Review: Common Sense Advice
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2012
This is a fantastic little book filled with great advice. The main thing the author gets is that real, long-term weight loss means making real, long-term lifestyle changes. The reason diets fail is because they involve short-term, difficult (only eating soup, for example) changes. As soon as the diet ends, the old habits come back along with the weight. The author does an excellent job of outlining common sense strategies that lead to real, long term change. My only quibble with the otherwise excellent advice is the author puts a little too much faith in the BMI (Body Mass Index). The problem with the BMI, in my opinion, is that it is an average of healthy weights. If you are not average in some way the BMI doesn't really apply to you. For example, Brad Pitt, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Jordan would all be considered obese by the standards of the BMI. Still, if you take the BMI part with a grain of salt, this book should be able to help you reach your weight loss goals.