Why Your Last Diet Failed You and How This Book Won't Help You on Your Next One (Paperback) Review

When I picked up the book by Charlie Hills, Why Your Last Diet Failed You, I thought, Great, yet another book on dieting. Then I read the subtitle of the book: "And How This Book Won't Help You on Your Next One". My thought on that was, Huh, well, at least he's honest.

Not only did I find the cover of Why Your Last Diet Failed You amusing, but I also found it honest, and that's what you're going to find inside the book. That is, essentially, what the very foundation of this book, yet another book on dieting, is all about: honesty, with a dash of humor, and it's calorie free.

One thing that stood out when reading the book is that Mr. Hills makes it clear upfront his isn't a miraculous weight loss story. He's never weighed 400 pounds, had a near death experience, or any of the other amazing and heartwarming stories we see in late night infomercials from people with whom we cannot relate. Instead, he's just a normal American human being, who, like the majority of Americans, has been battling the bulge and the "trampoline" weight loss and gain, and he found himself loosing the war.

Pros: Humorous, realistic, practical... this book will make you laugh, might even motivate you to lose weight, and even if it doesn't, provides enough entertainment value to make it worth the read.

Con: The book is a bit pricey.

Overall, I recommend the book for its entertainment value alone, but if you pick up some useful information along the way, all the better!

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Product Description:
Follow one man's remarkable 192-month journey as he loses seventeen thousand pounds and about half of his sanity. If you've ever embarked on a diet and failed, you might feel alone in a world seemingly filled with happy, smiling, thin people on late-night infomercials. Why were they able to eat all their favorite foods while the pounds melted away and you gained twelve pounds in three weeks eating nothing but carrots? If this paints your world, then this just might be the next book you need to read. The title says it all. You'll learn why your last diet failed you and find out exactly why it won't possibly help you on your next one. It's a humorous, semi-autobiographical commentary on weight loss and our culture's obsession with the topic. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll put it in your next garage sale.

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