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Break the Chains of Dieting: 9 Fundamental Must Have Principles of Healthy Weight Loss
Lose Weight Without Going on a Diet, Exercising, or Counting Calories
For less than you'd spend on a pizza, this book gives you the solution you've been looking for This book is for you if... In this book you will discover.. . “When You Eat for Your Health, Your Weight Loss Journey Will Take Care of Itself.”
– David Medansky
David Medansky , a non-practicing lawyer, is an international best-selling author, and known as the Anti-Diet Advocate. At age 61, David was fat and told by my doctor he had a 95% chance for a fatal heart attack. David's doctor told him to find a new doctor because he did not believe David could lose weight and he did not want him dying on his watch.
During the next four months David shed 50 pounds, 25% of his total body weight. He learned how to reduce weight without going on a diet, counting calories, or exercising. David understands your frustrations if you ever failed to lose weight on a diet because he tried every diet imaginable without success. And, if he did lose weight on a diet, he could not keep it off.
As a lawyer, David spent his career seeing both sides of the fence. Honest people and dishonest people. And when it comes to the food and weight loss industries, sadly there are more dishonest people than there are those telling the truth. That’s what makes losing weight so difficult. We see labels telling us it’s low fat but that same food is high in sugar. While it’s true that sugary foods are “fat free,” what the label fails to tell you is sugar causes fat to form inside your body later. Then there’s all these vegan friendly foods. Sounds healthy but they are filled with chemicals, dyes and artificial preservatives. Oreo Cookies are a vegan food! Just like he had to read the fine print when he practiced law, he is now reading and exposing the fine print on food labels and diet programs.
People need a lawyer before buying a house, forming a business, estate planning, or getting a divorce. David is the anti-diet lawyer fighting for those that are overweight! He has read all the fine print and know the loop holes and can guide you on what works and what doesn’t. However, rather than charge you $400 an hour for his service, you can get this book, Break the Chains of Dieting , for less than four dollars on Kindle or less than $20 as a paperback.
Order Your Copy Today!
For less than you'd spend on a pizza, this book gives you the solution you've been looking for This book is for you if... In this book you will discover.. . “When You Eat for Your Health, Your Weight Loss Journey Will Take Care of Itself.”
– David Medansky
David Medansky , a non-practicing lawyer, is an international best-selling author, and known as the Anti-Diet Advocate. At age 61, David was fat and told by my doctor he had a 95% chance for a fatal heart attack. David's doctor told him to find a new doctor because he did not believe David could lose weight and he did not want him dying on his watch.
During the next four months David shed 50 pounds, 25% of his total body weight. He learned how to reduce weight without going on a diet, counting calories, or exercising. David understands your frustrations if you ever failed to lose weight on a diet because he tried every diet imaginable without success. And, if he did lose weight on a diet, he could not keep it off.
As a lawyer, David spent his career seeing both sides of the fence. Honest people and dishonest people. And when it comes to the food and weight loss industries, sadly there are more dishonest people than there are those telling the truth. That’s what makes losing weight so difficult. We see labels telling us it’s low fat but that same food is high in sugar. While it’s true that sugary foods are “fat free,” what the label fails to tell you is sugar causes fat to form inside your body later. Then there’s all these vegan friendly foods. Sounds healthy but they are filled with chemicals, dyes and artificial preservatives. Oreo Cookies are a vegan food! Just like he had to read the fine print when he practiced law, he is now reading and exposing the fine print on food labels and diet programs.
People need a lawyer before buying a house, forming a business, estate planning, or getting a divorce. David is the anti-diet lawyer fighting for those that are overweight! He has read all the fine print and know the loop holes and can guide you on what works and what doesn’t. However, rather than charge you $400 an hour for his service, you can get this book, Break the Chains of Dieting , for less than four dollars on Kindle or less than $20 as a paperback.
Order Your Copy Today!
260 pages, Paperback
Published October 6, 2021
About the author
David Medansky
20 books5 followers David Medansky, born and raised in the Chicago metropolitan area graduated from the University of Arizona School of Law in 1991. He practiced Family Law in Phoenix, Arizona until 2004.
Medansky writes with passion and purpose about Las Vegas. His books are based on his legal background, interest in gangsters, and familiarities with Las Vegas.
He is a world-class authority, expert, and trusted advisor on the game of craps. David published several books on how to play and win at craps. His teaching manual, Wholly Craps, is considered to be the most comprehensive book on the game.
He lives in the Phoenix metropolitan area with his wife.
email: david@losewtnow.com
Medansky writes with passion and purpose about Las Vegas. His books are based on his legal background, interest in gangsters, and familiarities with Las Vegas.
He is a world-class authority, expert, and trusted advisor on the game of craps. David published several books on how to play and win at craps. His teaching manual, Wholly Craps, is considered to be the most comprehensive book on the game.
He lives in the Phoenix metropolitan area with his wife.
email: david@losewtnow.com
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December 11, 2021
I'm rating Break the Chains of Dieting, written by David Medansky a 3 out of 5 stars because it is so convincing. (No surprise here: the writer is a retired attorney!)
Essentially, the author wants you to eat whole, organic home cooked meals with no preservatives or additives, and to drink plenty of pure distilled water. (Did you know that Aquafina and Dasani bottles water are really just TAP WATER! Not spring water or filtered or anything! What a scam!
The author goes on to state that exercise is good for you, but not imperative, for this diet. Boiled down to its bare bones, this is essentially a make the decision (and stick to it) "clean eating, plain water drinking and small portions" approach to losing weight. Don't set yourself goals: you have to DECIDE to change your EATING AND DRINKING HABITS. Willpower is important, but making changes and sticking to those changes are what will get you to your weight goal successfully. So, there is nothing new here, but the writing is so persuasive and full of good factual illustrations and explanations that I immediately felt compelled to toss the bag of chips I was eating as I read this persuasive diet book.
I took a lot of notes. Here are a few things that he encourages dieters to make a daily habit:
-You should drink one half of your body weight in water every day: if you are 200 pounds, then you need to drink 100 ounces of water (which comes to about 12 eight ounce glasses of water a day.) Dehydration is responsible for many health issues.
-I looked askance at THIS recommendation by the author: " An 'Ideal Weight' does not exist: much depends on your body type." I was dismayed to find that the author endorses Dr. Oz's suggestion that your waist size should be one-half of your height: if you are 68 inches tall (5'8") then your waist should be 34 inches or less. Now, I take issue with Dr. Oz: he has endorsed so many bogus fad diets that he has lost total credibility with me. I am therefore taking a hard pass on this recommendation because this doctor can obviously be bought and sold like a sack of potatoes.
-Don't let your bathroom scale tell you if you are losing weight: your body measurements are a more accurate sign of weight loss. Fat and muscle weigh the same, but fat takes up more space. So, if you are replacing muscle with fat, then you should stick with your weight loss routine.
-Whole, clean foods and plenty of water are key: prepared foods contain staggering amounts of sugar and salt. We have been taught to seek the Bliss Point in our food. Prepared/packaged foods have been scientifically engineered to optimize its "tastiness and increase your cravings for it... It's a complex process pinpointing the exact combination of ingredients that flash our neurological pleasure zones so that we never get the 'satisfaction' signal that tells us to stop eating.... Simply stated, foods are engineered to be so tasty it's hard to resist them. In other words, they are addicting." Yikes! Our stomachs have been brainwashed!
-Don't complicate your meals. The most successful diets revolve around 25 products or less that are required to prepare your meals. Eliminate all fried foods, especially any foods that contain Olean (which can be found in Pringles and Doritos, drat it! Those were my favourite snack foods!) Eat fresh, clean food, simply prepared, and in smaller quantities.
Has he convinced you yet? Well, as I said, he is very persuasive, but here is where this book lost points for me: what if you have severe food allergies or sensitivities? I don't know how many times I've been told by nutritionists to eat low fat cheese (I'm severely lactose intolerant) and to snack on nuts (EpiPen time for me!). If you have food allergies/sensitivities, this book is not for you (or me, for that matter.) My advice? You should consult with a KNOWLEDGEABLE, qualified, reputable nutritionist to help you lose the weight that is hampering you from living a more active lifestyle.
I originally wanted to rate this a 4 out of 5 stars, but after giving it some thought while waiting for this book to get published, I realized that this book overlooks people with serious allergies and health issues.
I was given an ARC of this diet book by the author, publisher and ReedsyDiscovery in exchange for an honest review.
Essentially, the author wants you to eat whole, organic home cooked meals with no preservatives or additives, and to drink plenty of pure distilled water. (Did you know that Aquafina and Dasani bottles water are really just TAP WATER! Not spring water or filtered or anything! What a scam!
The author goes on to state that exercise is good for you, but not imperative, for this diet. Boiled down to its bare bones, this is essentially a make the decision (and stick to it) "clean eating, plain water drinking and small portions" approach to losing weight. Don't set yourself goals: you have to DECIDE to change your EATING AND DRINKING HABITS. Willpower is important, but making changes and sticking to those changes are what will get you to your weight goal successfully. So, there is nothing new here, but the writing is so persuasive and full of good factual illustrations and explanations that I immediately felt compelled to toss the bag of chips I was eating as I read this persuasive diet book.
I took a lot of notes. Here are a few things that he encourages dieters to make a daily habit:
-You should drink one half of your body weight in water every day: if you are 200 pounds, then you need to drink 100 ounces of water (which comes to about 12 eight ounce glasses of water a day.) Dehydration is responsible for many health issues.
-I looked askance at THIS recommendation by the author: " An 'Ideal Weight' does not exist: much depends on your body type." I was dismayed to find that the author endorses Dr. Oz's suggestion that your waist size should be one-half of your height: if you are 68 inches tall (5'8") then your waist should be 34 inches or less. Now, I take issue with Dr. Oz: he has endorsed so many bogus fad diets that he has lost total credibility with me. I am therefore taking a hard pass on this recommendation because this doctor can obviously be bought and sold like a sack of potatoes.
-Don't let your bathroom scale tell you if you are losing weight: your body measurements are a more accurate sign of weight loss. Fat and muscle weigh the same, but fat takes up more space. So, if you are replacing muscle with fat, then you should stick with your weight loss routine.
-Whole, clean foods and plenty of water are key: prepared foods contain staggering amounts of sugar and salt. We have been taught to seek the Bliss Point in our food. Prepared/packaged foods have been scientifically engineered to optimize its "tastiness and increase your cravings for it... It's a complex process pinpointing the exact combination of ingredients that flash our neurological pleasure zones so that we never get the 'satisfaction' signal that tells us to stop eating.... Simply stated, foods are engineered to be so tasty it's hard to resist them. In other words, they are addicting." Yikes! Our stomachs have been brainwashed!
-Don't complicate your meals. The most successful diets revolve around 25 products or less that are required to prepare your meals. Eliminate all fried foods, especially any foods that contain Olean (which can be found in Pringles and Doritos, drat it! Those were my favourite snack foods!) Eat fresh, clean food, simply prepared, and in smaller quantities.
Has he convinced you yet? Well, as I said, he is very persuasive, but here is where this book lost points for me: what if you have severe food allergies or sensitivities? I don't know how many times I've been told by nutritionists to eat low fat cheese (I'm severely lactose intolerant) and to snack on nuts (EpiPen time for me!). If you have food allergies/sensitivities, this book is not for you (or me, for that matter.) My advice? You should consult with a KNOWLEDGEABLE, qualified, reputable nutritionist to help you lose the weight that is hampering you from living a more active lifestyle.
I originally wanted to rate this a 4 out of 5 stars, but after giving it some thought while waiting for this book to get published, I realized that this book overlooks people with serious allergies and health issues.
I was given an ARC of this diet book by the author, publisher and ReedsyDiscovery in exchange for an honest review.
February 5, 2022
This is a no-nonsense, just-do-it approach to losing weight and keeping it off. It involves nine key principles that the author insists are essential to long term weight loss and healthy weight maintenance.
I found the book clear and easy to read, though often offering up statistics without any indication of where they came from (making it difficult or impossible for a reader to track down the author’s sources and do independent analysis of the studies in question.) There are no footnotes of any kind on any of the chapters, and the recommended reading at the back does not include any of the scientific studies that the book pulls its data from. However, since much of the advice in this book seems unexceptional, this is less of a concern than it might otherwise be. (Exceptions may be the studies on pollutants in tap water; the many rants about GMO foods; and the strong recommendation for intermittent fasting, which seems to not yet have universal acceptance)
More troubling to me is the way the motivation in this book depends almost entirely upon scare tactics about the long-term negative health effects of being overweight or obese. When the author says, “Maybe this statistic will scare you into taking action,” he seems to encapsulate his whole approach—fat people need to be frightened into losing weight.
I suppose this makes some sense, as his own (commendable) weight-loss journey appears to have begun with just such a scare. However, I don’t find such motivation compelling. Why push to live longer if I can only do it by being miserable—which, after reading this book, I am convinced I would be if I followed all nine principles of this plan.
This plan may well be effective as a way to lose and keep off weight, but it seems a dreary trudge that drains all joy from life. For me, that’s too high a price for being thin.
Note: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I found the book clear and easy to read, though often offering up statistics without any indication of where they came from (making it difficult or impossible for a reader to track down the author’s sources and do independent analysis of the studies in question.) There are no footnotes of any kind on any of the chapters, and the recommended reading at the back does not include any of the scientific studies that the book pulls its data from. However, since much of the advice in this book seems unexceptional, this is less of a concern than it might otherwise be. (Exceptions may be the studies on pollutants in tap water; the many rants about GMO foods; and the strong recommendation for intermittent fasting, which seems to not yet have universal acceptance)
More troubling to me is the way the motivation in this book depends almost entirely upon scare tactics about the long-term negative health effects of being overweight or obese. When the author says, “Maybe this statistic will scare you into taking action,” he seems to encapsulate his whole approach—fat people need to be frightened into losing weight.
I suppose this makes some sense, as his own (commendable) weight-loss journey appears to have begun with just such a scare. However, I don’t find such motivation compelling. Why push to live longer if I can only do it by being miserable—which, after reading this book, I am convinced I would be if I followed all nine principles of this plan.
This plan may well be effective as a way to lose and keep off weight, but it seems a dreary trudge that drains all joy from life. For me, that’s too high a price for being thin.
Note: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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