7 Secrets The Weight Loss Industry Will Never Tell You [Paperback]

Graham Park (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 4, 2009

For more than 20 years, Graham Park followed the advice of every weight loss ‘expert’ and company he could find. He spent thousands of dollars and lost lots of weight, over and over again. During that same time he managed to add more than 66 pounds of extra fat to his already overweight body. Traditional ‘solutions’ from weight loss companies simply do not work. They merely trap us on a treadmill of ‘Yo Yo’ diets and potentially dangerous medical treatments that sap both our wallet and our self esteem. Working with an experienced team of health professionals from outside the traditional weight loss industry, Graham was able to lose more than 95 pounds in just 23 weeks and keep the weight off! To lose the weight, Graham learned how to reactivate his body’s natural fat burning hormones WITHOUT: • doing any serious exercise; • counting calories; • drinking diet shakes or eating “meal replacements”; HOWEVER, he did eat and enjoy a balanced, healthy range of “normal” foods. Graham and his team have since helped thousands of people successfully lose weight (and keep it off) using this simple & highly successful formula. Now this book shares how you can also achieve this same level of success.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Battling my own weight for well over 20 years, doing dozens of programs where I would lose 15-20 pounds then quickly regain it all, I was totally fed up with the weight loss industry. I was sure I was one of those people who would always be fat no matter what, I felt way older than my years and was ashamed of my weight, I had a multi million dollar wellness and anti aging business, a great family life, so why was I such a failure when it came to controlling my weight?

Motivated by a desire enjoy my 4 daughters as they grew, I did something crazy. 4 years ago, I approached a group of doctors and scientists who had nothing to do with weight loss but who were focused on optimum health. Their advise was SO different, 23 weeks later I found myself 95+ pounds lighter!.

Since then I have not been on a diet or joined a gym and yet the weight has stayed off.

Together we founded a tiny boutique weight loss business that designed medically based custom programs, expensive but highly effective. Today we have thousands of clients who have lost weight, gained health and have never looked back.

While a book can never hope to replace the care of a health professional, I believe this book provides clear guidance on what does not work and why there is more to weight loss than a "Diet" than you can not stay on forever.

From the Back Cover

For more than 20 years, Graham Park followed the advice of every weight loss `expert' and company he could find. He spent thousands of dollars and lost lots of weight, over and over again. During that same time he managed to add more than 66 pounds of extra fat to his already overweight body. Traditional `solutions' from weight loss companies simply do not work. They merely trap us on a treadmill of `Yo Yo' diets and potentially dangerous medical treatments that sap both our wallet and our self esteem. Working with an experienced team of health professionals from outside the traditional weight loss industry, Graham was able to lose more than 95 pounds in just 23 weeks and keep the weight off! To lose the weight, Graham learned how to reactivate his body's natural fat burning hormones WITHOUT: * doing any serious exercise; * counting calories; * drinking diet shakes or eating "meal replacements"; HOWEVER, he did eat and enjoy a balanced, healthy range of "normal" foods. Graham and his team have since helped thousands of people successfully lose weight (and keep it off) using this simple & highly successful formula. Now this book shares how you can also achieve this same level of success.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing; 1 edition (January 4, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439219346
• ISBN-13: 978-1439219348
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,816,219 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Money..., March 27, 2009

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N. FRASER-SMITH (Queensland, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 7 Secrets The Weight Loss Industry Will Never Tell You (Paperback)

It's interesting to note that all the positive reviews on this site come from around Brisbane, Australia. What a coincidence that Graham Park also comes from Brisbane, Australia. You can draw your own conclusions.
This book is nothing more than an infomercial for the weight loss program Mr Park is selling. There is no information in the book that is not well documented in almost every discussion on weight loss. 'Eat less, exercise more', oh I almost forgot, take vitamin supplements, and guess what, Mr Park sells those as well. So what are the seven 'Secrets'?
1. The weight loss industry is built on repeat business, (who would have thought!)
2. Synthetic food is not the answer (eat real food, not something out of a packet, now we are getting somewhere)
3. Surgery is always dangerous (don't have bariatric surgery, it might kill you)
4. No more miracle cures please (weight loss pills don't work, yes we know that)
5. Food is not the enemy (learn to eat the right things in the correct portions, ok)
6. Exercise won't do it. (food intake is more important than exercise, the only thing he says that is
of any real value, the exercise industry has us all brainwashed, I agree).
7. You do not need to be on diets forever (see Point 4. above)
So that's it. No need to buy the book now. You won't learn any more than this, and of course lots of information on how to buy into Mr Parks' weight loss program at $300 a month and how important 'supplements' are, that he also sells.
I was well and truly ripped off with the purchase of this book. $24.95 I will never see again.
Perhaps Mr Park should have added an eighth 'Secret'.
SECRET 8 - People in the weight loss industry write books pretending to give advise when they are really just trying to flog their weight loss program.
Don't waste your money.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The REAL secrets are not here. Those will cost you., March 5, 2009

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JinDallas (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 7 Secrets The Weight Loss Industry Will Never Tell You (Paperback)

So you see the dramatic picture of author and make the assumption that he is going to share the secrets of his success with you. Well, not really. This book contains some interesting information but not anything shocking about the diet industry itself. I think we all know that it exists mainly to separate us from our money whether we lose weight or not. The kicker to this book was at the end. When you get to the end you discover that the author will be glad to share exactly how he lost all that weight and will help you develop a personalized plan...For $300 a month. $300 a month after you take a battery of blood tests. Don't buy this book expecting to receive specific informaiton that will help you lose weight and keep it off like the author did. In that respect the book is misleading. His diet plan probably does work but this is a review of the book which in the end only leads you to his website. $300 a month for a diet and weightloss plan almost makes it seem as if Mr. Park is part of that diet industry he disparages.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No actual answers, March 13, 2009

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E. Johnson "ejohnson72" (CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 7 Secrets The Weight Loss Industry Will Never Tell You (Paperback)

I bought this book in hopes of finding a new direction to take with dieting. The book spends chapters and chapters giving self-congratulatory teasers about the wonderful program that will really, really work. Within these chapters the author also derides other diet programs "exposing" the shocking money-hungry diet industry. When you finally get to the end all ready to see what this great new direction should be...it turns out that the entire book was a commercial for the author's diet program. That's right, a commercial for which I paid good money--boy, do I feel foolish! Don't make the same mistake I did, pass up this expensive infomercial.