Your Designer Diet [Paperback]

Todd Hoff (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0979707102 | ISBN-13: 978-0979707100 | Publication Date: November 1, 2007

The Designer Diet is based on the idea of creating and designing the perfect diet just for you and your life. No single problem causes you to be overweight so there is no single solution either. You need a way of controlling your weight that changes as you change, adjusts to your unique individual nature, and takes advantage of your strengths while sidestepping your weaknesses. That¿s exactly what you learn how to do in the Designer Diet. Using a simple step-by-step process, the Designer Diet teaches you how to control your weight by paying attention to your life, reacting quickly to reverse any weight gain, trying different strategies to help you eat less and exercise more, creating an encouraging environment, and learning which strategies work best for you. The result is that you continually improve your diet and that¿s what finally empowers you to lose weight and keep it off for the rest of your life. Following your Designer Diet is a lot like hiring a world famous designer to create your dream wardrobe. Your new, expertly tailored clothes fit your body perfectly and the style always shows you at your absolute best. The Designer Diet helps you to do the same for your diet. Why use a one-size-fits-all off the rack diet when you can design a diet especially for you? The Designer Diet goes way beyond simply hiring a designer. Designers hand you clothes and tell you what looks good on you. With the Designer Diet, you learn how to become your own world famous designer for your own diet. You need to be the designer when developing your diet. The Designer Diet teaches you a process to discover what works for you. No more will you have to rely on others to keep your weight under control. Your Designer Diet is a program that works in your life, with your strengths and around your schedule. In this book and discover: * That you can be in control of your weight * How to stay on any diet * The threats to your diet success and how to avoid them * Strategies for losing weight * How to keep it off by using simple daily monitoring * The secrets to Joyful Eating * How to turn danger zones into safe zones.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Hi, my name is Todd Hoff. I've had trouble with my weight my entire life and I've manged to lose over 100 pounds and keep it off for over 7 years and counting. I am probably just like you, someone for whom gaining weight is very, very easy.

I struggle everyday. Controlling my weight is not easy. Yet most people who talk about to you about weight loss seem like they have it easy. They look perfect. That's not me! I am very far from perfect. Yet I have managed to figure out a way that people like you and me can use to control our weight. It works without assuming prefect control or perfect willpower. It has worked for me even though I am not strong. I think it can work you too.

From the Back Cover

It is not your fault that losing weight is so hard. There is a reason you have tried and failed to lose weight in the past. There is a reason you cannot keep the weight off. There is a reason you are looking for another way to lose weight. It isn't about your character, your desire or your will power.

You are a member of the first generation of people who cannot rely on their daily activities to keep them trim and healthy. In this age of convenience, we are trapped between bodies programmed to crave junk food and a society where activity is no longer necessary. Future generations may eventually adapt to the technological advances, but what do we do in the meantime?

There's finally, a diet book designed for you. You have been told for years that you should lose weight, but Your Designer Diet actually shows you HOW to drop the weight and avoid those perilous moments that derail even the most dedicated dieter.

Too many diet books are based on your conforming to their program. The multi-billion dollar weight-loss industry is made up of groups and programs designed to exploit your feelings of powerlessness.

Your Designer Diet is a program that works in your life, with your strengths and around your schedule. Open this book and discover: * That you can be in control of your weight * How to stay on any diet * The threats to your diet success and how to avoid them * Strategies for losing weight * How to keep it off by using simple daily monitoring * The secrets to Joyful Eating

Dr. Bob Rich: In effect, this book is a very well designed cognitive-behavioral program for achieving and maintaining weight loss. But there is so much wisdom in it that it's almost a shame to limit it to that one goal. This is a primer on how to build for yourself the exact life you want. If you apply Mr. Hoff's principles to any area of life, you can design success, happiness, joy and self-respect into it. However, specifically, he is interested in helping overweight people to gain control over their eating and exercise habits. This he does admirably. The author uses friendly, folksy language that's very easy to read, but the content is scientific enough to be the basis of a scholarly thesis. In other words, this is the perfect self-help book. If you are struggling with overweight, you must read it.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Possibility Outpost Inc. (November 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979707102
• ISBN-13: 978-0979707100
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,340,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable, informed and informative, and thoroughly 'user-friendly', February 6, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

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The problem with the conventional wisdom regarding losing weight is that if you exercise more and eat less you can reduce your weight -- and maintain the weight level that you want. The problem is that for most of us, conventional wisdom isn't all that wise! Todd Hoff lost more than 100 pounds and in the process discovered why losing weight is so difficult, why being overweight isn't a matter of 'fault', the science behind weight loss (and gain), and how to permanently control weight through creating the perfect and personalized diet for ourselves within the context of our lifestyles. Basically what Hoff has done in "Your Designer Diet: How To Stay On Any Diet For The Rest Of Your Life" is to lay out a program that we can customize to our own life circumstances, our own personal strengths, and which is compatible with our own schedules -- be they hectic or leisurely. Hoff's basic message\ is that we can be in control of our weight, we can learn how to stay on any diet, how to avoid threats to our dieting success, diverse and effective strategies for losing weight, and maintaining our weight loss through simple daily monitoring. Of special note is what "Your Designer Diet" has to say about 'Joyful Eating'. Invaluable, informed and informative, and thoroughly 'user-friendly', "Your Designer Diet" is an enthusiastically recommended reading for anyone having to deal with problems of excessive weight.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unique Perspective!, January 28, 2008

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H. Zhang "Helen Zhang" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Designer Diet (Paperback)

Absolutely love the book. "Your Designer Diet" is filled with original ideas, leading edge research results and humor!

Todd is frank about his personal experience. He truly practices what he believes in.

"Joyful eating" is my favorite in the book. If you are interested in
genuinely enjoy food ( and LIFE), jump to "Joyful eating" in chapter 14.

And do you know ?

1. Obesity can be caused by a virus?
2. How to weight proof your environment?
3. How to become a designer of your own diet?

Enjoy the book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Eye Opener, July 16, 2008

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Jennifer Ruppert - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Designer Diet (Paperback)

I enjoyed reading this book tremendously. It was such an eye opener, and more importantly, brought awareness to my day-to-day activities. This is not a typical diet book! The reader can make informed, smart lifestyle decisions through understanding and from Todd's suggestions. Not only was it informative and entertaining to read, it was motivating!