You: On a Diet

The Owner's Manual for Waist Management

By: Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet Oz

Narrated by: Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet Oz

As they did with the revised edition of YOU: The Owner’s Manual, Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz have updated their classic, international bestseller on diet. This nearly three million copy seller is filled with new information on emotional eating, the latest fad diets, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and over a hundred recipes.

For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting—and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat.

Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America’s most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist. They’re going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body’s fat-storing and fat-burning systems work, you’re going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management.

Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information, motivation, and change-your-life action to show you how your brain, stomach, hormones, muscles, heart, genetics, and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium. In YOU: On a Diet, Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take you through an under-the-skin tour of the organs that influence your body’s size and its health. You’ll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat.

Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail spammers, you’d think that just about all of us would know everything there is to know about dieting, about fat, and about the reasons why our bellies have grown so large. YOU: On a Diet is much more than a diet plan or a series of instructions and guidelines or a faddish berries-only eating plan. It’s a complete manual for waist management. It will show you how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to which any weight-loss system can be explained. YOU: On a Diet will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution in our dieting software. After you learn about the biology of your body and the biology and psychology of fat, you’ll be given the YOU Diet and YOU Workout. Both are easy to learn, follow, and maintain. Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to two inches from your waist right from the start.

With Roizen and Oz’s signature accessibility, wit, and humor, YOU: On a Diet—The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the food you consume, so that you’ll diet smart, not hard. Welcome to your body on a diet©2006 Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and Oz Works LLC. All rights reserved; (P)2006 Simon and Schuster Inc. All rights reserved. SOUND IDEAS is an imprint of Simon and Schuster Audio Division, Simon and Schuster Inc.

Critic reviews

"Back for another highly entertaining round of Biology 101, the team behind YOU: The Owner's Manual applies its signature wit and wisdom to food metabolism and nutrition. Roizen and Oz pack in a lot of material -- quizzes, 'factoids' and 'myth busters' along with diet and exercise plans, recipes and a two-week 'rebooting' program -- in bite-sized portions, giving readers a chance to absorb and apply what they learn." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

Good reminders for lifestyle habits

Lots of good information given in an entertaining and interesting delivery. Always enjoy listening to Drs Oz and Roizen.

You: On a Diet

This is a great book for people that think they are healthy eaters. I learned a lot from it. The tips that they give throughout the book are wonderful. I highly recommend this book to all especially those of us who are STILL trying to shed some pounds.

Great Book

It's alot easier to follow than most diets. The initial results are not as dramatic as atkins. But the food choices are so much better. Also it's just much healthier for the body. My doctor recommended this one because he says that Atkins is based on fat and that fat is alot harder to burn. To this I think he meant that one has alot less energy. Which I would agree. I've done both and I like this one because it's McDonald's and Pizza Hut friendly :-) I recommend also buying the book because it's got a whole bunch of illustrations. Strenght and distance training is the key.

You'll finish the book, but will you lose weight?

(From John Freeman, PhD)
As a doctor myself, I can say that there is some great information in these pages- a lot about fat and the detriment that it's causing in our culture. Some doctors like to suggest cures to symptoms instead of cures for the problem and it appears that these gentleman may be doing just that. The gimmicky (and funny) "waist management" technique is interesting and fairly unique from what I've seen, but it can be seen as just a diversion. Maybe people who are obese need a diversion and need to stop thinking about food, but it's my experience that people need to focus on how they were designed (we were designed to constantly eat) and then cater to that by eating the right types of foods at certain times. Roizen and Mehmet's humorous approach reminds me of one of my favorite diet/nutrition books, "The Evolution Diet," which makes learning about the body entertaining as well as informative. Perhaps the author(s) of the You On a Diet could have focused more on the appropriation of one's diet as Evolution does, but it appears that people can really be helped with these techniques and that's the main goal- a fitter world.

An entertaining way to learn about loosing weight!

This book is a great read with all the images and the "ureka" call outs but to listen to the authors both take turns reading makes it entertaining, enlightening and motivational. I would suggest anyone interested in loosing weight, understanding how food is digested or wanting to listen to a great story definitely purchase this one. Also, join me in purchasing the book and the audio. You won't regret it! It's like going to class with the authors and they are making sure you understand everything!