This sweet book is chock full of ideas of strategies for dealing with both emotional triggers as well as wyas to create and maintain your motivation toward your new lifestyle.

This book takes the Japanese business model of focusing on small steps toward big changes and translates the ideas toward lifestyle shifts. They help you understand how vital SMALL steps are toward permanent shifts in how you life. Set it next to your New Year's Resolutions, and pick your tiniest next step.

I love this one for it's focus on reasons to enjoy exercise. It has helped me get movement and exercise out of the should column (which never really worked for me anyway) into the I-want-to column. OK, well not every day, but most days, and that's syaing a lot for a world-class, Olympic couch potato.

I came across this book recently at a workshop given by the author, Dr. Edward Abramson. His message focuses on our lost ability to listen to what the body wants, and to be able to provide that. He suggests that it's not what you eat, but how you eat that allows you access to your own body intelligence and can assist you in creating your own ideal size and shape. He also includes additional inforamtion for parents on how to help your child develop and/or keep their own innate body awareness.