Keeping Your Resolutions

It’s that time of year again. You’ve made your resolutions for the new year, possibly you’ve written them down or typed them up to remind you of what you hope to accomplish in coming months. As you work to achieve your goals in 2010, this 2-part blog series, we share 12 titles currently available for purchase from North Atlantic to help strengthen your mind, body, and spirit, while improving the world around you at the same time.

Today, we deal with the most obvious and popular resolutions for 2010 – eating right/losing weight, getting fit, and finally, going green. While none of these three goals are easily achieved, we offer guides to get started, keep up the good fight, and even maintain success once its reached. Be sure to check back for tomorrow’s post, where we explore books to help us gain a deeper understanding of people, nurture our spiritual sides, and plan for an uncertain future.

Eating Right

Raw Food Lifestyle by Ruthann Russo, PhD

Using examples from her own life, Russo lays out a practical plan for making the switch that starts with realizing the need to change one’s diet (and health), and then stresses small dietary changes to discover what raw foods work, and assessing reactions.

Macrobiotics for Life by Simon Brown

This book takes readers through simple steps to bring macrobiotics into everyday living, including tips for eating out, saving time in the kitchen, dealing with food cravings—and a variety of menu plans to help readers get started, including a time-saver weekly menu.

Reaching Fitness Goals

The Anatomy of Pilates by Paul Massey

With two-page spreads featuring detailed anatomical illustrations and detailed descriptions of various exercises, including the particular breathing pattern to be used, a list of the specific muscles being worked, visualization techniques, complementary exercises, and more, The Anatomy of Pilates is an accessible, authoritative guide for current and prospective teachers of Pilates, practitioners at all skill levels, physical therapists, and other health professionals.

Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat by Ori Hofmekler

Written in simple, lay terms for people of all fitness levels to understand, Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat offers smart strategies for every stage of muscle building and fat burning. From understanding how to take advantage of hunger to stimulate growth, burn fat, and boost brain power, to busting through fitness and weightloss plateaus, improving metabolic rates, and improving muscle strength and overall health, this book offers readers a whole-body and lifestyle makeover for maximum performance.

Going Green

Green Earth Guide: Traveling Naturally in France by Dorian Yates

The first in a new travel series, Green Earth Guide: Traveling Naturally in France provides a one-stop shop for travelers looking to make eco-friendly choices when visiting France, including current, comprehensive listings of health food stores and farmers’ markets, public transit information, alternative health care facilities, green businesses, organic vineyards, renewable energy resources, yoga and spiritual centers, national parks, and other green places of interest.

Green Design by Marcus Fairs

From vast architectural projects to modest one-off pieces of salvaged furniture, award-winning design journalist and Dezeen.com founder Marcus Fairs shows how the design world is responding to the environmental challenges of this century. Fairs offers readers glimpses of green-living innovation in virtually every aspect of life, including recent key developments in sustainable design as seen in lighting, houseware, furniture, textiles, products, interiors, architecture, and transportation.

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Have tips on how you have achieved or plan to keep your goals for the new year? Share them in our comments box, and you could get featured in an upcoming blog post!