Weight Loss Made a Bit Easier:

Realistic and Practical Advice for Healthy Eating and Exercise

My new book Weight Loss Made a Bit Easier: Realistic and Practical Advice for Healthy Eating and Exercise is available for purchase on Amazon.com for $6.25. The Kindle edition is available for $2.99. A free Kindle app is available for the PC, iPhone, and iPad. For the convenience of my customers, DRM has been disabled. Please do not abuse this by illegally copying or distributing the book. For more info about the book, please see below. You can also use the "Look Inside" and "Search Inside" functionality on Amazon.

As a community service for those unable to purchase the book, it is available for free reading in its entirety on Google Books, but is not downloadable. If you are benefitting from the free version of the book, please consider purchasing it on Amazon in either Kindle or paperback format. Please also consider posting a review of it on Amazon or elsewhere, or at least spreading the word about it to others who may benefit. Please visit the forums if you would like to discuss the book.

Book Description from the Back Cover

A book by independent author Larry Zafran who overcame three decades of being overweight. It is important for the prospective reader to understand for whom this book is NOT intended, and what this book is NOT about. This is not a diet book. It does not include recipes, menu plans, eating schedules, or calorie listings. It is not an exercise book. It does not include exercise schedules or routines, or pictures or detailed descriptions of exercises. It does not imply that losing weight is fast, fun, or easy.

This book is NOT intended for anyone waiting for a weight loss solution in the form of a new food/drink, diet, exercise DVD/gadget, drug, or supplement. It is not intended for anyone hoping to lose weight via counting calories and regular weigh-ins. It is not intended for anyone morbidly obese or who has a medical condition requiring a doctor's supervision, or anyone convinced that s/he is "genetically programmed" to be overweight. 

This book is intended for adults with “typical” modern lifestyles, who are willing and able to accept that efficient and permanent weight loss requires basic effort and awareness, as well as small, gradual, practical changes to both eating and exercise habits. 

The author is not a doctor, celebrity, personal trainer, or dietician. After briefly describing his personal weight loss story, the book provides guidance for becoming aware of one’s eating and exercise patterns, and slowly modifying them such that any changes are sustainable for life. The book includes chapters on emotional and interpersonal issues in weight loss, the impact of restaurants, fast food, advertisers, the news media, American culture, and myths. 

The author advocates using a detailed journal to track patterns and foster accountability. A companion journal is available but need not be purchased. The book describes how to make a journal oneself. Blank pages from the companion journal may be printed at no cost via the author's website which also hosts a discussion forum.

About the Author

Larry Zafran was born and raised in Queens, NY where he tutored and taught math in public and private schools. He has a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Queens College where he graduated with highest honors, and has earned most of the credits toward a Masters Degree in Secondary Math Education.

He is a dedicated student of the piano, and the leader of a large and active group of board game players which focuses on abstract strategy games from Europe.

He presently lives in Cary, NC where he works as an independent math tutor, writer, and webmaster.

Requesting a Review Copy

Limited review copies are available for qualified reviewers who plan on posting a fair and well-written (but not necessarily positive) review for a well-established publication or website. Please only request a copy (including links to some reviews you have done) if this describes you. Because of the terms of Amazon's Prime policy, I can only send review copies to those in the lower 48 US states, but can do so with two-day shipping.   

All orders and returns are fully handled directly by Amazon.com. The book is part of Amazon's Prime program which means that Amazon Prime members can order it with free two-day shipping, and non-members can get free economy shipping if ordered with $25 worth of eligible products. The book can be ordered standalone for Amazon's regular shipping rates.

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