Picture Perfect - Diet Plan Outline

The "Picture Perfect Diet" book by Howard Shapiro is a book with full color pictures of food items, beside alternative choices that add up to the same calorie counts. It is an ingenious marketing ploy to get people to focus on alternatives to high fat, unhealthy food. As a reference guide to the food portion of your diet it is an invaluable resource.

But it should be used as a reference and not as an all-encompassing diet manual. Two essential variables to a long-term successful diet are missing as central themes. They are mental preparation to deal with lifestyle change and exercise. Without a balanced approach with proper balanced nutrition, mental preparation and exercise, most diets are doomed to ultimate failure and the re-gaining of lost weight.