Summary of Stephen Guise's Mini Habits for Weight Loss

By IRB Media

Get the Summary of Stephen Guise's Mini Habits for Weight Loss in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Mini Habits for Weight Loss will show you how to make dietary changes in a sustainable, permanent way that doesn’t trigger biological or neurological resistance.

It’s a specialized version of the method that made the original book a hit in 14 languages. The mini habits remain easy to implement, but the reasoning and supporting tactics are more sophisticated. This is by necessity, as weight loss factors are many and varied. The strategies in the book are rooted in extensive biological and neuroscience research.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669342779

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Insights on Stephen Guise's Mini Habits for Weight Loss

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Scientists have found that repeated weight cycling, or yo-yo dieting, affects your metabolism and makes it more difficult to lose weight.

#2

The study showed that when rats were put on a calorie restricted diet, their metabolic rates slowed down. When they reintroduced food back into their diets, their metabolic rates sped back up. This is similar to what happens with human metabolism when we over- or under-eat.

#3

The Biggest Loser is a popular reality show where contestants compete to lose the most weight. The show’s contestants almost always regain the weight they lost.

#4

The main cause of weight gain is not the foods you eat, but the way you approach your eating. If you approach it the wrong way, not only will you waste time, but you will also screw up your metabolism or your idea of what constitutes a healthy diet.

#5

There are thousands of diet books out there, all claiming to have the solution for your weight problem. The sad fact is, most of them don’t work, and instead make you feel even worse.

#6

Short-term studies show that most diets work well in the short term, whether they’re low-calorie or low-fat. But these studies almost never last more than a year.

#7

The only two variables dieticians and diet books seem to be concerned with are the type and quantity of food we eat. The focus on dieting has created an entire industry around it, with hundreds of diets that all seem to share the same broken dieting strategies.

#8

There is no diet that works for everyone. The best diets will tell you, as creatively as possible, that processed foods make you sicker and fatter, while whole foods help create leaner, healthier bodies. You have to gently reroute your eating habits to lose weight.

#9

The weight-loss industry constantly blames and pits diet plans against one another, but the fact is, most of them will only work if you stick to them. The reason they don’t work is that they don’t change our underlying habit formation system.

#10

The only way to be certain of changing your habits is to change them. If you’re going to try anything new, it should be the Mini-Habit method, because it has been proven to be the most effective