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Written & audio book narrated by Leslie Sansone - Abridged Nonfiction - 3 COMPACT DISCS

Publisher, Hachette Audio (January 2005)

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Losing weight has never been easier or more fun than with Leslie Sansone's WALK AWAY THE POUNDS. For over twenty-five years, Leslie has helped more women get off the couch and onto their feet than anyone else in the fitness industry. Her secret? If you can walk, you can achieve the weight-loss goals you dream about...with none of the intimidation or negative messages that have stopped you from succeeding before.

Whether you are a beginner or have been walking with Leslie for years, whether you are a teen or a senior or somewhere in between, you will see results. You will lose real weight, and keep it off-twenty pounds, forty, sixty, or even more. All you need is fifteen minutes a day for starters, two feet, and a willing attitude. There is no fancy equipment to buy, no fad diet to follow, and no fitness club to join.

The revolutionary program in WALK AWAY THE POUNDS is designed to keep everybody on the path to success, especially those who have never been able to complete a weight-loss plan before. It's a simpler approach to fitness, one that can change your life. Leslie's step-by-step workbook format sets up the program day by day. You just wake up, flip open the page, and follow the directions. You'll get a combination of in-home walking (that's right, you can do it right from the comfort of your own living room!), simple strength training, motivational breakthroughs, and commonsense advice to help you burn fat, tone muscle, reduce stress, avoid illness, shake off the blues, and boost your energy level sky high.

It's never been easier. Women all across America have dropped between 20 and 150 pounds with Leslie Sansone. Now you can too!

About the About the Author: "Walking in your home is simply the most effective way to get in shape!"

Fitness shouldn't be intimidating," is Leslie's Sansone's philosophy for weight-loss and exercise programs. It is the foundations of what has become the fastest growing indoor fitness program in the country: IN-HOME WALKING.

Leslie Sansone has always been concerned with fitness. Seeing people struggle and fail on fad diets and exercise regimens. Leslie was determined to make exercise accessible to all. Part of her formula included taking the intimidation away from exercise. That's where the idea of IN-HOME WALKING came in. If she could remove all of the factors that usually turn people off from maintaining a regular exercise program - expensive gym memberships, other gym-goers, strenuous exercise that leads to burnout, fancy work-out clothes, expensive exercise equipment - she knew that she could develop a program that people could stick with.

Leslie developed IN-HOME WALKING, an idea that became the fastest-growing indoor fitness program in the country. 2004 will be Leslie's 25th year in the fitness industry, she is the creator of the #1 best-selling hugely popular WALK AWAY THE POUNDS. Leslie has more than 60 IN-HOME WALKING videos and accessory products, and is the owner of Studio Fitness in New Castle, Pennsylvania.

Leslie has coordinated fitness programs for public schools and hospital-based weight-loss programs, and has held walks for the American Heart Association, Muscular Dystrophy Association, American Cancer Society, and Multiple Sclerosis, among many other organizations. Leslie is certified by six prestigious fitness organizations including the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the Cooper Institute: Group Exercise Leader. She has also served on the Leadership Council for IDEA International Fitness Professionals. Leslie was the first-ever guest on QVC to promote her own product. Leslie's IN HOME WALKING and WALK AWAY THE POUNDS videos continue to be the most successful walking program on QVC and the top-selling fitness videos in retail outlets as charted by Video Scan.

Leslie maintains high-profile relationship with Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers, and was recently appointed contributing editor to Woman's Day Magazine with a regular column on the benefits of walking. She was also a spokesperson for Easy Spirit.

Having traveled the world and led millions of people in their quest for fitness and health, Leslie says her original mission has remained the same. "I would speak to the person who is having trouble with motivation and hasn't exercised in years than the fitness buff looking for the latest workout trend."

Leslie is the proud mother of three children, Andrew, Marie Ellena, and Joseph.