Charles Runels, MD

To start losing weight and to keep it off, consider all of the following:

1. First, click here to read a free copy of Permanent Weight Loss:  The Main Points.  Please copy this document and keep it out where it serves as a reminder of the main points (it's about 10 pages long) and read it over and over. 
2. Listen to this CD "the #1 Weight Loss Secret."
3. Order these meal replacement shakes (#T1211 Meal Replacement Shake, Vanilla) and Metabolic Booster (#T1172 MNS® Max Appetite Control ). 
4. If you're considering gastroplasty (stomach surgery) then click here.
5. Consider combining the advice in these books.
6. The ultimate quick and easy diet food and the story of one of my patients
7. Here's some important medical research to consider if you're looking for the best way to lose weight.
8. Read this page about optimal thyroid function. 
9. Read and copy for free,   What's better than a New Year's Resolution?
10. Click here to learn more about how to find time for exercise.
11. Download this file for keeping records (using suggestions in Permanent Weight Loss:  The Main Points).
12. For personal help with designing a diet plan that includes weekly grocery list and daily menus that take into account your metabolism, age, and activity levels...go here.
13. Read this page if you are female and over 25 years old to learn how hormones can affect your weight.
14. Buy this book, if you are male.

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•  Next, browse through the books listed below.  Read one every 2 o 3 weeks.  Digest them and apply them and let them motivate you to use "skill power" instead of will power to change your body and your life.  Most people think they need will power and already know what they need to do (just eat less and exercise more).  But how much less do you eat and how do you do it without going hungry and which exercise and how much more do you do and how do you work it into your schedule?  Most people actually have all the will power they need but don't have the skills, habits, and knowledge that's needed to maintain a normal weight.  Start with the following books to increase your skills (and see me for coaching if needed).
• Buy this one and keep it with you.  Start with the chapter on smoothies and make them in the morning for breakfast and at night for a bed-time snack.  This book easily fits in your purse or brief case.  Most of the meals can be prepared in less than 5 minutes.

• Now, read two chapters in this book.  Chapter one will motivate you to learn the things you really need to know to lose weight and chapter 9 will motivate you with the real truth about exercise:

• For a periodic tune-up, it's hard to beat fasting and it's hard to explain some of the benefits (you have to find them for yourself).  This classic by Paul Bragg (the health guru who inspired Jack Lalanne) is the place I recommend that anyone start who wants to explore how to get the most benefit with the least discomfort.
• This one's gone out of print...buy a used copy or buy the book by the same title that was revised by his daughter, Patricia Bragg.

• Read for free:  Can you really lose weight while watching TV?  
• Click here for recent research findings describing weight loss strategies.
• Try this plan for super performance.  Would start here for learning the Zone way of eating for weight loss and maintenance.  For more rapid weight loss, very low carb works well for many but for maintenance I've found most people do better with this plan or something similar.

• These recipes work very well for convenience with the above book.

• Other services:  appetite suppression and personal coaching in your weight loss efforts.
• Good explanation of why growth hormone may be very important to maintaining weight and about risks and other benefits of replacement.