About Anne

The award-winning health and medical journalist Anne M. Fletcher, M.S., R.D. is frequently sought out for her knowledge about weight management, lifestyle change, and addiction. Her latest book is Weight Loss Confidential: How Teens Lose Weight and Keep It Off – And What They Wish Parents Knew, featured on the "Today Show", the "Early Show", and in the New York Times, USA Today, USA Weekend, and US New and World Report. The companion book, Weight Loss Confidential Journal: Week-By-Week Success Strategies for Teens from Teens, was released in Janurary of 2008. She is also the author of national bestsellers Thin For Life, Eating Thin For Life, and Sober For Good, as well as the Thin For Life Daybook. All of her books are published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

As a registered dietitian with a Masters degree in nutrition science, Fletcher has counseled hundreds of clients with weight problems. She is a former executive editor and chief writer of the Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter and was a contributing editor for Prevention Magazine.

Fletcher is the recipient of the American Dietetic Association’s 2006 Media Excellence Award, several National Health Information Awards, the Distinguished Friend to Behavior Therapy Award, the Research Society on Alcoholism Journalism Award, and awards from the American Psychological Association and the American Medical Writers Association.

A frequent guest on national and local media, Fletcher has appeared on the “Today Show,” “The View,” “Donahue,” “Good Morning America,” “The Early Show” on CBS, and National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation”. Her articles have appeared in Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Parenting, Readers Digest, Redbook, Better Homes & Gardens, Cooking Light, American Psychologist, and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. She speaks to consumer and professional groups on the topics of weight management, lifestyle change, and substance abuse recovery.