The Hot Sauce Diet: A journey of behavior modification [Paperback] Review

Hiding way down on the Amazon list, this slim paperback with a colorful genie-out-of-the-bottle cover is probably the best (most readable, most honest, most useful, most entertaining, most informed) diet/weight loss book to come along in a while.The extent to which Americans are obsessed with this topic is directly measurable by how often (and how high) "diet" books appear on the best-seller lists (not to mention "The Biggest Loser" reality TV).What does this say about us?The current #1 on Amazon is "You: On A Diet...," and then there's "Body Clutter" a few ranks below. And then there were Atkins, South Beach, and Sonoma... All to no avail; we are still getting fatter. Why? The short answer, as Lance Armstrong might tell us, is that "it's not about the diet."

"The Hot Sauce Diet" sounds at first like just another also-ran, jumping on the bandwagon of "fad" or gimmicky dietary concepts, but the very opposite is the case: the title is mock-gimmick, and the key message is a subversive one: that all those best-selling diet books are phony emperors with no clothes, and that the only thing that ever really works is exercise.

When it comes down to it, one's body weight is determined by a very simple arithmetic equation: In - Out (calories in minus calories out/burned), but the end result is a matter of extremely complicated behavioral psychology."The Hot Sauce Diet" addresses this paradox.The author plays along with the gimmick (pouring hot sauce on his meals) but it's clear that the main reason he lost 70 pounds in a year is that he suddenly started running 25 miles a week (which is about 3500 calories, or the equivalent of one pound... per week).And what was it that enabled this orthopedic surgeon-author to suddenly begin, and stick to, this vigorous exercise regime?Probably the same thing that enabled him to get into, and make it through 4 years at, one of the top medical schools in the nation: one of those habits of "highly-effective people" called "discipline," a habit which is not distributed fairly amongst the rest of the population.

In my own medical practice, as an internist, I consistently find that the reason obese people stay obese is that they just don't move (and then the bigger they get, the more difficult it becomes for them to move).Even when they do move, they don't move nearly enough. They have no clue how much "work" it would take to burn about 100 calories.And then they often say things like, "I walk a lot at work."Fast food and supersized meals are partly to blame, but the main culprits are TV, lack of education (on the basics of nutrition & caloric expenditures), and a deficiency of discipline (a/k/a laziness). We all saw the foot-high stack of chocolate chip pancakes that Olympic gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps consumed every morning (Lance eats the same thing).And one sees very few pot bellies crossing marathon finish lines.The truth is, it's not about the diet; South Beach or Rockaway Beach, Sonoma or Suffolk, Hot Sauce or Cinnamon... The key is to move, and the "Hot Sauce Diet" will motivate you and get you started.

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Product Description:
You need to lose weight, but how? It can be done. Ignore the Obesity Industrial Complex. The answer is within you.The Hot Sauce Diet was created and successfully self-implemented by a physician. This behavioral modification approach is described with honest simplicity and an injection of humor.


There is one caveat; you need to use a lot of hot sauce.


Enjoy your journey.

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