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63 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's amazing and it works!!, 19 Jan 2006
I have heard Professor Fletcher speak at a couple of business events and I was keen to find out how his ideas translate to weight-loss. The book does not disappoint.Everyone knows that diets don’t work in the long-term, and this book has a well researched scientific explanation as to why – and, more importantly, it has a solution. As the title implies, it has absolutely nothing to do with food, calories or carbs. This book is a methodology for breaking bad habits – in this case eating habits, but you’ll find it applies to all sorts of other areas of your life too. I have a habit of sitting down in front of the television with a cup of tea and the biscuit tin. If, as the book suggests, I go for an evening without watching television and instead write a letter to an old friend, go for a walk or do some jobs around the house, I have changed the pattern of behaviour that led to scoffing loads of biscuits and have not eaten them – without even thinking about it. And that is the real power of this book. It provides a structured, 28-day programme for breaking bad habits, forming better ones, and it doesn’t require willpower to make it work. I'm finding it really fun, liberating and powerful to tick off the ‘Do Something Different’ things in the book, and enjoying all sorts of new experiences along the way. This has led to changes in my eating habits already, and the amount of physical exercise I was getting, without having to follow a ‘diet’ or an ‘exercise programme’. The book is peppered with comments from dieticians and researchers that back up the No Diet Diet methodology, and throughout I found its approach refreshing and motivational. If you’ve ever forced yourself through some diet or exercise regime and lost weight, only to put it back on again, this book will show you why the old approaches never work and give you a new way to lose weight that will be the most fun you’ve ever had.
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by Professor Karen J. Pine
by Gillian Riley
by James O. Prochaska
