Dr Kushner’s Personality Type Diet

How your eating style affects your weight

The concept behind Dr. Kushner’s Personality Type Diet is not that your overall personality has any effect on the way you eat or your ability to lose weight. His book and diet program address those different types of personalities such as those who feel the need to eat healthier portions than are needed, the night time snacker and those who over indulge on fruits.

There are of course many other personality types that make up the diet evaluation as well as exercise personalities. All of these factors go into developing the diet program that is best suited to an individual’s needs.

Even after finishing the Dr. Kushner’s Personality Type Diet book I thought it was a rather silly concept to think that your personality and exercise type had anything to do with you ability to lose weight or any special dietary needs in order to lose weight.

I knew the need for exercise and lean proteins in order to develop a dietary plan that would utilize the metabolic system in the most efficient way, but I didn’t see how developing a diet based upon an eating or exercise “personality” would make it any easier to lose weight. Even once I began the diet I didn’t understand the reasoning behind developing an eating plan based upon my eating habits.

In spite of my misgivings about the affect of your eating personality on your ability to lose weight and maintain that loss, I followed the instruction in the Dr. Kushner’s Personality Type Diet book and the diet plan that suit my individual personality. I was one of those night time nibblers as the book calls them, but my habits were less severe than many people.

Even though I snacked a great deal at night, I didn’t eat much during the day. I thought I was doing great because my entire daily eating consisted of a piece of toast for breakfast and a piece of fruit for lunch. I never understood how I gained weight by eating so little, but while I was on the diet I conducted some additional research and discovered that I was making two very common and major mistakes: eating almost nothing during the day was slowing down my metabolism and eating late at night was preventing my body from burning off the calories I ate.

Once I understood why I had gained weight and was able to make the changes in those eating habits, it was easy to drop the weight. I found it very difficult at first to eat a complete breakfast and lunch meal and reduce the amount I ate at dinner, but once I developed a proper eating plan and limited my evening snack to something more nutritious than chips and cookies, the weight began to come up steadily and gradually. The exercise plan helped me to get my metabolism into the right gear so that I could not only lose the weight but keep it off.

It has been over a year now since I reached my goal weight using the Dr. Kushner’s Personality Type Diet, and though I have been tempted at times to return to my old eating habits, I have not done so. I look better, feel better, and have more energy to do things that I enjoy doing.

Review by Beth Campbell