Summary of You Can't Screw This Up By Adam Bornstein: Why Eating Takeout, Enjoying Dessert, and Taking the Stress out of Dieting Leads to Weight Loss That Lasts

By Willie M. Joseph

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Adam Bornstein is a bestselling author who has consulted health icons such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, LeBron James, Cindy Crawford, and Lindsey Vonn. He offers a 6-week plan that allows you to eat the foods you prefer without counting calories or stressing macros, take-out options from the top fifty most visited restaurants in America, thirty satisfying, nutritious recipes for all meals, quick and easy meals, and effective workouts that can be done in as little as 15 minutes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: May 30, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223831990

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The wellness industry is built on a foundation of shortsightedness and conflict, with the focus on the body and rarely on the mind. This creates the perfect recipe for failure and frustration, as it adds more stress to life and makes people feel worse. The most important details in this text are that past diets have created a vicious cycle of guilt, anxiety, and stress, which can lead to overeating. It is important to step away from plans that make you believe that perfectly normal behaviors are mistakes or the core of an unhealthy lifestyle. The global health crisis is caused by a lack of understanding of how to make our bodies work for us.

To stop the madness, it is time to recognize that we have been given the wrong tools. The most important details in this text are the steps the author took to fix the paint on their lightbulb. They searched for solvents, vinegar, rubbing alcohol, and acetone, but nothing stood a chance against the paint. Three years later, they were having a disagreement with their wife and the paint came up. The most important details are that it is time to find a new tool to undo the damage of their dieting past and try something that leaves them feeling confident that they truly fixed the issue.

The biggest adjustment needed is one that takes away from strict rules and trades them for more effective tools. This book provides fitness and nutrition suggestions that fit your lifestyle, but also change the way you see yourself and improve your ability to conquer conflict. This book shares studies that explain better ways to eat, meal plans and food lists, and life-changing lessons from those who have mastered self-improvement. It emphasizes the importance of building a stress-free, confidence-inspiring plan to pull it all together, and encourages readers to abandon restrictive diet plans and rules. It is structured to meet the needs of each reader, with four main sections.

The book You Can't Screw This Up is a guide to help people make healthy living work for their busy life. It emphasizes providing a plan that's designed for real life, having an exercise plan that fits into their schedule, understanding why they still struggle to lose weight, creating a new framework that makes it easier to navigate the reasons weight gain feels inevitable, and feeling seen. It provides a blueprint that will help readers thrive in any situation, season, or scenario.

Part 1

So Easy It’s Hard to Fail

The most powerful takeaway from Tim Ferriss is that he asks questions that force people to think differently about a situation. He understands that when you feel stuck, the best thing you can do is not grind through but consider, What would it look like if this was easy? We are trained to think that everything must be a struggle, and the health industry thrives on making it seem that if it tastes good or feels good, then it must be bad for you. We don't think to celebrate an outdoor walk or a call to a friend. The perception of what it takes to be healthy is far from the scientifically proven foundations needed. To create new behaviors that last, it is important to expand one's comfort zone and look at the map differently.

This idea of making hard easy aligns with the psychology of behavioral change, which suggests that if one wants to develop a new behavior, they should make it so easy that it's hard to fail. Making the hard feel easy is the North Star of

Reviews for Summary of You Can't Screw This Up By Adam Bornstein

[Jessica Reed · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The summary was inaccurate - I frequently found errors like one sentence referring to "1 to 2 pounds per month" then "1 to 2 pounds per week" later in the paragraph. There were also several points where I think the summary may have misstated the author's point. I don't know that for sure, but based on the context, they sounded incorrect.