The Diet Cure - Diet Plan Outline
The Diet Cure is a good example of everything I think is wrong with the diet industry. Sure, Julia Ross's book teaches healthy living and understanding your body, but it makes something simple extremely complicated. It seems more like career building than sensible, basic advice.
I am neither a nutritionist or a doctor, but I am a person with much more important credentials: I faced my mental demons head-on, lost 70 pounds and converted myself from a lazy, drunk, to a vibrant, extremely fit and happy mountain climber. This industry has an absolutely awful track record of success, despite being run by all these "experts."
The book tries to explain the psychology of weight loss and how chemically your body effects to changes. It attempts to convince people they are somehow not consciously in control of themselves.
Overweight Americans have not learned to rely on the themselves, build self-esteem, quit making excuses, develop mental toughness, and do what they need to do to lose weight and keep it off. Everyone I know who has lost considerable weight and kept it off for good shared one trait: they developed a new way of thinking about how they live. They learned to eat healthy and enjoy exercise. There are no shortcuts to being healthy.