When you need to lose fat and weight fast, there are few good approaches; most crash diets sacrifice either nutrition, health or muscle mass to make the scale weight plummet.

The Rapid Fat Loss Handbook is an integrated approach of nutrition and exercise to drop fat and bodyweight rapidly in the safest way possible. By focusing only on the essential nutrients, and doing the right kind of weight training, you can drop fat and bodyweight rapidly.

This comes in handy when you only have a short time to generate huge changes. The Rapid Fat Loss Diet approach can also be used to kickstart a more moderate fat loss diet.

Price: $39.95 + S/H

There are a lot of reasons that diets fail but one of the biggest is that people expect nothing less than perfection. Any break in their diet and they figure that they've failed completely; the post diet binge begins.

What if I told you that it didn't have to be this way, that taking a deliberately more flexible approach to your diet could make it work more effectively in the long term?

A Guide to Flexible Dieting can help you succeed on your diet this time around by teaching you how being less strict can make it work better. You'll learn how to incorporate free meals, refeeds and even a full diet break (a 1-2 week period where you go off your diet).

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With the exception of a small percentage of genetic elite, who never seem to understand what the big deal is, dieting to sub 10-12% bodyfat for men (19-22% for women) is a huge problem. Hunger, muscle loss, crashing hormones, impaired training performance, these things and more seem to conspire against you to keep you from ever getting as lean as you want to be.

That's where the UD2 comes in. Building on previous cyclical diets such as the original Ultimate Diet and Dan Duchaine's Bodyopus, the UD2 will give you the reasons why dieting to extreme leanness is so difficult (hint: thank evolution). More importantly, it'll give you the solution to those problems.

Note: the UD2 is an advanced diet for advanced dieters. If you're not a male at 12-15% bodyfat or a female about 20-24% bodyfat and you haven't been training for at least 6 months, this diet isn't for you.

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The Ketogenic Diet: A Complete Guide for the Dieter and Practitioner takes an in-depth look at the topic of low-carbohydrate/ketogenic diets.

This book serves as a reference for the dieter who has questions regarding the physiology, adaptations, and effects of a ketogenic diet. The contents are fully referenced for health professionals such as dietitians, physicians, personal trainers and nutritionists. Anyone interested in the ketogenic diet will find this book a valuable resource.

Note: This book does not cover the ketogenic diet for pediatric epilepsy. I highly suggest The Ketogenic Diet: A Treatment for Epilepsy, 3rd Edition (Paperback) by Freeman, Freeman and Kelly (link will take you to Amazon.com page)

Price: $49.95 + S/H

The drug bromocriptine is a nearly 30-year-old drug that has been classically used to treat Parkinson's disease and hyperprolactinemia.

As it turns out, it may also be able to trick the body (the brain specifically) into thinking that all systems are normal when you're dieting (and your body is adapting to the lower caloric intake).

This booklet is really about bodyweight regulation with the first 5-6 chapters discussing nothing but some of the systems the body uses to regulate bodyweight and how those systems change with dieting.

Bromocriptine happens to trick one of these systems and the second half of the book discusses the use of bromocriptine for a variety of uses. Other dopamine agonists such as pergolide are discussed as well.

Bromocriptine is an e-book which will be emailed to you upon purchase

Price: $29.95