The Glutton's Diet : Eat, Drink and Get Slim

by Dean Yurke

Hello, my name is Dean and I love gorging on big meals, I love drinking wine and I love being lazy… but two years ago I was 50 pounds overweight because of this! Today I still love gorging on big meals, I still love drinking wine and I still don’t exercise for weight loss, but I’m now 50 pounds lighter and I’m healthier and happier than ever! With The Glutton’s Diet, I’m going to share with you the amazing true story of what I discovered by accident after I lost weight, without trying, during a nine day business trip to China. On that trip I spent most of my time feasting on delicious twenty course Chinese banquets, drinking far too much wine and being completely lazy. After losing weight by literally being a glutton, I was so shocked by what happened that I spent a year researching why it happened and then amplified the effect by applying simple psychological principles to my everyday eating habits. Over the course of a year I lost over 50 pounds and my total body fat percentage dropped from an obese 29% down to a slim 17%. My snoring stopped, my heartburn stopped and my blood pressure and cholesterol levels are now ideal – and all this without exercise. And the irony is that what I thought was a fad diet, turned out to be healthy, natural, ancient and for once in my life, a truly satisfying way to eat! Because so many of my friends and colleagues were blown away by the rapid change in my appearance, they demanded that I document my findings and this book is the result! So now I’m sharing my success story so that those of us in my previous position can learn how to win their own battle of the bulge! Cheers! Dean --- Forward by Dr. Robyn Barnes HOW OFTEN HAVE you heard that a wedding changed someone’s life? Well this is another one of those stories – but with a difference - I went to a wedding in Whistler BC last July and it has changed my life for the better and for ever. At the wedding I met Dean Yurke and his family. Instantly our children hit it off and were like old friends and almost as quickly us adults bonded – I was intrigued by how healthy and happy the family was and got talking about diet and lifestyle. Several years of putting myself as a single mother last, a stressful and very responsible job as chief medical officer of a hospital and yes the pounds had crept on with the excuse of “I will deal with that later”. End result I was tired, overweight by probably 40-50lbs, middle aged, worn out, lacked motivation or enthusiasm for anything hence did little! Less than a year later I have lost nearly 40lbs, have increased energy, need less sleep, am excited about my future, I have travelled from the Caribbean to the Middle East to talk about Happiness, lectured on weight loss and healthy living and completed a masters degree in international management. Along the way I have met the most amazing people, learnt to trust and believe in myself and know that life is worth living to the full. ALL this came from a simple conversation with Dean - when I logged onto the Gluttons Diet Facebook page and saw the before pictures that was me won – I recognized the after as the man and family I had met, but the before were aliens. SO I embarked on my version of the gluttons diet - simply dropping the “white carbs”, reassigning the feeling of hunger to a feeling of needing to go for a swim, and 4 days into it I was comfortable, no cravings - admittedly I still eat chocolate every evening and have an almond croissant for breakfast on a Saturday but the weight fell off, the compliments started piling in and now I even have staff at the hospital hiding out to try to see what I am eating! I have never found anything so easy to follow - I crave raw spinach and get quite grumpy if I don’t eat it every day! I do believe that different things suit different people and as a doctor urge everyone to check with their doctor first but this one is for me and I will never look back, Thank you Dean. Dr. Robyn Barnes

210 pages, Paperback

Published December 3, 2013

About the author

English born Dean Yurke moved to America to be a visual effects artist for some of Hollywood's biggest movie franchises including Star Wars, Avengers, Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean and Harry Potter, which is why he's kept awake at night with visions of witches and robots and monsters and pirates.

Dean lives in Northern California with his wife, two children and pet dragon.