Thin Is Just a Four-Letter Word: Living Fit for All Shapes and Sizes
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ISBN: 0316339113 / Publisher: Little Brown & Co, January 1997
The founder of an innovative exercise program for inactive and overweight people tells her story and details her program of exercise, behavior modification, and group support
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Since 1992, Dee Hakala has lost 100 pounds and 36 inches - and kept them off; she's dropped five dress sizes; and her health problems have disappeared. And most important, she's launched a revolutionary fitness program combining exercise, behavior modification, and group support that's designed for people who are overweight, medically supervised, or inactive. The New Face of Fitness is for those thousands of Americans who, just like Dee, have felt left behind by the diet-and-fitness industry.This is Dee's own story, a tale of perseverance that explains how she pulled herself out of despair and compulsive eating and began to change, step-by-step - first her own life, then hundreds, and now thousands, of other lives through her New Face of Fitness programs, launched with the help of Nike's inaugural Fitness Innovation Award and now operating in YWCAs and other facilities across the country. From Tampa to Topeka, from Cleveland to Kauai, Dee is changing the face of fitness. Her message is powerful and exhilarating: You don't have to be a hardbody to be healthy. And self-esteem and well-being begin inside your body and work their way out.
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