The Thin Commandments: The Ten No-Fail Strategies for Permanent Weight Loss

by Stephen Gullo

Book Overview

The first in the field of weight control to teach diet fitness The bestselling author of Thin Tastes Better, Dr. Stephen Gullo reveals his unique program that has a success rate almost 15 times higher... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579548989
• ISBN13: 9781579548988
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

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I think this book is really true and honest about the reality of permanant weight loss. I think if you have the motivation and discipline this book will definitely help you realize the steps needed to make it permanant.

The Thin Commandments by Gullo

The author asks that we identify trigger foods, behavioral situations which make us eat and motivational strategies to handlen binge eating. Food deprivation often leads to greater food intake as a compensating factor. Things to avoid include eating while cooking, eating while watching television and the stacked kitchen counter. A simple pinch of saccharine on the tongue can produce enough bitter taste to counter the eating urges. Reduced sleep can lead to increased eating at night. A protein snack at 5:00PM is suggested to protect against binge eating in the evening. The author asks that we take a protein snack on the road enroute to shopping or to a party. The Halls sugar free menthol lyptus drops can help to tame the taste buds to avoid excessive eating. Carbonate also kills hunger pangs, as does tomato juice. Tea drinking is another strategy to promote weight loss. All kinds of fish are nutrient dense with Omega 3 fatty acids and other vitamins. Coffee, tea and tomato juice are the "free foods" . The author provides model meals including eggs, yogurt, salads, cottage cheese, turkey salad and Chinese seafood for major meals. This book will be very helpful in identifying healthy foods requisite to maintaining weight at the proper levels.

Weightloss winner

Gullo has amassed an arsenal of information about the biological triggers that set so many of us off on binges. He has worked with so many overweight people that he knows the main issues that undermine our success at weightloss. I had so many ah-ha moments reading Thin Commandments. I'm not crazy about the title (too religious sounding), but they do represent the laws of food behavior that ultimately lead to success or failure. Gullo is clued into the fact that you have to know your weaknesses in order to find your strengths. In other words, we all need strategies for any success--no achievement happens by magic. The use of tapes/cds has been the most helpful and have gotten me over some low spots in staying motivated. Keep reading the thin commandments and keep listening to the tapes/cd and success becomes part of your thinking. I've lost over sixty pounds with Gullo's strategies, and consider him a General amongst the army of authors of weightloss books. I have read all of the most popular, and many of the others. Gullo gives you a plan for life, so you can win the war not just one battle.

Gave me a new way of thinking

I just finished reading this book, lent to me by a friend. I'm thinking now that I should buy my own copy! It gave me a whole new way of thinking about "dieting". This book doesn't tell me what I can or cannot eat, it just makes me think about what I REALLY want before I cram it in my mouth. In the few days since I began reading it, I have already caught myself using its advice. I'm sure it's going to be extremely useful to me, not only for losing weight (my immediate goal) but for living a healthy lifestyle without depriving myself of the little luxuries.

A strong recommendation

I've not only read the book, but I've been seeing Dr. Gullo for some time now (the book is much cheaper). I was appropriately skeptical in the beginning. Having lost 45 pounds and kept it off for over 2 years all I can say is - it works.