Why Your Last Diet Failed You and How This Book Won't Help You on Your Next One

By Charlie Hills

Describes one man's remarkable 192-month journey as he loses seventeen thousand pounds and about half of his sanity. This book helps readers learn why the last diet failed and find out exactly why it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974973262
• ISBN13: 9780974973265
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Lockshire Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Laugh both at and with the author...

When I picked up the book by Charlie Hills, Why Your Last Diet Failed You, I thought, Great, yet another book on dieting. Then I read the subtitle of the book: "And How This Book Won't Help You on Your Next One". My thought on that was, Huh, well, at least he's honest. Not only did I find the cover of Why Your Last Diet Failed You amusing, but I also found it honest, and that's what you're going to find inside the book. That is, essentially, what the very foundation of this book, yet another book on dieting, is all about: honesty, with a dash of humor, and it's calorie free. One thing that stood out when reading the book is that Mr. Hills makes it clear upfront his isn't a miraculous weight loss story. He's never weighed 400 pounds, had a near death experience, or any of the other amazing and heartwarming stories we see in late night infomercials from people with whom we cannot relate. Instead, he's just a normal American human being, who, like the majority of Americans, has been battling the bulge and the "trampoline" weight loss and gain, and he found himself loosing the war. Pros: Humorous, realistic, practical... this book will make you laugh, might even motivate you to lose weight, and even if it doesn't, provides enough entertainment value to make it worth the read. Con: The book is a bit pricey. Overall, I recommend the book for its entertainment value alone, but if you pick up some useful information along the way, all the better!

Charlie Hills Knows A Little More About Diet Success Than He Lets On

When you've been on diet after diet after diet in your life, you become somewhat of an expert on the subject. And they always say to write what you know and that's exactly what Charlie Hills did with this humorously-titled book. Struggling to lose weight and then gaining it all back got frustrating and Charlie finally figured out that he needed to find what worked best for him (which turns out to be a healthy low-carb diet, by the way!). He hopes by sharing about his ups and downs over the years that other people can finally find that plan that will give them the final answer to this lifelong problem. And he's kinda funny talking about it, too. :D

A humorous look at the diet book fad

So many diet books, so many failed diets - sometimes you just can't take the nonsense anymore. "Why Your Last Diet Failed You: And How This Book Won't Help on Your Next One" is a humorous look at the diet book fad, following the author's own journeys through the ups and downs of the problems of his own diet, losing more of his mind than he did pounds. Also examining the American culture's fascination with being thin and shedding the pounds, it's a laugh riot from front cover to back. "Why Your Last Diet Failed You: And How This Book Won't Help on Your Next One" is highly recommended to community library humor collections with a nod to health collections as well.

Funny!

I chose this book, because I too, have been dieting/not dieting for pretty much the last 20 years. The best part about this book was that it was so funny! I laughed out loud when I read about the whole "Thanksgiving to New Years" fiasco every year. I totally related to the trials and tribulations of weight loss. I loved the whole book!

Humorous AND Informative!

Having spent a significant portion of my adult life on one diet or another, I was immediately drawn to this book, which I found to be both humorous and informative. The author provides solid, practical information about weight loss, but he does so in a wry, wisecracking manner, using his own personal journey for illustrative purposes.