Core Balance Diet

Hay House is proud to present our latest release from Marcelle Pick, The Core Balance Diet: 4 Weeks to Boost Your Metabolism and Lose Weight for Good. We are also offering you a chance to win a spa weekend getaway and a 2-hour consultation with Marcelle! Go Now »
Is your weight gain making you miserable?Have you noticed that you're packing on pounds in unpleasant new places?Or is the scale—and the way you feel about yourself—just stuck, no matter how much you diet and exercise? Pick up this book and toss out the old way of thinking about yourself and your weight. The Core Balance Diet heralds a whole new chapter in weight loss, proving how easy it is to work with your body and the right foods—not against them—to rid yourself of weight and unhealthy habits for good. Marcelle Pick, co-founder of Women to Women—one of the first clinics in the country devoted to providing health care for women by women—draws upon decades of experience, her patients' and her own, to solve the mystery of stubborn weight gain. "In my own life and in my 25 years of practice, I've experienced core balance as the best gift that a woman can give to herself. It is a gift that keeps on giving through thick and thin, during good times and bad, wellness and illness, prosperity and misfortune, joy and grief. The music of life is always changing: core balance gives you the resilience and energy to keep dancing, whatever the beat." In clear terms, Pick connects the dots between self-knowledge, self-care, and the ability to lose weight, extending the concept of body-mind-spirit to demonstrate why and how a woman's biography becomes her biology.

You can also enter to win a spa weekend getaway and a 2-hour consultation with Marcelle Pick! Click here to enter. The Core Balance Diet is a medically based strategy designed to restore your body's equilibrium and return you to a healthy, sustainable weight. The method is divided into four stages to help you assess your needs; calm down your stressed-out system; clear the clutter from your diet, lifestyle, and emotions; and then identify and treat the core imbalances that are getting in the way of your weight loss right now.
Stage I—Tuning In: To lay the groundwork for your month-long journey to balance, you'll learn about the science behind the Core Balance method and the reasons why it works.
Stage II—The Core Balance Essential Plan: Here you'll learn the basic eating and action plan that forms the backbone of the Core Balance method. This is the plan you'll follow for the first 14 days of the program.
Stage III—The Core Balance Custom Plan: This stage of the program targets the individual core imbalances that are making it hard for you to lose weight and keeping you from getting the results you want. You'll take the Core Imbalance Quiz (click here to preview) to discover which of the six major imbalances is affecting you most significantly right now. Then you'll find a customized eating and action plan to follow for the next 14 days of the program.
Stage IV—Core Balance for Life: Here is where you'll find the key to keeping weight off: the integration of your physical self with your inner life.Far from depriving yourself on this program, you'll eat—often and well—enjoying delicious recipes made from whole foods that give your body the support it needs to heal. At the same time, you'll start to explore underlying issues and emotional patterns that may be getting in your way, as Pick connects self-care with self-knowledge to show you the way to lasting wellness. In this four-week breakthrough plan, you will learn to:
Tune in to your wisest teacher, your body.
Turn down physical and emotional stress, both of which make it harder for your body to feel safe enough to let go of extra weight.
Treat yourself to deliciously yummy food and supplements that will ensure you are getting optimal nutrition to restore balance and health to your physiology and help you lose weight.
Tune out negativity in the form of self-sabotaging thoughts and actions.
Take care of yourself on every level: body, mind, and spirit."By the end of this next month, you should be on your way to feeling totally, tremendously, top-of-your-game, tantalizingly terrific! I hope you will take heart from the truth that losing weight is not as simple as you've been led to believe. But it is doable—infinitely doable. And it all starts with a month of your attention. So now you need to ask yourself: do you think getting healthy and fit for the rest of your life is worth a month of your attention? I hope you do, because I certainly do. So let's start now!"

"If you're tired of the same old diet books that promise transformation and give you disappointment, then do something new and nourishing for yourself. Learn from a woman who has dedicated her life to providing the kind of holistic care women need to get to the root of why they can't create the balanced, healthy body they long for. The Core Balance Diet takes you through the process Marcelle has used with hundreds of patients—a process that works. I highly recommend it!" —Cheryl Richardson, author of The Art of Extreme Self-Care and Life Makeovers "The Core Balance Diet is full of practical and accurate information that can help women regain metabolic balance so they can lose weight and gain vitality." —Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of The Secret Pleasures of Menopause and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom "Marcelle Pick is on the forefront of a revolution in women's health and weight loss. The Core Balance Diet is brilliant—it gives women all the tools they need to change their lives forever." —Frank Lipman, M.D., author of Spent and Total Renewal "In The Core Balance Diet, Marcelle Pick has created a sensible program for women to finally reach and maintain their optimal weight. She takes a holistic look at our lives and lifestyle to get us the best results. Ultimately, what's best for our weight is best for our overall well-being. This book will be a boon to many. I'm thrilled that it's available!" —Liz Lipski, Ph.D., CCN, CHN, Director of Doctoral Studies, Hawthorn University; and author of Digestive Wellness and Digestive Wellness for Children