Product Description

Lose weight without dieting, calorie-counting or using will-power. It's true! Allen Carr's eating plan allows you to enjoy eating, savour flavours and lose wight. You can: eat your favourite foods; follow your natural instincts; avoid guilt and remorse; enjoy the flavours of fresh foods; do away with digestive ailments; learn to re-educate your tastes; and, let your appetite be your guide. "Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking" has helped millions of smokers to quit. Now he turns his logical, common-sense approach to food. There are no dos of don'ts, only principles to follow that will lead to healthier eating, greater well-being and permanent weight loss.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2072 in Books
• Published on: 1997-01-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
The prime objective of this engaging scheme is not actually weight loss but enjoyment of life. You can eat what you want to, and feel better for it: an winning plan requiring no willpower. Carr (whose famous stop-smoking plan is based on similar philosophy) claims that the most overweight is due to the brainwashing of Western society overriding our natural instincts. Reverse the brainwashing and you can do what 99% of creatures on the planet do - eat when you're hungry and stop when you're full; eating mostly nutritious, healthy ingredients and avoiding the highly human trap of junk foods and refined sugar. (Kirkus UK)

Synopsis
Lose weight without dieting, calorie-counting or using will-power. It's true. Allen Carr's eating plan allows you to enjoy eating, savour flavours and lose weight. You can: eat your favourite food; follow your natural instincts; avoid guilt and remorse; enjoy the flavours of fresh food; do away with digestive ailments; learn to re-educate your tastes; and, let your appetite be your guide. "Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking" has helped millions of smokers to quit. Now he turns his logical, common-sense approach to food. There are no dos of dont's, only principles to follow that will lead to healthier eating, greater well-being and permanent weight loss.

About the Author
Allen Carr was an accountant who smoked 100 cigarettes a day until he broke the habit and wrote a series of bestselling books. He built a hugely successful network of stop smoking clinics across the world and is the author of The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, How to Stop Your Child Smoking and The Easy Way to Enjoy Flying. Allen Carr was diagnosed with lung cancer in the summer of 2006 and died in November of the same year. Many thought it likely that the years he spent curing smokers in smoke-filled sessions at his clinics must have contributed to this illness, but Allen Carr remained positive, 'Given that I am informed that I have cured at least 10 million smokers on a conservative estimation, it's a price worth paying.'

Customer Reviews

paul mckenna is better
i have read this book out of intertest after loosing 2 stone with paul mckenna.i have an interest in people and our relationship with food
i like the idea of intuitive eating,but then its says you shouldnt really eat alot of this or that,surely if he says follow your instincts about what to eat,saying what you idealy shouldnt eat is a contradiction? i mean with paul mckenna there is nothing at all you should be thinking about,no sugar or dairy,meat questions.just plain simple eat what you want and let the body tell yopu,how can your body be wrong.i have lost losts of weight and i dont eat alot of any so called junk food ,but if i really fancy it,i have it. i do think he has some interesting points and my husband stopped smoking thanks to his book,so he is helping people. but as far as the weight loss goes,i think Paul mckennas methods, along side his cd and excercises helped me better. others may disagree...the prove is in the pudding? ha ha

It does exactly what it says on the tin...
...although if bacteria won't touch tinned food, why should you? The man had the gift of cutting through the industry c**p; he showed the way with smoking and here he explains why you are eating the way you are, highlighting what you actually already know but won't admit to. That's not to say this is painful to read; on the contrary, it is easy (suppose it would be, really)and you find yourself on the path without knowing your feet are moving. That's the strange thing... I'm now a non-smoking teetotal vegan without ever really trying to be. Good job he never wrote 'Mein Kampf - the easyway!' Do I need Allen Carr in all areas of my life? Not to worry - I've got Allen Carr's 'No More Worries' on order.

Not sure what to think
I read this book because i read the alcohol one and it made me stop drinking even though I had no intention of stopping as I didn't have a problem with drink. I read easyweigh twice and the reasoning in the book rang true for a few weeks but then I found myself questioning a lot of the logic. I like the fact he goes against convention and tries to rid you of brainwashing but then he puts a load more brain washing in which can be confusing. I also like the fact he said that diets don't work as I've believed that for a long time, I also believe that eating when hungry and stopping when full is the best way to maintain a healthy weight but just saying do that and actually doing it are two different things. Most people I know are overweight because they eat emotionally and it's not that easy just to stop it because someone tells you to. I think people would be better off looking into the various books out there based on intuitive eating as a lot of them cover emotional eating. What I like about the easyweigh book is that now I really enjoy a fruit salad for breakfast, I find it so much more refreshing than a bowl of cereal. In fact I think I eat even more fruit and veg than I used to, I feel like I've regained my love of fresh fruit and veg. My open mind also helped me try juice on cereal which I really like and having boiled hot water instead of tea I find so much more refreshing (before these things would've sounded crazy to me due to convention). In fact I rarely have decaf. tea or coffee now never mind caffinated. I also no longer force dairy produce down me, I am milk-fat intolerant but made myself eat dairy to be healthy now I feel strong enough to not eat as much of it, although I have started to get calcium fortified juice just in case!! I still eat dairy if i fancy it as I'm usually ok once in a while and banning things just makes me want them more. I am also now more inclined towards a vegetarian option in the restaurant, I don't feel like I have to have meat every time but I still crave meat on occassion. The one thing I really do not like about this book is that even though it stresses that diets don't work ultimately it is a diet. Although you can eat whatever you want in theory, it still says what you should eat and what foods aren't so good which will make people feel guilty when they eat those foods which keeps people stuck in the diet mentality. I'm glad I read it but I'm going to take my favorite bits then dump the rest and carry on eating intuitively.