The Perfect Fit Diet: How to Lose Weight, Keep It Off, and Still Eat the Foods You Love - Softcover

Sanders, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312338236 ISBN 13: 9780312338237

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005

Synopsis

Low-carb, low-fat, low-cal. There are so many diets out there, and they all work--for someone. If you're like most people, you've probably tried more than one and found the results are, at best, only temporary. So the question is, which diet is right for you?

Lisa Sanders, M.D., author of the acclaimed "Diagnosis" column in the New York Times Magazine, has uncovered the one new truth that is changing the world of dieting: Everyone puts on weight in their own individual way. Permanent weight loss, then, is only possible on a diet that fits your individual food preferences, lifestyle, and medical profile. In what O magazine voted "the best" in their annual diet book round-up, Sanders presents a science-based, customized weight-loss plan that works--for life. The key to the plan is a questionnaire covering everything from your medical history to which foods just taste good and which foods actually satisfy hunger.

You will:
*Use the questionnaire to identify the basic diet that's best for you
*Learn how to tailor that diet to accommodate your lifestyle, activity level and tastes
*Understand that dieting isn't about your moral strength, it's about compatibility between you and your diet.

About this title

About the Author:

Lisa Sanders, M.D., is on the faculty of Yale Medical School, where she treats overweight and obese patients. Her "Diagnosis" column appears monthly in the New York Times Magazine. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband and two daughters.

Review:

"The Perfect Fit Diet is the sanest and most sensible book on dieting I've ever read."
-Michael Pollan, bestselling author of The Botany of Desire

"The Perfect Fit Diet is unlike any other weight-loss book I've ever read. Dr. Sanders is right. No eating rules apply to everyone. I had great fun answering the questionnaire about me, and then eating accordingly."
-Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D., bestselling author of Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld's 2005 Breakthrough Health

"Because Dr. Sanders knows that gimmicks are bound to fail, she brilliantly gives us the guidelines we need to craft an eating plan based on our own food preferences, to come up with a diet that permits us to eat well and eat right."
-Mark Bittman, New York Times columnist and author of How to Cook Everything

"You are what you eat, we often hear, but now Lisa Sanders tells us you eat what you are--that our individual biological make-ups determine our eating habits. Grounded in the latest science, written with great clarity and humor, The Perfect Fit Diet is the sanest and most sensible book on dieting I've ever read."
-Michael Pollan, bestselling author of The Botany of Desire

"Sanders sticks with the science of nutrition, a welcome break from the often over-the-top, motivational speak that tends to fill diet books."
-Cleveland Plain Dealer

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312338236
• ISBN 13: 9780312338237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400