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To my beloved Angela.
May our perfect partnership continue to manifest miracles.
To the SANE Family.
Thank you for being the change we want to see in the world. You are taking the road less traveled and it will make all the difference.
To my father, Robert, and mother, Mary Rose.
All that is good finds its origins in your love.
To my daughter, Aavia Gabrielle.
We will create a SANEr world for you. I promise.
Inside that beautiful body of yours is a naturally thin person struggling to come outsomeone who can eat as much as he or she wants, does not need to spend hours exercising, and can still stay slim. You know people like that. Maybe youve envied them. Maybe youve wished your body worked like theirs.
Until now, youve been forever fighting against your body and your mind. Youve determined your worth by a number on the scale. Youve held yourself to impossibly high standards that do nothing but fester inside you and make you feel hopeless.
Get ready for a different approach.
With the Setpoint Diet, there will be no more exhausting fights with yourself. Im offering you a new approach that works with your body and mind to help you become naturally thin.
Can you imagine what that would be like? Just think: Never dieting. Never feeling like you must make up for nutritional sins. Instead, your body effortlessly burns calories all day long, rather than stores them as fat. You stop losing and regaining the same 20, 50, or more pounds over and over again throughout your life. You maintain a healthy, empowering weightand even enjoy some cheesecake or French fries every now and then without worrying about putting on any pounds.
Im here to tell you that you can be a member of that exclusive club of naturally thin people. In fact, Im handing you your membership card right now. I realize that it sounds too good to be true. But it is the truthand scores of scientific studies, plus tens of thousands of success stories prove it and you will have proven it for yourself less than 30 days from now.
You see, theres an invisible force inside you that is conspiring to cling to extra pounds, and it has nothing to do with calories, points, mail-order meals, cardiovascular exercise, or any of the conventional diet nonsense youve been fedand that has failed you over and over for most of your life.
Whats truly holding you backand what can permanently set you freecan be summed up in a word: setpoint. And its something you can control. When you control it, you stay naturally thin.
WHAT IS A SETPOINT?
In a nutshell, setpoint refers to the level of stored fat the body works to maintain by regulating your appetite and metabolism through your hormones, genes, and brain, regardless of the quantity of calories you take in or exercise off.
Setpoint also explains why you have such a tough time keeping fat off through traditional diet and exercise programs. Think of it as a clogged sink. What if your plumber came in and said the cure for the clog was to stop using your sink? Sure, this fixes the symptom (the sinks not going to overflow) but not the cause (whats causing the clog?). And who wants dirty hands for the rest of their life?! The cause of that clog is eating poor-quality foods and establishing habits that throw your fat-burning, appetite-taming hormones out of whack.
This plan is about lowering your setpoint in order to keep your body in a fat-burning mode 24/7. When this happens, you also KEEP those pounds off. Every day of your life, you will wake up in the type of body that you deserve and that has previously seemed impossible to achieve.
I know this is a lot to take in. But understand that we all have a setpointand thats what determines how thin or overweight we are LONG-TERM. Not calorie-counting or traditional forms of exercising. When you increase the quality of your eating, exercise, and habits, you lower your setpointand get your body to burn fat rather than store it.
Thats what The Setpoint Diet is all about. It removes the willpower, shame, and guilt from the weight and diabetes equation. It ends the frustration and the yo-yo dieting. It stops the painful and expensive health consequences of diabesity, and does it with a proven system that will set the naturally thin person inside you free once and for all.
You are going to learn science and strategiesand apply them to your lifethat are going to be radically counter to what youve heard before but are guaranteed to be absolutely life-changing. You will have to try some things youve never done before. You will have to let go of old beliefs about eating and self-incrimination over failed dieting and make the decision to create the body and the health you desire like your life depends on it.
And honestly, your life does depend on it. And you are worth it. Really, you are.
MY SETPOINT STORY
One of my earliest and most painful memories is watching my grandfather endure heartbreaking and completely avoidable suffering. He was a superhero to mea second-generation American with parents who spoke no English. He never graduated from high school, yet instilled in his four children the power of education. All four went on to get masters degrees or higher.
For all he achieved in his lifefrom earning respect in the community to raising a beautiful, brilliant familyhis superpowers could not help him overcome a supervillain that threatens more than one out of every four of us: diabetes.
When my grandfathers leg became septic due to complications of diabetes, he was rushed to the hospital. Surgeons advised that his leg be amputated to save his life. But he would not agree to this surgery.