The Philosophers Diet by Richard Watson is a book about how philosophers talk about the best ways to lose weight as the front of the book quotes “how to lose weight and change the world”. Its a very funny and a very out dated book. It loves to say and mention multiple times even right of the bat into the book how to lose weight and keep it off which seems strange from a book about philosophers. They also like to talk alot about dieting books at the begining and how people only buy them becuase it makes them feel better about themselves, i thought it was silly and made a bit of sence but isn’t that why people by dieting books in the first place? it a basic idea of where to start like The Philosophers diet beacuse ive never met someone whos lost weight due to a book telling them so.
Really fat people seldom by diet books and seldom go on diet. Some of them are not very healthy, some of them have not quite serious problems, and some of them don’t care. Not one in 1000 of these obese think a diet book will help, so they don’t bother. Still there are always expectations, and my book could be one of them, too. (p,4)
I picked this quote because it kind of touches on a little bit of everything i was explaining. They mention how people make and write these diet books but people dont have any hope in them at all even after pouring their money into it. But it takes one good reason or situation or book to get someone in the right head space.