Working on Second Book

I wrote the draft for my second book while in Cuba, and have been spending the last week typing it up.

The book covers the strategies I used to lose weight. Given how personal weight loss is, this isn’t intended to be a “do this and succeed” guide. Rather, it lists a bunch of strategies I used, with the hopes that perhaps some of them will be of use to others.

The title “Diets Suck” comes from my realization that most celebrity diets propose temporary fixes, usually in the form of food deprivation, to what is actually a permanent problem. I gained all this weight primarily because of my eating habits. I can change them for a while with a diet, but if I go right back to my old ways after that ends, I’ll gain it all back. Which is what happened in my yo-yo days.

So instead, I went for making small tweaks to my eating habits that would add up over time. Merely giving up a coke can a week at work, for instance, would reduce my weight by a number of pounds over a year. There would be no going hungry, or denying myself the things I liked. Doing that would not have been sustainable, assuring a sour mood and failure.

Much of the inspiration for my philosophy came from an interview I saw with Brian Wansink, which you can watch here.

The book should be out in two months.

As before, I’ll release a free digital copy and a not-so-free print copy.