I wonder what Seth thinks about this one. The blurb says, “It gets your natural biology working for you – rather than against you, as it so often does – and has been endorsed by an unprecedented number of top weight control experts.” Also, it talks about your natural instincts and it’s designed by someone named Roberts who is a Ph.D. researcher at a major university. Lots of similarities to Seth’s diet so far.
The one irritating thing about it is that I can’t figure out exactly what the diet plan is. The information on the website is vague–I can understand this, if they give out the information for free, maybe they won’t sell as many books–but it’s a bit more annoying to see this vagueness in journalistic descriptions. For example, this article in the “Daily Beast” (?) basically advertises the diet without giving any details. What’s that about? Can’t the reporter buy the book, read it, and tell us what it’s about? Otherwise, what’s the point.
I’m not actually familiar with the Daily Beast; from its main page, it appears to be a news/celebrity site, sort of like Radar without the humor? I can’t tell if their article on the diet plan is an intentional plug–part of some advertorial system–or maybe it’s just that the reporter thought that readers would be more interested in a puff than in a description of how the diet actually works (beyond that it involves lots of recipes).
Yeah it sounds like a scam or at least junk.
If it is some fancy remake of the Instincto diet this doesn't bode too well…
I Googled the author's name and came up with the person linked below. By checking Amazon's book previewer, it is indeed the faculty member from Tufts. JLD is right, it sounds like junk, I just wouldn't think junk would come from a CV like this (no sarcasm intended, really). Andrew, when should we expect your book on sure-bets in Vegas?
http://www.hnrc.tufts.edu/1192109688818/HNRCA-
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The Daily Beast is supposedly a legit site.
It is run by Tina Brown, who used to be a big name in the magazine business. She ran Vanity Fair and the New Yorker — though not at the same time. This is her current project.
I've never thought much of her, based on what little I knew. But she's got the credentials and credibility to make something legit simply by putting her name on it.
Until it goes bankrupt, of course.
I haven't been able to find out much about the Instinct Diet. Not enough to have an opinion. I know of Susan Roberts, who is a respected researcher on weight control, but even respected researchers on weight control usually ignore the regulatory system involved. She probably does.
Well, I did Shangri-La scrupulously for six months and was still hungry. I did Instinct Diet for a day and wasn't. Five weeks later I'm down about 10 pounds.
It's reduced calories + a group of mechanisms to reduce hunger, some of which are well known (plenty of fiber, high-volume foods), some of which aren't (reducing variety).
I've been on The Instinct Diet for about 3 months now and I've lost 19 lbs. The book (easily checked out from the library or simply browse one at your bookstore) quickly discusses why we eat and what's wrong with traditional diets, then addresses how to overcome those issues. More than half the book contains recipes and there are a couple of sample meal plans. I quit following the meal plans after 3 weeks, but I'm still losing weight based on following many of the principles in the book. Essentially, the diet is high fiber but nothing is really off-limits (a downfall of many diets). I highly recommend it, mainly because this is the first time I've lost weight without feeling like I'm dieting (other than those first three weeks). The weight comes off slowly–I'm averaging just over a pound a week–but I've lost six inches from my waist. In other words, I know I'm losing fat. Look more into the diet and into Susan Roberts and you'll see it's not a fad or a hyped-up fad.
Our site have not yet heard of the Instinct Diet too. Can't really give a comment on it as it won't be fair.
The kind of diets that we think would be better would be something like the master cleanse or the alkaline diet. The raw food diet seems to quite popular as well.
From what Christine says, it seems like it is similar to the alkaline diet where it still seems like a normal diet. Would do more research on it and write an article about it on our site.