The Setpoint Diet

The 21-Day Program to Permanently Change What Your Body "Wants" to Weigh

By: Jonathan Bailor

Narrated by: Jonathan Bailor

Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

Join the 27,000 people who have achieved dramatic and long-term weight loss with The Setpoint Diet, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Calorie Myth.

Your body fights to keep you within a range of about 15 pounds—also known as your "setpoint weight". New research reveals that you can lower your setpoint and end that battle for good by focusing on the quality of calories you eat, not the quantity. With The Setpoint Diet, you will reprogram your body with a 21-day plan to rev up your metabolism, eliminate inflammation, heal your hormones, repair your gut, and get your body working like that of a naturally thin person—permanently.

The Setpoint Diet is a lower-carb menu that focuses on specific anti-inflammatory whole foods, including tons of produce, nutritious proteins, and therapeutic fats. Its creator, Jonathan Bailor, founded SANESolution, a weight-loss company that has reached millions of people. Proven to help you lose weight naturally and maintain it, The Setpoint Diet is your new blueprint for healthy living.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Jonathan Bailor (P)2019 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

"Exposes the fundamental myths about obesity and weight loss that are keeping Americans sick. By explaining the link between our hormones and our metabolism, Jonathan Bailor offers readers a powerful set of tools for creating lifelong health."—Mark Hyman, MD, eleven-time New York Times bestselling author of Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?

"I am often asked when there will be a proven prescription for weight loss. This is that prescription."—Dr. Theodoros Kelesidis, MD, Harvard and UCLA Medical Schools

"Brilliant! An easily understood and applied framework that will change the way you live, look, and feel. Bailor will end your confusion once and for all."—Dr. William Davis, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wheat Belly

Loving Myself

Heaven Sent. This book teaches you how to love thyself. Stay consistent and your changes will come.

Jonathan changed my life forever.

After struggling with my weight for decades, Jonathan gave me the knowledge needed to get and stay strong and lean. This is his best work yet. If this were mandatory school curriculum, there would be no metabolic syndrome epidemic.

ok

not much different than his other book, literally word for word the same in some parts. but still good info and a much better approach than most diets

not what I expected

I listened to the book and have to tell you I wasn't impressed. The biggest issue I had was the author repeated himself over and over again talking about the same thing and taking forever to get to the meat of the subject. this book could have been half the size of he were to simple get to the facts. Also I get the feeling that this is a big advertisement for his products and his workouts. Yes he does explain about the body's set point and how to lower it. You could get the same info by watching YouTube or by doing a Google search.

Not Rigorously Researched

I was very open to loving The Setpoint Diet. The author is very enthusiastic. However I had serious issues with the content.

The tone of the book has a lot more in common with a cult than science. There are many points in the book where I thought "this guy is just taking correlations and making them into a book". For example, he cites MSG as a cause of brain inflammation that causes weight gain, and cites a study on mice as the reason.

There really was a mice study on the effects of MSG. However they were given huge, unnatural levels of MSG that a human would never ingest, and it caused them to gain weight.

But in the book he goes out of his way to say that this is a study that should be taken at face value, which is extremely disappointing and borderline unethical.

If this book was better researched or more honest about its portrayal, I would give it a higher score.

Let's be clear though: his basic claim that non-starchy veggies and healthy proteins eaten as the majority of one's diet, along with interval training and eating to satiety, will reduce a human's set point, seems to be fairly true based on what we know.

So I'm not going to say that his premise is categorically wrong, but he is academically dishonest at several points in the book. Which makes sense because he's just some guy writing a book, he is NOT a medical professional. Just keep that in mind.

Narrator is so bad

The narrator is so bad I can’t get past the first part of the book.

All propaganda

I have listen to this whole book waiting to get to the 21 day program and it’s all propaganda. I believe they just want you to pay for the program online And the whole book is nothing more than a giant commercial for their program. I would not waste my money on this and I will be questing a refund.

A lot of bad researched data

Starting with that I'm not a doctor and a nutritionist.. may be that's a good thing. I was very interested inn setting back my weight set point, so I purchased the audio book. I'm an almost carnivore and I love to practice intermittent fasting. As an Engineer like the author I like to have clear facts and they also should be complete if possible. The author did not research the issues thoroughly. Some areas are completely missing:
1. The poisoning capabilities of the plant food he recommends, like Oxalates in Spinach and Lectins in the plants. Fill your plate like recommended with 50% plants and you will get the full doses of the poison with only partially bio available protein.
2. Fat is the most healthy food you can eat and even Olive oil is perfect to use for low heat cooking and enhancing the flavor of dry meat like Chicken breast. The author put Olive oil in the bad corner
3. No word about the properties of fasting for set point lowering activity
4. He promotes the egg white over the Yoke! Protein over fat. An organic egg is a whole food and must not be split in white and yoke.
5. When it comes to Phycology he looses it totally. All he states about the function of the brain is false data and proven wrong since a long time. Humans consist of a Body, Mind and Spirit. The brain is a part of the body and functions as interface between the 3 parts. Just skip the whole Psych part.
6. No critics without mentioning positive things: The exercise part is described pretty well when it comes to resistance training.

I suggest to read Dr. Jason Fung's books. There is a lot of simple working truths in them without blowing a 20 page book to an Elephant.

Peter Johann