Buddha’s Diet

The Ancient Art of Losing Weight Without Losing Your Mind

De: Tara Cottrell, Dan Zigmond

Narrado por: Pam Ward

There's a lot you probably don't know about the Buddha. For one, the real Buddha was thin. And before he became the "Enlightened One", he was a pampered prince named Siddhartha. He tried starving himself in his quest for inner peace, but found that extremes brought him no closer to enlightenment. Instead, he sought a "middle way" between unhealthy overindulgence and unrealistic abstinence. The instructions he gave his monks about eating, more than 2,500 years ago, were surprisingly simple.

Fast forward to today. Cutting-edge scientific research tells us something Buddha knew all along: it's not what you eat, but when you eat that's most important. You don't need to follow the latest fads or give up your favorite foods. You just need to remember a few guidelines that Buddha provided - guidelines that, believe it or not, will help you lose weight, feel better, and stop obsessing about food. Sure, Buddha lived before the age of cronuts, but his wisdom and teachings endure, providing us with a sane, mindful approach to eating.

With chapters that ponder questions like "What would Buddha drink?" and "Did Buddha do Crossfit?", Buddha's Diet offers both an attainable and sustainable strategy for achieving weight-loss nirvana.

©2016 Tara Cottrell & Dan Zigmond (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Great eating guidelines and Buddhist history

I have adopted this idea of a "Buddha's Diet" and I have found success with it. I enjoy this idea of eating only certain hours of the day. The book went beyond that though. It talked about mindfulness, meditation, healing your relationship with food, and so on. I loved the Buddhist stories and the history. The narration was excellent and well suited for this book. Friendly tone. I highly recommend this book and diet.

Buddha's Diet has so much to offer

I listened to the audiobook version on a recent road trip, and I liked the narrator, Pam Ward. Her voice is perfect for this book, instructional and soothing with a touch of humor when appropriate without the preachy tone that annoys me in some health books.

This was also a short book- four and a half hours which I find is perfect for a road trip because well, sometimes we want to listen to music too not just read a book.

Much of the concepts discussed in Buddha's Diet just make sense. For example- No eating later at night (most of us have heard how hard that is on our digestive system). The explanations are straightforward without being snarky or condemning and there is plenty of room to talk about having the right attitudes. I learned so much about Buddha and how monks live (and why). Definitely a worthy ready to round out basics on nutrition and taking care of our bodies!!!

Great Read!

I really like all the great information I received while reading Buddha’s diet. I chose this book because I’m on the same journey as Buddha was. I’m trying to connect deep to my inner and spiritual life.

Definitely keeping me more mindful

It’s good to hear this book especially if you’re having a hard time with weight loss or emotional eating. I am Buddhist myself but never really thought about how Buddhism and food go together. This is not a religious book at all! Thank you for writing it :)

nice performance, not new info.

I found this book by accident online while looking for something else and saw it was free on audible, so I figured I'd read it. for the most part it was good, but the information is all stuff that, at this point, has been made time and time again. mindful eating, and timed fasting. (fit all your meals Into a 9-hour window) but I would recommend it still for a quick read on a diet that seems pretty easy to follow. :)

Great book funny at times even.

Loved this book. It's informative and funny at its times. Relating to everyday difficulty of buddhist diet in the western setting. Engaging to everyday life with helpful ideas to combine at your will.

Great way to put dieting into perspective

Great way to put dieting into perspective. I never really thought about eating at a certain time.

Simple and to the point

Entire audible is simple to understand and short and to the point. It hits scientific facts and gives examples in explanation.

Recommend this for anyone interested improving their mental and physical health

This book is great! It is the perfect balance of getting to the point and explaining the whys behind the point. Mind body soul is all cohesive and these teachings are very much about how to create an overall healthier and happier human.

As far as the weight loss goes- I have been making adjustments to my own routines and habits and already feeling better, and the scale is showing results within a few days.

Thank you to the authors!

Succeeds as a guide to time-restricted eating

This book contains some valuable content. For me, it succeeds as a diet book, offering a common-sensical guide to the theory and practice of time-restricted eating, filled-out with some discussion of sensible practices for weight management, mindful eating and so on. Then there is a bit at the end about Buddhism that seemed like a digression.

The most valuable content for me is the phased approach to implementing time-restricted eating as a lifestyle, and I consider this very valuable indeed. (The studies on time-restricted eating have been persuasive, but the “just do it” approach is all I’ve encountered, and that was unsustainable for me.) Some engaging presentation of how to time-restricted eating work, and common-sense diet advice—nothing new but nothing that seems off, either, just a relatively relaxed guide to healthful approach to eating. The comments about the Buddha and Buddhism seemed a bit off at times (to this long-time, possibly opinionated Buddhist), but that’s not really the focus of the useful first parts of the book, just an approach to presenting healthful habits. Despite the accessible presentation, most of the content is based on relevant recent science, and the studies are cited in notes for each chapter, a nice resource. There are also nice single-chapter summaries on habits (based on Charles Duhigg’s book), value of meditation and mindfulness practices and other techniques that might help with the behavior modifications needed for most of us to successfully adopt time-restricted eating.

At the end of the book is a brief summary of basic Buddhist beliefs, which seemed a bit odd in a diet book. Few substantive philosophies and religions are well-served by being crammed into a couple of chapters in a book focused on something else, in this case healthful eating practices. Given the diversity of belief based on the Buddhist canon (not acknowledged in this presentation), and extensive scholarship done on both the historical Buddha and the development of various schools of Buddhist thought, one might say there is some distortion here. Again this is probably not the focus of someone selecting a diet book anyway.

The reader had a difficult task. Some animation and expression is needed to hold the reader's attention; sometimes this seemed shrill and overdone, but the presentation was tolerable and helped keep my attention.