Weight loss or diet books have common ground: food discipline. One has to have a goal and have the determination to reach that by strictly following the diet plan. The challenge for each author is to encourage readers to follow instructions and stick to it.
The Skinny somehow does not teach a normal diet plan where one almost have to let themselves starve. The author however believes that weight problem is a curable disease and therefore does not have anything to do with a person’s will to reach his goal. His diet plan is divided into two phases: Phase I would run for at least 3 months. Phase II would be a lifetime diet plan.
Another unique about this book is that the author provided over 50 recipes from meal to snacks. Such recipes were customized in the sense that they are prepared with more flavor but low in calories. Have you ever heard of “Noodleless” Spaghetti Pomodoro? With fifteen pages of bibliography, the author must have done extensive research on his claims. The book is literally informative yet presented in a too technical manner that ordinary people may find a hard time understanding some important issues.
This is a good read for the reason that it provides explanation on why most people tend to eat in a lot and yet their stomachs still crave for more. As mentioned, the book offers a literally strict diet plan so you should be ready to commit yourself to adhering with it. Yes, the book encourages you to eat more protein and fewer carbohydrates. As with all other weight loss books, the author recommends drinking lots water, eat more vegetables and of course, exercise. The food plan require a dieter to have a complete turn away from traditional eating lifestyle which makes you really sick, and yes, withdrawal symptoms will follow.
The book also warns everyone to seek for medical checkup to make sure that the diet will not interfere with existing special health conditions. This renders the diet plan unsafe and unrealistic for some people. Weight loss programs should make sure that it is tailored to most people who will need to loose weight. If following the diet plan would seem to make you sicker, then why should one try it?
The author should have chosen a better way of presenting the book. The exceedingly colorful background is distracting that the texts are already hard to read.
