· You don’t have to exercise, although it will probably help. Suggested activities include painting, fishing and reorganizing your room, while lifting weights is noted as boring.
· Don’t count calories. That’s too tedious and laborious. Just make sure to eat about 100 calories per EATALL(TM) portion, but then again, who’s counting?
· Here’s some useful insight on how to prevent yourself from overeating at snack time. When eating out, take a few bites, then hopefully you will throw the rest away before you’re tempted to eat the whole thing. But if you do eat it all, don’t worry, just eat an EATALL(TM) portion within the next half-hour.
Near the book’s end, I briefly scanned the list of suggested foods such as paté, nut butters and spreads. After spending 100-some pages being told I can eat what I want, there’s no way in hell’s kitchen I’m making nut butter. Or eating half a pepper filled with cottage cheese, or salad with fish paté. Don’t play bite and switch with me, baby! While ice cream and sweets are also on the list, the authors note that you can eat cake, but you probably won’t want to. Why wouldn’t you want to, I wonder? Obviously, all that nut butter’s gone to their heads.
The authors claim the EATALL(TM) way is not a diet, because diets are bad for you. Yet they suggest the EATALL(TM) way can be combined with popular diets such as The Starvation Diet, The Grapefruit Diet or the Cabbage Soup Diet. And while they don’t necessarily recommend them, they propose you can use these diets successfully with the EATALL(TM) plan.
After decades of dieting, here’s a few things I’ve learned about how to tell if you’re on a diet. A diet will tell you:
1) when to eat
2) what to eat
3) that fast “waist” loss is easy
4) to change your already overtaxed schedule to accommodate the new plan
5) to cause disruption to your entire family
If it looks like a diet, if it sounds like a diet, if it tastes like a diet and makes me feel like I’m on a diet, it’s a bloody diet!
Disappointed as I was, I decided I couldn’t judge this book by its shallow content until I put it into practice. And in doing so, I discovered the EATALL(TM) way experience was much like the book. Bits and pieces of this and that scattered throughout, with nothing substantial to sink my teeth into.
Article comments
1 - carol
She complains about "preparing snacks all day". What's to prepare for a half cup of cottage cheese and a cracker? a piece of whole wheat toast? a piece of bread with a slice of cheese on it? a piece of fruit? a piece of leftover chicken? a spoonful of peanut butter? The real time consuming deal is preparing a full blown dinner, altho it can yield leftovers. maybe.
what's she preparing for snacks? fancy hor d'oeuvres? little danish finger sandwiches?
This complaint made her sound a bit dense, when it came to common sense. which she abandoned as she escalated her assault on the book into near hysteria.
2 - skinnierthanyou
you sound like a fat miserable person. Just wanted to let you know that your article put me off to anything you would ever write in the future. There is a way to critique people without bashing them.
I've lost so much weight doing it and it teaches you portion control so you can eat whatever you want to, but keep it within the 100 calorie range every hour. That's what skinny people do, and that's why they say they can eat WHATEVER they want, it's just you eat a huge portion and they don't. GET IT NOW?
3 - carfash
For a food addict as I am, this "diet" or plan is perfect for me. It takes no time to do the snacks and I know that in 45-55 minutes, I can have more. Cutting down portions to this extent of 100 cals per hour, helps the stomach to "shrink" and get used to smaller portions. I do interspace it with high and low calorie days and I seem to lose more from the high calorie days, but perhaps that's just me, as dieting is so individual anyway. I put everything on the computer and I'm very happy with this approach. I have learned from this plan to be aware, i.e., mindful eating, to be patient, to have better understanding on calorie content and portion control and that 100 calories will satisfy a person's (mine) to overeat."Each to his own, said the old woman as she kissed the cow." (old southern saying) OH, by the way, I think you learn more about any approach if you try it for more than only one day. In this plan, you need to record your daily weigh, daily fruit and vegetable intake and other details as per individual need.