The 10 Best Diet Books for Weight Loss
Are you on a mission to shed those extra pounds and embark on a journey towards a healthier, fitter you?
Well, look no further because we’ve selected a list of the top 10 weight loss books to read in 2024.
These books are packed with valuable insights, expert advice, and practical strategies to help you achieve your weight loss goals and embrace a healthier lifestyle.
1- THE 12 WEEK FITNESS
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Author – RUJUTA DIWEKAR
Print length – 208 Pages
About Book–
Lose inches. Gain health. Sleep better. In just 12 weeks.
Want to get fit but don’t know how to start?
Let India’s #1 nutritionist and health advocate Rujuta Diwekar help you.
In this ground-breaking book, based on the ‘12-week fitness project’, one of the world’s largest and most successful public health projects, she will guide you step by step, giving you one simple guideline to follow each week.
By the end of three months you will have transformed your habits in twelve crucial ways.
The result? You’ll find you have lost inches and have better sleep and energy levels, lesser acidity, bloating and sweet cravings and reduced PMO and period pain.
About Author–
Rujuta Diwekar
Rujuta Diwekar, Winner of the ‘Nutrition award’ from Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, is the most qualified and sought after Nutrition and sports science expert in the country.
In the plethora of diet fads and fears, her voice rings loud and clear, urging us to use our common sense and uncomplicate the act of eating.
She emphasizes on a blend of traditional food wisdom and modern nutritional science for a healthy body and mind, best reflected through the mantra – Eat local, think global.
With over a decade of experience working with people from all walks of life, (the more famous ones being Kareena Kapoor, Anil Ambani, Preity Zinta, Karishma Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan and Konkona Sen), she has fine-tuned her methods to the real issues facing the Urban Indians.
2- Feel Great Lose Weight
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Author – Rangan Chatterjee
Print length – 272 Pages
About Book-
This is not a diet book. This is a whole new way of looking at what, why and how we eat and helps you design your own plan to build a better, healthier relationship with food’
It is a beautiful book and has so much in it to help us feel good and prioritise our happiness and health.
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Dr Rangan Chatterjee is regarded as one of the most influential doctors in the UK.
A practising GP for the last two decades, Dr Chatterjee wants to inspire people to transform their health and happiness through making small sustainable changes to their lifestyles.
Dr Chatterjee hosts Europe’s biggest health podcast, Feel Better, Live More which is one of Apple’s most downloaded podcasts.
He is the author of 3 Sunday Times bestsellers and regularly appears on BBC television, national radio and has been featured in numerous international publications including The New York Times , Forbes, The Guardian, The Times, Grazia, Vogue, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail and his TED talk, How To Make Disease Disappear, has been viewed almost 3.7 million times.
3- The Secret Life of Fat: The Groundbreaking Science on Why Weight Loss is So Difficult
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Author – Sylvia Tara PhD
Print length – 248 Pages
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We lose it. We gain it. We hate it. We hide it. We shame it. We suck it in and we even suck it out.
The Secret Life of Fat reveals everything we need to understand fat, how it influences our appetite and willpower, how it defends itself when attacked and why it grows back so quickly.
Find out how our genetics and hormones determine how much fat we have and where exactly it will show. Fascinating and surprising in equal measure, this book will give you a powerful new understanding of fat.
About Author
Sylvia Tara PhD
Sylvia Tara holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California at San Diego and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
She was a consultant with McKinsey and has worked at the world’s largest biotechnology companies.
4- Yuktahaar: The Belly And Brain Diet
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Author – Munmun Ganeriwal
Print length – 300 Pages
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Have you ever wondered why diets just don’t seem to work?
In Yuktahaar, celebrity nutritionist Munmun Ganeriwal argues that the reason why none of the diets in the past have seemed to work is because they focused on the wrong cause-you, the reader.
While we may continue to have a fling with low carb, vegan, low fat diets and everything in between but a long-lasting solution may never be found if we do not shift our focus from ‘you’ to ‘them’-the human-gut microbiome connection.
In this book, Munmun gives an actionable 10-week holistic program that encourages a gut balancing lifestyle, consisting of season-wise meal plans, recipes, exercise routines, sleep hygiene tips, and yoga practice.
About Author
Winner of the ‘Award for the Best Nutritionist’ by Femina, Munmun Ganeriwal, is a renowned and celebrated Lifestyle consultant in the field of Functional Medicine.
She is the only gut microbiome specialist in the world who combines traditional Indian foods, ancient Indian yogic practices and gut microbiota study to understand and fight obesity and other diseases.
Her clientele includes Taapsee Pannu, Rakul Preet Singh, Nayanthara, Ekta Kapoor and many more.
5- DONT LOSE OUT, WORK OUT
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Author – Rujuta Diwekar
Print length – 256 Pages
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Honored by ʻNutrition awardʼ from Asian Institute of Gastroenterology; Rujuta Diwekar is an award-winning trainer.
In this book; she has shared her years of knowledge and experience on diet; weight-loss and healthy living.
She explains the importance and role of workouts; their types and their benefits.
She explains vital concepts of healthy living in easy-to-understand language.
She lists easy ways to keep track of health amidst day-to-day struggles with life. Through this book brings you the secrets of healthy lifestyle debunking myths about diet and exercise.
About Author
Amongst the world’s most-followed nutritionists, Rujuta Diwekar is also a bestselling author with more than 1.5 million copies of her books in print.
Through her public health initiatives, like the 12-week fitness project, Sonave community farming project, home exercise and diet projects on social media, etc.,
She continues to define the discourse on diet and exercise across the country and for Indians living globally.
6- Mini Habits for Weight Loss: Stop Dieting. Form New Habits. Change Your Lifestyle Without Suffering
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Author – Stephen Guise
Print length – 252 Pages
About Book-
You will never diet again. Say goodbye to calorie counting, restrictive food bans, or other forced behaviors.
In Mini Habits for Weight Loss, you will learn how to lose weight naturally, in the precise way your body and brain are meant to change.
This will also show you how to make dietary changes in a sustainable, permanent way that doesn’t trigger biological or neurological resistance.
About Author
Stephen Guise is driven by his desire to find the most effective behavior change strategies.
To help others maximize their potential, he has developed an array of unconventional, result-driven ideas.
In particular, his ideas of extreme willpower conservation, no-motivation-required action plans, multiple-cue habit formation, success-cycling, and “stupid small” steps form the unique foundation of Mini Habits, which is being published in more than a dozen languages.
7- THE DASH DIET WEIGHT LOSS SOLUTION: 2 Weeks to Drop Pounds, Boost Metabolism and Get Healthy
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Author -Marla Heller
Print length – 256 Pages
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The DASH diet isn’t just for healthy living anymore-now it’s for healthy weight loss, too.
Using the key elements of the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet and proven, never-before-published NIH research, bestselling author, foremost DASH dietitian and leading nutrition expert Marla Heller has created the most effective diet for quick-and lasting-weight loss.
With a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, low-fat and nonfat dairy, lean meats, fish and poultry, nuts, beans and seeds, heart healthy fats, and whole grains, you will drop pounds and revolutionize your health, while eating foods you love.
In just 2-weeks you’ll experience:
Faster metabolism
Lower body fat
Improved strength and cardiovascular fitness
Plus lower cholesterol and blood pressure without medication, without counting calories!
As effective as the original DASH is for heart health, the program is now formulated for weight loss!
About Author
Marla Heller is a Registered Dietitian, and holds a Master of Science in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she completed doctoral course work in public health, specializing in Behavior Sciences and Health Promotion.
Marla is experienced in a wide variety of nutrition counseling specialties.
8- The Yoga Beginner’s Bible
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Author -Tai Morello
Print length – 132 Pages
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In The Yoga Beginner’s Bible you will find out :
The top 63 poses you must know as a beginner
What Yoga really is
How to turn Yoga into a habit
How to Meditate
The Benefits of Yoga
And Much more!
If your yoga efforts have been frustrating in the past, don’t worry. This book will take you by the hand and show you step-by-step how to develop a life-changing yoga practice.
This book will tell you everything you need to know about yoga so that you can get started right away!
About Author
Tai Morello is an avid reader and has always been passionate about the inner workings of the human mind.
He discovered meditation early in his life and he can confidently say that it is the most powerful tool for personal growth he has ever come across.
His mission is to share his passion for yoga and meditation with as many people as possible.
9- Magic Weight Loss Pill, The: 62 Lifestyle Changes
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Author -Luke Coutinho
Print length – 296 Pages
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What’s the one remedy common to controlling diabetes, hyperthyroidism, kidney and liver stones and excess weight?
Lifestyle……… Luke Coutinho, co-author of The Great Indian Diet, shows us that nothing parallels the power and impact that simple sustained lifestyle changes can have on a person who’s struggling to lose excess weight or suffering from a chronic disease.
The first part of the book concentrates on the reason we get such diseases in the first place, while the second is filled with sixty-two astonishingly easy and extremely practicable changes that will have you feeling healthier and happier and achieving all your health goals without the rigor and hard work of a hardcore diet or fitness regime.
The suggested habits, such as drinking lemon water every day or doing five breathing exercises to fall asleep, are accompanied by detailed explanations on how and why to adopt a habit. Together, these will become your magic weight-loss pill.
About Author
Luke Coutinho is a globally renowned holistic lifestyle coach and award-winning holistic nutritionist.
He is the co-author of the bestseller The Great Indian Diet with Shilpa Shetty.
Luke was among the GQ 50 Most Influential Young Indians 2018 and the Times Power Men 2018, and received the Elle award for the Best Health Expert of the Year 2018 and Best in the Industry (Nutritionist) by Vogue in 2018.
He is also the co-founder of GOQii, a digital healthcare platform that provides personalized coaching.
10- The Obesity Code
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Author -Dr. Jason Fung
Print length – 328 Pages
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Read this book to understand why the world became fat, how to reverse the epidemic—and how to stay thin yourself.
In addition to his five basic steps, a set of lifelong habits that will improve your health and control your insulin levels, Dr. Fung explains how to use intermittent fasting to break the cycle of insulin resistance and reach a healthy weight—for good.
About Author
Jason Fung is a Canadian nephrologist and functional medicine advocate who promotes a low-carbohydrate high-fat diet and intermittent fasting.