Are you sick of going from diet to diet?

Are you fed up seeing yourself yo-yoing up and down the scale?

Have you had enough of starving yourself or even depriving yourself of foods you love only to gain all of the the weight back again a couple months later?

Are you tired of busting your butt at the gym, and not being rewarded for all of your hard work?

Or if you’ve had success in losing weight do you still feel miserable? Completely void of energy? Is your skin still a mess? Or even worse, do you feel depressed?

Believe me you’re not alone.

Eat By Design has developed as a model, based on biological reality viewed through a philosophical lens of logic and reason.  However, it is far from the only approach with similar recommendations for what is considered optimal fuel. In fact, many will recognize the foods as very Paleo-esque – meaning based on the food consumed during the Paleolithic Era and popularized by The Paleo Diet.

How is Eat By Design different from The Paleo Diet?

It’s time for a break from work, from school, and from the daily grind … but that much-needed time off can never be a vacation from reality, at least not without pretending that “being on vacation” means our lifestyle choices no longer matter.

The good news – there are some simple strategies that can help you have fun and, with little time and energy investment, keep up with many of your Life By Design action steps. You can turn your holiday into a health boost instead of a colossal setback!

The most important principle to understand is that Reality Exists. If something is important for the health of your body today, it will be important for your health tomorrow. It doesn’t matter whether you are carrying out your normal routine at home or lounging in a tropical paradise with the ocean at your feet.

Following last week’s Eat By Design Seminar several Practice Members have asked me to offer up a list of my favourite nutrition books.

And as I mentioned at the seminar, I too find it frustrating that there are so many diet and health books that continue to come out on a regular basis many of which completely contradict one another all written by seemingly intelligent and experienced “experts” in the field.  Unfortunately, this will always be true no matter what, which is why I thought it would be important for me to post this list to help you cut through all of the hype.

In no particular order, here are 9 of the best books about nutrition and health that have helped to shape Eat By Design in one way or another.