Habit That!: How You Can Health Up in Just 5 Minutes a Day

by MD Jaime Hope

Overview

Healthy living nowadays seems to require spending one hour a day exercising, one hour doing yoga, and one hour shopping for or cooking an organic meal (plus eight hours of sleeping and some quality time with family). Who has time for that? If you have just five minutes a day, Dr. Jaime Hope can help you be healthier and still live your life. In Habit That!, Dr. Hope will teach you how to fight against waning motivation and overcome the inevitable roadblocks on the path to healthy living. You'll discover how simple, sustainable habits can reinforce the four pillars of health-eat, sleep, burn, and release-and support you in your daily life. Whether you're a busy mother of three or a recent retiree looking to get the most out of your twilight years, this book offers a range of tips and exercises you can use to start making a difference in your life today. Go live it up!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781544512617
Publisher:	Lioncrest Publishing
Publication date:	12/30/2018
Pages:	382
Sales rank:	404,494
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Dr. Jaime Hope is a dual board-certified physician working outside of Detroit, Michigan, in one of the busiest emergency departments in the country. In over twelve years on the job, she has learned that no matter what brought her patients to the ER, they all want the same thing: to live happier, healthier lives. Today, whether she's helping patients, teaching future doctors, or engaging the local community, Dr. Hope is showing others how to create better habits and make healthy living fun, practical, and accessible.

Editorial Reviews

2019-02-02

A self-help debut that aims to encourage healthy habits.

Hope, an emergency room doctorbased in the Detroit area, offers an informative, conversational book that's built around easy-to-adopt "small, sustained daily efforts" to improve one's well-being. Although some readers may find her stated platform of "five minutes a day…to create a healthy habit" a bit simplistic, it effectively establishes an approachable tone. Part I lays groundwork with some basic psychological concepts, such as how to overcome obstacles, set goals, and become motivated to develop healthy routines. Hope employs an informal, direct style, combined with relevant examples, to help readers find their reason (or "real why") for wanting to change. She emphasizes easy-to-accomplish "quick wins," such as drinking more water, but she also recognizes that making lasting change is a long-term process. Along the way, Hope introduces four fictional patients: Sarah, Bill, Mary, and George. Each represents a different life stage—a mom in her 30s with elderly parents, an entrepreneur in his 40s, an empty nester in her 50s, and a retiree in his 60s, respectively—and these neatly define the book's intended audience. The patients are useful in demonstrating how to apply "the four pillars of health"—"eat," "sleep," "burn" (via exercise), and "release" (of stress)—detailed in Part II. Hope has a knack for writing in everyday terms, whether she's explaining portion size, the effects of sleep deprivation, practical approaches to exercise, or how to de-stress. To keep things flowing, she cleverly inserts a "Nerd Alert" when more technical detail is necessary. Her self-deprecation regarding the inclusion of these sidebars is charming: "I'm a huge nerd, and I couldn't be happier about it," she writes. "Sometimes I can't help but throw down and geek out on some science." The four pillars themselves are nothing new, but Hope doles out authoritative advice regarding each. The fictional patients nicely provide "top ten" lists of tips at the ends of their chapters, and the book's conclusion is strongly positive and encouraging. There are also five helpful appendices, including one that lists "five-minute health-ups," such as writing down one's food goals.

A bright, perky, and artfully executed lifestyle guide.

Kirkus Reviews