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Summary: From Chunk to Hunk
Review: Fred Anderson does a wonderful job of making weight loss and health a simple thing. You can lose weight successfully without pills, diets, or any other gimmick. It is simple.... you need to burn more calories than you take in. You need to excercise and change the way you think about food. I have been on diets, OA, and tried just about everything you can imagine. Freds book has had a profound impact on me. I feel like I have been hit over the head and a light bulb has gone off. It is simple. It works. You just have to stop "trying" and do it!!!
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Summary: Fred exposes the dirty little "secret" that everyone knows.
Review: There are going to be a lot of diet experts that dislike this book. Fred Anderson is the real expert. He's a man who knows the reality of weight loss and faced the hard facts head on. He had diabetes and wasn't taking care of himself. He saw his future in a medical reality show in which a diabetic man had to have his leg amputated below the knee because of neglecting his condition. Fred made a decision at that point and didn't look back, throwing the snack cakes he was shoving in his face into the garbage instead. Thus began Fred's journey. Along the way, he found you don't need fad diets, diet programs, shakes, pills or anything like that to lose weight. He knew the dirty little secret that every fat person knows: If you consume fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight. It's not your genetics, it's not your "glands", it's "hand to mouth syndrome" and "sit on your butt-itis". He changed his way of doing things, beginning with excercise. He started treading water in a pool, because that was all he could handle. He was persistent and his diabetes symptoms disappeared in a matter of weeks. He also changed his diet. He didn't starve himself, he didn't count calories, he just started eating healthy food and stopped eating junk. You'd think this would be common sense, but it's not. Our society is so ridden with a victim mentality that allows people to lie to themselves and say that they don't have control over their weight. There are a dozens of experts (all with books to sell) to tell them that it's not their fault. It's their genetics, their "set point", the way they were raised, it's the fast food ads, etc. Fat people are great at deluding themselves and there's an entire weight loss industry that relies on getting people to believe that they can't help themselves. Fred proves it's all a series of choices. Every day we decide: Do I get out of the rack a half an hour early and take a 30 minute walk around the neighborhood or do I sleep in? Do I swing by the drive-through on the way home from work, or do I eat a healthy meal at home? This is not a diet book. It's a chronicle of his (and his wife Robyn's) internet weblog detailing their weight loss escapades. Along the way, he graphically describes the ways that obesity destroys one's ability to live life. As he loses weight, the tells you all about the things that thin people take for granted that he's able to enjoy once again. It's inspirational and a fun read, but it's not going to give you lots of wiggle room. Once you read it, there's no more excuses, you either make the decision to lose weight and get in shape or you don't. If you really want to lose weight, buy this book and leave the hucksters in the dust where they belong.
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Summary: Well written, but simplistic.
Review: My criticism is that he makes losing all of that weight sound much to easy. Basically, he is saying that "eat non-processed foods", and you weight problem will take care of itself. There is not one month, in that whole book, where he does not lose weight. He touches briefly on exersize, but I don't think he really tells the reader how had he worked. This is more of a motivational book, than a weightloss book.
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Summary: It's changing my life!
Review: Fred's book finally made me realize why I have had such trouble losing weight - I was doing all the wrong things (depriving myself, getting frustrated because I wasn't "perfect," etc.). I've started a new weight loss plan based on the concepts in his book ("Eat less, move more!" is my new mantra!), and so far I feel GREAT. I don't feel unhappy, starved, or deprived like I usually do when I'm on a "diet." I tell everyone now that I'm not on a diet, I'm on a healthy lifestyle journey. If you're looking to lose weight or just start a healthier lifestyle, this book is a MUST to read and own. Fred tells it like it is and remains an inspirational figure throughout. His positive writing style and humorous anecdotes will keep any reader engaged. Five stars!
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Summary: "Derivative" isn't enough
Review: I went through a Norman Vincent Peale/Tony Robbins/David St. Clair phase at one point, so I'd already basically read this book. Perhaps he meant to give credits, or is so saturated with the message that he forgot where specific analogies come from, but that's one of the pitfalls of self-publishing. So is repetition. The same "look-where-you-want-to-go" story about steering into a pole is told twice as if it happened to different people, making it seem likely that it never happened to anyone. It's a good synopsis of the standard motivational-speaker stuff though, which at this point is always derivative, and it does have what seems to be a true story laced into it. It was a good goal, I'm glad he got to it, love the before-and-after pictures, but there's no book here.
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Summary: it's real ...
Review: the back of the book says it all ... no bull. i read Fred when he was online and now i have the book ... if you want to really lose weight and are ready, this is the book for the inspiration. yay Fred!
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Summary: This is the book I pick up when I feel unmotivated
Review: Fred's no-nonsense reasoning, humor, and outstanding results make this book fun to read and effective in motivating the reader. Most diet books tell you to eat right and exercise. This one does that too but it helps you find where your thinking went off track, through a series of often hilarious, "aha moments" of self discovery. I've thrown out most of my diet books but this one's a keeper.
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Summary: It's about time...
Review: No gimmicks, no tricks, no pills, no fads! Mr. Anderson writes a book that WILL change your life.
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Summary: Two thumbs up!
Review: A friend lent me her copy of this book. I took it, figuring I'd leave it on the shelf for a few weeks and then return it, telling her I'd read it. In a fit of boredom one night I picked it up, started reading it, and was instantly hooked. I'd expected it to be one of those formulaic "This is what you eat, this is how you exercise" books, but it wasn't at all. I loved reading the story of how Fred lost 171 pounds and I took away more inspiration than I ever would have expected. My friend wants her copy back, so I'm going to go buy my own right now!
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Summary: an obvious mentor not mentioned!
Review: Fred! I really liked your book, I gave it to my husband as I really think it will help him to do what you did, what I am doing and what, whom I am sure it both of ours, mentor did---I read your book KNOWING that you have read works by Julia Griggs Havey! She is eDiets motvator and you write too much like her to have not read her works!
Your book is GREAT, don't get me wrong. I am sure you are going to help many men....but come on Fred....where did you derive some of your material?!
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