The Boredom Diet

About the Book

The Boredom Diet: Permanent Weight Loss as a Matter of Routine is based on the formerly fat author's own experience in losing sixty pounds and successfully keeping it off for thirty years. The title is taken from one of the book's central premises, which is that it is easier to eat less when food is boring and that most diet plans fail because they counterproductively force dieters to focus more attention on food and thus make food more interesting.

The Boredom Diet recognizes that the success or failure of an individual's attempt to lose weight has far more to do with the person's ability to stick to a reduced-calorie regimen that it does with the particular foods being eaten. The Boredom Diet addresses, from a layperson's perspective, the psychological, social, economic, and cultural obstacles that keep people from losing weight, and it provides readers with specific strategies from successfully overcoming those obstacles.

The Boredom Diet is not a crash diet, and it is not intended for people who just want to lose a couple of pounds quickly. Rather, it is intended for people who want to lose a significant amount of weight and to make a permanent change from being fat to being thin. The goal of The Boredom Diet is to enable and empower readers to create their own individualized diet plans that they can actually stick to over the long term. Readers will learn not only how to become thin but how to make being thin a normal, life-long, permanent condition.

Although it deals with a serious issue, and even cites some research, The Boredom Diet does not employ medical or psychological terminology or technical jargon. Rather, it makes its points in an easy-going conversational style that readers will find both clear and enjoyable.

About the Author

Michael W. Woodward is a tall, skinny guy who used to be fat. Raised in the dairy country of upstate New York, he holds a B.A. (psychology/literature) from Regents College, Albany, NY; both an M.A. in English and an M.Ed. from the University of North Florida (Jacksonville); and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Florida (Gainesville). A member of Mensa, Woodward now resides in Florida, where he practices law.