The Thin Commandments Diet

The Ten No-Fail Strategies for Permanent Weight Loss

De: Stephen Gullo

Narrado por: Stephen Gullo

The first in the field of weight control to teach diet fitness

The bestselling author of Thin Tastes Better, Dr. Stephen Gullo reveals his unique program that has a success rate almost 15 times higher than the national average. He shows us how to bridge the gap between knowing how to lose weight and actually doing it. He has identified ten simple yet powerful strategies that will start you losing weight now. For example: Dr. Stephen Gullo proves that anyone can successfully master their weight by making the fundamental switch from dieter to food strategist.

Pretty good, but...

If this book had great diet advice, I couldn't make it past the first 1/3 of the book. Too boring. The reader seemed to have a very bored tone, which made it difficult to listen to.

Solving the weight problem

The answers are all here. This is the best book on weight problems and all their solutions. I have listened to (and read) this book over and over. I pick up new things every time. I am optimistic of losing all the weight and keeping it off. Eating and exercising are only 2/3 of the equation. The missing piece is revealed here!

OK, but not as good as I had expected.

The premise of this book is good, common sense diet advice with a genetic twist to it all. I figured that I could listen to it in bed, but found that there is more that I needed to do to get the most out of the book. To be fair to the book, I needed to have a notebook to actually write down the "Commandments" as the author went through them.

One reason I gave it a 3/5 rating is that it's pretty much the same advice given by any other diet book...know your patterns, avoid certain foods, revamp/reinvent/find new comfort foods, don't skip meals, that kind of stuff.

However, the book does get into more physiology, and actually surprised me with info on taste bud research. It explains & gives how to steps about how we can deal with the fact that our patterns may very well be genetically programmed. That was good! That kind of stuff is woven into every chapter, and is refreshing.

Overall, I'd suggest having a notebook handy to jot down the list of Commandments if you'd like. It's also good for the neat tidbits that pop up in each chapter.

My main reason for the 3/5 rating was not the common sense stuff, but the author's voice, a thick New York accent, which made the book NOT an in bed listen. (I feel mean saying that, but it was a bit jolting...)

I'd still really suggest the book if you have some time to spend with it, focusing on not just the words, but the actual WORK you'll have to do with the good information provided. If you're not willing to take time to evaluate yourself, take notes, or do what the book suggests, then don't buy it. If you can take some time with it, then YES get the book :)

Very insightful helpful advice

This book, chapter after chapter addressed so accurately what a person with longstanding overeating problems experiences that it was very compelling. I believed his advice because he described the behaviors SO well. He provides very concrete strategies that are clearly effective --that doesn't mean he has easy answers. -And some of it I didn't want to hear (like there just may be some foods I have to cut out of my diet, period, or that keeping a food diary really is an effective tool for weight loss.) But when you feel like someone knows your problems and challenges so well --that kind of understanding, plus the MANY specific strategies for dealing with those challenges has made me really sit up and take notice. Well done!

One of the BEST diet books ever!

I am surprised that this book is not more well known and popular - it absolutely should be! I have read countless diet books, and most deal with "eat this and not that" but don't delve deeply into what the real problem is with people who have a hard time losing weight and keeping it off - behaviors, habits, psychology and physiological factors that aren't obvious and make it more difficult.

I had already lost about 50 pounds by the time I came across this book and was struggling with the last 10. After a 12 year weight battle I finally felt like I come across some of the right habits and behavior changes and already was doing some of the things in this book that had proven to be very successful for me. So in a way, this book reframed some of this in a clearly defined way for me which was very helpful, but also offered several other suggestions that have been enormously helpful in shedding the rest of the weight and dealing with the maintenance aspect of weight loss, which really can be harder than losing the weight itself. After all, to quote the author "The best compliment you'll ever receive is - you've lost the weight... and kept it off!"

I recommend also purchasing a hardcopy version of this book to take notes. I think that this book is loaded with information that is crucial to weight loss success and everyone concerned with that should own it. I can see why the author is so successful in his practice, this stuff really works!!!