O crees que el factor más significativo será que, en menos de cien años, la raza humana ha inventado una serie de maneras de destruir lo que tardó tres mil millones de años en crearse, y aunque la mayoría de nosotros somos plenamente conscientes de los peligros, hemos sido incapaces hasta ahora de eliminar uno solo de ellos?' Quitting altogether requires no will power at all provided you don't feel you're making a sacrifice...all you have to do is reverse the brainwashing that has led you to believe that overeating is pleasurable. If you try to cut down, you perpetuate the illusion that you're being deprived, and you become miserable and irritable. Junk food becomes more and more precious, and you become convinced that the only way to feel better is to stuff your face. Eventually, you reach breaking point. You tell yourself that you deserve a reward, and go on a binge undoing all the hard work you put in. It's the same story with every diet. Diets don't work." The book perpetuates the negativity around eating that you truly need to break free of if you're going to lose weight and be happy without dieting. (Sorry to toot its horn some more, but one of the key principles of Intuitive Eating is to remove the morality around choice and frequency of eating. After all, eating is not a religion. Why is some food "bad" and some food "good"?) Near the end of the book, he flips the script a bit on the rhetoric of "eating what you want" by reminding us that there is no need to exercise "as long as you eat what you're supposed to," which means "the foods intended for you by nature." So...not eating what you want, but by what "your nature" wants. And my body wants fresh chocolate chip banana bread, damn it. Yes, it can be a bit heavy going to start with, possibly because he's got to undo even more of society's brainwashing around food than he had to do with alcohol and tobacco.

His revolutionary eating plan allows you to enjoy food and savour flavours all while you're losing weight. We are not designed to eat animals or animal products ( *I need to add that there is no medical evidence for this presented in the book!), but you don’t have to become vegan – the allowed junk food rule includes animals and animal products.Okay, but what about pastries? Or fresh bread? Or hamburgers? For many people, these all taste and smell great. This is an excellent book, but you need to be open minded , if you go into it as sceptic , you will tear it apart based on you existing 'mis-beliefs' about what is and is not good nutrition and not finish it. I do not think I would recommend this book to other readers unless they are vegetarian as some of Carr's suggestions are a tad hard to swallow if you are a big meat eater. Da qui in poi è tutto un disquisire sugli animali che sono perfettamente in grado di autogestirsi per il cibo, che non ci sono animali grassi o malati in natura (questa seconda affermazione tra l'altro mi pare un po' azzardata).

Ugh. I think that's enough. I'd love to keep the conversation going on this book in the comments if you've read it or listened to it. Careful there... Don't get too excited while you start and tell yourself at some point that you don't need the "junk margin". IT IS MANDITORY THAT YOU KEEP IT. You should know for a FACT that you can eat your junk as you please. If at the very moment of eating you desire healthy food more and don't want to FORCE the junk down your throat then be it; but know please that the margin is there and furthermore has added itself to the next margin for when and how you may desire it. difficile recensire un libro così inutile! Ho lasciato più di 50 note a margine perchè ad ogni nuova frase assurda avevo voglia di andare dall'autore a dirgli "ma cosa diavolo stai dicendo!" So now what? What's the difference between his "method" and a "diet"? Before we get that answered, Carr goes into evolutionary biology and makes the claim that humans' teeth are meant for herbivorous eating. We have flat teeth like herbivores, not sharp teeth like carnivores. So we should be eating fruits, vegetables, and grains, not tearing into meat.

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Lately i have been trying new things and stopping eating meat was under consideration for half a year maybe. And so when i was once again on my crazy trip to non-stop eating of huge amounts of junk food (and when i say huge I mean huge, such amounts which cause pain but you still do not stop and you can hardly move in the end...), i decided to read it cause 1. the other book worked as by some miracle, 2. I kind of wanted to stop eating meat and i already had it very rarely. I found a factually inaccurate statement in the book about the metabolism and chemical properties of sugar, which calls into question everything else he's presented as fact.

The easy way to lose weight actually seems easy when reading the book. However, keep in mind that there is no evidence presented in the book about how well this method works. There is no medical evidence around the beliefs Allen Carr proposes either. I am not a medical professional but, intuitively, I can say he makes a lot of sense with some things. Of course, there are a lot of others that seem really far-fetched to me. I would take the advice here with a grain of salt and continue reading on the subject, hopefully, some books that are a little better documented with medical studies. Una cosa es matar animales para sobrevivir, pero ¿no crees que hay algo muy malo en criar seres vivos SÓLO PARA PODER MATARLOS Y COMERLOS?' The natural sugar in unprocessed foods such as fruit is easily digest and like all other nutrients, travels through the body and feeds it. In its natural form, it's the primary fuel for your mind. When you eat fruit, the natural sugar, fructose, enters your body, combined with fibre and water. These act together to create the glucose necessary for your brain to function. I've found the answer I've been looking for for 20 years! I've done every diet you can think of. My sister urged me to buy the book - and I'm so glad I did! It isn't someone telling you what to do, it isn't a weird eating plan, IT ISN'T A DIET! There's no guilt... There's no stuggle... There's no restrictions... You just know what to do and you know you want to do it and why!'

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There was a lot of repetition, which I don't mind if it's doing good (The stopping smoking book has the same repitition, but it worked as a kind of hypnosis or positive brainwashing, reinforcing the ideas). In this book, I felt that I was always waiting for some great moment when I would feel sure about it working for me, but I got to the end and was uncertain whether it would change my behaviour. I didn't need to wait with the stop smoking book; I knew straight away that I wouldn't smoke, and I was instantly a non-smoker from the moment I closed the book. As you see, Allen Carr’s diet book is not a diet book at all. It is a way to change your eating habits, a way to convince yourself you can lose weight and become healthy and happy with your shape. My main issue with it If I hadn't discovered Intuitive Eating through discussing this book with someone, I probably would have been able to noodle my way through the principles in this book to a happier lifestyle. But when I finished this one, I was left with an empty, unsatisfied feeling, as though he'd left out a significant principle or two. I may have come up with them myself, but why do that when the heavy lifting has already been done for me elsewhere? the important thing is to lose weight gradually. You should be perfectly happy to lose a couple of pounds per week. If you imagine the effect of doing that for just a couple of months it should excite you. Losing weight in this way is the best way. My overall food intake has dropped, what i am eating is incredibly natural, fresh and healthy, I have lost 2 kilos a week with no other changes than food intake.