Foodist: Using Real Food and Real Science to Lose Weight Without Dieting

In Foodist, Darya Pino Rose, a neuroscientist, food writer, and the creator of SummerTomato.com, delivers a savvy, practical guide to ending the diet cycle and discovering lasting weight-loss through the love of food and the fundamentals of science. 

A foodist simply has a different way of looking at food, and makes decisions with a clear understanding of how to optimize health and happiness. Foodist is a new approach to healthy eating that focuses on what you like to eat, rather than what you should or shouldn’t eat, while teaching you how to make good decisions, backed up by an understanding of what it means to live a healthy lifestyle.

Foodist: Using Real Food and Real Science to Lose Weight Without Dieting is filled with tips on food shopping, food prep, cooking, and how to pick the right restaurants and make smart menu choices.

Foodist is a manifesto about real food and real science that proves once and for all that sustainable weight loss is possible by incorporating fresh, seasonal—and delicious—ingredients into every meal.

If you picked up this book, there's a good chance this is not the first time you hoped a new eating plan would help you lose weight. Dieting is a popular hobby in the twenty-first century, and the result is typically a slow but steady weight gain over the years. Oops. Diets fail because they rely on willpower and restriction for achieving health goals, and ignore the reasons these tactics always backfire. Becoming a foodist helps you give up dieting forever and get on the real path to healthy, lasting weight control.

Foodist is an approach that actually celebrates food while taking you through the nutrition and psychology involved in eating well to help you move beyond the daily obstacles and bad habits that keep the tasteless, empty, and unsatisfying food-like products on your plate. Losing weight no longer has to be about sacrifice, deprivation, and willpower, and food will turn from something you fight into something you can actually love again. As Darya writes, "You don't need a diet. You need an upgrade."

Smart, accessible, and engaging, Foodist will help you tailor your eating habits to match your lifestyle and your food preferences, making sure the path you choose works for you in the short- and long-term. Not only will you permanently build healthier habits into your daily life, you'll lose weight and enjoy food like never before.

“Darya is my favorite kind of scientist--she finds the simple in the complex, the beauty in the chaos. If anyone will make you love (and rediscover) food, it’s her.” - Tim Ferriss

“In Foodist, Darya Pino gives the most sensible advice I’ve read about attaining and maintaining healthy weight without dieting. Her science-based approach tells you how to enjoy real food, make the best food choices, and not deny yourself the pleasures of eating. I recommend this book.” - Andrew Weil, M.D.

“I love this book! Darya shows us that a happier, healthier life starts with simple changes in what we eat and how we think about food-so simple anyone can do it.” - Jamie Oliver

“Darya Pino Rose shows that healthy eating can be enjoyable -- and that it must be to achieve long-term weight control. Smart, sensible, and entertaining, Foodist will change the way you think about food and health.” - David A. Kessler, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Overeating

“I always say that I want to grow up to eat healthy like Darya, except umm, I’m pretty sure we are close to the same age. I am so excited to now have my very own Darya guide. I am keeping this very close to me and watch out because I’ve learned some great tips. I thought I spent a lot of time in the kitchen before. It’s about to get crazy here!” - Soleil Moon Frye

“Foodist makes the entire category of diet books obsolete. You don’t need the “right” diet to lose weight. You don’t even need willpower. You need this book.” - Monica Reinagel, MS, LD/N, author of Nutrition Diva's Secrets for a Healthy Diet