
OK, so bread isn't actually the devil. It is the
placeholder for what Bauer calls our personal devils. These are foods that
contain a lot of calories and are just too hard to ignore. The specific devils
vary from person to person, but identifying them and building a strategy for
weight loss that copes with these devils is the key concept in her book.
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Heather Bauer |
So people have devil foods. Some people have devil times.
And some people have devil situations. Devil foods are obvious. For me, that's
ice cream and M&Ms. I can't imagine life without them, so no amount of
dieting will be successful as long as I back-slide (calorie wise) with my
Costco bag of M&Ms.
Devil times are common, too. Many of us can stick to a
diet all day. We eat a responsible breakfast and lunch, congratulating
ourselves on our self control. Then we go home and BAM! all that food is just
lying there, calling to us. This is a devil situation. It is very easy to snack
our way from dinner to bed time. For some of us, the weekends are death to our
diets, or the holidays. But our will power rises and falls with the clock and
the calendar, to our peril.

Bread is the Devil provides tools for banishing these
various devils. There are chapters that help you identify your personal diet
devils and give you strategies for keeping them at bay. Like most good diet
books, there is a 21 day program with a structured path toward eating
responsibly. Of special note is the chapter on dealing with office parties and
dinners out. This devil visits pretty much every one of us at one time or
another.
Have you banished your diet devils? Click on the Comment
button and tell of about your exorcism!
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