters and then tossed the book into my pile of stuff to sell at a garage sale.
This collection of weight loss tales is pure formula non-fiction. What to expect:
My name is _____. I overeat because _____. I realized I had to lose weight when _____. Then I joined Weight Watchers. My tip to lose weight is _____ (typically something like don't eat before going to bed - yawn).
Folks what I'm saying is there is nothing new here. If the concept of losing weight is not 100% new to you, you've heard all of this before. Each fluffy tale of weight loss success is only about two pages long, and to me, said nothing substantial. The book "Body for Life" provides much more genuine inspriation to make lifestyle changes.