{"product_id":"the-yo-yo-stayed-down-robert-m-pill-9798988291794","title":"The Yo-Yo Stayed Down","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe common expression of the \"Yo-Yo Diet\" describes dieting using the metaphor of a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYo-Yo toy that goes down and then returns to the hand that started it. The idea is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat those that diet end up losing some weight, but afterwards typically return\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto the starting weight or even exceeding it!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, I describe my own Yo-Yo dieting experience, the journey of which lasted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabout twenty-five years. I also provide background information, beginning with how\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eour government and medical institutions have often worked against the will of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epeople, which is contrary to what is efficently expressed in our Declaration of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndependence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the chapter called, \"My Journey,\" after discussing my own experiences, \u003cstrong\u003eI brought \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eforth the idea that in order to lose weight, the fundamental principle is that you must \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003econsume less than your body burns! To maintain weight loss, you must consume about \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ethe same as your body burns.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf anyone can benefit from my own experience and find the discipline to take control\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof their own food consumption to not only lose weight but maintain it afterwards, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat would be a good thing, in my opinion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have found that being able to stick with a diet requires discipline. Establishing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eother daily disciplines has helped me in securing my own discipline of a lifestyle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich has enabled me to maintain a healthy weight after losing a significant amount!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning in January 1980, I started a Scripture reading schedule, which I have\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeen able to continue ever since. \u003cstrong\u003eThat discipline changed my life!\u003c\/strong\u003e Moreover, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have maintained a daily reading of the Jewish Scriptures, in both Hebrew and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnglish, as well as beginning my day by reading The Ten Commandments from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExodus 20 (the Hebrew is from the Leningrad Codex).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would recommend that anyone who wants to accomplish anything significant to have\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea special time to begin each day which involves a spiritual component, if for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eno other reason than to establish a disciplined approach to life, but also to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprovide a foundation of which to center its focus!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my opinion, having a discipline of reading the Jewish Scriptures every day is a great way\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto start the day. If you just can't bring yourself to do that, in my opinion, you are\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emissing out on a key spiritual component to life; but that is your decision to make.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoreover, if you don't read Hebrew, there are many good English translations you can choose from, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eincluding mine (on my website, https: \/\/www.the-iconoclast.org, I have the complete\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewish Scriptures available. The Hebrew is taken from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC), \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the English from the Jewish Publication Society version of 1917. I have changed some of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHebrew to correspond to the actual Leningrad Codex as well as the English, notes of which\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eappear at the bottom of my online edition, https: \/\/www.the-iconoclast.org\/resources\/tanakh\/tanakh.php.)!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegardless, in my opinion, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003elifestyle changes require discipline!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEstablishing a regular, daily discipline goes a long way in establishing other ones, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eincluding dieting!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert M. Pill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798988291794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert M. 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