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The Perfect Fit Diet: Combine What Science Knows About Weight Loss with What You Know About Yourself [Hardcover]

Lisa Sanders (Author)
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January 3, 2004
We all have different shapes, different tastes, and different lifestyles, so why should one diet work for everyone? How can you take the guesswork out of selecting the diet that's a perfect fit for you?

Lisa Sanders, M.D., an internist and a researcher at the Yale University School of Medicine, has spent the past 5 years analyzing more than 700 weight-loss programs and has uncovered a fundamental truth about dieting: Sustainable weight loss is only possible on a diet that fits your food preferences, satiety signals, lifestyle, and medical profile. You can lose weight with many diets -- but you can keep the weight off only with a diet that satisfies all of you.

Building on her research, Dr. Sanders has designed the first science-based method for creating a customized weight-loss plan that works for you -- for life!

The key to her plan is an interactive questionnaire that covers everything from your family and medical histories to the foods that tickle your tastebuds, relieve your stress, and trigger feelings of satisfaction. The answers to these questions guide you to the basic diet that will help you lose weight for life. Dr. Sanders then reveals how to customize that diet to accommodate your lifestyle, activity level, and personal tastes.

The Perfect Fit Diet is a reliable compass for navigating the thicket of competing diet claims, a rational path for the thinking person who wants to lose weight.

Low-carb, high-fat. High-carb, low-fat. Eat like a caveman. Eat in "The Zone." Eat on "The Beach." Does anything really work? More important, will any of it work for you?

Until now, the only way to find the right diet has been through a maddening guessing game. And there's nothing more frustrating than failing, then gaining back all of the weight -- and more!

Lisa Sanders, M.D., has made it her mission to find out how diets really work and why, despite the odds, some dieters are able to take the weight off and keep it off. She's spent years poring over hundreds and hundreds of medical studies -- and guess what?

Each of these diets works -- for the right person. The trick is to find the diet that works for you. Dr. Sanders has uncovered the secret to matching the dieter to the weight-loss program -- one that is most suited to the dieter's tastes, lifestyle, and cravings.

Dr. Sanders's revolutionary Perfect Fit Questionnaire will eliminate the guesswork and guide you to your Perfect Fit Diet, pointing you to one of three basic diets. You'll then customize that diet to create a perfectly personalized plan -- one that allows you to shed those pounds, without feeling hungry or deprived, for a lifetime!

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". . . [Dr. Sanders] brilliantly gives us the guidelines we need to craft an eating plan based on our own food preferences . . ."--Mark Bittman, New York Times columnist and author of How to Cook Everything

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

"The Perfect Fit Diet is unlike any other weight-loss book . . . I expect to lose all the weight I need to . . ."--Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D., best-selling author of Live Now, Age Later and Dr. Rosenfeld's Guide to Alternative Medicine

About the Author

Lisa Sanders, M.D., is an internist practicing in Connecticut and is on the faculty of Yale University School of Medicine. In her research and practice, she specializes in the treatment of overweight and obese patients. Before entering medical school, she was an Emmy Award-winning producer at CBS News, where she covered medicine and health. Her widely read "Diagnosis" column appears monthly in The New York Times. Dr. Sanders lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband and two daughters.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Rodale Books; First Edition edition (January 3, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1579546986
  • ISBN-13: 978-1579546984
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,007,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Knowledge and variety are the keys!!!, March 15, 2004
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Eugene Sorenson (New York, NY 10025) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Perfect Fit Diet: Combine What Science Knows About Weight Loss with What You Know About Yourself (Hardcover)
I've got at least a dozen diet books under my belt (not to mention just a few extra pounds) and finally I have found one that describes a world I understand. I am a veteran of the Zone diet (too hard to figure out), the Atkins diet (too dull and I felt awful), the carbohydrate addicts diet (managed to make up for all the missed carbs of the day in my one free meal)
and a whole bunch of others. When they didn't work I just figured it was me. I knew these diets had worked for friends. I couldn't figure out why they didn't work for me. This book tells me what I should have known all along: one size doesn't fit all. And none of them were working for me. Now I understand why. Dr. Sanders book helped me recognize that the best diet for
me is one that lets me get the variety I need by looking at calories rather than carbs. And while I still eat fewer carbs that I used to, I understand now that I can't be happy on a diet that makes bread completely off limits.I wanted a low carb diet because my friends told me I'd never be hungry and it wasn't true. But on this diet, I'm never hungry and I feel free to eat the foods I love and I'm losing weight like crazy.

Another aspect of this book that I think makes it so great is that the author explains how all this works. I'm no dummy I am pretty well informed about food and nutrition, but there was alot of info in this book that I just didn't know.
For me, knowing how something works helps me figure out how to do it my way. For instance, now I know it's protein that makes me feel full and variety that makes me feel satisfied. I can choose meals and snacks that I'm sure will hit the spot -- make me feel full and keep me full until
the next meal or snack. And feeling full, and knowing that I'm going to feel full, makes it easy for me to stick to this diet.

One thing you need to know about this book -- and I was prewarned so let me pass it on to you -- is that you won't be able to start the diet the day you buy the book. Dr. Sanders makes you keep a diary of what you eat for one week before
you start. Writing all that down isn't easy and yet doing it was probably the best investment I've made in my health in quite a long time. Maybe ever.

This may be the last diet book I'll ever need to buy.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not for the Well Informed. Beginners Will Enjoy, October 18, 2004
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J. A Carty "Jessie Carty" (Charlotte, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Perfect Fit Diet: Combine What Science Knows About Weight Loss with What You Know About Yourself (Hardcover)
I was really excited about purchasing this book but ultimately very disappointed.

I have read many diet and nutrition books so this particular item was not impressive. The questionairre may be enlightening for someone who has either: never been on a diet, or never really thought much about their motivations behind food.

When I completed the questionairre it told me to Count Calories which I know from past experience does not work for me.

It does have some good information for a beginner. Maybe someone who just needs to take off 25 pounds of recent weight gain but I would not suggest this for anyone who has tried multiple diets. It won't tell you anything new.
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28 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Another dreaded diet book!, November 5, 2004
This review is from: The Perfect Fit Diet: Combine What Science Knows About Weight Loss with What You Know About Yourself (Hardcover)
Let me begin by saying I am glad I am not the author Lisa Sander's sister. Poor Shelley must be gnashing her teeth over Lisa's willingness to share sister Shelley's personal weight loss problems. But share she does and Shelley is one of the few real life examples given in the book. Which makes one wonder if the author successfully tested her theory and followed up to see if lost weight stayed lost.

The author claims that different people lose weight on different types of diets. The goal then is to find the correct diet for you. After journaling and answering questions you will be given your "perfect fit" diet.
The diet may be a counting calories diet, low carb diet or low fat diet. This diet is then tailored to suit your needs.

I have several problems with the book. The first is that she categorizes diets according to how weight loss is accomplished on pp 28-29. For example Dr. Ornish's diet helps people according to Sanders because they eat low fat. Sugar Busters limits carbs as does Dr. Atkins. Then she says that American Heart Association and Weight Watchers are low calorie. BUT here the author misses the point. ALL OF THE DIETS WORK BECAUSE THEY ARE LOW CALORIE. Not because they are low fat or low carb..but because you are eating less. So to say you can lose weight because you are eating low carb is inaccurate. To say you can lose weight because you are eating less calories because you are eating low carb and hence cutting calories is accurate.

So then we get to the type of diet themselves. Yes Atkins may help you lose weight but is it a healthy diet long term? Yes the Ornish plan of VERY limited fats will help you lose weight but fat free is a pretty joyless plan. Yes the Zone plan can help you shed fat but can you stick to it long term.
So here Dr. Sanders advocates picking one of these diets and she helps you choose it BUT can you do it LONG-TERM?

And if you are going to go on a low carb diet or low fat diet, why not just pick up the ORIGINAL diet book which will have more recipes and information? Because Sanders thinks you don't know what type of diet will work for you. But most of us have been around the diet block and know what works for us and what doesn't. And most of us know that most of these plans don't work long-term because they are hard to stick too. Who wants to count calories the rest of their life?

My thought is make small changes in your diet. Eat less of what you eat now. If you eat a lot of sugar cut back so you don't get the strong sugar urges. Walk more. Make simple changes. Weight loss will be slow but it will stay off!
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WE LIKE TO THINK that behavior as fundamental as choosing what we put in our mouths is well within the domain of human will-power-especially with the abundance and variety of foods available to us today. Read the first page
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eating diary, satiety cues, counting carbohydrates, counting fats, exercise diary, glycemic load, emotional eating, diet revolution, counting calories, metabolic syndrome
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Perfect Fit Diet, Salt Ground, Counting Carbohydrates Diet, Cool Whip, Counting Carbs, Weight Watchers, Breakfast Fat, Hunger Level, Sweets Eater, Where You Ate, Starch Stealer, Dairy Queen, Wheat Thins, Barbara Rolls, Customize the Basic Diet, Protein Power, Taco Bell, Bran Flakes, Finn Crisp, Pennsylvania State University, Snack Celery, The New England Journal of Medicine
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