A Guide To Flexible Dieting Book

About this Book (Words from the author)

Rather than presenting a specific diet, A Guide to Flexible Dieting is a look at some of the psychological and physiological reasons why diets so often fail. Among these is the research demonstrated fact that individuals who are too rigid in their approach to dieting (e.g. expecting complete unyielding perfection at all times) are actually less successful in the long-run than individuals who are more flexible in their approach.

Building on this research, as well as looking at the physiology behind bodyweight regulation, A Guide to Flexible Dieting examines three distinct strategies that dieters can use to make their fat loss efforts more flexible. Free meals (single meals that ‘break’ the diet), refeeds (periods of deliberate high-calorie consumption) along with full diet breaks (periods of 10-14 days where active dieting is not pursued) are all discussed in detail with specific guidelines for their implementation.

Dieters who find themselves falling into the trap of “I broke my diet by eating a single cookie, I should just go ahead and eat the entire bag (and another for good measure).” should read this book to see how such rigid attitudes towards dieting are ultimately both limiting and destructive to long-term success.

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Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: This is not your father's diet book Chapter 2: A brief tangent: weight vs. fat loss Chapter 3: Why diets fail part 1: Bodyweight Regulation Chapter 4: Why diets fail Part 2: Introduction Chapter 5: How dieters fail diets Chapter 6: How diets fail dieters Chapter 7: Introduction to flexible dieting Chapter 8: Determining your bodyfat percentage Chapter 9: Free meals Chapter 10: Structured refeeds: Part 1 Chapter 11: Structured refeeds: Part 2 Chapter 12: The full diet break: Introduction Chapter 13: Eating at maintenance Non-calculating method Part 1 Chapter 14: Eating at maintenance Non-calculating method Part 2 Chapter 15: Eating at maintenance Calculation Method Chapter 16: Moving back into dieting Appendix 1

Excerpt from this book

The following is an excerpt from the Introduction of the book

See if this sounds familiar: you've just started a new diet, certain that it's going to be different this time around and that it's going to work. You're cranking along, adjust to the new eating (and exercise) patterns and everything is going just fine. For a while.

Then the problem hits. Maybe it's something small, a slight deviation or dalliance. There's a bag of cookies and you have one or you're at the mini mart and just can't resist a little something that's not on your diet. Or maybe it's something a little bit bigger, a party or special event comes up and you know you won't be able to stick with your diet. Or, at the very extreme, maybe a vacation comes up, a few days out of town or even something longer, a week or two. What do you do?

Now, if you're in the majority, here's what happens: You eat the cookie and figure that you've blown your diet and might as well eat the entire bag. Clearly you were weak willed and pathetic for having that cookie, the guilt sets in and you might as well just start eating and eating and eating.

Or since the special event is going to blow your diet, you might as well eat as much as you can and give up, right? The diet is obviously blown by that single event so might as well chuck it all in the garbage. Vacations can be the ultimate horror, it's not as if you're going to go somewhere special for 3 days (or longer) and stay on your diet, right? Might as well throw it all out now and just eat like you want, gain back all the weight and then some.'

What if I told you that none of the above had to happen? What if I told you that expecting to be perfect on your diet was absolutely setting you up for failure, that being more flexible about your eating habits would make them work better? What if I told you that studies have shown that people who are flexible dieters (as opposed to rigid dieters) tend to weigh less, show better adherence to their diet in the long run and have less binge eating episodes?

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