Think Lean Method: The whole-brain guide to get lean for life

Why do so many diets fail to keep the weight off? Truth is, no matter how good a diet is, if you don't have a healthy brain and a resilient mindset, you will not be able to stick to it.

Jurie Rossouw has spent nearly a decade as a resilience expert. While struggling with his own health and weight, he uncovered the critical relevance of a resilient mindset to be able to permanently keep weight off. Through a keen interest in science, he has integrated proven concepts from nutrition, neuroscience, psychology and the growing field of neuropsychotherapy to create the ultimate method to stay lean for life.

The result is the Think Lean Method - a unique and ground-breaking combination of healthy eating, brain health and mindset modification to give you techniques for simple and sustainable weight management. It provides an in-depth guide to building personal resilience specifically designed to help you reach your body and health goals.

Think Lean Method takes complex concepts and simplifies them into a practical plan that includes:

1. A no-nonsense combination of research, evidence and analysis that reveals the science of optimal nutrition for weight loss and brain health. Great for both beginners and advanced readers who want to learn more.
2. A new food pyramid that you can tailor to your lifestyle with complete guidelines on what to eat and what to avoid for lasting success. This unique food pyramid accelerates weight loss through thermogenesis, as well as taking advantage of the hormones and peptides in your brain that make you feel full faster and for longer.
3. A guide to boosting brain health for both short term benefits as well as long term neuroprotection to defend against Alzheimer's, cognitive decline and depression. Learn about critical areas that impact your relationship with food, and how to quickly improve them.
4. An in-depth guide to help you build useful beliefs about food and develop a resilient mindset so that you stay consistent with healthy eating. Here Rossouw uses his own personal transformation and expertise in resilience to provide a revolutionary guide that shows you exactly how to Think Lean and get healthy, lean and confident for life.
5. A step-by-step plan to help you implement the method including meal plans, shopping lists and a tracking sheet to map your progress towards your goals.
6. Simple healthy recipes for breakfast, mains, side dishes, snacks and sauces. You'll be enjoying large and filling meals without having to count calories!

How can we stay consistent to reach our health and body goals?

This is the fundamental problem that Susan and I set out to solve with this book. So many diets tell you what to eat but fail to take into account how the brain works and how to work with it to achieve lasting results. We want to provide you with more than just another book about healthy eating, we want to provide you with practical techniques to help you stick to healthy eating in a sustainable and fulfilling way for life!

I am a Resilience expert with a passion for health and fitness - both physical and mental. This includes a big interest in Personal Resilience, which is our ability to positively adapt to adverse situations. While working in Resilience, it became clear to me just how crucial the techniques of Personal Resilience are in building our ability to stay consistent and reach goals. After all, what is the point of a diet if you can't stick to it?

This led me to new research in the fields of nutritional neuroscience and neuropsychotherapy, which I have used to build a new food pyramid with a solid foundation in evidence-based healthy eating and takes advantage of satiety-inducing foods that help us feel full faster and for longer. Combining this with practical ways to change the brain and boost mental fitness will give you the ability to stick to healthy eating and regular exercise year in and year out.

As I compiled the research, I realised how valuable it would have been for me when I started my mental and physical health journey over ten years ago. This is the thought that drove me to bring it together in the Think Lean Method - an evidence-based method with practical and useful techniques to help you get lasting results.

If there is one thing I want to help you with through the Think Lean Method, it is to help you reach your goals and transform your life - permanently!