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5 Self-Help Books to Read Now

By Liesl Schillinger
Our Lady of Weight Loss by Janice Taylor
Our Lady of Weight Loss
By Janice Taylor

It takes a kooky kind of genius to turn weight loss into an art project, and Taylor's soaking in it. Six years ago, she began to turn food into collages and dioramas. She shed 50 pounds in the process and has kept it off. See if her idiosyncratic diet plan will work for you.

Think self-help books are for nincompoops? One reader confesses...

 

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