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The Rotation Diet
Lose those unwanted pounds and keep them off once and for all with an easy three-week diet.
The Rotation Diet’s unique and simple plan varies the daily calorie intake over a three-week period, leading to an average weight loss of 13 pounds. Users who have a great deal of weight to lose may drop up to a pound per day in week one.
When The Rotation Diet was first published, more than seventy thousand Nashvillians went on the diet and weighed in weekly at supermarkets. The results showed that the city became almost a million pounds lighter. This new, updated, and revised edition of The Rotation Diet offers a scientifically proven maintenance plan that requires only small changes to establish a permanently healthier lifestyle. There are tasty new recipes and menus based on USDA and HHS dietary guidelines, and numerous examples show how people who have changed their lives achieved success as they built weight-management confidence.
The Rotation Diet’s unique and simple plan varies the daily calorie intake over a three-week period, leading to an average weight loss of 13 pounds. Users who have a great deal of weight to lose may drop up to a pound per day in week one.
When The Rotation Diet was first published, more than seventy thousand Nashvillians went on the diet and weighed in weekly at supermarkets. The results showed that the city became almost a million pounds lighter. This new, updated, and revised edition of The Rotation Diet offers a scientifically proven maintenance plan that requires only small changes to establish a permanently healthier lifestyle. There are tasty new recipes and menus based on USDA and HHS dietary guidelines, and numerous examples show how people who have changed their lives achieved success as they built weight-management confidence.
401 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1986
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March 22, 2020
Pretty sure my mom bought this when it came out in 1986.
It sticks out in my mind as the first diet book I ever read.
It's interesting how perennially popular dieting books are and it makes me think of how our ancestors did not have the benefits of any such books but seemed to have fairly healthy diets (except in times of famine of course).
So our basic problem is that we have too much and the basic solution is to exercise some moderation, which all the fad diets probably won't change.
It sticks out in my mind as the first diet book I ever read.
It's interesting how perennially popular dieting books are and it makes me think of how our ancestors did not have the benefits of any such books but seemed to have fairly healthy diets (except in times of famine of course).
So our basic problem is that we have too much and the basic solution is to exercise some moderation, which all the fad diets probably won't change.
January 23, 2016
The only diet that really works
The Rotation Diet presents a healthy way to manage weight that also gives great ideas for keeping it off and learning how to eat properly.
The Rotation Diet presents a healthy way to manage weight that also gives great ideas for keeping it off and learning how to eat properly.
November 15, 2024
I am definitely interested in trying this after the holidays.
June 4, 2025
Lost the magazine article I clipped in college with this diet. Fast and “easy,” it always worked for me.
May 21, 2025
THE ORIGINAL BOOK FOR THIS LOW-CALORIE, LOW-FAT DIET
Dr. Martin Katahn is a psychologist, and director of the Weight Management Program at Vanderbilt University. In 1999, he revised his dieting plan as 'The T-Factor 2000 Diet.'
He explains, "When you use the Rotation Diet you alternate your caloric intake over a three-week period in order to achieve a dramatic, quick weight loss... Then, you STOP dieting. Weight loss has been so easy and so successful that you will want to continue if you have more weight to lose. But it is very important to the success of the Rotation Diet that you take at least a brief vacation from dieting. This brief vacation not only increases your motivation to succeed, it helps guarantee that you do not regain any weight when you reach your goal weight..." (Pg. 2)
He suggests that on "quick-weight-loss diets other than the Rotation Diet... your metabolic rate can slow down rather drastically... Research using the Rotation Diet... shows that... there is no reduction in metabolic rate... This means that ... [dieters] are INCREASING their ability to eat after the diet without regaining weight." (Pg. 3, 5)
He states that "you must make a decision to be absolutely perfect in following the Rotation Diet... I have more faith in you than you have in yourself!... I have faith in you and in the plan because the Rotation Diet is, first of all, so easy to follow... The reason I ask you to demand perfection of yourself, and to develop the frame of mind that keeps you striving for it, is that changing your weight is, in the beginning stages, one of the hardest things you may ever undertake in life... The secret of success lies partly in the attitude with which you approach the task..." (Pg. 23)
He says, "During each three weeks on the Rotation Diet, you aim for perfection... After all, you can't lose two-thirds of a pound a day without sticking to the plan very closely... As for the long term, it's balance and moderation, NOT striving for perfection, that will ensure success in maintenance." (Pg. 31)
He explains, "Certain foods have so few calories that you can eat them in unlimited quantities. They are called 'free vegetables.'" (Pg. 39) He adds, "Safe fruits do contain calories... For this reason, they can give you a lift when you feel low on energy." (Pg. 40) He also suggests, "I hope there is one thing I can persuade you to do during the Rotation Diet, and that is to give up drinking diet drinks for the entire three weeks... I would be willing to bet that diet sweeteners are keeping alive your yen for sweets and leading you to overeat." (Pg. 100)
He concludes, "The magical cure for obesity---everything I have said in this book, in fact, that leads to permanent weight management---can be boiled down to five little words: EAT LESS FAT AND WALK." (Pg. 147)
Dr. Martin Katahn is a psychologist, and director of the Weight Management Program at Vanderbilt University. In 1999, he revised his dieting plan as 'The T-Factor 2000 Diet.'
He explains, "When you use the Rotation Diet you alternate your caloric intake over a three-week period in order to achieve a dramatic, quick weight loss... Then, you STOP dieting. Weight loss has been so easy and so successful that you will want to continue if you have more weight to lose. But it is very important to the success of the Rotation Diet that you take at least a brief vacation from dieting. This brief vacation not only increases your motivation to succeed, it helps guarantee that you do not regain any weight when you reach your goal weight..." (Pg. 2)
He suggests that on "quick-weight-loss diets other than the Rotation Diet... your metabolic rate can slow down rather drastically... Research using the Rotation Diet... shows that... there is no reduction in metabolic rate... This means that ... [dieters] are INCREASING their ability to eat after the diet without regaining weight." (Pg. 3, 5)
He states that "you must make a decision to be absolutely perfect in following the Rotation Diet... I have more faith in you than you have in yourself!... I have faith in you and in the plan because the Rotation Diet is, first of all, so easy to follow... The reason I ask you to demand perfection of yourself, and to develop the frame of mind that keeps you striving for it, is that changing your weight is, in the beginning stages, one of the hardest things you may ever undertake in life... The secret of success lies partly in the attitude with which you approach the task..." (Pg. 23)
He says, "During each three weeks on the Rotation Diet, you aim for perfection... After all, you can't lose two-thirds of a pound a day without sticking to the plan very closely... As for the long term, it's balance and moderation, NOT striving for perfection, that will ensure success in maintenance." (Pg. 31)
He explains, "Certain foods have so few calories that you can eat them in unlimited quantities. They are called 'free vegetables.'" (Pg. 39) He adds, "Safe fruits do contain calories... For this reason, they can give you a lift when you feel low on energy." (Pg. 40) He also suggests, "I hope there is one thing I can persuade you to do during the Rotation Diet, and that is to give up drinking diet drinks for the entire three weeks... I would be willing to bet that diet sweeteners are keeping alive your yen for sweets and leading you to overeat." (Pg. 100)
He concludes, "The magical cure for obesity---everything I have said in this book, in fact, that leads to permanent weight management---can be boiled down to five little words: EAT LESS FAT AND WALK." (Pg. 147)
December 14, 2012
It was okay.
But, the foods on the list.... WE DON'T HAVE THOSE INGREDIENTS HERE.
So I think it's probably useless for me.
Note: Eating that few WOULD KILL ME.
But, the foods on the list.... WE DON'T HAVE THOSE INGREDIENTS HERE.
So I think it's probably useless for me.
Note: Eating that few WOULD KILL ME.
January 26, 2018
This diet really worked for me back in the day.
September 18, 2019
Best diet ever...easy...never hungry...Just great...
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