JERUSALEM DIET, THE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　The Jerusalem Diet is a remarkably simple and flexible plan
that will transform your perspective on food, diets, and health.
You’ll rediscover how to relax and enjoy life, moving steadily
toward your ideal weight while still taking pleasure in the foods
you love.
　　SIMPLE: No expensive foods, supplements, or exercise equipment
required. All you need is a good digital scale, a calendar, some
basic food items available at any grocery store, and a willingness
to “lighten up”–physically, spiritually, and emotionally.
　　GUILT-FREE: This easy-to-follow plan frees you to stop counting
calories, agonizing over menu choices, and pursuing extreme
exercise programs. Instead, you’ll learn how to lose weight while
still eating the foods you love and enjoying life to the
fullest.
　　LIFE-CHANGING: The Jerusalem Diet reenergizes not only your body
but also your outlook on life. As you move toward your ideal
weight–one day at a time, one pound at a time–you will feel better,
look better, and live better.
　　Developed by a busy pastor who loves food and admits to a lack of
self-control when it comes to eating, The Jerusalem Diet is
designed to work for anyone who can manage to stay on a diet for
just 24 hours. If you want to shed pounds and keep them off–without
starvation, deprivation, or frustration–this is the plan you’ve
been waiting for.

　　Ted Haggard, the author of nine books
including Foolish No More!, is a well-respected leader whose
influence has been recognized by the Los Angeles Times, New York
Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, the BBC, and PBS, among
others. He serves as senior pastor of the 11,000-member New Life
Church in Colorado Springs, which he founded in 1985. Ted and his
wife, Gayle, are the parents of five children.

　　A BALANCED DIET (THAT INCLUDES FOODWE LIKE)
　　This book is for people who love to eat. This book is for people
who appreciate diet, exercise, and nutrition books but have a
deep-rooted problem with their humanity. This book is for people
who want to be healthy but are not willing to give up their
lives.
　　This book is for people who are willing to improve, but it’s got
to be easy.
　　It’s for people who like to smile. It’s for people who are okay
with looking the way they look while also aiming to improve their
health and appearance. It’s for people who eat ice cream in the
dark. It’s for people who sneak a Venti Mocha Frappuccino and then
do penance for three days.
　　It’s for people who live in perpetual guilt–or at least should
live in perpetual guilt.
　　Okay, I’ve been munching on my room-service lunch as I’ve been
writing, and now I am so full I can hardly sit up. Good thing it’s
an on-target day for me.
　　I wasn’t kidding about loving Jelly Bellies and french fries. Of
course I know if I eat those things in any way proportional to my
affection for them, I won’t feel very good. And they may kill me. I
might even stop enjoying them so much, and I would really hate
that.
　　So I’ve discovered a balance. I’ve discovered a way to enjoy
life, enjoy food, be reasonable about my health, and at the same
time maintain my work schedule and an energetic family and social
life.
　　THE TRUTH ABOUT ME: DIETS WORK, I DON’T
　　I am not overweight, but I could be. Both my parents were well
beyond a healthy weight. My dad died of a heart attack when he was
fifty-eight. When my mom died, she had diabetes, arthritis, and
numerous other diseases exacerbated by her obesity. If I want to
improve my chances of keeping my health and living my full life
span, I have to pay attention. But I’m weak. I’m undisciplined. I’m
not the perfect man on the cover of Men’s Health. I don’t have time
to live at the gym.
　　But after implementing the Jerusalem Diet, I’m not out of shape.
According to my doctor, I’m a picture of health. Given my love of
food, my enjoyment of sleep, and my fondness for lazy Saturdays
lounging in pajamas all day, I could easily be in trouble. Without
the ideas you’ll find in this book, I might be obese.
　　I need a diet that is doable, not for some highly motivated guy
who cares about the microbiology of digestion, but for me–an
average guy wanting to live a good life. I need a plan I don’t have
to think about all the time. I need a plan I won’t quit just
because I drive past a Wendy’s.
　　I was on the Atkins diet for a year–every day until noon. Why?
Because I have many business lunches and meals with friends. It’s
too hard for a guy like me to ditch 90 percent of the carbs. I like
bread. I also like pasta. I can live without them, but I can’t live
well without them.
　　I also failed at Atkins because of bedtime snacks. I’m like a
ten-year-old– I have to snack before bedtime. Usually it’s just a
bowl of cereal, but sometimes I like yogurt or a toasted cheese
sandwich or a plate of beanie weenies with bread and butter and a
cold glass of milk. This really messes up the Atkins plan.
　　Atkins works. I don’t.
　　South Beach works. I don’t.
　　The Maker’s Diet works. I don’t.
　　When I hear the health-food crowd talk about tofu burgers and
puréed yam soup and whole wheat udon, it makes my taste buds hide.
I start thinking that an early death really might not be that bad
after all. My taste buds scream, “We want pleasure!” And my
intestines cry out, “We want to be clean but not that clean!”
　　I know all about making and breaking resolutions. I have an
advanced education concerning commitment and failure. I’m a pastor.
I teach people that the ancient scriptures tell them to be kind to
one another, and they nod in agreement. Then, within a month, two
of those who nodded are in my office talking about suing one
another. I tell people that life will go better for them if they’ll
get up every morning and pray, and they are all for it. Some of
them will actually do it, some never will, and most will try and
stop and try and stop and try and stop. People are people. We are
the problem.
　　It’s the same with diet and health. We are the problem. Throw a
rock and you’ll hit a diet book that would really help you. Spend
ten minutes on Google, and you’ll have a wealth of nutrition
information to help shape your eating habits. You can get the
facts, but you might not be able to apply them. Those red Jelly
Bellies taste too good. (Who makes Jelly Bellies, anyway? They
should win a Nobel Prize for making a product that good ! ) Or, if
Jelly Bellies don’t do it for you, name your weakness. Ice cream?
Soda? French fries? Caramel corn? Chocolate?
　　Yeah, thanks to loads of diet-and-nutrition guides, we know how
to solve the problem of our eating habits. But we probably won’t.
Most of the solutions are too dramatic. Surgery might help, but it
hurts. Ow! And for me, most diets ask too much. They change our
lifestyles 100 percent too quickly, and we don’t have the time,
patience, or willpower for 100 percent change. So we lose weight
and gain weight; we exercise every day and then don’t hit the gym
for a month; we eat proteins and veggies and then buy stock in
H?agen-Dazs.
　　Does any of this sound familiar to you? I have a solution.