The "I" Diet: Use Your Instincts to Lose Weight--and Keep It Off--Without Feeling Hungry - Softcover

Roberts, Susan B.; Sargent, Kelly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076115874X ISBN 13: 9780761158745

Publisher: Workman Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Humans are hardwired with five basic food instincts: hunger (we need to feel full and satisfied); variety (we are driven to seek a varied diet); calorie density (we are drawn to foods high in calories); and, familiarity and availability (if food is around, we eat it). By taking advantage of our biological hardwiring - by feeding rather than depriving our five food instincts - we can reach and maintain a desired body weight. Full of tips and strategies (next time you want a high-calorie food like a Big Mac with cheese, a small portion between two low-calorie items, such as salad and fruit), success stories, day-by-day menus, and easy-to-follow recipes, "The I Diet" can help anyone break the vicious cycle of eating more food and enjoying it less. As David A. Kessler, M.D., former FDA commissioner and author of the bestselling "The End of Overeating", says, 'We know we eat too much. We want to stop, but we can't - it's simply too hard to resist all the high-calorie food out there. That is the problem. With "The I Diet", we have a way to actually regain control of our appetites'.

About this title

About the Author

Susan B. Roberts, Ph.D., a professor of nutrition and a professor of psychiatry at Tufts University, is an internationally recognized expert on nutrition and obesity who has appeared on The Today Show, ABC News, NPR and CNN. She is the author of Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health, as well as nearly 200 research articles published in scientific journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and JAMA. Dr. Roberts lives with her husband and daughter outside Boston. Betty Kelly Sargent is the co-author of Beautiful Bones without Hormones (with Leon Root, M.D.), What Every Daughter Wants Her Mother to Know and What Every Daughter Wants Her Father to Know.

From the Back Cover

The "I" Diet is a breakthrough: A diet based on impeccable research. A diet where the dieter never goes hungry or feels deprived. A diet that's completely healthy for you, grounded in the metabolic, genetic and psychological workings of the human body. A diet that shows how the hardwired food instincts that once ensured our survival are now driving too many on the road to obesity--and how we can turn those same instincts into an engine for permanent, healthy weight loss. And a fat-burning marvel of a diet that helped the men and women pictured on the cover and inside the book lose 30 pounds on average in a few short months. Start the "I" Diet and be amazed.

Edition details

• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 076115874X
• ISBN 13: 9780761158745
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352