Eating by Design [Paperback]

Carrie Latt Wiatt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1996

What "the Queen of Lean" (GQ) has done for many of Hollywood's biggest stars -- including Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Alfre Woodard, and Neve Campbell -- she can do for you. In Eating By Design, Carrie Latt Wiatt identifies twelve distinct food personality types -- the key to satisfying your unique food needs and desires. Through quizzes and profiles, she helps you determine your type (from the Nurturer to the Yin-Yang to the Passionflower). Then she customizes a diet to fit your type. You'll find extensive meal and snack menus, shopping lists, and easy-to-prepare recipes that enable you to lose weight and permanently transform your body without fighting your inner nature. Let Carrie Wiatt create a fun eating plan that mobilizes the power of your personality to help you look good and feel great for a lifetime.

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With primers available on everything from managing employees to finding a mate based upon one's personality type, it's amazing that something really important like dieting has gone unnoticed. Here, the diet guru to folks like Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid shows how to cater your menu to your mental makeup.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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John Larroquette Good food. Good sense. It works -- and it's easy! -- Review

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Atria (August 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671898248
• ISBN-13: 978-0671898243
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #409,422 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!, March 15, 2001

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I've been meaning to pick up a copy of this book for a while. I always hesitated because I figured it would be just another one of those "diet books" that would end up collecting dust on my bookshelf. Not this book. This is any excellent book that actually makes eating better fun. The first thing you do is take a quiz which helps you figure out your main personality type + sub-types. You then follow an eating plan that works best for your personality. The amount of calories you can eat also depends on some various factors such as age, activity level, etc. and another small quiz is provided to help you to figure this out as well. I like how the author recognizes that we're all different. Some people need to eat mini-meals all day long where other folks need a diet made up of sensuous meals or gourmet type fare. Whatever your inclination, you will find a plan that will work for you in this book.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very refreshing look at eater personalities!!, May 13, 1998

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This review is from: Eating by Design (Paperback)

I found Carrie Latt Wiatt's book lastnight and had to pick it up. I am a sucker for any kind of diet plan or panacea. So I bought it and started to read it right away. Immediately, I felt a sense of relief in reading what I read on each of the different personalities of eaters. Mrs. Wiatt doesn't try to fit everyone into one category because she knows, from years of study, that everyone eats differently and therefore relates and uses food in different manners.

I do hope to be able to use the simple to follow plan she has formulated for my "food personality." Many people have been successful by following Carrie Latt Wiatt's advice and I am inspired to believe I will be successful too!!

I love this book and believe it will help relieve other people who get stressed out by their personal battles with food, weight, body image and the diets that don't work.

This is not a diet book. It is a book that deals with the heart of why we eat the way we do and re-directs our focus on HOW to eat for nourishment and rejuvenation, as well as, complete health and well-being. END

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book, July 20, 1999

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This review is from: Eating by Design (Paperback)

I happened upon this book after my mom bought it and it's been one of the first pieces of comprehensive eating advice I've ever encountered. The author sets you up with tips for how to eat sensibly, and I've become a lot leaner since following her advice. The personality styles thing is a bit corny at first, but the approach is so gentle and effective that it's become my little food bible. Most importantly, the author enables you to make healthy eating second nature in a very enjoyable, uncontrived way.