The Skinny: On Losing Weight without Being Hungry-the Ultimate Guide to Weight Loss Success
The Skinny: On Losing Weight without Being Hungry-the Ultimate Guide to Weight Loss Success
Tried diet after diet and still can’t lose weight? It’s time to call the expert. In The Skinny, Dr. Louis Aronne, America’s top weight-loss specialist, shares the plan that has worked so well for his many patients. Through his friendly guidance, you’ll finally learn how to:
stop the weight-loss, weight-gain cycle
learn the strategy for feeling full with fewer calories
teach your brain to stop craving food
learn to put down your fork and automatically push away from the table—without counting a single calorie
learn what common medications and medical conditions can make you gain weight
lose the weight—even if nothing else has worked
Dr. Louis Aronne is the expert whom doctors refer their toughest cases to. For more than twenty years he’s worked on the front lines of obesity research and treatment. The founder and director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Program at New York–Presbyterian Hospital /Weill Cornell Medical Center, he has helped thousands of people achieve lasting weight loss.
In The Skinny, Dr. Aronne shows you how to fix your internal biology by adjusting your eating and activity one step at a time. Including comprehensive menus, restaurant options for every type of food, a do-it-at-home strength plan and exercise plans, more than fifty low-calorie, high-satisfaction recipes, and extensive advice that helps you put the plan into practice, this is the only book you’ll need to learn how to defeat your hunger and cravings, and make the changes to your biochemistry that will keep the weight off for good.
Are you tired of yo-yo dieting? Tired of the pain and discomfort of being overweight? Do you finally want to feel good about the body you’re in? Is long-term weight loss as important to you as initial short-term loss? Then you’re ready to commit to The Skinny.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars how to be skinny and full
Great book, teaches you the right way to eat and simple. If David Lettermans hand man lost 27 pounds in two to three weeks and he thinks it is easy. That is the key
1 Stars Marginally useful
Is Dr. Aronne really a cardiologist? In this book, it seems like he’s an obesity specialist. And this book is really geared toward obese people much more than those who just want to lose a few pounds or improve their health. (By the way, I don’t think David Letterman was ever overweight at all. I believe it was the heart surgeons who saved his life.)
Like many others said, it’s pretty much a low carb, low fat plan again. The sections on the science behind why people crave and gain were fairly interesting, and the ideas about eating in a certain order (vegetables first, protein next, carbs only if you must) were novel and perhaps they work (or not).
But I think the taboos on most carbs, including whole grains, are too severe for long-term maintenance, as are the restrictions to mostly chicken and fish for protein, no egg yolks, etc. There are plenty of other books with data to support eating red meat, chicken with skin, butter, whole eggs, whole grains–guess you can pick who you want to believe.
And there is nothing in this book addressing vegetarians or vegans–maybe they’re never obese? (In that case, you should be reading the Engine 2 Diet or The China Study or one of the Skinny Bitch/Bastard books instead of this one.)
Also thought it was weird that there was a whole section about why artificial sweeteners backfire, and then the recipes call for artificial sweeteners–I suspect the good doctor didn’t supervise that chapter.
It seems like lately all diet books are including sections on exercise (usually dull same-old exercises very reminiscent of high school gym class)and recipes that tend to be so bad I’m not sure I’ll even try any of these (esp. since I think the doctor farmed out these chapters). Guess they have to pad it enough to be a book instead of just an article.
On the positive side, this seems a way more reasonable, practical plan than most diets, which range from the vegan extreme to the all protein and fat (no carbs) extreme. So if you’ve never read any low-fat, low-carb diet books, or are curious to see the slight new wrinkles here, go for it; otherwise, take a pass.
5 Stars Very insightful!
This book contains very helpful information for us “struggling” with our weight. It speaks to subjects that have been confusing me for years. I now feel that maybe I will break through this weight issue that has plagued me my entire life! THanks Doc
1 Stars Kindle edition has too many problems
this is a review of the Kindle version of the book; not the contents of the book itself.
Key ideas, tables, and diet “need to know” ideas are presented in a light colored text that is impossible to read. Tables are unreadable.
My advise: buy the hardcover version. The K version is a waste of money
3 Stars My Skinny on The Skinny
Once again this is a diet that eliminates carbs. Being a carboholic and one who gets shaky if I don’t eat a piece of bread, this won’t work for me. I would have liked to have known this before I put out the money. It is very informative about our bodies and how food works, but my body will have to stay plump again.
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