A bestselling author and one of the country’s leading weight-loss advocates offers readers a proven behavior-based program to end yo-yo dieting once and for all
Sensible becomes sexy in the face of fad diets that have left chronic dieters frustrated and fat.
In The Automatic Diet, Charles Stuart Platkin, one of the country’s leading weight-loss advocates and popular syndicated columnist of “The Diet Detective,” synthesizes cutting-edge weight-loss research into an easy-to-follow 10-step process that can become automatic for anyone, a process that has proven successful for tens of thousands of the author’s clients as well as for the author himself, who has lost 50 pounds-and kept it off for over 10 years-using the principles in this book. Research has proven repeatedly that fad diets are misguided in their focus on advocating or restricting particular foods and that the only way to permanently lose and maintain weight is through behavioral and lifestyle modification. Learning to identify one’s “fat patterns”-the behavioral reasons why when we lose weight we always gain it back again-and how to break them enables readers to relearn how to create a relationship with food and fitness that is comfortable and maintainable, and shows that an individual’s weight is completely within his or her control-regardless of genetics, metabolism, or other hard-to-control factors.
Ten steps to losing weight forever–how many times have you heard this before? But this time, the claim delivers. In The Automatic Diet, weight-loss and behavioral-change expert Charles Stuart Platkin identifies the 10 steps to understanding and changing your personal pattern of eating and weight gain. You’ll examine your habits, master diet traps, craft strategies, and make change happen.
Platkin’s program is not a diet, and not a one-size-fits-all program. Based on empowerment, not will power, it’s a carefully organized, research-based plan for understanding your own pattern and making changes for life. If you follow his steps, exercises, and strategies, the plan will work because you’ll learn to eat consciously, eliminate overeating triggers and habits, and make food substitutions using “calorie bargains” instead of comfort foods.
Platkin, a leading weight loss/ nutrition expert, with daily columns in 155 U.S. newspapers, founded three obesity and weight-control companies: The Institute for Nutrition & Behavioral Sciences, iWellness Solutions, and Nutricise. His earlier bestseller, Breaking the Pattern, has been used as a behavioral-change text in 20 universities. Highly recommended for people who want to understand and change their weight-gain and eating patterns once and for all, and are willing to do some work to get there. –Joan Price
“Muscle mass is the body’s most ancient furnace.” ~Charles Stuart Platkin
Charles Stuart Platkin’s “Breaking the Pattern” helped me to analyze my self-sabotaging behaviors and again in The Automatic Diet, he presents strategies for overcoming negative patterns in eating.
The Automatic Diet presents ideas for promoting overall health, controlling weight and enhancing your self-esteem. Charles Stuart Platkin unveils misconceptions about weight control and shows you how to have long-term success.
The Diet Detective takes you through your eating behaviors and you can decide if you want to include behavior modification strategies to your everyday diet. Through self-analysis you start to break negative patterns and destructive eating tendencies. He explains how most diets deliver temporary results and most people gain the weight back. How is this diet different?
This is not a diet where you have to give up chocolate (Who could give up Leonidas Belgium chocolates?) or your favorite foods. What the author seeks to encourage is a healthier lifestyle. Since most diets don’t bring the results we are looking for, Charles Stuart Platkin advises a lifestyle change. In most cases, he doesn’t take away foods like popcorn and carrots; he shows you the best choice. There are a few lists of “items you ought to think about throwing out.” These include the usual suspects – sugar, soda, ice cream. I was a little shocked to learn about the calories in the Starbucks Classic Coffee Cake.
I still think in moderation, you can handle a little ice cream, although I must say I feel terrible if I eat too much sugar in a day and it can produce the feeling of chronic fatigue for 24 hours. The author recommends good protein sources, a good variety of vegetables and healthy starch choices.
I am happy to see that another author is talking about the muscle mass issue, because this could help many dieters over the initial hurdles of initial weight gain when you start to exercise. The author also explains why a drastic reduction in calories triggers the body’s famine-survival mechanism. This of course slows down your metabolism.
There are also ideas about “excuse busters” and self-talk is definitely your friend or enemy. My most recent self-talk to increase my exercise includes telling myself how good I’m going to feel after I exercise and eat my fruits and vegetables. Being proactive and buying clothes that are too small also seems to be good motivation. I also threw out any clothes that are too big for me, so I simply will have nothing to wear if I don’t exercise.
Another idea is not buying anything that you know you should not be eating and buying lots of things you know you should be eating. Then, when you are home and hungry, you make better choices. Doing Yoga also seems to help because it generally puts you in a much calmer state of mind and you feel more in control of your choices.
If you are heading towards 40, then you may also want to read The Metabolic Plan to learn about amazing supplements and how you can stop the aging process, increase muscle mass and feel younger each year.
~The Rebecca Review
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