enLIGHTened

Meet your new best yoga-and-healthy-eating friend in this smart, accessible, and funny memoir of dieting and discovery.

For years, Jessica struggled with fluctuating weight and bouts of

unhappiness. Like many of us, she found comfort in food and craved

cigarettes and self-confidence. Then one day Jessica took her first

yoga class in Katmandu. She lost 40 pounds and changed her life

forever.

In enLIGHTened , Jessica shares the core principles of yoga

philosophy—not the poses and postures, but the ancient system of ideas

that lies behind them, drawn from a 2000-year-old text called the Yoga Sutras.

The inspiration for this memoir-driven diet and health book is studied

by devout yoga students and teachers, and offers answers to eating

smartly, living right, and losing weight.

Jessica goes beyond

yoga's merge into mainstream—beyond trendy diets, unsustainable

exercise routines, and the quest for the perfect figure. Using

spiritual philosophy, and personal stories everyone can relate to, she

sets the reader on a journey to self-acceptance, personal peace, and

long-term health.