Ravenous: A Food Lover's Journey from Obsession to Freedom by Dayna Macy. How can a food lover and lifelong overeater learn to be satisfied? A beautifully written memoir that will appeal to anyone who has an emotional attachment to food. (Look for an excerpt on the dailySpark on March 1!)  Cook This, Not That! 350-Calorie Meals: Hundreds of New Quick and Healthy Meals to Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds--or More, by David Zinczenko, Maurice Goudeket, and Matt Goulding. A cookbook from the team behind "Eat This, Not That," this book shows you how to lose weight and makeover your favorite restaurant meals.  Fried: Why You Burn Out and How to Revive, by Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D. Learn to revive your life energy when the power dims, from one of the leading experts on stress, spirituality, and the mind/body connection. She has a doctorate in medical sciences from Harvard Medical School and is a licensed clinical psychologist.  The Carb Lovers Diet: Eat What You Love, Get Slim For Life, from the editors of Health magazine  Just 10 LBS: Easy Steps to Weighing What You Want (Finally), by Brad Lamm. "10 easy steps to help you heal your relationship with yourself and thus change your relationship with food, breaking destructive cycles of emotional and binge eating." From the Founder and CEO of Change Institute and Intervention Specialists, a crisis intervention group helping family and friends enable a resistant loved one to make change using his “invitational” intervention method whereby the loved one is invited to his or her own intervention.  Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears by Pema Chodron, who helps us see how certain habits of mind tend to “hook” us and get us stuck in states of anger, blame, self-hatred, and addiction. The good news is that once we start to recognize these patterns, they instantly begin to lose their hold on us and we can begin to change our lives for the better.  The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin, who had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project. What are you reading right now? 
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