Why Your Last Diet Failed You (Reviews)

With so many diet books boasting about weight loss success stories, it.s a refreshing change to read Why Your Last Diet Failed You (And How This Book Won't Help You on Your Next One), which actually boasts about the weight-loss struggle.
While most traditional diet books bet on the fact that readers will shell out money for the slim chance that their plan is the magic one, Charlie Hills bucks this trend by actually writing an entire book about the fact that the magic just does not exist. When he sticks to a diet and exercises, he loses weight, and when he eats junk food and stops exercising, he gains. Crazy stuff, right?
Why Your Last Diet Failed You does not offer a "new and improved" weight-loss plan, and I cannot even say it offers anything new. Therein lies its charm, since Hills does not apologize for his successes and failures but chooses to laugh at the absurdity of it all--and then brace for the next dip on the journey.
— Lori West, Curled Up with a Good Book

"Why Your Last Diet Failed You: And How This Book Won't Help on Your Next One" is a humorous look at the diet book fad, following the author's own journeys through the ups and downs of the problems of his own diet, losing more of his mind than he did pounds. Also examining the American culture's fascination with being thin and shedding the pounds, it's a laugh riot from front cover to back.
— Midwest Book Review

"While this book may share a shelf with other diet books, it shares little else. And that, in my opinion, is a good thing. Hills's book does not try to capitalize on readers's potential insecurities. It does not try to promote any one diet or exercise plan. Nor does it try to sell: equipment, shakes, pills, or special foods. What it does do is speak frankly and honestly; from one dieter to another.
Hills uses a fine tuned balance of personal experiences, observations, analysis, facts, and figures to successfully argue his two points. His honest, witty, and at times sardonic, voice speaks to his audience. [...The book] is a fun and quick read. It will help its readers take dieting and themselves a little less seriously. And manages to teach a few things in the process.
— Rachel Boehm, Associated Content

"Author Charlie Hills [...] provides an entertaining and well-written look at his own struggles and successes with weight loss and the diet industry. [The book] offers a down-to-earth, satirical look at all the facets of weight loss. Overall, Why Your Last Diet Failed You is an impressive and entertaining look at an issue millions of Americans can relate to. [...] It is meant to be a humorous, Dave Barry-esque look at dieting and the weight loss industry.
— Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists

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