Book Review: The Diet Dropout's Guide to Natural Weight Loss

Title: The Diet Dropout’s Guide to Natural Weight Loss: Find Your Easiest Path to Naturally Thin

Author: Stan Spencer, PhD

Published Jan. 1, 2013

ISBN: 978-0-9835717-0-4

Suggested Retail: $11.95

Paperback

Description

Dr. Stan Spencer takes a look at why we gain weight and why the fat we lose by dieting almost always comes back. He then presents an array of science-based weight loss tools, from improving nutrition and exercise, to boosting metabolism, calming cravings, and controlling emotional eating. In the final chapter, he has us create a personal weight loss plan based on our unique set of needs, abilities, and preferences. The plan outlines our easiest path to being naturally thin by reshaping the habits that cause excess weight. Simple recipes are provided for weight loss foods that reduce cravings and prolong satisfaction.

Review

One of my new reads this past month was The Diet Dropout’s Guide to Natural Weight Loss. This is not a diet book and it will not teach you how to lose weight quickly. It is to teach you natural, permanent weight loss by changing habits, thought patterns, and situations which cause weight gain to occur in the first place. It takes information from published studies over the last few years, puts into terms everyone can use, and steers clear of the fad diets and weight loss myths.

The Diet Dropout’s Guide to Natural Weight Loss is 112 pages. I found the format was very easy to read and utilize the information presented in this book, brief and to the point. The appendixes of this book are great too. They contain about 15 pages of recipes featuring vegetables, simple whole grains, and yogurt. All of this can be added into your plan for a lifetime of a healthier you.

About the Author

Stan Spencer is a consulting biologist in Southern California, where he lives with his wife, Amy, and a varying number of their seven children. He earned a Ph.D. in botany at Claremont Graduate University and has conducted research in biochemistry at Brigham Young University, in adaptation and evolution at Claremont Graduate University, and in genetics at the Smithsonian Institution.

You can contact Dr. Spencer at DrStanSpencer@gmail.com or Facebook.com/weightossbook. He would love to hear what you think of the book and about your weight loss experience.

Disclosure: I received a copy of this book for the purpose of this review. The thoughts and feelings expressed are my own. No other compensation was received.

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