My Big Fat Greek Diet: How a 467-Pound Physician Hit His Ideal Weight and How You Can Too

by Nick Yphantides

Book Overview

In My Big Fat Greek Diet , Dr. Nick Yphantides teaches readers the powerful 7 Pillars of Weight Loss, which features medically safe, practical how-tos anyone can apply, whether they need to lose 10 or 300 pounds. Analyzing components of a variety of diets, Dr. Nick assists readers in customizing a weight-loss program to their specific needs and lifestyles. Topping out at 467 pounds, Dr. Nick was known in San Diego as a big man with a big heart. When...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785287744
• ISBN13: 9780785287742
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

My Big Hearted, Not-Fat-Anymore, Greek Saviour!

If you're sick and tired of diet rhetoric and at the end of your "diet rope" then stop everything and BUY THIS BOOK! I would add to not stop reading it until you're through, but I don't have to since you won't be able to put it down anyway. Dr. Nick's book, My Big Fat Greek Diet, is truly the answer to all of us diet junkies' prayers. It is rare to find a book that can tug at both your heart strings and your funny bone at the same time; that is vulnerable and revealing, yet inspirational and empowering all at once. For all this to come from a NON-Fiction book about a 467lb man who watches baseball for eight months and sips protein shakes instead of food...well it's a Greek miracle! Dr. Nick lovingly reveals every humiliating aspect of his journey to good health, and in doing so, he makes his readers a part of his sadness, despair, happiness and ultimate success. You finish this book wishing he were your doctor, and more importantly, your friend. His struggles and setbacks are beautifully intertwined with the triumphs he experiences, and at no point do you ever feel sorry for him. Instead, he instills a sense of awe and inspiration as you read about this gentle, compassionate man who slays his own dragons and wins the day (complete with a Princess)! As if this weren't enough, Dr. Nick continues his crusade for your health by introducing and explaining his "Seven Pillars for Weight Loss" in a manner that is anything but condescending and full of encouragement. Most importantly, it is realistic. You're not going to read about the 'magic pill,' the perfect diet or the exercise move that will fix your fat in seven minutes. In fact, the only product endorsement at all (if you can call it that) is for the YMCA! What he does offer is the kind of support and encouragement that so many of us lack and desperately need. He becomes your own personal champion, and it's because he walks the walk that you feel inclined to trust him, and not let him down. I can't begin to explain how refreshing it was to read a book that doesn't preach, doesn't ridicule and doesn't downplay the difficulties that come with finding a healthier path. This book is not simply a book about weight loss - My Big Fat Greek Diet is about the personal and spiritual growth that comes when you're shrinking the right way, for the right reasons. If you're serious about getting healthy, and wouldn't mind dropping a few pounds while you're at it, then add this book to your library at once! It will be the last diet book you ever read, and one of the best investments you'll ever make.

Great Book Especially For Male Dieters

This is a very motivational book. Nick's story is interesting, unique and well worth the price of the book by itself. But in Part 2 he gives the reader his 7 Pillars for success and that is a real bonus. For me it was great to have a book that speaks to guys more than gals. Even so it will motivate even the most die hard food addict regardless of gender. No quick fixes here, just good common sense. No elaborate theories or difficult to read, scientific language. If you need motivation to lose weight go out and get this book. You won't be sorry.

FUTURE #1 BESTSELLER

I have read every diet book out there. I have NEVER come across a diet book that tells a inspirational story of a DOCTER who has lost over 200 pounds. Dr. Nick speaks from experience, he's been there, he's felt the humilation of being over weight. In this book he gives you 7 steps you need to take before you start your journey. Like "LIKE YOURSELF". Not only does he talk about losing weight but he takes us on a journey of those 8 months he was traveling, saving a womans life during a Cubs game, seeing the aftermath of 9/11. He is NOW the Skinny man with the BIG HEART! It's a must Read for anyone who has ever struggled with his/her weight!

A sensible and entertaining roadmap for dieting success.

This is an unusually thorough discussion of the fundamentals of weight loss by a physician who successfully used these 'Seven Pillars of Weight Control' himself, and who communicates his theories in a concise and readable way. This is not a specific diet, like the Mediterranean Diet, but a step by step how-to book. I recommend this book to anyone, particularly those with previously disappointing result, as a scholarly and believable 'diet book.' He includes his own story and his frustrations and disappointments. There are some before, during, and after photos. I enjoyed his recounting of his personal story and plan to give some away at Christmas to some of my larger relatives and friends. Buy it, you'll like it!