Weight Loss Confidential: How Teens Lose Weight and Keep It Off and What They Wish Parents Knew »

Anne M. Fletcher, M.S., R.D., is the author of Thin for Life, the Thin for Life Daybook, Eating Thin for Life, and Sober for Good. As a registered dietitian, she has counseled hundreds of clients with weight problems in clinical settings. Fletcher was executive editor of the Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter and a contributing editor for Prevention. She has won several National Health Information Awards as well as awards from the American Medical Writers Association and the American Psychological Association. She has raised three teenagers.

As any parent knows, teens listen to teens—more than to anyone else. Hailed by leading doctors, nutritionists, and journalists, Weight Loss Confidential is the only book to go to the real experts on teen weight loss: adolescents who have succeeded. Using the approach that made her book Thin for Life an award-winning bestseller, Anne M. Fletcher interviews more than one hundred teens who have lost weight—some as much as one hundred pounds—to discover what works. Bolstered with the latest scientific research, Weight Loss Confidential challenges conventional assumptions and empowers teens and parents in the struggle against our number-one health problem today.

Inside Weight Loss Confidential:

9 myths about weight loss

Top 10 reasons for teen weight gain

Teens’ advice to parents on how to help

10 teen strategies for changing eating habits

6 tactics parents often resort to that make things worse—and what to do instead