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A Guide to Flexible Dieting

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Lyle consistently delivers: no drivel, no wasted space, no fluff- just easy to read and understand information that doesn't patronize the reader.

This is a terrific (dare I say it?) Lifestyle book. It is less about one particular way of dieting (though it covers several methods) than about how to maintain weight loss and health for life. I would consider it absolutely a must-have for anyone concerned with fitness and weight loss.

Lyle McDonald tells it like it is. So many diet authors waste time boasting about themselves or trying to sell the reader a bag of goods that amounts to the same message in a different package: stop eating so much and get off the couch. Lyle skips the niceties and gets to the heart of what people need to hear. His presentation is frank and easy to follow. His message is fundamentally valid and indisputable. This book is an excellent wakeup call for any weary dieter.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book. The author has a writing style that made this book both very easy and fun to read. I recommend to book to anyone who has ever failed a diet because they were too rigid in their ways, and to all dieters in general. The book provides excellent information that can be used by anyone. I suggest buying Lyle McDonald's other books as well, they are all quality work from an excellent author.

I am surprised more people have not reviewed this book, as McDonald provides readers with a comprehensive, in-depth guide to designing a diet suited to ones needs. Women especially would benefit from this book, as they tend to place severe restrictions on their diet, only for their days of starvation to backfire as they tumble on an out of control a binge-a-thon. Getting a fit body does not require such a miserable lifestyle; McDonald will not do the work for your nor tell you crazy rules and food combinations. What he does is give readers the tools to utilize a highly effective, non-retarded diet. It is only up to the reader to actually follow through rather than merely reading the material.

When one pays nearly $50 for a book, one expects to get more than an 80 page, flimsy spiral bound notebook that looks like it was self published from someplace like Staples. For that much money, you'd think the author would at least edit his work, correct the massive amount of typos, and grammerical errors and try to structure in such a way that it reads like something an adult would write instead of a 4th grader. Furthermore, don't bother to buy this book if you've read any of his other books, cause this book is merely a cut and paste version of stuff he's already published in his Rapid Fat Loss Book etc. In a nutshell: Basically all he says in this book is what we already know about dieting. Eat less calories, and be more flexible so we can do this for the long term. Well, I paid $50 for this, so buyer beware. You don't get much for your buck here, nor do you even get a clean edited copy. It's just a rough draft like read, with 80 pages of tiresome rambling.