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Thin People Don't Clean Their Plates: Simple Lifestyle Choices for Permanent Weight Loss

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Jill Fleming a registered dietician with an MS in nutritional science developed the THIN CHOICES program. This program reveals the habits of thin people.

In her book "Thin People Don't Clean Their Plates", Fleming reveals her techniques. The book opens with inspiring quotes from Jill's clients. In the 17 chapters that follow, Jill explains exactly what thin people do that helps them stay that way. Though the 136 page book is slim, Jill gets right to the point instead of including the extra fluff many other "diet" books do. She doesn't spend time writing about why all the other diets out there (except hers) don't work and she avoids a lot of scientific, technical chatter.

Chapters include Thin People Don't Diet, Thin People Carry Snacks, Thin People Don't Go to Bed Full, Thin People Eat Fruits and Vegetables and more.

The bottomline is the commonsense that prevails throughout the book. If you want to lose weight and maintain it you will have to eat less and/or move more. Jill tells you simple ways to do this. I especially liked her information on walking. One thing Jill shares is that a 155 pound woman who adds 1/2 hour of walking to her daily routine with no other dietary changes can lose 26 pounds a year. Sounds very doable to me!

Fleming encourages you to give up dieting and adapt an approach that you can stick with for a lifetime. Simple suggestions to incorporate into your life for wellness and a healthy slim body.

This reminds me of things I was taught when I was a little girl by mother. The simplicity of eating and staying thin before we even realized the medical reasons or the explanation and understanding of what makes us fat. We have been given so much bad information with fad diets with self proclaimed cures and treatments when it is very simple. None of the diets out there tell you to stop eating when you are full. None of them tell you to listen to your body. There are bad fats and there are bad carbs but eating healthy and not eating too much is important too and not over feeding your body. This book will get you started on small changes at a time that will help you behave and eat like a thin person until you are a thin person. It also helps you and teaches you to indentify the reasons why you abuse food. The author is also a caring individual. I e-mailed her with a question and she replied to my e-mail the very next day with an answer and words of encouragement. That in itself is encouraging. I am sick of people getting wealthy on this growing epidemic. Every other TV commericial is trying to sell you something. You buy them all and you are still fat. If you want the refreshing truth...read this book! It is easy to read and to understand.

No gimmicks, no forbidden foods, no endless chapters of vague promises about the program to be described later in the (usually too large) book. This is a slim volume of tips and facts that make perfect sense and are completely doable.

The author is a dietician who ironically packed on 40 pounds obtaining her bachelor's and master's degrees and has been through the weight-loss process herself. Unlike most "diet" books, the testimonials are kept to a minimum and there is no sales pitch for packaged foods, tapes or DVDs.

Each short chapter outlines an important step to permanent weight loss in straightforward language, and the chapters address psychological, social, and physical aspects of achieving weight loss in a healthy way.

Whether you need to lose weight because you feel unhealthy, can't deal with the huge restaurant portions presented these days, are overstressed or too busy to think about your eating habits, you'll find the information in this book helpful.

This books uses common sense to help people lose weight for life. The plan makes it easy to make a few simple changes in your life, such as drinking more water, eating more vegetables and moving your body more often. Once you start to feel empowered by your weight loss you'll want to adopt more "thin choices" into your life, helping you to reach your ultimate goal - a healthier lifestyle and even weight loss. Jill also writes like she's having a one-on-one conversation with you so the book is a quick and enjoyable read, rather than another "boring diet book". Thanks Jill!

This book makes perfect sense! What you eat is all about the lifestyle choices that you make. Forget other books that promote fad dieting. Jill Fleming has helped me to lose the weight I have been struggling with for years. I have no doubt that with the lifestyle choices this book has helped me make, I will keep this weight off for my lifetime. It is an easy read I will always keep at my bedside. I loved the comments she had from others who have followed her program, they have been inspirational.

Jill Fleming's book is a common sense approach to living healthy and losing weight~in that order. And it isn't difficult to accomplish these goals if we just apply a few simple lifestyle changes which Jill details in "easy to digest" form. As I was reading, I kept thinking to myself "this makes total sense, this is do-able". I even highlighted my favorite points and reference them from time to time.
It was an enjoyable, easy read and helped to kick-start my resolve of being a healthier person. It's also a wonderful gift for anyone you care about and want to be healthier.

The book is not going to tell you anything revolutionary but employs sound common sense with lifestyle changes that are proven to help you lose weight. I especially liked what she had to say about identifying the feeling of hunger, only eating when hungry, and stopping when satisfied (even if you leave food on your plate). It basically shows you how being conscious of your choices and thinking things through rather than acting on impulse can lead to healthy behavior.

The book has a very logical approach to the difficult problem of dieting and is easy to read. It is important that the book stresses healthy lifestyle choices along with the dieting tips. Not only can a person be thin but the person can also be healthy in the process.

This book goes right to the core of healthy, long-term weight loss. Diets don't work and Jill not only tells us why, but tells us what does. In an easy to understand format, she explains how the weight loss process is all about simple choices - that we make for ourselves. This book offers the truth, and it's a refreshing change from fad diets. I fully recommend it.

Stephen Moss CPT, LWMC,
Author of : Lose Weight with The Power of One: A Motivational Journey to Nutritional Sanity.

For some people who don't have a strong emotional attachment to food, and this is very likely the minority of heavy people ( you've heard them--they're the ones who lost weight by just cutting back, or who say it's just not that complicated), this book is probably a real eye-opener. However, I don't think it's an authentic look at what thin people who really don't think about their weight do. I know some naturally thin people and I can tell you they don't carry snacks, they don't drink a lot of water, and they don't eat a lot more fruits and vegetables. A lot of them skip breakfast or drink only coffee, have hamburger and French fries for lunch often, eat sweets--sometimes with abandon--, drink booze at night and pick at dinner, and a lot of other things that people who have been heavy probably will never be able to do. What she's right about is that they don't diet on purpose, they rarely eat diet foods, they leave food on their plates often, and most importantly, they don't like the feeling of being really full at any time of the day, not just before they go to bed. When they skip a meal, and it's relatively often, it's not because they are trying to be thin but because they'd just rather not eat. They forget to eat! They are not willing this situation! (Search on the net. Some sites report what some people actually do.) Sometimes they eat too much because it's a holiday or the food tasted so good, but for most of them, it's not often, and their "stuffed" is much more like a heavy person's "just starting to feel full." Most people who are heavy respond to different food cues, and they have to learn not to give into these. And if the cues have to do with using food to comfort themselves, they will probably have to do a lot more "work" to be able to sidestep these urges. That being said, it is still a useful book for anyone whose body shows that they eat more than they need, just to see if it's all they need. But if you read this and despair because you still don't want to stop eating just because you realize you're full, don't beat yourself up. Just move on to some of the books on emotional eating, such as Shrink Yourself or The Truth about Addictions and Recovery. Learn to reach within, build on the strengths you have, find other joys, and heal/extinguish the food/comfort connection.