Chicken Soup for the Soul is a series of books, usually featuring a collection of short and dense inspirational stories and motivational essays.

Readers around the world enjoy Chicken Soup more than thirty-six languages because of the effort of Claude Choquette and Luc Jutras at Montreal Contacts.

Throughout Chicken Soup for the Dieter’s Soul you’ll find delicious recipes anyone can enjoy, taken from cookbooks authored by two physicians with a special interest in diet and health. Diana Schwarzbein, a California endocrinologist and internist, developed The Schwarzbein Principle in the early 1990s and has since helped thousands of type 2 diabetics and insulin-resistant clients reclaim their health and take control of their well-being. Andrew Larson, a specialist in bariatric surgery, teamed up with his wife, Ivy Ingram Larson, a fitness and nutrition expert, to create a diet and exercise program after Ivy was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her twenties. The Gold Coast Cure is a life-saving program for anyone living with autoimmune or inflammatory diseases. In addition to stories, we’ve included a resource section to help you maximize the effectiveness of your weight-management program

Although dieting is a solitary, personal process, we offer you Chicken Soup for the Dieter’s Soul as a source of companionship, motivation, insight and inspiration, empathy and encouragement. And we wish you—no matter what the number on that scale may be—a healthy, strong and vibrant life, lived to the fullest.