I found the Shape up America website by accident. I was looking up resting metabolic rate and stumbled across Shape Up America's website. It's fantastic. They give it to you straight. They talk about portions vs. servings. They give real examples with all the nutrition info right there for each ingredient in a meal. It's almost a 12 step approach but in a good way. Each part leads to the next and much of the information falls along the same lines as WW.
Johanna Edwards is a great author. She wrote The Next Big Thing, How to be Cool, and Your Big Break.
The Next Big Thing: Think biggest looser meets big brother. Kat decides to go on a game show called From Fat to Fabulous. She'd been talking to a guy on line and told him she's size 4. She wants to lose weight before she sees him, only to her surprise she meets him before she's ready. This was the first book of Edwards' I'd read. Great writing. Easy to read and get into the story.
How to be Cool: It's laugh-out-loud funny. Kylie grew up being teased in high school for her weight issues. She lost 75# and started teaching "Cool" classes. She thinks that being thin will solve all her problems. Then out of the blue her license plates finally arive from the DMV only she got someone else's plates: BIG ONE they say. Automatically she assumes some frat boy or porn star is missing their personalized plates and she is too embarrassed to drive around with them on her car. It could be worse, she thinks. It could say fat ass! This book is great. Kylie tells it like it is from the point of view of someone who lost weight and still faces the same issues with her body image, food, friends, romance, etc. that she did before. At "Not Thirty, AKA 29" she feels just like she did as a teenager. Great, light-hearted reading. I finished it in about 2 days because it was so funny, I couldn't put it down.