Praise -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- 1 - Facing the Facts to Save Your Family -- You Do Have the Power to Save Your Family -- Family Wake-Up Call -- Is It Genetics? -- The Choice Is Still Yours -- My Story -- Why It Takes a Family -- The Four Habits of Healthy Families -- A Plan for All Budgets -- You CAN Do This -- Congratulations, Let's Get Started! -- 2 - What Kind of Food Family Are You? -- Families Can Change -- The Genetics Excuse -- The End of Family Denial -- The Denial Antidote: Honest Assessment -- The Five HFL Family Assessment Tools -- HFL Assessment Tool #1: Family Health Tree -- HFL Assessment Tool #2: Individual Health Profile -- HFL Assessment Tool #3: Activity Profiles -- HFL Assessment Tool #4: Family Food Intervention Stage (FFIS) Profile -- HFL Assessment Tool #5: Family Food-Style Questionnaire -- Your Family Food "Values" -- 3 - Eat Like a Cow and Other Easy Ways Your Family Can Become a "Healthy Family ... -- The Behaviors of a Healthy Family for Life -- 1. Which Species Is Your Family? Eating Like a Cow Isn't Half Bad. -- 2. Food Habits Die Hard: This Movie Has a Lot of Sequels! -- 3. Palate Re-training Is the Name of the Nutrition Game -- 4. You Can Learn to Work With Your Metabolism -- 5. You Don't Have to "Open a Restaurant" to Please Everybody! -- 6. Hunger Can Fool You! -- 7. Real Food Makes Life Easier (Really) -- 8. Everyone's Not Equal When It Comes to Weight Loss-But Everyone Has the Same Tools -- 9. You're Never Too Young to Start -- 10. Small Choices Add Up to Big, Long-Term Success -- Ten HFL To-Dos -- 4 - The "Yes, No, Maybe So" Food Choice Plan -- Yes, No, Maybe So Is Born -- Your Family Can Have a Healthy Attitude Toward Food -- Your Family's New Food Foundation -- Yeah, Yes Foods -- No (Not Never) Foods -- Maybe So Foods -- Now What? Getting Started -- "Quickie" HFL Meal Plan.

"Quickie" HFL Grazing Plan -- Basic Meal Plan Options -- More Meal Plan Options -- Meal Planning Tips -- The Practical Side of Yes, No, Maybe So -- YNMS Takes Time-and Common Sense -- Take It Easy -- 5 - Focusing on "Yes" Foods: The Healthy Family Food Superstars -- Why Say Yes? -- Your Family Food Attitude Makeover -- What Makes a Superstar or Yes Food -- The Fiber Fullness Factor -- Choosing Yes Foods -- Kids Can Say Yes to Fruit -- Preparing Yes Foods -- Sneaking Fruit and Veggies into the Mix -- Patience, Patience, Patience -- Yes Foods and Weight Loss -- Fruits Plus Grains Formula for Weight Loss -- Yes Foods and Portion Control -- Hunger vs. Thirst -- Yes Food Success -- HFL Program Yes Foods List -- "Maybe So" Fruits and Vegetables -- 6 - Healthy Habit #1: Plan Together -- Healthy Families Are (Somewhat) Organized -- Planning to Shop with YNMS -- When to Make Your Family List and Shop -- My Sample Shopping Lists -- Easy Meals to Go with the Lists -- Sample HFL Breakfast Meals -- Sample HFL Lunch Meals -- Sample HFL Dinner Meals -- More Meal Plan Guidelines -- Shopping the HFL Way -- How Healthy Is Your Pantry? -- How Healthy Is Your Fridge? -- Planning to Eat Out -- Eating Ethnic (and Healthy) -- Fast Food, Good Food? -- Planning For Parties -- A Final Word about Planning Snacks -- 7 - Healthy Habit #2: Prepare Together -- HFL Food Preparation Rules -- Amy's Weekly Prep Plan -- What Is Your Style? -- Family Affair in the Kitchen -- Three-Step Prep for Shopping Day -- Try These Rub-Ons -- Prep Your Refrigerator -- Amy's "Quick Attack" Meal Prep (Because We Moms Need a Battle Plan) -- Final Health, Sanity and Timesaver Tips -- 8 - Healthy Habit #3: Portion Together -- Big Servings, Big Problems -- Changing Your Family's Portion Perception -- Ten Tips to Encourage Family Portion Control -- Amy's Sample Day Menu with Portions -- What Works for Me.

9 - Healthy Habit #4: Play Together -- Why Move Your Family to Move? -- How Much Is Enough? -- More Is More -- Your Family's HFL Activity Program -- HFL Family Activity Guidelines -- How To Change Your Family's Attitude -- Tips for Family Activity Success -- A Word About Strength Training -- Combining Weight and Aerobic Training -- Calorie-Burning Reality Check -- Using Goals to Spur the Exercise Experience -- 10 - The Right Way (and Wrong Way) to Support Each Other -- Threatening the Status Quo -- Positive vs. Negative Comments -- Spousal Sabotage -- More Tricks for Dealing with Sabotage -- Buddy Up for Support -- With or Without a Biological Family -- How to Handle the Skeptics -- Celebrating Success -- Quieting Your Inner Saboteur -- Supporting Success and Making It Fun -- 11 - Don't Fight the Feelings -- Are You an Emotional Eater? -- The Stress Connection Is Real -- Four Strategies for Emotional Eating -- You May Need an Appetite Adjustment -- Creating Healthy Behavior Patterns That Last -- 12 - There Are No Perfect Families: The Art of Making Realistic Goals and ... -- What Really Works -- Setting Family Goals -- Examples of Family Goals -- Setting Personal Goals -- Examples of Reasonable Goals for Kids -- Time Frames: How Far, How Fast? -- Real-Life HFL Family Story: Goals from Age Four and Up -- Real-Life HFL Family Story: Progress in Spite of Challenge -- Don't Let Environment or Economics Stop You -- The Realities of Family Dynamics -- Setting Your Family Up for Success -- Achieving Your Goals -- 13 - Secrets for Changing Kids' and Teens' Habits -- Five Mistakes to Avoid -- Kids Need to Be Active -- Talking to Your Kids -- Understanding What They Go Through -- A Word About Babies and Toddlers -- No Singling Out -- Take It from the Kids -- Yes, No, Maybe So Food Choices -- HFL Recipes -- Appendices -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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