The Busy Executive Diet

How to achieve your ideal weight, sharpen your brain and balance your mind

Non-Fiction - Health - Fitness
150 Pages
Reviewed on 11/14/2015
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Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite

The Busy Executive Diet is a nonfiction health and fitness guide written by Gabriella Kindert. The author is a busy executive herself and found that she was able to change her approach to food and nutrition in ways that did not interfere with her responsibilities and commitments as an executive. She acknowledges the extra stress executives may labor under, both as a result of their increased responsibilities as well as the unspoken societal pressure to look polished, professional and fit. Kindert was familiar with the endless cycles of dieting and regaining hard-lost weight, and she researched the subject thoroughly in her desire to understand how to obtain optimum fitness. Her book covers nutritional information as well as advice on how to incorporate exercise and stress-relieving methods into a busy executive’s day. Each chapter includes footnotes for those who’d like to continue researching her subject matter.

Gabriella Kindert’s nonfiction health and fitness book, The Busy Executive Diet, is not a diet book, and she’s quite adamant at making that point clear. What she’s offering to motivated readers is a sensible and eminently doable way to lose weight through eating natural, unprocessed foods, and she shows how you can make such changes a permanent fixture in your dietary regime relatively painlessly. I was most impressed with the scope and depth of the information presented in this book, and the footnotes she includes were very helpful indeed. While not an executive at present, I have been one in the past and appreciated the pressures she discusses as well as the ways she presents to make the inevitable meals out and relentlessly busy schedules less debilitating to one’s health. While the author has geared this book towards executives, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone who has weight, stress or health issues and has the desire to feel and look their best. The Busy Executive Diet is highly recommended.

Gracie Bradford

The Busy Executive Diet by Gabriella Kindert is about how to achieve and maintain ideal body weight geared towards executives in a high stress environment. Although directed towards executives, the advice can be used by anyone. There are seven rules for sustained weight and mind control, followed by a detailed explanation as to why one should adhere to the rules. Rule number one is to avoid processed food while rule number six is to never skip breakfast. The book advocates eating three meals and two snacks per day. There is a one-week sample meal plan at the end of the book. The author is an advocate of drinking one glass of red wine per day. There is a long list of examples of unhealthy processed foods that the author recommends avoiding. Natural and organic foods are advocated.

The Busy Executive Diet by Gabriella Kindert mentions throughout the text that it is not proposing a diet, yet the title of the book is the Executive Diet. The context of the book suggests a healthy eating lifestyle rather than a diet where a person eats specified food items over a given time frame. The author uses a unique approach to explain what an executive should and should not do to effect a healthy lifestyle. Words and recommendations are used that capture the attention of a busy executive. For example, “your diet is a bank account – good food choices are good investments.” Each concept ends with quick facts and key messages for the reader. The information is supported by scientifically based research quoted throughout the book.