The Start Here Diet

Three Simple Steps That Helped Me Transition from Fat to Slim . . . for Life

By: Tosca Reno, Billie Fitzpatraick

Narrated by: Tosca Reno

With her Eat-Clean Diet, Tosca Reno went from being overwhelmed and overweight to modeling a bikini, but her seventy-pound weight loss and body transformation didn’t happen overnight; even Tosca needed a simple approach, a place to begin. Now she reveals her secrets so that you can begin your journey to safe weight loss and optimal health. Start now with The Start Here Diet!

Tosca knows what it’s like to feel ashamed of your body: At her heaviest, she hid behind bulky clothes and rarely had her picture taken. Her blood sugar level was like a roller coaster, and her heart rate was far from normal. Tosca was so focused on taking care of her family that she neglected her own needs. Then she started making slight adjustments in her everyday life—small changes that brought about big results. In this exciting book, she shares the three easy-to-follow steps that helped her get her life back on track:

Step 1: Dive Inward. Identify the emotional triggers for your overeating, the self-defeating “self-talk,” and the underlying reason why you really want to shed the pounds. Sharing her own internal dialogue—including excerpts from the journal she kept at that time—Tosca will help you overcome these internal barriers in a completely unique, accessible way.

Step 2: Uncover Your Hidden Foods. Do you have a food you think you just can’t live without? Or something you eat mindlessly and often? These are your “hidden foods” and they are sabotaging your best efforts to lose weight and keep it off. Through Tosca’s transformative process, you will once and for all identify the empty-calorie foods that have added extra pounds and replace them with nutritious foods you can enjoy without weight gain.

Part 3: Move a Little! The Start Here plan doesn’t require you to join a gym or do lengthy daily workouts. Simply choose from Tosca’s list of fifty basic movements to strengthen, tone, and improve your health. These are exercises you can fit into the rhythm of your busy life. Moving a little for even fifteen minutes a day will help reshape your body and put you on a path to weight-loss success.

Like a good friend and trusted mentor, Tosca will show you how to believe in yourself again, forgive yourself, and imagine a life of joy you thought was out of reach. Her Start Here “essentials”—shopping and cooking tips, meal plans, and thirty delicious recipes—will help you learn to eat to nourish your body, not just to feed it. As Tosca says, The Start Here Diet is all about cherishing you—and you are wonderful!

Includes a bonus PDF of recipes and menus from the book

Critic reviews

Praise for The Start Here Diet:

• "Motivational speaker and weight-loss specialist Reno, author of the Eat-Clean Diet series, returns with a laid-back weight-loss plan that can be utilized by anyone--whether the goal is to drop 10, 20, 30, or even 100 pounds." --Publishers Weekly

Good motivation to finally start and stick with it

If you could sum up The Start Here Diet in three words, what would they be?

Motivating and inspiring

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Start Here Diet?

Small steps - easy things to do now to get started

Which scene was your favorite?

I enjoyed the personal stories and the recipes.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

It was - while I was walking. I just needed the inspiration.

Any additional comments?

I have several of her books and a cookbook. What was inspirational for me was that I could listen to this while being active so it was motivating me to continue. The informational isn't new and it's common sense, but if you need that little voice...it serves as a little voice of encouragement.

Health

Health, most inspiring book that simplifies how to achieve and successfully start a change for life

Thin

What disappointed you about The Start Here Diet?

Please excuse the pun. But this needs a bit of fattening up. It starts well (except for the name-dropping, please spare me), but then, just when you expect it to really get going the book ends. Just like that. This is not worth your money.