Science makes weight loss simple.
Lose weight, stay satisfied, and enjoy food — all at the same time!
Using over 20 years of research, The I Diet gets your natural biology working for you — not against you. We live in a fattening world, surrounded by fattening food, easy availability, and huge portions. Weight gain is not your fault, but it is within your control.
Learn how with The I Diet.
Hunger-free weight loss.
The I Diet shows you how to gain control over your food instincts, lose weight, feel satisfied, and live craving-free. It literally retrains your brain to prefer healthy foods.
This is the first genuine advance in weight control, based on cutting-edge, peer-reviewed science, not unproven fads. It is a transformational, easy-to-follow program for healthy, hunger-free and long-term weight loss — based on the neurobiology of how our brain and body react to food.
The Instinct Diet is a science-based program that understands and works with the natural human biology of weight regulation and food enjoyment.
THIS DIET HELPS YOU ACHIEVE:
- BEST average WEIGHT LOSS of any commercial program!
- NO PLATEAUS
- Eliminate HUNGER so completely you actually feel satisfied
- Control CRAVINGS — conquer temptation!
- Food so DELICIOUS — your friends and family will ask for recipes!
- Keep the weight off once and for all — it becomes INSTINCTIVE
The “I” Diet is a breakthrough:
A diet based on impeccable research. A diet where you never go hungry or feel deprived. A diet that’s completely healthy for you, grounded in the metabolic, genetic and psychological workings of the human body. A diet that shows how your hardwired food instincts that once ensured our survival are now driving us on the road to obesity — and how we can use those same instincts for permanent, healthy weight loss. This is a fat-burning marvel of a diet that helped the men and women pictured on the cover and inside the book lose 30 pounds on average in a few short months. Start The “I” Diet and be amazed.
The diet has been universally praised. From Jane Brody in The New York Times: “Perhaps the most comprehensive approach to eating for effective weight control.” From Women’s World: “Obesity cure!” From world-class nutritional researchers and scientists: “A real paradigm shift;” “wise guidance along the road to long-term weight management;” “an honest, straightforward and helpful guide.” And not to mention from Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr., who recommends the book to “anyone who has struggled with weight gain or obesity, and has given up hope. This diet will change their life.”
“Perhaps the most comprehensive approach to eating for effective weight control.”
Watch Dr. Roberts describe the iDiet
Her laboratory subjects begged her to write a book to share this hunger-free weight loss plan with the world. This is how it started.
What is The Instinct Diet?
THE INSTINCT DIET is the most science-based weight loss program ever designed. It’s a diet that genuinely deals with problems like feeling hungry or deprived. A diet unequivocally healthy for you, grounded in the metabolic, genetic and psychological workings of the human body. A diet where there are enough options so you can pick and choose what is right for you depending on who you are and the life you lead. If you love to cook there are delicious recipes to enjoy like Orange-Crumbed French Toast, Tuscan Minestrone, Cajun Cod and Chocolate Bread Pudding.
If you are too busy or hate to cook, there are tasty menus for simple meals that use ready-prepared foods from your local supermarket. And both omnivores and vegetarians are well served with a complete line of menus and recipes.
THE INSTINCT DIET is a diet that works, combining proven strategies from Dr Roberts’ research at Tufts – where volunteers lost 10 to 50 pounds and kept the weight off for at least a year – with other good proven research from around the world. The secret of THE INSTINCT DIET lies in understanding that we have just five built-in food instincts which are consistent in all research on these topics and observations of eating habits worldwide. Unlike other topics in nutrition where scientists frequently disagree, these five topics are remarkable for the fact that virtually every research study agrees on their importance. By bringing research from hundreds of studies together into one simple-to-understand program, THE INSTINCT DIET not only lets us understand the eating habits that have led many of us down the path to overeating, but teaches us how we can control the controls. The result? We can lose weight more easily, stay in control, and still enjoy the foods we love.
THE INSTINCT DIET not only lets us understand the eating habits that have led many of us down the path to overeating, but teaches us how we can control the controls. The result? We can lose weight more easily, stay in control, and still enjoy the foods we love.
To satisfy hunger, build meals around foods that are proven to make you feel full. To counter the availability instinct in our food-food-everywhere culture, learn to fight the Gulping Syndrome and why simple strategies like eating at regular times help actually cut hunger to make weight loss easier. Cope with cravings for calorie-dense foods with effective strategies, including the “I” Diet bonus treats without losing the pleasure of eating. And learn how to deal with the bookend problems of familiarity, with its powerful “comfort food” triggers and variety, which turns us into passive overeaters.
After explaining the five food instincts and how to use them to design your own weight control program, and a ready-made program for weight loss and lifelong maintenance, THE INSTINCT DIET includes a full range of weekly menus — for cooks and non-cooks, omnivores and vegetarians — and over 100 recipes. Throughout are dozens of new motivational and behavioral tips available in no other publication. For example, did you know that tapping your forehead is an emergency measure to quell a sudden craving?
So don’t follow your instincts — lead them. And discover a diet that will change your life.
Your Five Food Instincts
Dr. Roberts’ research has described 5 universal food instincts that control our eating behavior, and our weight.
Hunger
We need to satisfy our hunger. We like feeling full. We see this instinct in newborn infants, and we know this is not something they have learned; it is an innate need built into us to ensure survival.
Availability
We eat just because the food is there. And — here’s the thing to watch out for — we want to eat more when more food is there for the taking. This instinct is meant to protect us from famine, but in a food-rich world, it makes us fat.
Variety
We are instinctively attracted to a variety of foods, and we eat considerably more when we’re presented with more choices. This instinct helps us consume a broader range of nutrients to keep us healthy. But in a world of manufactured foods, it mostly results in eating more calories.
Calorie Density
We love to eat and we love food, especially when it’s loaded with calories. This is true in every culture, even if the specific foods vary between cultures. This instinct also helped us survive famine by fattening us up when scarce calorie-dense foods were available. The problem is, now too many of our available foods are calorie-dense, yet not nutritious.
Familiarity
We enjoy eating foods that are familiar to us. We associate these foods with feeling safe and comforted, and we have triggers that can drive us to eat them again … and again. This instinct protected us from eating poisonous foods, by biasing us to eat foods that were already proven safe. When you add availability, advertising, and calorie density, can you see how this could quickly cause problems?
It’s not your fault. Can you see how our modern food environment combined with our hardwired instincts creates a perfect storm of eating signals? Can you see how willpower alone is not enough to withstand all the triggers? iDiet provides the answer.
Endorsed by an unprecedented number of
top weight control experts.
About The Author
Dr. Susan Roberts
Author
Susan B. Roberts, PhD, professor of nutrition and professor of psychiatry at Tufts University, is an internationally recognized expert on nutrition and weight control. She is the author of Feeding your Child for Lifelong Health, as well as nearly 200 articles published in research journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and The Lancet. Dr Roberts lives with her family in Weston, Massachusetts.
Download a free sample menu from the book.
An important reason for the astonishing success of the Instinct Diet is that the menus are truly satisfying and also taste great. You don’t have to follow the menus if you prefer to eat your own food, but Instinct dieters learn that Dr Roberts’ menus are very special — providing exceptional hunger-free satisfaction so that you can lose weight more easily while seeing what really works for you. For comments on menus, take a look at the Amazon site and see many unbiased reviews!
There are wonderful menus for everyone in The Instinct Diet, whether you love to cook or never go in the kitchen, and whether you enjoy meat or prefer vegetarian meals. The menu below is just one “with-meat” example day showing how well you can eat when you diet the Instinct Diet way.