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Diets Don't Work: Stop Dieting Become Naturally Thin Live a Diet-Free Life |
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Amazon Sales Rank: 159199
Publication Date: 2002-09
Publisher: Breakthru Publishing
ISBN: 0942540166
Type: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 149
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A commonsense approach to permanent weight loss draws on the latest research to help readers discover why they have not lost weight and to introduce effective methods for losing weight without dieting. Original. IP.
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Review: 2009-05-26
A start
I got this book when it came out in the middle 80's (at 24 yrs. of age) and even paid a lot of money to go through the training that they did at the time and I did have a breakthrough during it: I stayed heavy partly because I did not want to look better then my mother. I worked through that by talking to her about it. I had other various insights in the book. Get it if you are new to all this and need to learn the basics. Also Geneen Roth's books are good for this. But with this book and the training sessions, I was stuck. It didn't help me in the moment and I did not loose weight. Soon after, I picked up a book about "breaking habits" (I don't even know if it is in print still) and it spoke of keeping a log to help IN THE MOMENT to see what's going on in your head and make you aware of the habit (whether is was fingernail biting or eating or smoking). I made up my own log, using the stuff in this book and Geneen's, with headings such as "eating while seated?", "conscious?", "put fork down?". I also gave myself points for each "yes" answer and a "reward" planned for a certain number of points. Three months later I had taken off 40 lbs. and have always been in a 5 to 12 lbs. range from there (until recently - middle age is slowing my metabolism way down). I had always been a naturally thin eater as a child, all the way until High School. My mother never talked about her weight or dieted (even though she was about 5 to 10 lbs. overweight), for which I am very grateful. Then I went on diets with friends (I put on a very necessary 5 lbs. at menstration) and that did it - more and more weight gain with each diet. I had always planned on writing about my experience. God helped me a lot in ways that are mindblowing and I will always be thankful to Him. I have found a book that is the closest to what I would have written if I had the time to do it - it is called NORMAL EATING FOR NORMAL WEIGHT and is here on Amazon. It explains it all step by step on how to do it, eat like a thin person, IN THE MOMENT, and most importantly - stop emotional overeating. I'm going to do a review for it also. This book is good to get you out of the "diet mindset" with lots of humor and commom sense, then move on to NORMAL EATING FOR NORMAL WEIGHT.
Review: 2009-03-08
good concepts but insubstantial
This book was recommended to me after I practically memorized "Intuitive Eating" by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. I agree strongly with the premise of this book, that restrictive dieting will wreck your body and life, but the book itself is half full of lined pages (for doing the journal exercises) and not very much substantial argument / explanation. The exercises might be helpful to you if this is your first exposure to the idea of non-dieting, but the style of the book is very unsophisticated, gimmicky self-help; "naturally thin" is italicized wherever it appears in the text. I found it very off-putting. I really recommend reading Intuitive Eating instead of Diets Don't Work -- much longer and much better discussion, much more helpful.
Review: 2007-03-11
perfect book
This book opens your eyes to the realities of why your overweight. the best thing for weightloss.natural guilt free weightloss.
Review: 2007-02-12
Good concept . . . if you can do it
This book, and other anti-dieting books like it, make a lot of sense. I agree with everything the author says: consistent dieting does eventually cause weight gain in most people over a period of time. I'm living proof of this.
However, with all that said, I just couldn't follow the advice to eat only when hungry. In a sense, this advice became like another dieting "rule." If I ate for anything other than hunger, I'd feel as if I'd "broken the diet." Also, our society in some ways revolves around eating events: Going out to breakfast, lunch, or dinner; sitting down for dinner with the family; having a holiday meal. It was nearly impossible for me to avoid all that and eat only when hungry; I would feel like more of a freak saying "Oh, I'm not eating dinner with you tonight, honey. I'm not hungry."
Beyond that, I think that I've been totally ruined by my past dieting escapades. I really think it would take some intense treatment to rid me of the dieting mentality. This is why whenever I've tried this "eat-only-when-hungry" concept, I've ended up gaining and gaining. I think I become attracted to this type of book when I just can't stand another diet. But rather than using it as a diet cure, I tend to use it as something that gives me permission to go off dieting and eat whatever I want.
This is just me, though, and someone with a stronger will might have a different experience. Also, another part of me thinks that there are some perfectly normal thin people out there who actually do watch their weight. They don't obsess with it; they just watch it. So, in this sense, dieting is not the kiss of death for them.
Overall, this book can be inspiring (despite the car-salesman-like tone the author often uses), but I do not believe that it will work for everyone.
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