Inexperienced Mountain's program does encourage women to eat more entire foods by showing them how satisfying and scrumptious these foods will be. Its kitchen turns out meals like walnut-pesto- encrusted Vermont-raised rooster with roasted butternut squash and arugula salad, lemon-soy grilled flank steak with garlicky mashed potatoes and lemony asparagus, and bean-and-veggie wraps with chipotle-cucumber salad and carrot bisque.

Make peace with movement: Many people have a relationship with exercise that's similar to their relationship to meals. Here's to letting go of dieting - and choosing from the menu of sanity, moderation, honesty and peace of mind. Resistance to dieting when weight loss is needed is available in one million forms