Book Review: The Diet Enlightenment

Product Title: The Diet Enlightenment

Author: Rachel L. Pires 

Price: $11.42 in paperback with free shipping for Prime customers on Amazon.com and available also in a kindle version for $8.49

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A copy of this book was provided to me by the author for free in exchange for my honest and unbiased review of the text.  

As I state in my small intro video... I do not like diet books, I am pretty bias against them because I do not like these fad ideas where if you eat only one way and limit yourself so extensively that you are in torture every time you eat... that it does anything positive to your life.

What I do enjoy about Rachel's book is that it is not a diet really....

You are not overwhelmingly restricted, the book is common sense...not limited and really is more about healthy and intelligent choices when trying to lose and maintain your weight.

What I like:

-Pires is honest, she is not a Doctor, she is not an expert, she is taking her experiences and her own personal research and telling the reader what worked for her after years of diet failure.  I like this honesty because a lot of diet books are not this way.

-Pires points fingers at the money making and sometimes dangerous fad diets out there including the Atkinson's diet...which I loathe. 

-She talks about paying attention to healthy choices, but also eating what you want to eat in moderation. Furthermore, she notes that just because it sounds healthy...does not mean it is the lower calorie option...she even features some pretty interesting examples.

-This is a book about maintaining a good calorie intake every day and managing weight from that perspective with responsible choices, not being too restrictive, and leading a healthy and active lifestyle...again...common sense, but she explains it in a detailed and easy to access manner.

-I love her inclusion of online resources to managing calories as well!

-Finally, I think her maintenance and journal chapters are really helpful.

Overall I found the book simple, easy, and conversational with intelligent and common sense advice on how to maintain a good weight from someone who tried all the fads and found something that worked.