When it comes to dieting, time is on your side. Studies have shown that it's the small, easy changes you make in eating that have the most dramatic and lasting results. For instance, make one or two minor changes in your eating or life-style habits, and over the course of three months, you will begin to see significant weight drop.

Katherine Tallmadge, MA, RD, one of the country's leading nutritionists, has compiled 154 easy tips, substitutions, mental tricks, strategies, and inspirations that have helped her clients shed from 10 to 50 pounds a year-effortlessly and without feeling deprived. Including 26 Fast and Delicious "Batch Recipes" from world-renowned chefs such as Jacques Pépin and Roberto Donna, Diet Simple teaches you how to permanently lose weight and change your life for the better while balancing the needs of health, career and family.

During her twenty years as a weight-loss and nutrition counselor in Washington, D.C., Tallmadge has discovered that modifying small habits is easy and the most common way to lose weight without even trying. Over time, the extra calories saved or burned add up to staggering weight loss. This is the Diet Simple approach.