A really interesting read about the authors own experiences with addiction and depression and the steps they found helpful backed up by studies/science. If I could give you one bit of advice right now, it would be to take all the energy you’re putting into fad diets and put it into becoming the most genuinely healthy version of you. It's Not a Diet concludes with a two-week reset programme to put Davinia's advice into action easily and achievably. For those who know of him and follow him, this book is a conglomeration of so much of his knowledge. This book will completely change your approach to fitness, your mentality, your lifestyle - just everything.

Learn how to keep weight off and live your best life through a series of health tricks from cold showers, to MCT oil, to ancestral eating. If you are interested in nutrition and/or the concept of bio-hacking then this book will interest you. Usually summing everything up with a few expletives to emphasize how much he really doesn't care about what you think. The best thing I’ve learned from James is the balance between training and life so I can enjoy both while chasing my goals.

It's written from the heart and as someone who has been ,and in many ways, still is where we all are. But that's not all he brings to the table, he is extremely knowledgeable and intellectual with regards to exercise and diet.

Found it hilarious that the mantra is to 'count chemicals, not calories', yet the suggested list of chemical sounding supplements to add to your diet would literally take you all your time, sourcing, planning and assessing. But I can promise that if you make even a few of these adjustments, your eating life will alter for the better in ways that you can sustain. I’ve followed James on social media for a few years and am also a member of the James Smith Academy.She spent tens of thousands of pounds on specialists and Harley Street doctors, trying the most cutting-edge therapies available, only to discover that the true secrets of feeling amazing are very easy and affordable.

Then a chapter dedicated to the author's rather unremarkable life story, and currently running through a chapter on why the different main stream diets don't work. Not a Diet Book mercilessly takes down every fad diet, workout and health drink you have been sold and instead explains [James’] mission to make understanding weight-loss as two words – calorie deficit. In 2002, World of Books Group was founded on an ethos to do good, protect the planet and support charities by enabling more goods to be reused.

magazineWhy stress causes weight gain How fasting makes you less hungry Why sunflower oil is unhealthy How cold showers can cut your carb cravings'If I could give you one bit of advice right now, it would be to take all the energy you're putting into fad diets and put it into becoming the most genuinely healthy version of you. James Smith is armed with every tool you’ll ever need to achieve incredible results – from dieting, training and staying in shape to identifying the fads, cons and nonsense that get int he way of genuine lasting progress. Having said that I did find a few good things in there, but mostly things I’ve heard before and in a lot more detail. Don’t set goals on a scale but instead in progression on amounts you can lift or distance you can run over time.