This is a book I will NOT be recommending. It advises being good through the week and then having (moderate portions of) whatever you like at the weekend.
While I'm all in favour of not giving up you favourite foods entirely (unless you really don't know when to stop with something) this plan gives the worst of all worlds.
- It doesn't teach you to eat any healthier
- It doesn't show you how to enjoy food without guilt
- It doesn't get you in the habit of eating properly throughout your life (While I teach that the occasion celebratory dinner is fine, every weekend is not an exception it's an overeating habit by any stretch of the imagination)
- It gives you the incentive to overeat more than you otherwise would at the weekends "because you can" - like eating the cupboards empty before you start your diet
- It means you'll continue to buy junk - the high-fat, sugary, high-calorie food you can do with not having around when you're trying to lose weight
The whole concept of cheating around food is simply ridiculous. We are adults who make adult choices about what we put into our bodies. We create the shape we deserve by our everyday habits. It's not like trying to get away with school rules by chewing gum or talking in class behind the teacher's back - we are only damaging ouselves with our actions.
Janice
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