Books that helped you lose weight?

The heavy ones.

Shameless self plug.... My Weight Loss Story 40kg in 40 Weeks (90 pounds in 9 months) Without Exercise eBook https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Q6MA3P8

Books aren't really going to help you lose weight but joining a program will. I recommend TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) which has many local chapters across the U.S. and costs much less than Weight Watchers.

I've struggled with this a lot and wrote about being able to overcome it with "Healthy, slow.: How I lost 30kg in 5 years", back in 2020. It's a short pamphlet/eBook available at https://healthy-slow.onbrn.com

If you can't afford it, I'd be happy to give you the PDF for free.

Waiting for A Song of Ice and Fire.

There’s so much conflicting advice out there. Reality is: When you want to go from overweight to healthy, nothing beats calories in/calories out. Beyond that, like if you’re on project “visible abs”, tweaks might make the difference: you could go deep into the rabbit hole of insulin, anti-nutrients, etc. but then: what works for you, is probably different than what works for others, so there’s a lot trial and error.

That being said, the key to all of this is discipline and consistency.

So, for a book, pick one that you find plausible, entertaining (in terms of reading and in terms of trying the recipes and protocols), and that aligns with your lifestyle or the rate of change you’re willing to accept.

For me, I started with 4 Hour Body. This might not not perfect from today’s knowledge but I liked the way, Tim is presenting the material, his way of thinking and the pragmatic approach. From there on, and after seeing significant and fast results, I went down the rabbit hole and tried almost every “biohack” routine i could find.

Try a couple of books, then pick the one that you enjoyed reading the most and then mercilessly stick to it to the letter. That should help. If it doesn’t, try the next one. Not a single human being in history lost weight from just reading. Take action!

This is not a book recommend, but what an average day looks like in my life, having lost about 40kg over a several year period and maintained the same weight for five years.

I walk at least 2-3 miles everyday.

* Breakfast: 60g porridge oats - 240g with skimmed milk, cut up pear and honey, coffee * Mid morning: flavoured Greek yoghurt, coffee * Lunch: Wrap with cut up chicken breast, cottage cheese, celery, then roughly 100 calories of chocolate, coffee * Mid afternoon: egg, coffee * Dinner: Anything really. Just learn what average portions look like. Diluted juice, coffee * I don't eat after dinner until breakfast * I eat a lot of ice cream at the weekend

The art of computer programming. Put all volumes into a custom made box, and life that 100 times every day.

/j

Get a food scale and use Macrofactor for tracking nutrition.

Any book that preaches calories in calories out. Or any book that distracts you from eating.

I read The Hackers Diet[1], and it really helped, back at the dawn of the Internet.

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/