Shape Your Life: 4 Weeks to a Better Body--And a Better Life

by Barbara Harris (Editor), Angela Hynes

With nearly five million people reading each issue, Shape is the #1 magazine for today’s health-conscious women. Its mission and ever-present philosophy Being fit means more than having thin thighs and well-defined abs it means living a balanced life. In Shape Your Life, Barbara Harris, pinpoints the seven goals Shape considers the benchmarks of total fitness Workouts, Diet, Spirituality, Rest, Emotions, Body Image, and Work and provides a custom-designed, four-week, personal transformation program that all women can use to make over their lives forever. Brimming with photographs and results-producing programs for each element of fitness, Shape Your Life overflows with expert advice and inspirational wisdom 1. Your details programs ranging from The Ultra-Efficient Cardio Workout to the Fit-in-20-Minutes Workout; from The Body-Confident Workout to The Mind-Body Makeover. 2. Your unveils The Shape Food Pyramid and Shape Pyramid Meal plan, healthy kitchen makeovers, shopping guides, and more. 3. Your offers soul-nourishing yoga and meditation exercises and steps to becoming more connected with others and with the natural world. 4. Your explains the health benefits of taking a rest now and then breaks, vacations, naps, and sleep with tips, techniques, and mini-retreats for getting more healthful rest. 5. Your reveals how to survive modern life with your sanity intact, reduce stress, identify triggers that cause anxiety, and balance your emotions. 6. Your Body provides the keys to building a positive view of your body at any size or shape, as well as special confidence-boosting workouts. Your explores how to make your work, however you define it (corporate manager, self-employed businesswoman, stay-at-home mom), more productive and personally satisfying. Destined to become an indispensable journal of self-discovery and achievement, Shape Your Life highlights Shape® magazine’s positive, uplifting, encouraging In just four weeks, you can master the seven elements of fitness to get into your best shape—and create your best life—ever.

331 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2002

Reviews

[Stefanie Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Amy Sjoquist · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was a bit too fluffy. Not much depth, just lightly touches on everything like the magazine.

[Lesley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Same old advise they give every year