DOWN SIZE

Ted Spiker, coauthor of the bestselling You series as well as the Abs Diet series reveals his own lifelong battle with the bulge and gives readers twelve truths for helping readers achieve successful weight loss.

Ted Spiker is a professional fitness writer, a contributing editor to Men’s Health, and the coauthor of several bestselling diet and health books. Like millions of Americans, however, Ted’s been engaged in a lifelong battle with his weight. In DOWN SIZE, Ted takes readers on an inspiring, candid, and comical journey, exploring the art and science of weight loss, his own “big guy” struggles as a pear-shaped man in a not-so-pear shaped world, and the vast knowledge about health and exercise he’s amassed over the years. He reveals twelve truths about successful weight loss, including:

*Use Your Bottom Moments to Rise Up
*Dream Your Own Diet
*Go Shorter. Go Harder. (when working out)

Combining science, personal stories, interviews with experts, and advice on how readers can put the truths to work for them, DOWN SIZE is an entertaining, field-tested, and research-based look at how to finally find happiness with your body.

Ted Spiker is the co-author of the bestselling YOU series with Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen and the bestselling Abs Diet series with Men’s Health editor-in-chief David Zinczenko. An associate professor of journalism at the University of Florida, Spiker is also a contributing editor to Men’s Health Magazine and the author of “The Big Guy Blog” for RunnersWorld.com. His work has been published in Men’s Health, Women’s Health, O: The Oprah Magazine, Outside, Fortune, Runner’s World, AARP The Magazine, InStyle, Cosmopolitan, and many other publications.