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Eat. Stop. Eat
by Tanya Simons, Brad Pilon
Since there are no reviews of this yet, I'll give it the basic breakdown.
The good:
- a very quick read (took me less than two hours)
- does not try to convince you it's the ONLY worthwhile weight loss method in existence
- advocates a healthy *lifestyle*, including exercise, rather than pushing toward any type of diet whatsoever
- aims for flexibility, and achieves it more successfully than any other plan I've tried, read or heard of
- uses common sense, not popular "sense"
- recommends NOT stressing over food as the #1 most important thing you can do for your overall health (boy, we should all know that!)
The bad:
- spends at least 10 pages on the exordium ("just a regular concerned guy = this is why you should believe me" section), which is not what I paid $40 for. Had to expect it, but I still skipped over much of Pilon's Life of a Subversive Health Nut story. Actually, the fact he collected Muscle and Fitness issues at age ten kind of creeped me out.
- one part near the end where he seems to contradict his own earlier declarations about the metabolic results of fasting
- a 'reassuringly long' reference section, which nobody will actually read and which probably allowed him to charge more for the ebook (adding 25 pages or so)
- quite a bit of discussion on exercise, even though he is careful to admit that it's not his area of expertise. A bit confusing there.
The ugly:
- dismal grammar and punctuation at times. Not that I expect anything else from the genre.
- why the hell does he keep capitalizing 'Calories'?! For effect? Eye-catchiness? Loser.
All this said, I'd recommend this to others and I'm not sorry I bought it. The approach is something of a breath of fresh air: a theory of health that explicitly tells you NOT to focus on what you eat. If you've been looking beyond the glittery magazines and billboard adverts for Miracle Weight Loss / what-and-what-not-to-eat plans for any length of time (which I have), you'll be able to appreciate the simplicity and pragmatism backed by more than corporately-sponsored "studies." I think in many ways [b:Eat. Stop. Eat|7529642|Eat. Stop. Eat|Brad Pilon|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg|9770476] complements John Robbins' [b:Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples|16695|Healthy at 100 The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples|John Robbins|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166740471s/16695.jpg|649875]. Now there's a fascinating nutritional and cultural voyage. A grammatically-correct one. Double bonus! I knew there was something else to which I was subconsciously comparing this ....
The good:
- a very quick read (took me less than two hours)
- does not try to convince you it's the ONLY worthwhile weight loss method in existence
- advocates a healthy *lifestyle*, including exercise, rather than pushing toward any type of diet whatsoever
- aims for flexibility, and achieves it more successfully than any other plan I've tried, read or heard of
- uses common sense, not popular "sense"
- recommends NOT stressing over food as the #1 most important thing you can do for your overall health (boy, we should all know that!)
The bad:
- spends at least 10 pages on the exordium ("just a regular concerned guy = this is why you should believe me" section), which is not what I paid $40 for. Had to expect it, but I still skipped over much of Pilon's Life of a Subversive Health Nut story. Actually, the fact he collected Muscle and Fitness issues at age ten kind of creeped me out.
- one part near the end where he seems to contradict his own earlier declarations about the metabolic results of fasting
- a 'reassuringly long' reference section, which nobody will actually read and which probably allowed him to charge more for the ebook (adding 25 pages or so)
- quite a bit of discussion on exercise, even though he is careful to admit that it's not his area of expertise. A bit confusing there.
The ugly:
- dismal grammar and punctuation at times. Not that I expect anything else from the genre.
- why the hell does he keep capitalizing 'Calories'?! For effect? Eye-catchiness? Loser.
All this said, I'd recommend this to others and I'm not sorry I bought it. The approach is something of a breath of fresh air: a theory of health that explicitly tells you NOT to focus on what you eat. If you've been looking beyond the glittery magazines and billboard adverts for Miracle Weight Loss / what-and-what-not-to-eat plans for any length of time (which I have), you'll be able to appreciate the simplicity and pragmatism backed by more than corporately-sponsored "studies." I think in many ways [b:Eat. Stop. Eat|7529642|Eat. Stop. Eat|Brad Pilon|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg|9770476] complements John Robbins' [b:Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples|16695|Healthy at 100 The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples|John Robbins|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166740471s/16695.jpg|649875]. Now there's a fascinating nutritional and cultural voyage. A grammatically-correct one. Double bonus! I knew there was something else to which I was subconsciously comparing this ....