In 1985 Harvey and Marilyn Diamond wrote a diet and lifestyle book. Today, 25 years later, “Fit For Life” continues to remain popular. Promising to change not just your diet but also your lifestyle, the book helps readers lose weight and create a new healthy lifestyle. The revolutionary New York Times best seller changed the way people saw diets; no longer were they just short lived, but rather they promoted a new way of living.
The diet focuses on a few principles. First being that there are two types of foods, dead and living. Dead foods are considered those that clog the digestive system and remove positive energy, which includes meats and starches. Say good-bye dairy products and meet your new best friends, raw fruits and vegetables. It’s a committment to bid farewell to some of your favorite foods, but in the end we’re positive it’s worth it— for our health and well-being.
Diamonds’ theory is the digestive system goes through three different cycles throughout the day. Without counting calories, they claim, if you follow the cycles and meal plans, the weight will fall off as well.
Part of the reason “Fit For Life” has remained so prominent among fitness books is that it promotes change. And to us, change is a good thing. Unlike the fad diets that give dieters a quick fix (Atkins, South Beach, Grapefruit diets), the “Fit For Life” plan is the diet that keeps giving back.
Since the publication of the book, Harvey Diamond has promoted the lifestyle change through infamous saying “Fit for life, not fat for life,” as well as writing numerous other diet/fitness books. This summer the transformation begins again as “Fit For Life” is being reprinted. And we know it’ll be worth giving up our ice cream for.
