Dr. Kushner's Personality Type Diet

by Robert F. Kushner and Nancy Kushner

Book Overview

Dr. Kushner has already helped thousands of his patients lose weight with the Personality Type Diet. Now he tells readers how to craft a program to suit their individual style and needs. After taking... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312288093
• ISBN13: 9780312288099
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Life Lessons

This book is not just another lose weight quick scheme for an author to get money. This book will lead you down a path of living a healthy lifestyle while losing weight and teaches you along the way to develop habits based on your own personality traits to keep the weight off. This along with Dr. K's diet.com site has lead me to an ongoing weight loss of over thirty pounds so far. It's real, sensible, and very doable.

Sound Advice Enveloped in Warmth and Sensitivity

Here is sound advice enveloped in both warmth and sensitivity. I liked the "nibbles" scattered throughout the book and other practical suggestions, such as how to obtain and wear a pedometer. I am having such fun in my daily walking and competing with myself for "steps instead of miles." As a health educator who taught Nutritional Smorgasbords to elementary school children and also to groups of school nurses encouraging them to include this concept of healthy eating in their school programs. I am delighted to see this much needed book in furthering the education of the public and in such a clear and kindly tone.

This is a great book!

I think I've read every diet book ever written. They're all the same. You follow a specific plan for a while, you lose weight and then as time goes by, you drift back to your old habits and gain it back. This book focuses your weight loss on whatever habits caused you to gain weight in the first place. It's more personalized than any other diet book I've ever picked up. And it works. I'm losing weight while getting control of my eating and exercise habits. I also have more energy and don't feel like I'm depriving myself. This book is filled with so many healthy snacking options and great recipes. I also find the nibble on this sayings to be very motivating. I always wondered why I kept gaining my weight back. Now I know why and am doing something about it.

A dream come true: The most sensible approach ever!

Where has Dr. Kushner been all my life?? I've read every diet book on the market, tried every approach--always looking for the "magic" one, but never feeling satisfied--and this one is the BEST ever. Why? Rather than offering a once-size-fits-all formula for quick weight loss, it helps first pinpoint the possible causes of our diverse, individual struggles and then offers sensible, logical and healthy lifestyle changes I wish I'd "thought of" before: No longer do I feel like I'm on a diet, but by following Dr. Kushner & team's expert guidelines, I've adopted changes that are not only manageable in everyday domestic, social and business situations, but ones that can easily last a lifetime. Ever since I found my "personality type" after completing the quiz, made lots of the recommended changes, met with great success (and compliments from others!) I've been thinking "Why don't people ever talk about this 'novel approach' even though, as I now see, it makes the most obvious sense in the world?" Moreover, Dr. Kushner not only seems to understand every single one of us, but he also recognizes the human reality of our situation--that deprivation and strict dietary dictates aren't what are going to give us the long-lasting results we've all been seeking, and instead offers us valid, sensible advice and tools we all can use to fit our varied lifestyles and thereby get control of our weight once and for all. In addition to all of this, I loved the tone of the book because it seems like he's actually talking to you, doing so with warmth and a sense of humor. So apart from being enormously helpful, it's also enjoyable to read.I feel like buying this book as a gift for every single person I know who struggles with their weight. I also feel like nominating Dr. Kushner for the "Hall of Fame of Medical Professionals who Really Understand and Care about You & Me."

Finally, a doctor who understands and can help me!

I will admit that the gimmicky title made me a little skeptical but I was pleasantly surprised. There were no gimmicks. Instead, I found real help and a lot of encouragement. I really like the way the quiz directs you to find the treatment that will work for you. What Dr. Kushner recommends makes sense to me. I also like that I only have to follow the tips that apply to my patterns. The recommendations are easy to follow and practical. I've never met Dr. Kushner but I feel like he really understands me and my problems. I love how positive this book is. It's not like a regular diet.