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Diet Trials: How to Succeed at Dieting
 
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Diet Trials: How to Succeed at Dieting (Paperback)

by Lyndel Costain (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: BBC Books; First Edition edition (2 Jan 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0563488727
  • ISBN-13: 978-0563488729
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.4 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 46,108 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This companion volume to the BBC series offers aid to everyone trying to keep New Year's resolutions, with an excellent six-step plan for weight loss. The approach is holistic: this is not just another scheme based on counting calories and cutting out nice treats. Instead Costain focuses on how to get your head around dieting, how to prepare for losing weight, how to increase activity levels, how to change eating behaviours and habits, and how to assess which diet might work for you. Most importantly, it will help you keep the weight off for life, helping to avoid yo-yo dieting and 'quick fix' methods, which simply do not work. The author suggests that getting your psychological approach right is critical to losing weight, and so there is a lot of attention given to why we eat, and how our 'toxic environment' encourages us to eat for reasons other than hunger. There's no rocket science here, just straightforward and readable information and advice that makes a lot of sense. Lyndel Costain provides genuinely useful information on all aspects of weight, food, health, exercise and diet and for those who like their checklists, self-assessment questionnaires and meal planners there's plenty of that too. This book doesn't promise huge weight loss in record time. Instead it should help those who are prepared to put in effort and mental preparation to lose weight sensibly, healthily and permanently, yielding lasting benefits. (Kirkus UK)

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In this book to accompany the series, respected dietician Lyndel Costain delves deeper into the causes of weight gain, examining and explaining unhealthy attitudes towards food and offering strategies to develop healthy eating habits in their place. Lyndel shows you how to fit good food into your daily routine without drastically altering your lifestyle and helps you to set achievable targets that will allow you to lose weight and then keep it off. Finally, Lyndel puts some of the most popular diets on trial, outlining the pros and cons of each approach and providing case studies of people who have tried them, so that you can judge them for yourself.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This book will change your life!, 11 Feb 2003
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This book addresses ALL the elements needed to change yourself and gain a healthy weight.

Rather than give you a 'follow this specific plan' and succeed approach it seeks to educate you on the facts behind weight gain & loss (behaviours, nutrition, exercise etc.), so that you can make your own choices. It completely blows away the myths about dieting and isn't at all 'faddie'.

It focuses in on the mental attitudes that lead to success. It also looks at HOW and more importantly, WHY people gain weight and ensures that anyone starting on any plan is doing it for the right reasons. By addressing the mental side, the chances of keeping the weight off (or on) will be improved. For those who like structure some diet and exercise options are included in more detail.

Anyone who has tried to lose (or gain) weight, will know that the right mental attitude is essential to success - Diet Trials is a fantastic tool to help you get there. As I was reading it, I realised that many of my thought processes and behaviours weren't unique and picked up loads of ideas of how to address them. Lots of Ah ha moments!

Although this book is designed to accompany a TV program, that is not at all obvious from the text and it stands up completely in it's own right.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Sensible advice, 23 April 2003
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No miracles here, nor magic formulae for losing weight but if you really want to know how others lost weight and kept it off read this book...

Once you've got over your initial disappointment that this book has nothing to do with the TV programme of the same name, this book is full of sound advice for step by step weight loss.

Recommended for jaded dieters the world over who've finally come to terms with the fact that quick losses mean quick gains.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A superb book, 26 Mar 2003
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This book is quite simply an education. Anyone who is considering weight loss and wants the unbiased facts should buy this book now.
Unlike other diet books, it does not tell you what to do but simply provides you with the information to make your own choices.

Fantastic!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Life changing
Reading 'Diet Trials' has completely changed my relationship with food. It discuses why people gain weight, and mental attitude towards eating. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars The truth at last
I have tried many diets and failed in the past,I think this book will give me the tools i need to lose it and keep it lost. Read more
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