Book excerpt: This book is designed to help women create a healthy lifestyle that they will actually stick to. To get real, lasting results, we need to take a different approach to health and weight loss. Diets as we know them usually only provide a short-term fix to what is actually a lifelong journey. Diets are temporary changes to the way we eat and are quickly abandoned when (or if) we reach or goal, or we simply give up. What we need to do is make a lifestyle change. Unless we are willing to change the underlying behaviors and attitudes toward what we eat and how we move, we will never master a healthy lifestyle. I want women to be empowered to write their own program. This is a lifestyle that you have to own and live with on the daily. I want you to find what works for you. My job is to guide you as you begin this journey, to teach you tips and tricks to incorporate into your healthy lifestyle, hold you accountable and support you as you overcome the roadblocks to making a lifelong commitment to your health and happiness.