The writer of the popular column "The Diet Detective" offers up an easy-to-follow ten-step guide to losing weight that can become automatic for anyone, consisting of lifestyle modifications designed to keep weight off after it has been lost. Originally published as The Automatic Diet. Reprint.

Breaking the Fat Pattern: The Diet Detective's Plan to End the Cycle of Yo-Yo Dieting

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Platkin, Charles

Diets & Weight Loss

Plume

Ever get the sense that you’re reliving the same events, arguments, and frustrations again and again? Does your relationship, job, or diet always begin full of hope, but, somehow, fail to work out in the end?
In Breaking the Pattern, Charles Stuart Platkin synthesizes years of research in psychology, motivation, success, and achievement into what he calls “The 5 Principles You Need to Remodel Your Life,” helping readers to take action in those areas where they feel stuck or doomed to repeat negative past experiences. Through a series of self-reflective exercises, Platkin encourages readers to examine their successes and failures, identifying, analyzing, and finally breaking the very patterns that have kept them from realizing their dreams. By incorporating inspirational quotes and stories throughout the book, Platkin creates a positive, healing environment in which even the most self-doubting reader can gain the support and motivation necessary to begin to change his or her life for the better.

Breaking the Pattern

Self-Help

Motivational

Diet Detective's Diet Starter Kit: The Ten Things You Must Know Before You Start Any Diet

Diversion Books

The writer of the popular column "The Diet Detective" offers up an easy-to-follow ten-step guide to losing weight that can become automatic for anyone, consisting of lifestyle modifications designed to keep weight off after it has been lost. 60,000 first printing.

The Automatic Diet

Hudson Street Press

Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions among American children and teens, and parents are desperate for an answer that doesn’t involve unhealthy extremes, while kids are desperate to feel and look better, fast. Charles Stuart Platkin, one of the country’s leading nutrition advocates and popular syndicated columnist of “The Diet Detective,” outlines a step-by-step approach to painless lifestyle changes that lead to permanent weight loss, targeted specifically to the diet needs of young people. He gives practical advice on topics such as smarter options at the most common teen hangout spots, how to eat better in the school cafeteria, how to lose weight when your parents control the food in your house, how to find satisfying “Calorie Bargains” to swap for high-calorie favorites, how to defeat your “Eating Alarm Times,” and much more.

Lighten Up

Children's Books

Razorbill

When it comes to diets, Americans want two things: ease of use and results. The Diet Detective's All-American Diet gives readers exactly what they need to lose weight without recipes, cooking, or calorie counting. Diet Detective Charles Platkin has done all the complicated nutrition math in advance, so readers merely pick and choose their meal plan from thousands of photos of regular foods available at their local stores and favorite chain restaurants. Significantly less expensive, more accessible, and infinitely more practical than convenience eating programs like Jenny Craig or NutriSystem, The Diet Detective's All-American Diet operates according to the same proven principles of portion control, behavior change, and proper nutrition for effective weight loss. The book gives readers a mix-and-match, Build-a-Meal program that shows them how to pick their breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack from lists of thousands of popular brand-name foods available anywhere. It's that simple: Readers can simply go to the supermarket and start shedding pounds.

The Diet Detective's All-American Diet: Lose Weight with the Foods You Already Love to Eat from Your Favorite Supermarket and Restaurant Choices

Rodale Books

"A useful yet fun book that could provide the push you all need to achieve lasting change." ―Shape Magazine Ever get the sense that you're reliving the same events, arguments, and frustrations again and again? Does your relationship, job, or diet always begin full of hope, but, somehow, fail to work out in the end? In BREAKING THE PATTERN, Dr. Charles Platkin synthesizes years of research in psychology, motivation, success, and achievement into "The 5 Principles You Need to Remodel Your Life," helping readers to take action in those areas where they feel stuck or doomed to repeat negative past experiences. Through a series of self-reflective exercises, Platkin encourages readers to examine their successes and failures, identifying, analyzing, and finally breaking the very patterns that have kept them from realizing their dreams. By incorporating inspirational quotes and stories throughout the book, Platkin creates a positive, healing environment in which even the most self-doubting reader can gain the support and motivation necessary to begin to change his or her life for the better. "Author breaks down five principles necessary to transform your life...And he's not just spouting theory..." ―Dallas Morning News "BREAKING THE PATTERN blends cozy inspiration with a dose of military rigidity." ―The Denver Post "A road map for anyone who's failed at New Year's resolution, or any goal for personal change." ―San Jose Mercury News

Breaking the Pattern: The 5 Principles You Need to Remodel Your Life

Personal Transformation

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