Right Bite

"The Right Bite" was one of the best books I have ever read on how to lose weight. I had no idea there were so many triggers that could keep a person from losing and maintaining weight. Up until the time I had kids I was able to remain at the weight that was ideal for me. After my kids were born I gained a lot of weight that yo-yoed, and I wasn't sure what was causing it to do that. I have always been athletic so it was hard for me to understand why I could not control my weight and why it was too high. After reading "The Right Bite", I discovered the personal triggers that had been causing my weight problems. The most surprising trigger of all was that I learned that I was eating too few calories. I always thought that to lose weight I needed to starve myself. I find that I can eat as much of the Right Bite foods as I want and eat whenever I feel hungry and I still lose weight as long as I avoid my other personal triggers.By following the priciples in "The Right Bite", I can see that I am changing my metabolism back to a thin person's and for the first time since my three children were born I am practically to my pre-pregnancy weight. I would love to see a Right Bite cookbook as I plan to eat this way for life.

Like many others I have tried all kinds of diets from the Rice Diet to an all protein plan that left me barely able to cross the street. The Right Bite is the first book I have seen that lays out a plan that can be adapted to the individual's biological makeup. I always wondered why certain foods, situations, or life events caused me to lose control of my eating while my wife or others around me were unaffected. Now I know how and why MY body responds to various stimuli. I can now follow the Right Bite program to gain control over food cravings that would overtake me unexpectedly at different times. I know that fine tuning the diet for my particular needs will take time, but the book provides a CORE diet that lets me get started on the right path and lets me experiment without fear of losing control. I have already discovered a couple of triggers ( smoke filled rooms and caffeine) that cause me problems and I am slowly but surely gaining the knowledge about my body that I need to develop my own life time eating program.

The ultimate challenge of eating a healthy diet, getting enough of the right kind of exercise, and having a desirable weight is that each of our bodies responds individually to everything we eat and do. The ideal set of foods and prescriptions for one person can easily cause problems for another person. So a lot of trial and error and listening to your body is involved. So many people who want to do better with their weight and appearance try out a lot of different diets. The first half of The Right Bite is an unusually well constructed set of materials intended to help you identify what factors in your life may be causing your weight to be higher than it has to be. There are two quizzes that then reference you to sections where physiological and psychological explanations detail how those "fat triggers" could be causing you problems. Although I have seen almost all of these points made in one book or another, the list here is more exhaustive than I have seen in any other book. I suspect that many people will successfully use The Right Bite to identify stalls that are undermining their health and making them heavier than necessary. In many cases, The Right Bite will also help people feel better physically and psychologically. In the second half of the book, you will find a balanced program of eating and exercise that should build a better health foundation for you unless you already eat and exercise well. My only complaint about this diet is that it is not customized for blood type like Live Right 4 Your Type. The resulting regimen gets you the most nutrition for the least calories. As a result, some people will probably characterize this way of eating as the fish, vegetables, fruit, and low-fat dairy diet. I like seafood more than most people, but I would find this diet hard to follow. Dr. Dalvit-McPhillips is a Ph.D. with a background in nutritional biochemistry. Her writing picks up on those perspectives, but in ways that anyone can understand. She is anything but a stuffy person, and fills her book with extreme stories about her own life and of people she has known. I especially enjoyed the story about the near-sighted woman who exercised in the nude and forgot to get dressed to take out the trash, and was tramping down her trash cans outdoors when greeted by the neighbors whom she could not see. A close second in my esteem is her story about escaping from an evening with a couple she visited who opened the door to their home wearing only their underwear and peeled that off while Dr. Dalvit-McPhilips was in the toilet.Dr. Dalvit-McPhillips has been working with this method to help people lose weight. She claims a 95 percent success rate. I don't know of any method of weight reform with a permanent success rate anywhere near that high. Paint me skeptical, without some form of objective, independent verification of that claim. Whether you decide to follow her specific dietary recommendations or not, I think you can use

I know I am like you....I have 15 diet books in my closet that I have read....and many more that I have thrown out, or given to family and friends and I still have weight to lose. This book IS different. It is the first book that I have read and feel hopeful about. I think it is very well researched and it gives wonderful sound advice as well as an understandable program to follow. Please know I am a professional in the medical field. I can't wait to start the CORE program. I have finished the book this morning. I finally understand what was causing my yo yo pattern of dieting and weight gain. I knew something was causing my overeating but I finally have an understanding of why and a plan to follow to help with my weight loss. Wish me luck!!!