The Personality Type Diet approach on Diet.com is a personality-based weight loss program developed by weight management expert Dr. Robert Kushner. This breakthrough approach recognizes that societal pressures create unhealthy lifestyle patterns and thus removes the personal blame so common among dieters. The Personality Type Diet helps you identify your dominant lifestyle patterns and then gives you pattern-specific strategies proven to cause weight loss and prevent the weight regain so common among other diets.
This approach has been used by hundreds of thousands of committed dieters on Diet.com as well as used daily at the Wellness Institute at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Clinically it has helped patients lose 15-20% of their body weight and keep it off up to a year or longer. As with everything in life, individual results may vary.
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Dr. Robert Kushner, author of Dr. Kushner's Personality Type Diet has treated thousands of overweight patients and has published more than 100 scientific articles on obesity and nutrition. Board certified in internal medicine and nutrition, Dr. Kushner has studied in-depth the life patterns approach to weight loss, which is based on more than 20 years of clinical experience and supported by a groundbreaking new scientific study.
From 2001 to 2004, he has been listed in Best Doctors in America and has become a noted national and international speaker. He is frequently quoted in the media and has appeared on such national television programs as Good Morning America and CNN. Read more about Dr. Kushner.
The Diet Personality Test is a 70-question test which is based on Dr. Kushner's 20-year clinical weight management experience. This test was validated by Dr. Kushner in a scientific study that was published as a research abstract in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in February, 2002. The test takes about 15 minutes or so to complete and determines your lifestyle patterns that cause weight gain. After completing the test, you will be given a three-dimensional profile of your Eating, Exercise and Coping Patterns, upon which your customized weight loss program is based.
The test was developed by weight management expert Dr. Robert Kushner, who is Medical Director of both Diet.com and Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Wellness Institute in Chicago. This test was validated by Dr. Kushner in a scientific study that was published as a research abstract in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in February, 2002. Dr. Kushner has had great success treating thousands of overweight patients using the Personality Type Diet approach. Many of his patients have lost over 20% of their body weight.
The Diet Personality Test takes the mystery out of your weight loss program. It focuses you on your dominant lifestyle patterns that have caused weight gain. Following Dr. Kushner's strategies, one pattern at a time, you can lose weight, gain confidence and motivation and take back control of what once was an uncontrollable problem.
We use the highest test score within each dimension to determine your 3 dominant patterns. If the highest scores within one category are identical, we default to the dominant pattern based on past observations and experience knowing which pattern needs to be worked on first.
| Eating Patterns | Coping Patterns | Exercise Patterns |
| Meal Skipper Nighttime Nibbler Convenient Diner Fruitless Feaster Steady Snacker Hearty Portioner Swing Eater |
Emotional Eater Self Scrutinizer Persistent Procrastinator People Pleaser Fast Pacer Doubtful Dieter Overreaching Achiever |
Couch Champion Uneasy Participant Fresh Starter All-or-Nothing Doer Set Routine Repeater Tender Bender Rain Check Athlete |
As you learn to make changes in your everyday life and manage your eating, coping, and exercise patterns, you will start to lose weight. Naturally over time you will see your Diet Personality Test results change, too. This is why we encourage our users to return and retake the test every month to see how much you have changed and in what areas. As your weight goes down, you should see your Dominant Pattern scores go down also.
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You can contact any of our experts if you have specific questions about your plan or when to move on from one phase to the other. Their forums can be accessed by clicking on their name in the top left corner of your homepage. If a private matter, you could instead send them a private message.
The underlying exercise philosophy of the Personality Type Diet approach on Diet.com is that we give each Premium Member personalized exercise strategies to safely advance their activity program to help them lose weight now and keep it off long-term.
Activity programs are customized to meet members' needs and vary depending on their Dominant Exercise Pattern. Activity program features vary from clipping on a pedometer and engaging in a regular walking program to doing stretching exercises, aerobics and resistance training to doing alternative activities such as Pilates, yoga or Tai Chi.
Our strategies give Premium Members the small action steps that can have a big impact on their health and their weight Đ and that can be enjoyed and continued for life.
Premium Members have access to the 4 Step Exercise Plan, located on the main page after you log in.
Your exercise plan is personalized to your Dominant Exercise Pattern from the Diet Personality Test. Your dominant exercise pattern has 4 proven strategies for you to follow that will convert this pattern into a weight losing pattern.
Since Diet.com is on the internet, you can easily access it anywhere! It is also a good idea to print out some of the exercise cards that can be found on Diet.com to bring with you and read over our "Dining out Guide”. Also, when booking your hotel, find one that has a nice-sized swimming pool or exercise room!
The 10,000 Steps Club is a way to motivate our Premium Members to take more steps daily by tracking their steps using a simple pedometer clipped to their belt. The long-term goal is to strive toward taking 10,000 steps daily. Premium members receive strategies so they can safely join the club!
The 10,000 Steps Club is a great motivator to most people because it encourages you to park your car farther away from the restaurant, walk to mail a letter or do more window shopping at the mall.
Pedometers or step counters are small devices that you wear as you go about your normal day. They count the number of steps you take each day, giving you an objective way to monitor your progress. They are especially recommended for people with specific Exercise Personality Types as they make being more active fun! Your Exercise Personality Report may include information about pedometers and how you can use them to safely advance your activity routine.
Your emotions or coping patterns are a major reason why typical diets fail. You may know what you need to do to lose weight but when your emotions or coping mechanisms get in the way, your program may derail. That's why the Personality Type Diet approach on Diet.com has 3 equally important dimensions to help you lose weight: your eating strategies, your exercise strategies and your coping strategies.
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