Thinner This Year: A Younger Next Year Book

Well written for the average person to enjoy.
Most of the information is common, but when presented in a certain way, I have found to be very inspiring.
I lost 30lbs in two months by reducing my sugar intake.

Not up to the standard set by "Younger Next Year." Although there are some interesting, actually alarming insights into the physiology of America's addiction to fast and convenience food, the material is scattered across alternating chapters and not developed in a cogent progression. Anyone who doesn't earn an upper middle class or higher income, with significant discretionary funds devoted to leisure activities, will be challenged to resonate with the author's affection for skiing, sculling and other similarly pricey exercise pursuits. As important as the message about proper diet and regular exercise is, I cannot recommend this book as the best way to get it...

Chris and Jen do an outstanding job of explaining the how and why of exercising and eating right. This book and the earlier Younger Next Year books are the cornerstone of a life-changing/life-improving/life-long process.

A book that entertains is very good. A book that entertains and helps you get fit
and continues on with the Younger Next Year revolution is priceless. Common sense suggestions but a lot of accountability is called for. You have to put for the effort but it will be worth it now and way in to the future. A very good read.

Before I bought this book, I read the reviews about the formatting. I'm thoroughly enjoying the book and I appreciate the formatting. The two authors take turns writing chapters, and because they each come from a different perspective, I think it works. Every day I read some pages; I'm taking it slowly because I'm enjoying it and I want to absorb all the information. I love Chris Crowley's humor, and because I haven't read other books in the series, all the stories are new, interesting and mostly funny. I gave the book four stars and not five because I have half of the book to finish and didn't want to presume that it's a five star hit. However, all roads are leading in that direction, and I look forward to continuing the journey.

Thinner This Year explains the WHY and HOW proper nutrition keeps our body and mind performing at our peak. I love the statement: Because we don't know much about Vitamins A, B, D and K, doesn't mean they are not important.
Thinner This Year is helping me to understand even better the connection with diet on our body and mind.....and thus, spirit!

Well organized and written. The evidence based science is extremely interesting and can be understood by people not in the medical field. Great motivating book to lose weight the correct life changing way! Really puts the "Diet Craze" in proper perspective

Excellent, easy to read roadmap to a proven successful weight loss program through exercise & good nutrition! Anyone who is truly serious about improving their quality of health/life should read this well written book.

Cliff S.

Written in a very casual, chit chatty way, this is a great book to get you launched into a new approach to eating and exercise for all the right reasons. It's clear, makes sense, informative and the right amount of the " why" with the " how". Bottom line, just do it!

The real deal. Applied what I read, in conjunction to logging my eating a d exercise in myfitnesspal and I am down
22 pounds in 8 or 9 weeks. Strongly recommend if you are interest in a long healthy life.

I have found many interesting subjects addressed in this book. The two authors approach the subject from their own perspective but the bottom line is that they both address the same matters, good health and a longevity.

After reading Younger Next Year, I thought this would this would be similar,but this goes into much more detail about nutrition and exercise; an excellent continuation of what I had already started. I would definitely recommend it.

I was excited to see this author write another book about living healthy in the last third of our lifetime. Rather than discuss the material let me just say that I really like the motivational style which gets the reader to commit to action. I have been unable to lose 30 pounds and I now believe I can do it and I have a good understanding and roadmap to be successful.

Easy to read, easy to follow. I read "Healthy Next Year" and loved that book as it was so "readable". I have friends who recommended the book as I noted that they looked "fit and trim". Based on that book, I found That Thinner This Year to have the same readable style. Does it tell you things you don't know...no: exercise, eat right and exercise. The difference is the way the book tells you. I never thought that I would enjoy reading an exercise book but I did. I even downloaded the exercise program and am doing it daily. Holy Pushup Batman, it did influence me. I am recommending this book to all my friends.

More extensive information focused on the "Younger Next Year" concepts which builds on them in a more in-depth way. These two books have sure changed my life and although I haven't hit my weight loss goals as of yet, I feel 100% better than I did before I read YNY and started following the diet and exercise information. What I particularly find useful is that these books are focused on lifestyle changes instead of some diet or exercise program you follow for awhile and get off. Explaining along the way why it's necessary to take better care of yourself.

Great inspiration for those who need it. Explaining the why of fats detrimental metabolic effect and the power of muscle use and development to counteract that is awesome! As a family Dr I recommend Younger Next Year and will recommend Thinner this year to my patients as well.

I liked the tone of the author, he cited research to back his advice, all contributors to the effort are highly qualified and respected in their respective fields. The positive and encouraging feel of the book rings true with me.

I read Younger Next Year ages ago, and although I disliked the fanaticism of the author, the information was good. I even bought Younger Next Year for Women, going with the assumption the information would be different. It wasn't. But based on the solid content of the original book, I went ahead and read Thinner This Year. What a disappointment. The layout is confusing, the material the same old stuff we've all been reading for decades, and the author's opinions are stated as fact. That's dangerous.

For example, the author doesn't believe in supplemental vitamins and minerals. Supplements are "a scam." Not unlike selling three books full of the same material, under different titles. When I was in high school I had a good diet (my grandmother cooked), yet I started fainting dead away at school. I was anemic. And all the spinach, etc. didn't help. I was put on iron supplements and I was fine. Was that a scam? Just recently, my husband and I (both Southern California beach natives) found out we had bottomed off the charts for Vitamin D. Our diets are fine. We went on high doses of Vitamin D supplements and are back in healthy range. My cousin is with Doctors Without Borders and they use supplements like crazy. Third world children with scurvy are given Vitamin C tabs and are cured. So where does Chris Crowley get off saying we should only get our vitamins and minerals from food? (It's also stated, as fact, that vitamins and minerals are absorbed more easily through food, although the author admits no one knows how or why. So how is that a fact?)

The nutritional information isn't any different from what I used to read in Adelle Davis's books in the sixties. You can skip that part of the book if you, like me, have gotten suckered into buying it.

And the zealousness of the author is just unrealistic. How many of us can spend all of our time at spin class, go to the farmer's market for fresh produce every day, prepare our own food fresh at each meal, and so forth? And how many of us can afford spin classes eighteen times a day, a heart monitor, and all the other activities and devices we're told we "have to" have? Seriously. Some of us, even those over sixty-five, work and have families. We don't have "people" to take care of everything. Zealots and other fanatics scare me, and well they should.

I wish I'd just stumbled over Younger Next Year and never known the other two books existed, because it's rehashed information and, in the case of Thinner This Year, very poorly laid out and unpleasant to read.

Bottom line: If you want to lose weight, cut out the junk food, eat less in general, and exercise until you pass out. That's the gist of all three books.

Unless you are a superb athlete and quite thin, you likely need to read this book. It will help you eat better and develop a reasonable fitness plan. You have to start somewhere and this is a great choice to help you get going.

Chris and Jen do an excellent job of breaking down the fundamentals of nutrition in a way that is both alarming and entertaining. I can honestly say that this book and "Younger Next Year" have changed my life.

Mr Crowley's attempts at being motivational are merger at best. And I'm not quite understanding how it's really necessary to cycle 100 miles a day in order to maintain a healthy weight... (Plus who realistically has the time?!) I bought this book 3 months ago and I'm not more than half way thru it! It's a tough read! The nutritional information in the book is insightful & keeps me wanting read on...