The Dorm Room Diet: The 10-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works

The 10-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works

The Dorm Room Diet

Revised and Updated Edition

Figuring out how to eat right and stay healthy on your own can be hard! Here is help from someone who's been there. Like many girls, Daphne Oz struggled with her weight as a teenager and hated the extreme restrictions of fad diets. She wanted to find a healthy lifestyle solution that would let her enjoy a full college experience without packing on the proverbial Freshman 15. But could it be done?

With the help of her father and grandfather, both cardiac surgeons, and her mother and grandmother, both holistic nutrition advisors, Daphne developed a whole new approach to managing her weight. How well did it work? You be the judge: In her first semester of college, she not only skipped the typical beer-and-pizza-fueled weight gain—she lost 10 pounds and became healthier than she had ever been.

The transition to college life presents a golden opportunity to seize control of your health for good, and now the secrets of Daphne's success are available to you in The Dorm Room Diet.

Get inspired. Get informed. Get started!

In this revised and updated edition of her national bestseller, Daphne shows you how to:

• stop eating out of emotional need
• navigate the most common danger zones for unhealthy eating, such as eating on the run, late-night studying, sporting events, and parties
• get the exercise you need, even in your dorm room
• choose vitamins and supplements wisely

Daphne also includes recipes that you can prepare in your dorm room or kitchen (including vegan and gluten-free dishes), and an informative, new section on "conscious eating," explaining how your food choices affect your health and the planet.

The Dorm Room Diet will empower you to use your newfound independence to create a healthy lifestyle while in college—and for the rest of your life.

The national bestseller, now updated with a fresh look and new material and recipes–written especially for college students by a college student who avoided the Freshman 15 with her own healthy lifestyle plan.

As a teenager, Daphne Oz struggled with her weight, trying fad diets with extreme restrictions difficult to stick with, and always ended up frustrated, right back where she started. Taking the opportunity of the major transition to college life and living on her own, Daphne developed her own healthy eating and exercise plan that would not only help her avoid the "Freshman 15," but help her lose 10 pounds in her first semester.

In an easy-to-follow 10-step program, The Dorm Room Diet addresses issues unique to college life and its danger zones—eating on the run, late-night studying, sporting events, and parties—with practical advice for making good choices in any situation. Daphne also coaches students on dorm room-ready workouts, vitamins and supplements, the prevalence of alcohol and beer, and coping with stress.

This completely revised edition features a new chapter on conscious eating and an additional recipe section, including vegan and gluten-free dishes that you can prepare in your dorm or kitchen.

Publishers Weekly

Daughter of bestselling cardiologist Mehmet Oz (You: The Owner's Manual), the young Oz struggled with weight as a teen. Now a Princeton sophomore, she offers a range of advice for college girls hoping to sidestep the "Freshman 15." Those late-night study binges, tailgating and sports events, parties, TV watching and heavy talks can lead even clever Ivy Leaguers down the road to weight gain. No doubt inspired by her dad (who penned the introduction), Oz offers an eight-step program that advocates sensible, healthful eating, exercise and vitamin use. While warning against the pitfalls of high-calorie foods like alcohol, full-fat cheese and simple carbs, she okays coffee in moderation, bread dipped in olive oil, and chocolate. Balance is crucial, Oz notes, pointing out that one night of partying won't spoil everything if it's followed by healthy eating the next day. Punctuating her text with practical tips (stock up on wholesome snacks such as almonds and veggies before snuggling in for a study marathon, the author addresses her female peers in a breezy, conversational style. This is a great book to pack between the extra-long twin sheets and study lamp. (Sept.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Daphne Oz is a 2008 graduate of Princeton University, and the author of the national bestseller The Dorm Room Diet and of The Dorm Room Diet Planner. She has appeared on Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, and The Tyra Banks Show, and blogs twice monthly at Oprah.com. She is also an in-demand speaker on health, diet, and wellness issues facing teens and young adults.

The daughter of Dr. Mehmet Oz and his wife Lisa, co-authors of the #1 New York Times bestselling You books, Daphne grew up in Cliffside Park, NJ. She currently resides in New York City.