The Thin Commandments Diet

This book has some very practical advice to help one stick to a diet of common sense. It helps you to figure out what works for each person's personality types and what triggers you to eat the wrong foods. Some very sound advice.

One reviewer called this accent "Yankee" I would describe it as Billy Crystal's character in Princess Bride on Zanax. So slow and stereotypically new Turkish that I had to fight to stay awake and focused. I suppose there are some good ideas, but most did not seem too unusual, though this is the first diet book I've read and I don't know how it compares to others in this genre.

This book is so motivating and has the best insight into the "whys" of not being able to lose weight. He has you looking into your past and present lifestyles and the way that you were raised. These things are so important to your attitude towards food right now. He will show you how to get control of these attitudes to reduce your weight. The author will have you thinking about foods in a whole different way by the time you get to the ends. It isn't a "diet" book, but a new way of thinking that will have you eating healthier and have you facing food with a whole new attitude. I have only read the book, not listened to it on CD so I can't respond to the voice issue. If the CD is so hard to listen to, I would recommend that you get the book and read it. It is well worth the time spent!!!

The author should have gotten a professional reader, his voice was highly annoying, and I did find that many times you were not sure where one commandment started and the last one ended, but otherwise there was some great practical advise.

Yes, the voice is annoying at times, especially if the listener is from the South. The reader has a Yankee accent. Otherwise, I listened twice to all 3 cd's, the whole book. It made sense. The information was not preachy like Dr. Phil's book. I obtained several good practices from this book.

I commend anyone who can actually endure listening to this author's voice, which is so incredibly grating that it almost sounds like a parody. If any book cries out for a professional reader in lieu of the author, it's this one. I'm giving it a 3 because he had some good ideas, but I couldn't stay with his voice for the long haul. It drove me mad, and not in a good way.

I was highly motivated by this book. It approaches weight loss in a different way that makes better sense than a lot of other books I've listened to lately. I would recommend this book to anyone who is dieting.