Juli W. (juliW) reviewed The Spark: The 28-Day Breakthrough Plan for Losing Weight, Getting Fit, and Transforming Your Life on + 22 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
This book is written by Chris Downie, the founder of SparkPeople.com. He outlines the core SparkPeople approach to health and wellness, and also includes stories from members of the website. If you want a common sense approach to weight loss and finding balance in your life, then this is a book you must read!
Nada A. reviewed The Spark: The 28-Day Breakthrough Plan for Losing Weight, Getting Fit, and Transforming Your Life on + 1389 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Another diet book from the creator of the website www.sparkpeople.com. I do like it for the reason that it focuses on behavior modification rather than a list of rules about what to eat or not eat. The information is fairly basic - have a goal, break it into manageable steps, track your progress, etc.
Jennifer M. (mahappy) reviewed The Spark: The 28-Day Breakthrough Plan for Losing Weight, Getting Fit, and Transforming Your Life on
I have been a member of SparkPeople for several years and have not been able to really get it going in my life. reading the book has been great because I can look at it and take it really slow, which is apparently what I need. The website's creator breaks each component down into small steps, which is the same as the website, but less overwhelming. A really good read for someone like me who is trying to gain control of their life, diet and exercise.
Marianne S. (sfc95) -
This book to me was completely worthless, feel better about yourself, set goals and poof you will lead a better lifestyle, be thin have more energy...blah,blah,blah. If it were that easy. of course it has tremendous testimonials, guess what, I am not going to be pictured. I needed something to speak to lack of will power, poor planning, this was not helpful, to me I say skip this and get onto the Biggest loser series. To me it makes more sense and has a stricter approach, that is what I need, but not necesaryily what everyone needs I suppose. This appears to be a feel good book that lacks the actual skills needed unless you count fairy dust and a miracle.
