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(Cheap college textbook) You on a Diet book By Mehmet C. Oz, Michael F. Roizen List Price: $25.00 Price: $16.50 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Ships from and sold by Amazon.com 342 new or used available from $6.48 Average customer review:

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Yo-Yo Dieters Dream

This Cheap college textbook taught me that you aren’t really eating “normally” on most diets. Your body confuses a diet with a time of famine and is trying to keep you alive. Your body doesn’t know that you can afford to lose the weight, and that the “famine” is self-imposed. It explains the role that chronic low-grade stress (work, relationships, etc.) plays on weight gain.

The Cheap college textbook explains how to eat well for your body so that you are satisfied, not hungry, and in a way that your body knows it is OK to shed pounds. Your goal is to remain satisfied or pleasantly full throughout the day. The other part of the You on a Diet book that resonated with me is that variety is what is killing us. The authors suggest that you automate your breakfast and lunch, eating the same thing or from a small group of things every day. This takes the guesswork out of things. Then you should eat a handful of nuts before dinner, so that you do not overeat. It also explains the effect that “bad foods” have on your hormones and brain chemistry vs. the effect that “good foods” have - other than just the extra calories that you are intaking. This was most interesting, and what sets it apart from other diet books or plans.

The difference between the You Diet and any other that I have tried is that there was no 2-3 day period of feeling terrible or having to adjust. Just a clean-out of highly processed foods from our kitchen and a trip to Trader Joes for some healthy foods and lots of label reading. Now I just feel better and better the longer I do it. It is amazing how tasty whole grain foods can be and how much more they fill you up than processed carbohydrates. My husband is even enjoying the foods I am making!

The REAL complaint,

Not my intent to flame previous posts, or to presume too much, but reading the previous posts who gave this a 1 or 2 star rating, the most common complaint is clearly the use of a a few cartoon characters in the you on a diet book (in fact, it does read much like a “For Dummies” Book).
Unfortunately the fact they find that so irritating truly overlooks some solid health advice.

The other main complaint is that this is “rehashed” material…and that too is a somewhat misleading. Case in point; we caught ourselves building a “personalized” diet plan based on the numerous foods that show up in multiple “diets”…. i.e Broccoli shows up in most “diets”, so we figure it more than likely is a decent choice etc. Even with this appraoch you have to be careful (about half rate bananas as bad, the other half rate them high)
Point being, yes, a rehash of 18 different methods from 18 different books…but rarely do you ever see them all in the same place (not that YOU is perfect, but it certainly covers MOST of the bases - and without too much bogus science or by adding something weird or extreme just to standout)

Personally, we’ve tried pretty much everything; Low fat, Low Cal, Low Carb, NO Carb, Mediteranean, GL and Anti-inflammatory,…blah, blah, blah.

Truthfully, I Lost the most weight with low Carb variations, but always questioned a lifestyle that avoided Fruits and Veggies, AND as a result of Low Carb I (like many) ended up with severe hemorrhoids. In my case, that meant a trip to the hospital to have them surgically removed, an experience which I will NEVER forget.

Bottom line is that rarely does anything replace a decent understanding of the subject (education) combined with applied common sense, and (sigh) disicpline.

For “us” it pretty much boils down to just that; Common sense about eating “habits”, combined with some exercise and some decent advice about foods in general. In fact, the only thing that works over the long haul is pretty much what this books covers (albeit with a few cartoons), that being; Eat sensible foods, eat smaller meals more often, Exercise, don’t eat just before bedtime (duh) and yes, avoid sugars

Rehash? perhaps…kinda…sorta…maybe.
But for us it’s a lot of the information we have found to be the most solid, and for the most part, in one place. Having tried most everything out there, if someone were asking either the spouse or I for a suggestion of just ONE book and what had worked “for us”, I’d have to say either buy this you on a diet book, or something very, very similar, and stop looking for a Silver Bullet - cuz there ain’t one.

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