One Potato Chip at a Time: The Fat Guy's Honest Diet Guide

By Charles Pluckhahn

The Fat Guy's Honest Diet Guide uses well-established, highly credentialed nutrition and exercise science (with authoritative sources included) to outline a simple, factual way to lose weight. At the age of 52, the author used the information contained here to lose 40 pounds, and to keep that weight off.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Snowden Road Books
• Release date: Feb 22, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869204820

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One Potato Chip at a Time

The Fat Guy's Honest Diet Guide

Charles Pluckhahn

Copyright © 2023 Charles Pluckhahn

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher.

Snowden Road Books—White Salmon, WA

ISBN: 979-8-218-33551-9

Title: One Potato Chip at a Time: The Fat Guy’s Honest Diet Guide

Author: Charles Pluckhahn

Digital distribution | 2023

Paperback | 2023

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Dedication

This book would not exist but for Thomas Harwood, one of my cousins, who provided encouragement and a brief critique at just the right time. Thank you, Tom.

And thanks to the L.A. Fitness chain of gyms for introducing its members, including me, to the Harris-Benedict equation, and for having the corporate integrity to correct a transcription mistake that I found, at material expense to the company and to the benefit of the membership.

Contents

One Potato Chip at a Time

Dedication

Preface

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Afterword

Appendix A

Appendix B

About the Author

Preface

C

ongratulations for picking up my book, and now your book!

"First you've got to get the facts. Then you've got to face the facts."

-Paul Cabot, founder of State Street Research & Management Co., which made Harvard University into the financial giant it is today.

This book will not make you rich or smart, but it will show you how to lose weight, and look and feel better. Keep going, and you will learn the facts you need to make the change you desire. It will not be easy, but it will be honest and straightforward: no gimmicks, no magic, no shortcuts, no evasions, no secrets – including the latest popular appetite suppressing drugs. (See Chapters 7 and 10 for more about that near-fraud.)

This book is built on well-established, old-school science and its application in the real world. Oh, and this is how I lost 40 pounds. It works, and you are going to see exactly how and why it does.

Don't tell me what I want to hear. Tell me what I need to hear.

That is what I aim to do here. What happens now is your call. But here you are, reading this. Please take it seriously. It could change your life. I did not write this book to make any money – hardly any books do. I wrote this in hopes that my experience, and the facts I picked up along the way, can help you, the valued reader who stumbled across this little guide.

Chapter 1

Santa, How Did I Get So Fat?

I

t's Christmas, and you are struggling. Your pants don't fit