Can I Have Chips?

Dieting. We all know how it works; you practically starve yourself for weeks on end and all you can think about the entire time is how hungry you are and how much you want that big bowl full of carbs. When you’re told you can’t eat something, it makes you want it even more. So you fall off the dieting treadmill, treat yourself, and the weight you originally lost piles back on and the yo-yo dieting continues. Whilst modern commercial diets teach you how to lose weight, they don’t tell you how to keep it off. Unless weight loss is maintained for six months, the time it takes for hunger hormones that are triggered by dieting to return to normal, the dieter may end up even heavier than before. Fed up with failing to stick to faddy diets for anything more than a week, Louise Graham researched the prevailing commercial diets and found little truth in them. Continued research uncovered the secret to weight loss: a diet rich in protein and low in added sugar and fat. Not only does protein compensate for the natural increase in appetite experienced by dieters, but the inclusion of carbs prevents the food cravings that sabotage most diets.

Where self-help diet books have previously told us what we can’t eat, Can I Have Chips? tells us what we can eat. The diet does not require the reader to buy unaffordable exotic foods and cook complex meals with inadequate kitchen equipment or space. Instead, the reader is encouraged to build meals around widely available foods which include potatoes, bread, rice, vegetables, eggs, milk, cheese, deli meats and canned fish.

“I want to show overweight people, whatever their background or level of income, how simple it is to lose weight long term. Sticking to a diet has never been easier when you can enjoy chips and other starchy foods. Our modern diet predisposes us to obesity, but that doesn’t mean that we are destined to be fat,” says Louise Graham.

Constructive, non judgmental and hugely positive, Can I Have Chips? provides readers with a diet that they can maintain long term, which is the key to successful, continued weight loss and weight maintenance. Brimming with delicious recipes and motivational statistics, Can I Have Chips? is an inexpensive easy to stick to diet which takes into account lifestyle and cultural factors. An unassuming guide to follow and easily incorporate into everyday life, the book also educates the reader on the psychological side to dieting; encouraging them to change their outlook on life, food and eating.

"It was an absolute delight to read this piece of work. I found it truly useful and practical, and easy to read and follow. The principles, steps and methodology outlined in the book are evidence based, and I personally practise them in my Multidisciplinary Specialist Weight Management clinic. One of the manuscript's powerful points is focusing not only on how to lose weight, but perhaps more importantly, how to maintain what you have lost, which is usually a challenging issue for those who genuinely wish to lose weight and maintain optimum health. "I would strongly recommend reading it." Nadim Haboubi MD FRCP, Chair of the Wales National Obesity Forum

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