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Break the Chains of Dieting: 9 Fundamental Must Have Principles for Healthy Weight Loss
"With so much misunderstanding and disagreement on diets and weight loss, David Medansky offers an achievable, realistic, and simple approach for healthy and permanent weight loss that anyone can do." - Jack Canfield, New York Times best-selling co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul (R)
"When You Eat for Your Health, Your Weight Loss Journey Will Take Care of Itself." - David Medansky , The Overweight Person's Best Friend Isn't it about time you Love Yourself Enough to Eat Wholesome Nutritious Foods and Live a Healthy Lifestyle?
David Medansky struggled with his own weight issues until July 2016 when his doctor told him to either lose weight or find a new doctor. He understands your frustrations. During the next four months, David shed 50 pounds, almost 25 percent of his total body weight, and has kept it off. Now he wants to teach you how to eat healthier so you too can have more energy, feel better, and improve your overall health without going on a diet.
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"When You Eat for Your Health, Your Weight Loss Journey Will Take Care of Itself." - David Medansky , The Overweight Person's Best Friend Isn't it about time you Love Yourself Enough to Eat Wholesome Nutritious Foods and Live a Healthy Lifestyle?
David Medansky struggled with his own weight issues until July 2016 when his doctor told him to either lose weight or find a new doctor. He understands your frustrations. During the next four months, David shed 50 pounds, almost 25 percent of his total body weight, and has kept it off. Now he wants to teach you how to eat healthier so you too can have more energy, feel better, and improve your overall health without going on a diet.
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260 pages, Hardcover
Published October 18, 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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