The Structure House Weight Loss Plan: Achieve Your Ideal Weight through a New Relationship with Food

by Gerard J. Musante

It's Not Food That Makes You Fat -- It's Your Relationship with Food HEALTH magazine named THE STRUCTURE HOUSE WEIGHT LOSS PLAN one of "America's Top 10 Healthiest Diets." (Jan/Feb issue) Dr. Gerard Musante and his world-renowned residential weight loss center Structure House in Durham, North Carolina, have helped more than thirty thousand people lose weight. A stay at Structure House costs thousands of dollars. Now Dr. Musante's innovative ideas and effective treatment methods are yours for the price of this book. During his thirty years of practice, Dr. Musante has shown that it is your relationship with food that determines your ability to reach your ideal weight. His system targets behaviors resulting from habit, boredom, or stress that lead to unstructured eating -- eating for nonnutritional reasons -- and presents concrete methods for designing new, structured eating patterns to develop a weight loss plan that finally works. You'll learn to isolate your unhealthy eating, recognize and neutralize the food triggers that cause your unstructured eating, and stop using food to satisfy needs other than hunger. Dr. Musante's method gets to the root of these behaviors by helping you reconstruct your daily experience with food and therefore the choices you make about what to eat. Using the proven Structure House approach, you'll be in control of food -- not controlled by it. And then, finally, you'll be able to lose weight successfully -- and keep it off!

Genres: Nonfiction

336 pages, Hardcover

First published April 3, 2007

Reviews

[Patricia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I started this, but The Mitfords were distracting me and I never got through the first quiz.

I have recheck the book out and have the following review:
Yet again I break my solemn vow to not check out any more "lose weight" books.

This book seems to have good advice. I tend to do better on three meals rather than the "many small snacks" philosophy that seems to reign right now. My "many small snacks" tend to become "many medium sized meals." It makes sense to plan out your food day and stick to your plan, I just chafe under those requirements. Also, their "low fat" plan doesn't jibe with my current direction of food and eating and so I ignored that part. (I know, I know, my pick and choosiness is one of the reasons I am trying not to read "lose weight" books anymore).

[Gloria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Listed as the #1 diet/health book by one key source, I was still pleasantly amazed to find this not particularly well marketed book. Has all the components you might expect (exercise, journaling, etc.) but the focus is psychological: habits, stress, and our response to triggers. Very kind tone.