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Title: The Tortoise Diet
Author: Patty Church
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Phyto Publishing
ISBN: 097735380X
$19.95
$23.95Available from your favorite bookseller
About The Tortoise Diet
Here is a collection of life-changing ideas that alter your eating habits forever. You get a series of training assignments, such as eating more fiber, jotting notes in a notebook (it’s surprising if you do this; how many meals last week did you grab in the car because you were rushed? And were they salads and water and a small burger or were they double-quarter-pounders with extra fries?) How much do you really drink? Is it one glass of wine (a small one?) or is it two big beakers a night? These things add up.
Some of the habits are really helpful, not only to dieters but to the poor eater; case in point, eating protein along with carbohydrates at each meal. I know someone who is skinny and always hungry. A hardboiled egg or a slice or two of meat with a starchy snack replaced his endless empty munching of cookies.
In the appendix are meal plans graded by how many calories. Not everyone should be eating 1100 calories a day, so it helps to know what constitutes a 525 calorie meal, for example. Here’s a 550 Calorie meal:
275 Calorie serving of whole grain, high fiber cereal, 8 ounces non-fat milk, 1 slice whole grain toast, 1 tbs no sugar all fruit jam spread, one orange.
Interesting; this meal is very high in fiber, and it isn’t particularly low in calories (300 and under.)
The author also gives hints on taming the craving monster, if you want something creamy (no-sugar pudding versus fatty ice cream, crunch–carrots or peapods versus chips.)
About the Author
Patty Church writes, “Because I am a Registered Nurse with a Bachelor’s Degree, you’d think I would have seen enough of the health consequences related to obesity to motivate me to lose weight.
Sadly, knowing something doesn’t always lead to the “doing” part, so despite my medical knowledge, I woke up a discovered myself at age 45 weighing 248 pounds. Seeing that awful number on the scale caused me to finally make the decision to figure out, once and for all, how to lose weight and keep it off. 
Incredibly, life has changed for me! I have finally discovered easy and workable “real-life” techniques for achieving true and lasting fat loss. Even more exciting, I’ve also learned to maintain my weight without starvation and while enjoying my life. For someone like me, a semi-professional dieter for most of my life, this is AMAZING!
My book, the Tortoise Diet, is the compilation of everything I learned while losing 120 pounds! In the book I present a series of step-by-step assignments, teaching the twenty-five habits I have found to be essential for weight loss success. By learning to practice these habits I was able to reach my target weight and body fat percentage! Whether you have ten pounds to lose, or 120 pounds, they are the key to improved health and permanent weight loss.”
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