Meal Patterning: Developing healthy Nutritonal Patterns for a Lifetime

by Chris Johnson

Book Overview

Fitness Expert Chris Johnson exposes the flaws in fad diets, deprivation and outdated nutritional guidelines. Nutritional and physiological information is skillfully blended with a step-by-step food... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972728120
• ISBN13: 9780972728126
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Chris Johnson, LLC
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the last nutrition book you will ever need!

if you are again looking for another book on diet, nutrition, stop and look at this one. After years of drinking horrible protein shakes, watching everything I eat and counting calories you'd think I'd lose weight, they didn't work so I gave up. My doctor recommended this book to me - I bought it, read it and have followed it. It is written in a way that everyone can understand and follow. Within 5 weeks I've lost 6.5 pounds - it may not seem much but when you have a thyroid disease - this is excellent. I have saved money by not having to purchase extra supplements like I did before. Instead of buying protein powder, I now concentrate on buying healthy food! I've tried the diets, Atkins, South Beach, Herbalife, Weight Watchers and Suzanne Somers... but they restrict you and you end up feeling deprived. Now I can have carbs by way of fruit and veggies and I'm losing weight. Give it a try - it is a great investment! I know that some have mentioned the recipes are not the greatest but you can work around it. You can use some of the recipes and build up from there. BTW, there is a really good section on exercise with diagrams.

The Book that Started My Journey

It all started about 2 years ago when the author of this book gave a talk at my company to about 2,000 people. At the time I was lazy, obese, and didn't know the first thing about true health and well-being. I was just like most everyone else there, I thought all fat was bad, carbs were bad, and didn't even realize the PH imbalance due to my diet was what was causing my acid reflux. I used to lift weights when I was younger and I had done some dieting in college and lost a lot of weight, but it soon came back and I was nearing my all time high of 240 and 40 inch waists were only a few weeks away. So after Chris spoke to us I had some really conflicting concepts, he made me question what I thought about eating healthy. I ended up buying this book and applied a few of his ideas from the seminar to my daily life...but for some reason I still didn't get around to reading the book for almost a year so not much really changed for me in that first year. Then I read the book and all of those seeds of knowledge that he had planted the year before began to grow and I couldn't believe how clearly I was starting to see things. Don't get me wrong there is no one thing that just clicked, we are talking about extensive diet changes, but if you make them a few at a time they are entirely attainable. So over the last year I started riding bikes, lifting weights again and trying to eat healthy. I went from 240 in January to about 210 in October and then things kind of stopped. Then I heard that there was a new book out (On Target Living Nutrition: The power of feeling your best), so I got it as soon as I could and read it. This time around the seeds that started to grow when I read his first book (which is very much the same as his second) really took off. As I read a chapter about fat or protein or what we drink I actively applied that to my life. I now try to eat much closer to whole unrefined foods and try to make sure to eat 5-7 smaller meals a day and many of the other things outlined in the book. I am now down to 192 and falling fast and the great thing about this whole thing is that it is NOT A DIET...I am not hungry, I have lots of energy, I feel great. I simply replaced crappy low quality refined foods with balanced, high quality, whole foods that taste great and make me feel better than I have ever felt. I no longer take my acid reflux pills, I don't get headaches anymore, I'm not always tired like I used to be, I need to buy new clothes because mine are too big instead of the other way around and my overall outlook on life has never been better, words can't say enough about how much this has changed my life, it has been a 2 year process so far, and things just keep looking better. There is nothing complicated about this book, all of the chapters are very well organized and easy to understand and relatively short and to the point. There is also a food target in the back of the book that gives great examples of poor, fair, good, better, and best f

A Great Read

I had the opportunity to attend a lecture by Chris Johnson a month ago. I read his book on the flight home and have found it to be the single best source of nutritional information I have ever come across. In a month's time I have lost body fat, increased muscle tone and energy and feel great - all without feeling like I was sacrificing anything. I have had so many friends ask to borrow the book I decided to buy several copies and give them away.

Meal Patterning

I bought and read the book last year. The CD has been a great refresher and has additional resources and tools on it.