[Novel] Sayonara, Mr. Fatty! A Geeks Diet Memoir

[Chris Beveridge]

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Though I have nitpicks, that’s all they are. I can easily recommend this book as one of many methods worth trying. Not every method works for every person, and a lot of it really does involve what you put into it. But the results, the real results when achieved, are so worth it. In his last chapter, Okada describes it as landing on the moon. When you lose a lot of weight, everything about you changes. Appearance, self confidence and personality. Almost always for the better. You feel light in your step, filled with energy and more alive than you may have ever been depending on when you became heavy. If you can achieve this landing on the moon sensation he describes using his methods, this book will be the best fifteen bucks you’ve ever spent. So I wholeheartedly recommend spending it and joining us on the moon.

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I'm going to disagree slightly with the reviewer on his points about exercise. It's not that I think it's unimportant, it's just that it's a turnoff for so many people who won't start on a diet because of it. The book shows that from a small, seemingly insignificant activity, great changes can occur. And once people have mastered food, they can go to make other changes - and will likely want to.

Keeping a food diary is nothing new - it part of the Weight Watcher's program and it does work. There's something very sobering about recording what you eat and the calorie counts or points. Even though I'm doing Atkins where food types are more important than counts (and I feel 3000% better than I did), I could use some encouragement and this book just might be the thing. And getting back to writing down what I eat is not a bad thing either!

[Chris Beveridge]

But see, that's what I was saying. It's incremental. I didn't go from 3000 steps a day to 25,000 steps a day overnight. I did it by making myself simply walk a few extra steps every time I did something. Doing that in combination with other things helps the process immensely. But as I also stated, every individual is so different that there is no one sure fire method that will work. The best method is a combination of several different things most likely and weeding out the things that make no real impact.

For me, which is where my point was, the exercise has been a powerful part of the program that went far beyond what my doctor recommended and thought I'd even accomplish. It translated into me now doing tennis, swimming, bicycling and other sports. Whereas I hadn't done any kind of sport since my early teens because of how I felt about myself.