The Mindset Diet

By Brett Fitzpatrick

The diet itself is simple, because a lot of diets are too fussy and restrictive to be incorporated into daily life on any kind of long-term basis. The Mindset Diet is, in fact, beautifully simple. There are no complicated calculations, no shakes, no soups, no pills or tinctures, no recipes to follow. These type of complex ‘fad’ diets have not been shown to be any more effective than diets that maintain a typical mix of foods. There is no point making things more complicated than they already are. All you need to know about your food, in order to lose weight, is how many calories there are in it. Everything else is interesting, but not essential. Most of what this diet talks about is what is in your mind, not what is in your food.
This diet isn't even really about food. Food is not the problem for people who are trying to lose weight. This diet is about the brain. For people who are trying to lose weight, their own brain is the thing most hindering them. You need to understand the innate behavior, ‘hard-wired instincts’, and learned behavior, ‘habits’ that are leading to weight gain and, more importantly, you need to learn strategies to counteract these behaviors. That is what this book is really about.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brett Fitzpatrick
• Release date: Jun 7, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301660919

Brett Fitzpatrick

I am an author living and working in Venice. I love the flexibility that epublishing gives me to live where I want and get my books to people all over the world. I like to read sci-fi and fantasy, and allow my imagination to create the amazing visuals that the writer describes. I'm a child of the 70s and so Star Wars type space opera will always find a warm welcome in my reading stack. I grew up in the UK and this has given my sci-fi a very British taste. It is more Doctor Who than Battlestar Galactica. It also means that my political consciousness was forged in the battles of 80s British political life, like a few other, more famous, British sci-fi writers. For example, I try to make sure every book passes the Bechdel test. The greatest joy of writing for me is to be able to dive into a world of the imagination and come back up to the surface with something to show for it. I love feedback, even of the "This book sucks!" type. If somebody is interested enough to want to influence my work, I am interested enough to want to include their feedback.

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The Mindset Diet

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The Mindset Diet

by Brett Fitzpatrick

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – About the Diet

Chapter 2 - Quick Start Guide

Chapter 3 – What You Need to Know to Succeed

Chapter 3.01 – That full feeling

Chapter 3.02 – Food is addictive

Chapter 3.03 – The lizard brain chooses a lot of our food

Chapter 3.04 – Our eating can get Pavlovian

Chapter 3.05 – The heavier you are, the easier it is to diet

Chapter 3.06 – People can't tell how overweight they are

Chapter 3.07 – Weight ratchets upwards

Chapter 3.08 – People don't remember what they've eaten

Chapter 3.09 – People don't know which foods are high calorie

Chapter 3.10 – People show love through food

Chapter 3.11 – High calorie food tastes good

Chapter 3.12 – When we say we are hungry, we usually aren't

Chapter 3.13 There are no bad foods, only big portions

Chapter 3.14 – Every calorie counts

Chapter 3.15 – Hunger comes in waves

Chapter 3.16 – Don't spend them all at once

Chapter 3.17 – Weight gain is natural, fighting it is unnatural, that's why its hard

Chapter 4 – What Else You Might Need to Do

Chapter 4.01 – Investigate what went wrong

Chapter 4.02 – Set achievable goals

Chapter 4.03 – Harness the power of self-hypnosis

Chapter 4.04 – Sabotage your bad eating habits

Chapter 4.05 – Avoid food with lots of calories

Chapter 4.06 – Make dieting into a lifestyle

Chapter 4.07 – Coping with Relapse

Chapter 4.08 – Don't buy it, or just throw it away

Chapter 5 – In summary

Chapter 6 – Nutshell checklist

Chapter 1 – About the Diet

This is not one of those ‘snake oil’ diets that will boost your energy, cure your ailments, protect you from cancer, keep heart disease at bay, improve your life love and ensure your happiness. The Mindset Diet is targeted directly and exclusively at weight loss. Though, of course, losing weight has health benefits.

The diet itself is no more or less healthy than the food you are eating right now, because it is based on the normal, everyday foods you buy and eat. The problem with your diet probably isn't the food. The problem is how you relate to it, and how you manage it. The problem is all in your mind.

The Mindset Diet is not a quick fix diet either. It has been proven time and again that quick-fix diets are counterproductive in the long run. Even if the quick fix diet works, the habits that led the dieter to put on weight have not been addressed, and the poor dieter is soon putting all the weight back on. This diet is about changing the way you eat, forever. If you are reading this book then the chances are that you are eating either a few too many, or way too many calories every single day. This book shows you how to stop doing just that. This is a permanent change. You will not ever go back to eating even a tiny few too many calories each day.

The diet itself is simple, because a lot of diets are too fussy and restrictive to be incorporated into daily life on any kind of long-term basis. The Mindset Diet is, in fact, beautifully simple. There are no complicated calculations, no shakes, no soups, no pills or tinctures, no recipes to follow. These type of complex ‘fad’ diets have not been shown to be any more effective than diets that maintain a typical mix of foods. There is no point making things more complicated than they already are. All you need to know about your food, in order to lose weight, is how many calories there are in it. Everything else is interesting, but not essential. Most of what this diet talks about is what is in your mind, not what is in your food.

This diet isn't even really about food. Food is not the problem for people who are trying to lose weight. This diet is about the brain. For people who are trying to lose weight, their own brain is the thing most hindering them. You need to understand the innate behavior, ‘hard-wired instincts’, and learned behavior, ‘habits’ that are leading to weight gain and, more importantly, you need to learn strategies to counteract these behaviors. That is what this book is really about.

The Mindset Diet doesn't preach, or make you feel bad. If you are overweight, you are, in fact, normal. The truth is, in our modern world, it is completely normal and usual for a human to become overweight by following their normal eating patterns. We live in a time of plenty with no famines, and so the reserve of fat that our bodies naturally builds up just keeps building. It never gets used, because we are never forced to go hungry