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A review by zhelana
Mini Habits for Weight Loss: Stop Dieting. Form New Habits. Change Your Lifestyle Without Suffering. by Stephen Guise
3.0
I like to write a review as I finish each book, but I'm not sure I've given this book enough time to really decide if it works. I know from experience that the mini habits techniques work to change my life, but I'm not sure it's actually going to change my weight.
For one thing, I've gained 3 lbs since starting to read this book. I'm not sure whether that is muscle weight from doing more push ups, or because I came from Britain to America and the food just isn't as good for you here and I don't walk as much as I did there (I lost over 20 lbs in the 3 weeks I was in England just because the food is better for you and I was walking a lot), or because I've added eating fruit to my diet but haven't really stopped eating anything else since I wasn't eating much else to begin with, or because I've cut back on Starbucks refreshers which have green coffee in them which is known to help weight loss. Or if I've changed my eating habits without noticing, like eating more fast food. Or if the whole grain bread I've started eating is actually more calorie dense than the white bread I was eating. Or if I just drank less water or more salt yesterday and thus was a little bloated today when I weighed in. Anyway there's a lot of things that could have gone wrong in the past week to cause weight gain, and most of them aren't the fault of this book.
The big takeaway from this book may be that i'm exercising wrong. 10 minutes of dancing a day is great, but Guise suggests that better may be 4 30 second sprints with 4 minutes in between them a couple times a week. And of course since it is mini habits, one 30 second sprint a day is better than no sprints.
If one assumes the goal is really to be healthier, rather than a number on a scale, then this book has probably helped me, though honestly I could have worked out the gist of it from the original mini habits book. I've started eating more fruit and standing up every hour as well as changing how I exercise at least some days of the week. We'll keep an eye on the scale and see if it starts going down again, or at least stabilizes itself
For one thing, I've gained 3 lbs since starting to read this book. I'm not sure whether that is muscle weight from doing more push ups, or because I came from Britain to America and the food just isn't as good for you here and I don't walk as much as I did there (I lost over 20 lbs in the 3 weeks I was in England just because the food is better for you and I was walking a lot), or because I've added eating fruit to my diet but haven't really stopped eating anything else since I wasn't eating much else to begin with, or because I've cut back on Starbucks refreshers which have green coffee in them which is known to help weight loss. Or if I've changed my eating habits without noticing, like eating more fast food. Or if the whole grain bread I've started eating is actually more calorie dense than the white bread I was eating. Or if I just drank less water or more salt yesterday and thus was a little bloated today when I weighed in. Anyway there's a lot of things that could have gone wrong in the past week to cause weight gain, and most of them aren't the fault of this book.
The big takeaway from this book may be that i'm exercising wrong. 10 minutes of dancing a day is great, but Guise suggests that better may be 4 30 second sprints with 4 minutes in between them a couple times a week. And of course since it is mini habits, one 30 second sprint a day is better than no sprints.
If one assumes the goal is really to be healthier, rather than a number on a scale, then this book has probably helped me, though honestly I could have worked out the gist of it from the original mini habits book. I've started eating more fruit and standing up every hour as well as changing how I exercise at least some days of the week. We'll keep an eye on the scale and see if it starts going down again, or at least stabilizes itself