The Boredom Diet: Permanent Weight Loss as a Matter of Routine

Finally, a diet book that shows you how to stick to a diet long enough to make it work—permanently!

The Boredom Diet is based on the formerly fat author's own experience in losing sixty pounds and successfully keeping it off for thirty years. The title is taken from one of the book's central premises, which is that it is easier to eat less when food is boring and that most diet plans fail because they counterproductively force dieters to focus more attention on food and thus make food more interesting.

The Boredom Diet recognizes that the success or failure of an individual's attempt to lose weight has far more to do with the person's ability to stick to a reduced-calorie regimen than it does with the particular foods being eaten. The Boredom Diet addresses, from a layperson's perspective, the psychological, social, economic, and cultural obstacles that keep people from losing weight, and it provides readers with specific strategies for successfully overcoming those obstacles.

For example, The Boredom Diet reveals that a big part of the reason that so many of us are fat is that we are being systematically brainwashed into overeating. The Boredom Diet exposes the food pushers' tactics and shows readers how to de-program themselves.

The Boredom Diet is not a crash diet, and it is not intended for people who just want to lose a couple of pounds quickly. Rather, it is intended for people who want to lose a significant amount of weight and to make a permanent change from being fat to being thin. The goal of The Boredom Diet is to enable and empower readers to create their own individualized diet plans that they can actually stick to over the long term. Readers will learn not merely how to become thin but how to make being thin a normal, life-long, permanent condition.

Although it deals with a serious issue, and even cites some research, The Boredom Diet does not employ medical or psychological terminology or technical jargon. Rather, it makes its points in an easy-going conversational style that readers will find both clear and enjoyable.