If you’re looking to lose weight, buying a weight loss book or cookbook can be a great place to start.
However, knowing which book to buy can be challenging.
While many books promise quick results by drastically cutting calories or restricting entire food groups, these diet plans are difficult to maintain and can foster negative relationships with food and your body.
Instead, we rounded up the best books that focus on sustainable and realistic approaches to weight loss.
Keep reading to see our picks of the best cookbook & weight loss books.
A quick look at the best weight loss books & cookbooks
- Best New York times seller: PlantYou: 140+ Ridiculously Easy, Amazingly Delicious Plant-Based Oil-Free Recipes
- Best overall weight loss book: Embrace You
- Best weight loss cookbook: Fit Men Cook
- Best weight loss cookbook for athletes: Run Fast. Cook Fast. Eat Slow.
- Best cookbook for meal prep: Skinnytaste Meal Prep
- Best intuitive eating book: Intuitive Eating
- Best book for healing your relationship with food: Anti-Diet
- Best mindful eating book: The Mindful Eating Workbook
- Best plant-based diet book: The Plant-Based Weight Loss Solution
- Best weight loss book with positive affirmations: 365 Days of Positive Self-Talk for Weight-Loss
- Best weight loss book for women: Fit Gurl: The Total-Body Turnaround Program
- Best weight loss book for women with PCOS: The PCOS Workbook
