Mini Habits for Weight Loss

Stop Dieting. Form New Habits. Change Your Lifestyle Without Suffering.

By: Stephen Guise

Narrated by: Daniel Penz

Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

You will never diet again.

Say goodbye to calorie counting, restrictive food bans, or other forced behaviors. In Mini Habits for Weight Loss, you will learn how to lose weight naturally in the precise way your body and brain are meant to change.

We've blamed ourselves for lack of discipline. That didn't help.

We've blamed calories, carbs, and fat. That didn't help.

We've blamed our diet formulas. That didn't help.

It's time we looked at the practice of dieting.

Nearly all diets are ineffective because they're based on dieting. Every person has a diet (noun), but it's only if you are trying to lose weight that you diet (verb). Dieting is eating and drinking sparingly or selectively to reduce your weight.

It doesn't work. If you've tried dieting, you know that.

Even the "perfect diet" with the right foods will fail if it's approached from the traditional dieting perspective. Since weight loss experts are more concerned with biology than neuroscience, we get brilliant discussions on nutrition followed by the same dumb suggestion to "immediately start eating completely different foods than the ones you're habitually used to eating, and give up everything else."

Are you fighting your own body and brain?

The brain resists dramatic behavioral shifts. Recognizing this and developing a strategy around it made the original Mini Habits the number-one selling self-help book in a number of countries. In Mini Habits for Weight Loss, you'll see that we also biologically resist such changes, which explains why most dieters and smoothie-cleanse aficionados lose weight in the short term, only to gain it all back (and more) when the body adjusts.

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I wanted it to be more about mini habits and less about research on weight loss

I was intrigued by the idea of mini habits so I started listening to this book. The whole first half of the book is research on weight loss that you’ve probably heard if you’ve read or learned much about weight loss. (Diets don’t work etc)
When he does get into the section on mini habits it’s kind of the same info repeated over and over, and what worked for him. I’d like to hear more compelling stories of other people who turned mini habits into big successes. Also more ideas for good mini-habits to try. I don’t know that the mini habits he suggests would do a heck of a lot for long-term weight loss and maintenance unless you turned them into “maxi-habits”. (I just made up that term.)
I don’t want to shoot down this book because it did have some good ideas and info in it. It just could’ve been a lot shorter or a lot more to the point about mini habits. Maybe a condensed version of this book would have been more what I was looking for.

very good book with a great concept.

very good book with a great concept. even though I did not agree with the part about the unhealthy food.

1 push up led to much more

I think this is a great book. especially if you don't want to go all in and fail. small steps lead to big changes

Skip the first half!

The first half consists of general info why diets don't work. Skipping this section will save you much time as most of the info there is nothing you have never heard before. The second half is the actual explanation and how to implement the mini habits. Once I skipped the first half, I learned quite a lot!

Finally a real plan for change!

This is not about fast results. It's about rewiring the brain so you no longer want to keep an unhealthy lifestyle. It utilizes the brains short term reward system response to solidify better choices iin the long run and gain eventual results that don't send you back to the endless cycle of weight gain that yoyo dieting inevitably does. This approach removes the element of deprivation, shame and fear often associated with other diet plans. Sound research and science, logical and entertaining, and I really agree with the concept of whole natural foods. This concept is now becoming my new approach to everything I hope to accomplish.

Repeat

The book gave me new information that I can use in my daily life
the one thing I didn't like you keep repeating the same information throughout the book at time you I became borned hearing the same stuff over and over everything else was enjoy the book to listen too.

by Far the Best audible for Weight Loss

the last book/audible you will need for weight loss. 30 years of bring overweight. this book has me on the right track for the right reasons.

A fun, sane, no-nosense approach that works

Would you consider the audio edition of Mini Habits for Weight Loss to be better than the print version?

Stephen Guise is a writer whose humor makes the detailed, well-researched, fact-based material a lot more fun and memorable. The narrator of the audio version, Daniel Penz, was the perfect choice for this because he gets Stephen's humor. The delivery was brilliant. So, while the print version was also excellent, the audio book here is the clear winner.

Any additional comments?

Weight loss, nutrition, and fitness are quagmires of -- misinformation is the wrong word -- but information that is true, but partial, and easily misapplied. In other words, it's easy to get confused, and there's a lot of money involved in keeping us that way. I've spent many years reading, researching, and trying different diet and fitness strategies, too, and seen quite a few of the studies. After a while, the information becomes incredibly difficult to process, and it's easy to give up in an exhausted state of "contradictory information overload." And that's before you even start the hard work of *dieting* and *intense exercise*.

Stephen, in this incredibly well-written and well-researched book, takes the hard work out of the process. The strategies for nutrition (not dieting, mind you) and activity (not the latest fitness fad) are easy to implement, fun to do, and are designed for lasting results. The strategy he teaches uses our own psychology to finally help us make the choices we need to make, consistently, for the long haul, without inadvertently creating any guilt, shame, or any of the other problematic yet often unrecognized and powerfully underappreciated psychological and behavioral saboteurs that can derail our efforts.

If you're familiar with Mini-Habits, or have been exposed to Stephen's work in any form, you already know that he doesn't lean on motivation to create (usually short-term) change. This book doesn't try to psyche you up for a Herculean effort, or convince you that you "just need to want it more". Somewhat ironically, the lack of motivational blather is, well, motivating...because when implementing the strategies in this book, you'll achieve small victories and wins even on your worst days. Nutrition and fitness are a lifestyle, and Mini-Habits for Weight Loss will give you the tools you need to make them part of *your* lifestyle, for the long haul.

Great book

I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to make healthy changes in life. Some of the other reviews mention that you should skip early chapters, but I disagree. I think the earlier chapters about general nutrition and habit forming help to set groundwork for an individual to be able to make positive changes. I thought the narrator was great also. Must-read if you are serious about changing your lifestyle to a healthier one.

delivery

I was not a super fan of the delivery and some of the ideas are thought provoking however I feel like real scientific substance may be lacking