The Diet Detox: Why Your Diet Is Making You Fat and What to Do About It: 10 Simple Rules to Help You Stop Dieting, Start Eating, and Lose the Weight for Good

Even though we know that fad diets and cleanses never really work, why do we cling to them so strongly when we want to lose weight? Nutrition expert Brooke Albert has come up with the answer. We need to change not just the food we eat and the exercises we do but the way we actually think about those things. She stresses that a healthy lifestyle isn’t just for a month or until a certain point on the scale is reached but rather a life-long alteration.

Albert begins by looking at popular diets and explains why they don’t work and what they are really doing to your body. After that, she gives us a one-week kickstarter program that is easy to follow. This isn’t just a bunch of menus and lists of what you can’t eat but rather a comprehensive plan with a lot of advice and reasons behind your choices.

Next, she gives us her list of ten rules to follow. They include eating protein and fiber at every meal, clocking your meals, watching sugar, and indulging intentionally. The last may seem surprising, but she feels that it is important to remove the guilt from our food.
It is Albert’s down to earth, conversational tone that really makes this a good book. She explains everything to you like a trusted friend who truly wants you to succeed.