Chasing Diets: Stop the Endless Search and Discover the Solution

by Robert Ziltzer, Craig Primack

Now Updated with New Content!America is addicted to dieting. There are millions of people who are sick—sick of being overweight. These people have been chasing diets over a lifetime and are ready to stop their endless searching and discover a solution to weight loss. There are thousands of diets and tens of thousands of diet books; each month a new diet book comes out with new promise and new hope. They all fail sooner or later, leaving the dieter ever more hopeless and more discouraged. Studies of self-help diets usually show no greater than ten pounds of weight loss after one year. In truth, self-help dieting is a no-win venture. Self-help and “next best diet” approaches ignore the fact that obesity is a medical disease that, in most people, requires medical treatment. Doctors Craig Primack, MD and Robert Ziltzer, MD discuss the shortcomings of self-help diets, and more importantly show dieters how to find a weight loss program that works—for life! Founders of Scottsdale Weight Loss Center in Arizona, Drs. Ziltzer and Primack have worked with thousands of patients who have found that medical management is the essential ingredient to success. The four-pronged comprehensive weight loss program explained in Chasing Diets is designed to use all the tools available medical management, proper nutrition, activity and sleep, and education. Used together, these tools can empower people who struggle with obesity to stop the search and arrive at a solution for losing and maintaining goal weight.

221 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 15, 2019

Reviews

[Tara Brabazon · Rating 3 out of 5]

How amusing. These two doctors have decided that the only successful weight loss programme is - you've guessed it - one managed by ... ummm ... doctors. The strategies they offer are strong, but nothing new. Significantly, they don't address the one key variable that doctors cannot fix: an obesogenic environment.

Why has obesity increased so rapidly? What has happened to food? To work? To families? To leisure? To technology?

None of these questions are answered in this book. But if doctors can manage your weight loss programme, then the success rate is improved.

Yep. When in doubt, medicalize a problem and pretend that social structures do not exist.

[Robert J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Solid book, especially if you're in the greater Phoenix area

I have been a patient at Scottsdale Weight Loss for more than a year. I have lost about 60 pounds and maintained that level for nearly a year. I would recommend them t o anyone who wants to lose significant weight, and what is this book matches my experiences. My only criticism is how well this book translates any from the greater Phoenix area, where there are a number of locations with doctors in addition to the two authors. But if you live in another area, how do you find a place that works like Scottsdale Weight Loss?

[Kellie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great Information

I learned so much about weight loss. I recommend this book to several people while I was reading it.
The end felt a bit sales pitchy. But I would recommend this book to others who struggle, like me, with weight issues and obesity.

[Jennifer Caplan · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a pediatrician, I strongly believe in the power of prevention. And this book is all about preventing and treating long term medical issues, like diabetes, heart disease, and joint problems by aggressively treating the underlying chronic disease, obesity. The authors make a compelling argument, backed up by evidence, that the only way to lose significant weight and keep it off is to have professional help. I strongly recommend this book for anyone who has been struggling with weight issues, chasing diets to lose a few pounds only to gain them right back again.

[Nancy Comer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read!

Wow; it was worth the time to read why everything I have tried in the past 35 years wasn’t the Magic answer! The Lord never gave up on me and I have not either but now knowing that I had some unique and memorable experiences with my journey helps today and Amen is the answer as I can keep the faith as so many of us just need a bit more help on our journeys!