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The Step Diet: Count Steps, Not Calories to Lose Weight and Keep It off Forever

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- Good, but confusing
I think that the idea behind this book is really solid, but one thing I don't understand. The book seems to imply that walking a certain distance is the same as jogging it, in terms of calories burned and fitness. Yet, if you read the Mayo Clinic guide to fitness, they say that jogging is three times better in terms of burning calories. So which is it ? I doubt if I walked 4 miles that I would see the same benefit as if I jogged it. Still, I recommend this book, because the basic concept is solid.

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- Learn how to walk off your weight !
"The Step Diet" is a compact 7 and 1/2 by 5 and 1/2" book that explains exactly how you can lose weight by walking and making small dietary changes. According to the authors the average American will gain a little bit of weight each year. You can prevent this gain by adding 2000 steps to your daily walking. To lose weight you add more steps and cut back on what you eat.
These simple changes can be made one at a time and add up to permanent change thats easy to incorporate into your everyday life.

The book teaches you how to determine your current average step amount and increase it week to week. There is also a chart to show how to convert other activities into steps so you can track all of your activities. Information is included on how to make minor dietary adjustments so you can reap the reward of a fitter, slimmer body.

Overall the book is excellent at helping the reader learn how to regulate weight through step activity. The authors do however confuse the issue with "megasteps". The authors help you determine your megasteps and then at the back of the book they list common foods and tell you how many megasteps each food is equal to. For example an egg will cost you approximately one megastep. praline ice cream about 6. This is just another way of calorie counting and really not needed in the book in my opinion.

Instead it would have been nice if the authors had included the number of steps you would have to walk to burn off certain foods. For example to burn up an order of small fries (210 calories) you would have to walk about 4,200 steps. This type of information in the book would have been great. But it's not included.

A pedometer comes with the book. As others have noted here I personally have and would recommend that others purchase a better quality, more accurate pedometer.

The book is linked to the americaonthemove.org website and its GREAT! A lot of information on walking for individuals or groups. You can set goals at the site. For example you can pick a trail like the Lewis and Clark trail which requires you step about 9,000 paces a day. Each day you record your steps and see visually how far you are on the map and your average steps, plus you can read about the area. What fun and its free!

Overall, the book is a "breath of fresh air" with it's focus on making small changes in eating and increasing walking activity (not killing yourself with intense exercise programs) to see big results.

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- Excellent Weight Loss Book..
This book is very good and a novel approach to losing weight. I think this book is especially good for the past fifty crowd. Its easy and fun. The pedometer that comes with the book is pretty cheesy..I would recomend getting a better one from a sporting goods store. Overall the book is well written clear, except in figuring out the mega-steps.. That could have been written a little clearer. Overall the book tells the truth about weight loss and gives a plan to keep it off. That is the problem...keeping it off. Much better than the fad diets that get the weight off but since they are so restrictive the weight eventually returns and then some. This book gives you the tools and knowledge to only have to get the weight off one more time and then know how to keep it off. Excellent book for anyone stuggling with obesety.

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- A great book on living a realistic active lifestyle
I have been using the principles of this book as I learned them from one of the autor's website for America On The Move. The ideas and concepts of energy balance work. I am a 37 yr old male with a wife, two kids and a busy career. I have lost 54lbs in the last 7 months. I have done it using the concepts in this book. Step counting is a great way to really evaluate a persons physical activity. The step diet book gives you realistic ideas on how to get more steps into our busy days and give you sound scientific reasoning why. The studies it uses are not some oddball never heard of study but real science based upon years of study of real programs that work. Before I read this book friends would ask me if I was using Atkins or South Beach. I would simply tell them I was using common sense, eat less move more.

I now average 15,000+ a day, it was not easy but I simply worked at it using some of the ideas to slowly increase my steps. I also cut back on my intake slowly. I am not restricted in what I eat but know it will cost me and I think if I want to pay the price.

I do not fully adhere to the mega steps concept in the book, it does get a little complicated I have a simpler approach. I do not feel weight loss is as simple as a math problem so I appreciate the idea but do not live by it.

The pedometer that came with the book I do not use I have a quality pedometer. I originally used one for less than $10 and found it to be very inaccurate so if you get serious do your homework and expect to pay $30-$35 for a good one. As far as the freebie you get with the book, it is better than nothing so use it but you do get what you pay for.

This book is all about lifestyle change which has been the biggest thing to me I am not on a diet I am changing my life.

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- Most helpful "non-diet" book I've read...
I am a nut for healthy, weight-loss information so when I came across this book, I thought I would try it out. It was the best decision I've made.

I've always worked out for maybe 30-45 min. a day, but I would sit on my butt the rest of the day. This book had wonderful ideas on how to increase your movement throughout the day, not just in the 30 minutes I worked out.

My other problem is that I like food. I could not get used to the idea of giving up the food I like in order to lose weight. I think the best part of the book is the idea that you need to cut back on your food intake by 25% in order to acheive weight-loss. I eat what I like to eat, I just eat a little bit less at each meal. I have tried this over the past two weeks and I have lost 2 pounds and I am confident that they will stay off as long as I continue to follow the plan.

The pedometer is a great way to pace yourself throughout the day. I set goals for myself such as getting between 6000 and 7000 steps during work. It's a great way to keep moving.

It is not a quick, weight-loss gimmick or diet. I call it a "non-diet" because the authors offer ways to change your lifestyle in order to lose healthy amounts of weight in a reasonable timespan in order to acheive weight-loss for life.

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