Bestselling author of Thin Tastes Better, Dr. Stephen Gullo lets you in on his unique program that has a success rate almost 15 times higher than the national average and has helped patients lose more than 100 pounds and maintain the weight loss for more than 5 years. At Dr. Gullo's Institute for Health and Weight Sciences in New York City, patients wait up to 6 months for an appointment and pay over $1,000 an hour for the secrets he imparts in this book.
Dr. Gullo's program, incorporating his more than 25 years of clinical experience, features The Ten Thin Commandments that govern all eating habits and his easy-to-follow "ABC Diet" plan.
In Part One, Dr. Gullo shares his Thin Commandments, including: o Think historically, not just calorically-identify trigger foods that can undermine weight loss o Slips should teach you, not defeat you-uncover the "24-hour secret" and never gain weight from bingeing again o Success is about substitution, not denial-discover the 10 most common diet-busting foods and their satisfying substitutes
In Part Two, Dr. Gullo outlines his simple ABC Diet plan. He takes the guesswork out of dieting and offers a three-step program, which begins with a 10-day turbocharge plan that helps melt away pounds quickly and easily. The ABC Diet is complete with menu plans and shopping lists.
"His patients succeed without drugs, diet shakes, frozen dinners, or surgery. . . . Many patients who consulted him more than a decade ago say that their weight loss has been permanent . . ." -Self magazine
About the Author
STEPHEN GULLO, PH.D., is former chair of the National Obesity and Weight Control Institute at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and President of the Institute for Health and Weight Sciences in New York and Beverly Hills. Dr. Gullo is a frequent contributor to Allure magazine. He lives in New York City.
Since beginning his practice four decades ago, Dr. Stephen Gullo has gained worldwide acclaim for his pioneering approach to weight control. Dr. Gullo is a rarity in the field: A man who understands the human psyche, and a man raised in the world of fine food; a weight loss expert who has served as the editor of a gourmet food and wine magazine and someone who took the lessons of his patients to heart and to his own issues with food. Thus, Dr. Gullo is the only diet doctor who can confidently claim to know both the science and seduction of food. In the world of food, Dr. Gullo is the ultimate insider.
For generations, Dr. Gullo's family has been associated with the production and marketing of fine Italian foods. As such, Dr. Gullo was raised in household filled with the smells of homemade breads, pasta, and crushed grapes that would be turned into family wines. In the Gullo household, five-star dining wasn't reserved for a special occasion but was an everyday event. There was no junk food and no eating out; for the finest restaurants couldn't compare with the foods served at home.
Dr. Gullo received his doctorate in psychology from Columbia University, and for two decades served as a professor and researcher on the health sciences faculty at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the former chair of the National Obesity and Weight Control Education Institute of the American Institute for Life-Threatening Illness at the Columbia University Medical Center. Upon stepping down from his position at Columbia, Dr. Gullo was honored by an international gathering of royalty, diplomats, colleagues and patients held at the United Nations under the president of the UN General Assembly, and presented with the Schoenberg Award for "the development of unique and creative modes of weight control."
Dr. Gullo's first book for popular audiences, Thin Tastes Better, was a national best seller, a fixture in USA Today's list of the top 100 books and alternative selection of the Literary Guild. People Magazine hailed Dr. Gullo's second book, The Thin Commandments Diet, as one the "best diet books of the new year," USA Today called it a "book filled with practical ideas," and Web MD, the #2 ranked health content website, commended it for "preaching strategy, not prayer, as the path to lifelong weight control."
Dr. Gullo is a familiar figure on television, radio, print and digital media--he has been interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, Larry King and Barbara Walters, and made numerous appearances on the Today Show, Good Morning America, ABC News, Fox News, NBC's popular daytime make over program Starting Over, Extra TV, and Hard Copy. Dr. Gullo has been the subject of dozens of magazine features, three New York Times cover stories, and many articles in the Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The New York Daily News and the Hollywood Reporter.
When the New York Times conducted a survey of the nation's leading weight experts for their prestigious T-List, there was a consensus of just two names in the field of weight control--Dr. Gullo was one of those two. Harper's Bazaar put Dr. Gullo at the top of their list of America's best society diet doctors and Bottom Line named him to their team of giants in the field of weight control.
Dr. Gullo's voice has reached millions of readers as a contributing editor to Self Magazine, a weight consultant to Allure Magazine, and most recently, as a member of the editorial advisory board of Women's Health Magazine and the International Advisory Board for Chobani Yogurt.
Dr. Gullo was the first person to apply the motivational strategies of the advertising world to the field of weight control, and remains one of the most engaging and innovative voices in the field. He is currently president of the Center for Health and Weight Sciences in New York City. Dr. Gullo resides in New York City and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Famed diet doctor,Stephen Gullo charges $1,000 an hour to advise clients on how they can lose weight. Now his tips and techniques can be yours for the price of this book.
The hardcover 318 page book is slim but it's definately quality content. The book is essentially two parts. The first section includes strategies to employ to keep yourself IN CONTROL and IN CHARGE when it comes to your food. Dr. Gullo describes 10 "Thin Commandments". These include tips such as; separate mood from food, structure gives control, slips should teach not defeat you etc.
The tips are pretty common knowledge but the twist is the techniques Gullo shares to master them. For example with his tip, "strategy is stronger than willpower", Gullo suggests you pop a sugar free cough drop or a breath strip to help you resist the bread basket in a restaurant. I tried this the other night when faced with a basket of crispy fried (read fattening) taco chips and voila..ate many less than I normally do.
Gullo also shares foods that he has found give enormous bang for your calorie buck. As another reviewer pointed out, these foods are hard to find. He recommends a 16 calorie crispbread that is an appetite suppresent due to the fiber and is a nice crunchy food item to eat instead of say chips. I hunted high and low in my area and came up emptyhanded. Ended up mail ordering the breads to the tune of $49.50 plus shipping. He pushes these crispbreads so hard in the book as such a wonder food I had to ask the company when I ordered if Dr. Gullo had ownership or derived any monetary gain from the sale. (He does not.) He also recommends a delicious waffle that was also hard to find. BUT its really not Gullo's fault that these foods are hard to find.... They are unique in what they offer and they can be very beneficial. He has a resource section so you will be able to order them.
Mastering the strategies in the first section will help you get in control. In the second section Dr. Gullo shares his ABC turbocharged diet. This is definitely a low calorie diet with foods selected to help suppress appetite. He gives a choice of breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks. A typical day might be 2 hard boiled eggs with high fiber crackers for breakfast, a cajun fish fillet with spinach and veggies for lunch, a frozen stouffers entree for dinner with a side salad and several snacks such as a class of V-8, grapefruit or bowl of soup. The diet is definitely a diet. Personally I would rather eat more and lose weight slower and include treats like chocolate and wine. BUT Gullo's plan is only intended for 10 days to "turbocharge" you and appears healthy for those who are inclined to follow such a plan. It does not eliminate protein or fat or carbs like other plans.
Once you have finished the 10 days you go into a maintenance plan which includes more goodies. Dr. Gullo also gives a list of his top 110 best low calorie foods on the market. Some of these items are "faux" foods that are not the best choice in my opinion such as fat free mayo. I would rather have a little of the real stuff that doesnt have all the chemicals in it free mayo does or just substitute mustard. But many of the foods are good and nutritious. The crispbreads have no sugar and may take some getting used to but with a little spread on them..are a very tasty snack. Other winners include Babybel Cheese Wedges, Thomas English Muffins and Starkist crabmeat. The list is really great.
Gullo includes recipes in his book. angel cakes, raspberry souffle, organic turkey breast, cheese crepes etc. I made the eggplant parmegiana recently and it was excellent!
Overall the book is a great resource of tips and techniques to help you achieve your weight loss goals!Read more ›
I am the biggest fan of Dr. Gullo! Ten years ago I bought his first book, Thin Tastes Better. That book was so awesome I bought copies for all my fat friends, and I kept it by my bed to read every night for YEARS!
Using Dr. Gullo's methods, I lost 100 lbs and kept it off for ten years. About 6 months ago I started to gain weight because I slipped into old habits. Naturally I ordered this new book before it was even printed.
The Thin Commandments is basically a rehash of Thin Tastes Better with some updated information; but the message is one I needed to hear again.
Basically, Dr. Gullo teaches us to treat our food addiction as the illness that it really is. No one would ever tell an alcoholic to "go ahead and just have a little", and yet dieters are continually bombarded by this message. That old argument, "you can't deprive yourself" certainly would never be preached to other kinds of addicts.
I know now that I can never eat certain foods in moderation. I have chosen to do without those foods in exchange for a healthy body. I don't feel deprived. I feel liberated from my fat body!
As Dr. Gullo points out, "If food could make you happy, fat people would be the happiest in the world!"
I ordered "The Thin Commandments Diet" expecting to find most of the same diet advice that is contained in the 50+ other diet books that grace my bookshelf. Weight has been a life long struggle for me although many times I have managed to remain quite slim. However, I felt that if I managed to gain even ONE piece of advice to help with the weight battle - it would be worth Amazon's small price of $10 for a hardback book with over 300 pages in it.
Like many people, when I experience stress I have often turned to food. Unfortunately, the older I have become the more difficult it has been to get the weight off again.
Before I even opened this book, I jotted down the "10 Commandments" that I expected to find. I mean, after all, how different could his advice be? And yet I found, that while Dr. Stephen Gullo incorporated some of the dieting advice that I had encountered before - he presented it in such a way that it was as though I was reading it for the very first time.
How many times have you read a diet book that had lots of recipes, but you really didn't have a clue as to what to eat when you weren't following complicated recipes? The Thin Commandments IS DIFFERENT. Dr. Gullo has included a list of "110 Best Diet Foods" and lists specific brands! In my opinion, THIS BOOK IS WORTH BUYING FOR THE LIST ALONE! The list doesn't deal with "exotic, gourmet" foods at all. These items can be purchased at your local supermarket and Trader Joe's or if you live in a smaller town - he lists the websites as well.
He presents this approach because you can have the BEST INTENTIONS in the world, but if you are absolutely SICK of "diet food" or are eating the same things over and over again - how long are you going to stay on ANY diet?... If you feel you are being deprived, technology in the last 10 years has made such an abundance of foods that taste even better, in some cases, than foods that are loaded with calories.
I had to smile at what was termed "expensive" food in one review because it's not. Eggs are used a lot as well as fruits and other items. NO! Expensive is buying a grocery cart full of sweets and snacks; expensive is having to buy wardrobes in three different sizes; expensive is health problems such as diabetes from weight gains; but most of all expensive is not living your life to its fullest because you are too embarrassed to go to a social event or a reunion; full of regret for letting life pass you by.
Dr. Gullo mentions that you can be the most successful person in the world (I thought of Oprah BEFORE she lost her weight) and if you are heavy - how happy are you going to be with yourself? But he also mentions the reverse: You can have the most overwhelming problem or the worst day of your life - and if you have conquered your weight, that is the one area at least that you can feel pleased about during that time.
As I mentioned above, this book is $10 (or a trip for two to McD's). I urge you to just take one more step and believe you can do this just one more time and order the "The Thin Commandments." I learned SO MUCH from this book (and remember I'm a diet book "expert")! It has my absolute HIGHEST recommendation!Read more ›
This book can work alone or with your current weight loss regimen. Although Stephen Gullo includes a 10 day diet plan to get started, he advocates any nutritional weight loss program that is right for you. That means, unlike so many other books today, he doesn't bash other plans.
Gullo gives you 10 strategies to learn how to deal with food. I wonder if there is really anyone out there who records inspirational messages for themselves. I can't imagine doing this. However, if I had consistently failed at so many diets, maybe I would.
What I found most fascinating about this book was the idea of one's food history. That is, there are some of us that can NEVER have a chocolate chip cookie, NEVER have a piece of cake, etc. Our history is our behavior with a certain food. If we've always, in the past, wound up finishing the Pepperidge Farm Milano cookie sack, or always finish the bag of potato chips, Gullo makes the argument that we should learn to consistently make the choice to abstain from these foods. For some of us, he reminds us, one bite is never one bite. One bite leads either to two hundred bites or thinking about another bite until we cave in. I had never heard this spoken about and this, above all his other commandments, was worth the price of this book.
Gullo also gives sources for some of the foods he recommends that aren't likely to be found at your local grocery. This, too, is thorough and worthwhile. He talks about specific foods that I didn't necessarily know were even available. Having these foods available make watching what you're eating that much easier. Among these are walden farms' calorie free (yes, calorie free!...) salad dressings, spaghetti sauces, and syrups, as well as vitamuffins-- 100 calorie delicious muffins that are as nutritious as whole wheat toast and peanut butter but tastes like the richest chocolate cake.
I completely recommend Stephen Gullo's book for absolutely anyone who is trying to either lose weight or learn about proper nutrition and health. It's really not your average weight loss book and has something useful for anyone.Read more ›
