While you're not going to find any special tricks here that will make you instantly fit. What you will find is all the central information necessary to make what you want possible. "The Happy Book" is the size and weight of a text book, and it's has a hard jacket that makes it easily accessible for writing. You won't be able to carry it around in your gym bag without making special arrangements, but you will feel like you have a fitness instructor waiting at home. All of the exercises, meals, and formulas for calculating body proportions are made so that they can easily be done at home, so you can shove that Wii balance board in the closet. Face it, you never used it anyway.

"The Happy Body" is also one of the first dieting books that I've ever seen which takes into account the type of body you have. Rather than assuming you are meant to be as thin as a orange slice, or that you're already obese, the Gregoreks devote a lot of time to teaching you how to gauge your body according to what is healthy for you. Learning this alone is a massive step toward understand what it takes to be healthy, since often diets just tell you flatly what to do rather than helping you to understand exactly why you're doing it.

After devoting so much time to understanding the root causes of malnutrition the Gregoreks show you how to devise and implement your own 8-week workout and diet program. The system works in the 3 parts. The first is mainly devoted to study of the human body and of health in general, which most dieting books only gloss over. The second is actually a workbook that gives you the tools you'll need to build the body you want. The final part is a cookbook that you'll definitely want to use while you go through the "Happy Body" experience. Afterward, once you understand how to nourish your body, you can step outside of the range of foods given and become your own happy body cook!