Personality Type Diet (Diet.com)

Dr. Kushner's Personality Type Diet, authored by Dr. Robert Kushner, and his wife Nancy. Dr Kushner is a well-regarded expert in the weight loss field, often consulted by various health authorities.

Dr Kushner expanded the Personality Type Diet into an online format at Diet.com. However this program is very different to your typical online diet.

Personality and Diet - The Missing Link?

Dr Kushner believes that our personality has a major impact on our attitudes towards food and exercise. This will come as no surprise to most of us! Every week another new fad or eating plan comes out, claiming weight loss miracles. Unfortunately most of us 'fall off the rails' for some reason or another.

• What if we had insight into why we eat like we do? Or why every time we start exercising we give up?
• What if we could find those reasons and fix them?

Maybe then, we could finally live a lifestyle that will result in sustained weight loss - and lifelong weight management.

Personality Types

The Personality Type Diet begins with a 70 question survey - designed to root out all of our fears, feelings, and attitudes - not just about food, but exercise, and other life skills. The outcome of this questionnaire will give you 3 different personality types: Eating personality, exercise personality, and coping personality.

When we completed the questions, our reviewers personality was Fruitless Feaster, Rain Check Athlete, and Self scrutinizer - surprisingly accurate!

Diet and Meal Plans

Your personality type will then form the basis of an entire eating plan - beginning right from when you subscribe. (Note that you can redo the survey at any time). The meal plans are good... quite do-able - they even include some fast food options as well.

Sample Meal Plan - Remember this diet is completely tailored to your personality type AND other factors like weight and age. This sample is not necessarily how many calories you might consume - but gives you an example of the kind of food (and recipes) available.

Highlights

The online program has a very strong emphasis on community, weight loss buddies, and support groups. You can quickly search for a weight loss buddy, based on your own criteria, or someone who has a similar personality. You can start or join a support group (where you live) - you can even become a weight loss "cheerleader"!

There are numerous resources available - all customized to your personality type such as Customized Meal Plans, Fitness Plans, Online Coaching by Dietitians, and Emotional Coping Strategies as well as a complete workout builder (drag and drop different exercises to generate a great video playlist). Also has a large original video library (recipes, workouts, etc).

Drawbacks?

The Personality Type Diet is excellent and highly recommended . It is free of any faddish ideas, and makes a serious attempt to assist you in gaining complete control over your weight. We all know we have to eat right and exercise, so why can't we just do it? Increasing research supports the premise that diets alone do not work. Factors like self-esteem, self-acceptance, and behavior change bring about permanent results (source).

The only drawback is that the tons of information on the site can be a little overwhelming. There are many things to look at and do, and it's hard to know where to start (you'll need to set aside some time).

Pricing

NEW:

Use Coupon code FREEDIET10 to obtain 10% off premium membership.

Initial membership and access to the Personality Type survey and some of the other site features are free.(see below) However, beyond this (to receive all the features) - you must subscribe to Premium Membership. Pricing for a year long subscription is quite reasonable (about $2.68 per week). Monthly pricing is more expensive at $39.90/month.

Try the Free Personality Diet Profile

Last updated 28 Jan 10