Is Your Job Making You Fat?: How to Lose the Office 15 . . . and More!

by Ken Lloyd, Stacey Laura Lloyd

The only thing that should be fat on your job is your paycheck.

There is a "huge" worldwide obesity problem. While fads and quick-fix diets abound, they fail to address an important question in weight gain is your job making you fat? The answer is "Yes."

This bold assertion is based on a great deal of global research that continues to confirm a compelling relationship between working and weight gain. The powerful link between the workplace and the waistline is due to numerous factors, including the sedentary nature of today's jobs, the onslaught of unhealthy foods that are constantly foisted upon employees, higher levels of job stress, longer and more demanding work hours, peer pressure, new and unconventional jobs, and even more. Put it all together and you have the perfect storm for weight gain.

Is Your Job Making You Fat? not only identifies and analyzes all of the central sources of weight gain associated with work, but also provides highly effective steps to control this ever-expanding problem and help you lose weight. Authors Ken Lloyd and Stacey Laura Lloyd offer a new approach where you apply your businesslike mindset and skill-set to weight management. After all, at work, you have a plan that includes objectives, benchmark dates, strategies, priorities, deadlines, and measurable results. This book shows you how to use this same methodology to take charge of your weight.

Genres: Health, Psychology, Medicine

312 pages, Paperback

First published February 2, 2016

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was so promising, and it does summarize many helpful tips regarding staying fit with a desk job. However, the writing is some of the worst I’ve read in a while—verbose and filled with endless, annoying puns. The same points could have been made with far less space and far fewer bad jokes!

[Nicole · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disclosure: I have received this book through the Goodreads giveaway.

For those that don't do a lot of reading of health articles online, this book may be helpful, but I found this book difficult to get through because it was tedious and overly wordy. The book consisted of common sense advice and material I had already read. The information could have been conveyed in a much more concise manner; 250 pages was not necessary.

[Anita · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you are interested in your health enough to read this, you've probably heard this information before. The jokes were a bit lame. Perhaps a good primer for someone new to the discussion, but no new information for me.

[Julio Bonilla]

What if it’s Lent Season and I’ve given up bread?

[Sasha · Rating 3 out of 5]

First I would like to state that I have received this book through the Goodreads giveaway in exchange for an honest review.
I would like to thank the author for giving me this opportunity and honor in being able to read this book.
With this being said I have read many books dealing with this subject. I feel that the author has spent a great deal of time researching and confirm a compelling the relationship between working and weight gain. This book not only identifies and analyzes the sources of weight gain that is associated with work. The author has provided effective steps to try and control this problem and help you lose weight. I would say that this is a good book to be reading to see if this would help you in your endeavor to lose some weight. I feel it is a very good book and hope that it will be able to help me also in time.

[Pauline · Rating 2 out of 5]

The whole book needs to trim down significantly. For every good point made, they made it again, in a different way. There was nothing very illuminating about the advice (don't eat the free donuts, move more) and I was troubled by some of the nutritional suggestions (like, eat low-fat yogurt, without the accompanying warning to look out for all the hidden sugar). In fact, I couldn't see from the authors' bios that they were really qualified to be giving nutritional advice. Overall, there was nothing here you wouldn't read in a decent article in a women's health magazine. Oh, and approximately one-fifth of the page count is taken up by the index and further reading. Too hefty.

[Maire · Rating 2 out of 5]

eh, nothing new in here. Not sure why I thought there would be though.