The Perfect Fit Diet: Combine What Science Knows about Weight Loss with What You Know about Yourself

by Lisa Sanders

Book Overview

We all have different shapes, tastes, and lifestyles, so why should one diet work for everyone? Dr. Sanders has analyzed over 700 weight-loss programs and uncovered an essential truth: You can lose... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579546986
• ISBN13: 9781579546984
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Knowledge and variety are the keys!!!

I've got at least a dozen diet books under my belt (not to mention just a few extra pounds) and finally I have found one that describes a world I understand. I am a veteran of the Zone diet (too hard to figure out), the Atkins diet (too dull and I felt awful), the carbohydrate addicts diet (managed to make up for all the missed carbs of the day in my one free meal) and a whole bunch of others. When they didn't work I just figured it was me. I knew these diets had worked for friends. I couldn't figure out why they didn't work for me. This book tells me what I should have known all along: one size doesn't fit all. And none of them were working for me. Now I understand why. Dr. Sanders book helped me recognize that the best diet for me is one that lets me get the variety I need by looking at calories rather than carbs. And while I still eat fewer carbs that I used to, I understand now that I can't be happy on a diet that makes bread completely off limits.I wanted a low carb diet because my friends told me I'd never be hungry and it wasn't true. But on this diet, I'm never hungry and I feel free to eat the foods I love and I'm losing weight like crazy. Another aspect of this book that I think makes it so great is that the author explains how all this works. I'm no dummy I am pretty well informed about food and nutrition, but there was alot of info in this book that I just didn't know. For me, knowing how something works helps me figure out how to do it my way. For instance, now I know it's protein that makes me feel full and variety that makes me feel satisfied. I can choose meals and snacks that I'm sure will hit the spot -- make me feel full and keep me full until the next meal or snack. And feeling full, and knowing that I'm going to feel full, makes it easy for me to stick to this diet.One thing you need to know about this book -- and I was prewarned so let me pass it on to you -- is that you won't be able to start the diet the day you buy the book. Dr. Sanders makes you keep a diary of what you eat for one week before you start. Writing all that down isn't easy and yet doing it was probably the best investment I've made in my health in quite a long time. Maybe ever. This may be the last diet book I'll ever need to buy.

A great approach!

I've been on tons of diets and when they didn't work -- or at least not for long -- I just figured it was me. But it wasn't just me; it was me on those diets. They didn't fit me and I didn't know why. Now I have a much better understanding and I've started a new diet (counting calories) and I get it. I really get it. And I'm losing weight, just to prove it. The test will be if I can maintain the loss but I feel confident that I am designing a diet that's going to fit me and that I can stick to forever. I love this book! And I bet you will too.

Dr. Lisa knows what she's talking about..............

fabulous effort...the first thing I found out was that a diabetic friend had been on the wrong diet for three weeks...thank you Dr. Lisa, at least now she knows why South Beach didn't work for her...now we're both figuring out the diet that will work for each of us...this is great.

The best diet book I've ever read

Finally, somebody who has a clue about what makes some diets succeed while others fail. This book has helped me achieve real weight loss with so much less stress than I'm used to. How come my doctor didn't tell me about this? This book abandons the cookie-cutter approach to diets that try to fit me and everybody else into a single plan. Dr. Sanders doesn't have a gimmick--she has figured out what your individual needs are and gives you a diet based on that.Everyone self-conscious about their weight, even when not dieting, should read this book to understand why they eat what they eat and how they can change.

It's not a diet

I am a victim of the F's: 40's plus, a father, fit - sort of, failing to make my diet and lifestyle work together and therefore FAT. I got here the easy way. I like to eat, I like to cook, and when I don't think about it I eat too much of what I like. Now I'm not one of those people who get's their weight down, only to ballon back up. I'm one of those people who go from overweight to FAT. But now that I'm on the back side of my 40's, I've started to notice that I have the same health risks as people who smoke a couple of packs a day, only more. Fat people have heart and lung problems, they are at greater risk for cancer, then there is diabetes, bad knees, bad back and just plain old bad Karma. I quit smoking over twenty years ago, so why can't I deal with this fat problem? Well you can't just quit eating, and going hungry doesn't work very well either. I had the chance to interact with Dr. Sanders as she wrote this book, and I have had an advance copy since November. Lisa Sanders has written a book that isn't really a diet and it isn't really one of those lifestyle books either. What this book does is give you a way to look at what you like to eat, when and where you eat it, factor your real life into the equation and come away with a plan that fits you, lets you eat food you like, and creates an infrastucture for thinking about food in a different, positive way. Taking the books questionnaire is one of the most self-informative, and ultimately self-motivating things that I have ever done, and implementing Dr. Sander's suggestions have allowed me to make some real progress on my long-term goals. Those goals are: loose 80 pounds, get my running back up to 30 miles a week, recapture the energy and focus that I have lost. And where am I after about six weeks, including the holidays? Well I'm 15 pounds lighter. I am running 15 miles a week. I finished a strenuous hike on New Years eve that I could only do half of a month ago. I'm sleeping better, and my kids say that I am nicer. Oh yes, and I'm not hungry, I didn't quit eating the things that I like, and I don't have to eat cheese burgers all the time, or pasta all the time. What is really differnt is the way I think about my food and what I do with my time. I feel better and I know that I can reach my goals and maitain them because Dr. Sander's book let me find the right fit.