The Slim Habit

Learn new Slim Habits and enjoy a diet-free, slim, healthy life

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Pub Date 29 Dec 2020 | Archive Date 13 Aug 2020

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Today, losing weight is not a health choice, it's a health necessity. Taking the decision to lose weight NOW could save your life. The real and present threat we all face is hitting people who have a weight problem disproportionately hard. Losing weight has become a health imperative for anybody with a weight issue. There has never been a more important time, a more pressing reason, to take the decision to lose weight. There is no time to lose.

Why should you choose the Slim Habit? Because it's not a short-term, 'quick fix' diet, but a permanent solution to your weight problem. 

The Slim Habit is about changing the habits that made you put on weight and learning new habits. By learning new habits you’ll lose weight, reduce the risk of becoming seriously ill, and enjoy a new, slim, healthy life. 

It’s time to take a decision, time to grasp the nettle and get serious about losing weight. There is no time to lose. The consequences of not doing so have always been high, today they are even higher.

Today, losing weight is not a health choice, it's a health necessity. Taking the decision to lose weight NOW could save your life. The real and present threat we all face is hitting people who have a...


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"We've never come across such an all-encompassing, holistic approach to weight loss'    GQ Magazine"

"We've never come across such an all-encompassing, holistic approach to weight loss'    GQ Magazine"


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Slim and fit body is really just a habit, a healthy lifestyle.

And all you need to know is well explained in this guide. Why you put on weight, how to prepare for changes, learn new habits, raise your food awareness, take right decisions, what type of exercise to take and how to get the best out of exercise.

A simple, achievable programme of things to do that will deliver the outcome you want - to lose weight, to be able to manage your weight and stay slim and healthy.

Highly recommended.

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A really great book explaining weight loss as a lifestyle change rather than a fad. I’m bored of faddy diets and money making weight loss plans and found this book a really refreshing change. It is set out in four parts, which is then broke down again into different categories making it really easy to make sense of. There is no difficult terminology and any words, phrases or ideas that are slightly more complex are explained.
I found the part about RDA’s and food labels really useful and will be nipping back into this book often to use them.
I would love to see if this actually works but as the book explains long term weight loss won’t happen over night, so we shall see

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With thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the copy of this book in return for an honest review.

This is a really good self help guide for anyone looking to make lifestyle changes to improve their health and lose weight. It has lots of achievable steps to a good, healthy lifestyle changes rather than a diet (which suggests something not so long term).

The book gives lots of the science behind why we crave foods, why we put on weight and how we can create new habits to help with weight loss.

The book is well organised and contains useful sections about exercise to try/foods to fit with a new habit and a section about interpreting food labels.

The Slim Habit is easy to understand and is definitely worth a read if you're interested in losing weight without faddy diets.

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This book was a different take on healthy eating (not dieting-this book stresses that this is a new way of life and NOT a diet).

I found it refreshing that this book detailed reasoning behind its advice and provided scientific explanations which makes it easier to follow and appreciate.

There is extensive information on the benefits of drinking enough water and getting enough sleep as well as describing how to change your habits for the better by understanding RDA (recommended dietary allowances) and portion sizes.

There is plenty of preparation before you embark on your slim habit so you are ready and not thrown in at the deep end.
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This guide is not a list of what you can and can’t eat, it is more like a guide to help you help yourself and I am very much looking forward to seeing the results.

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A good basic book that is an easy to read guide to a healthy lifestyle.
A lot of the information was what we should know about, but don't take any notice of, I liked the simple way it explained things. It's certainly not a diet book, but a change of life book, that gives you the basics of living a healthier lifestyle, and one that I will be taking notice of this time!
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The Slim Habit by John McPhie is enlightening about the issue of weight and food choices. One of the main reasons I like this book is the explanations for how our body functions to metabolize the types of foods we eat. The science of calories versus calories, good and bad fat, and the difference in carbohydrates was good information. Facts about how sugar and salt are used excessively in processed foods help the reader to be aware as they make meal choices. "It's all about balance" is so important and this book offers information about how to balance proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and other areas of maintaining good healthy food choices.
I think the theory of our evolutionary need for the amount of food and calorie intake due to the 'hunter-gatherer' concept was a bit overdone. Overall, the information in The Slim Habit is interesting, informative, and is very helpful!
Publication Date: December 29, 2020
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

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A great booķ for re-thinking your eating habits.
This book explains in scientific detail how our bodies respond to our 21st century diet and lifestyles as compared to our hunter-gatherer ancestors. I felt that the explanations were more helpful than in some diet books and the principles of changing habits seem far more sound than the weight yoyo-ing that tends to come with diets. It is based on targeting internationally recognised maximums of fats, carbs etc rather than calories or 'low-fat' foods.
There was too much repetition to my mind, but this may be a factor in this proof version and edited in the final version.

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This book is well written and provides excellent explanations of how your body processes food and the differences between the processing of protein, carbohyrates, fats and alcohol,

He goes on to tell us why certain items (e.g no-calorie sugar substitutes) are bad for our health, but unfortunately doesn't provide any evidence, so there are a couple of things in the book that I would like to see backed up by science.

He then discusses mindset and exercise, and introduces a form of intermittent fasting - eating 550 calories one/two or three days a week. Once the weight is lost, he suggests a good way to maintain would be a fasting day every week. There is plenty of evidence why fasting is good for the body (unfortunately he doesn't provide it, but you can research it on the internet.)

This seems quite a sensible, simple, and relatively easy method of weight loss. If you've struggled to lose weight before, this book might give you the information and impetus that you need.

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A really interesting book on diet/eating. Still a little complicated, but hey, if it were easy none of us would have weight issues!
Easy to grasp principles, that I will be taking forwards - no easy magic formula, and a few recipes or meal ideas would have been helpful, but definitely a thought provoking book, that will hopefully set me on a good course for sensible weight loss.

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What I loved about this book is that it's a really easy and readable book. It's not heavy or condescending. I found myself agreeing with much of this book and had a few light bulb moment where things just made sense! It's given me a good starting ground on my weight loss journey and I look forward to hopefully seeing the results!

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Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the early copy of this book in return for an honest review.
I really enjoyed reading this book. It explains your body's biochemistry in layman's terms and it calls out the duplicitous food industry for what it is.
I found myself making notes and I now think about how my energy supervisor is coping when I consider eating aded sugar.
I'm m only 5 weeks in following the Habit and I am 16lbs down. Thank you John McPhie.

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As a Type 1 Diabetic for over 30 years, I have been reading about nutrition forever. This is a short, condensed version that I think will help many people. For someone who has studied nutrition, it isn't a lot of new information, but many can benefit from this book. Well written, interesting, and easy to read, with a lot good guidelines. Tips on habits and preparation. A definitive book for health and nutrition.

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Well written, concise book does not bore.
It will surely feed you facts.I think that getting fit is more important than getting thin. Issue properly explained in this book.

⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars!

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The Slim Habit is a very interesting book. I liked that the author included easy to read scientific information behind losing weight. Usually when I read things like that, it is written in a way that you really do need a science degree to figure out what was even said. The author also included the amounts of sugar, carbs and protein that we should eat. In also recommending intermittent fasting, the author advocated for taking 1-3 days a week of eating a few hundred calories to help reset metabolism. The author also includes exercises. I would be willing to give The Slim Habit a try for 30 days to see if it works. Thank you to Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for the ARC. All opinions expressed are my own.

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Very interesting to read. You can really learn a lot from this book. Lots of great ideas and concepts to give you pause for thought. I’d definitely like to own the book and try following it through. Very handy tips

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The Slim Habit will give you help and guidance to finally learn and apply the skills for a lifetime of reaching and sustaining a healthy weight.

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John McPhie, the author of The Slim Habit* likes to find simple solutions to complex problems, using behavioural science. In The Slim Habit he looks at health, particularly the obesity crisis. He suggests the solution to losing weight is by changing long term habits, not through short term diets.

I found the first section about how the body works fascinating. It really made me realise how the food we eat impacts our body. And how when we start interrupting the processes we get into a negative cycle of wanting to consume more food that is not good for us.

However, I was disappointed with the habits section of the book. I know it takes effort and behaviour change to lose weight. But having just read how hard it is to break the negative cycle once you’re in it, I was expecting the book to suggest easier habits than the usual — more sleep, more water, more exercise, less stress and less food.

So if you want to understand more about how your body works in a simple-to-follow way, than yes this book will be a good read. However, if you’re looking for some new ideas to get you out of the cycle then this is unlikely to give you that spark.

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