LIVE RITE - Diet Profile Questions

Mark your TRUE answers for the following (there are no right or wrong answers):

1 I’m not confident enough to be a real do-it-yourselfer; I’m very happy leaving difficult jobs to the experts.
2 It’s hard for me to face difficult tasks without support from someone knowledgeable and kind, who can give me feedback and encouragement.
3 When it comes to learning a new skill, I’d prefer to work with a flesh-and-blood instructor or teacher as opposed to a book or instructional video.
4 No matter what I’m undertaking I feel safer and more motivated when I have someone to coach me through unfamiliar tasks.
5 I don’t want to keep track of things like calories, weight, exercise and so on. I have too many things on my mind as it is.
6 I like working with people, but I also like to know why they do what they do. When I go to the doctor, have my car fixed, or hire a repairman to work on my home, I want to know exactly what he or she is doing and why.
7 I don’t like to work alone, and I don’t like being a subordinate. I generally work in teams where I’m the one who really understands what needs to be done and how the team should function.
8 I’m a natural-born leader. I like taking charge, because I usually understand what’s going on better than the people around me.
9 If money were no object, I’d much rather pay someone to give me a pedicure, do my hair, or decorate my living space than do the work myself – but I want to make all the decisions about how the job gets done.
10 I don’t have time or patience to perform every-day routine tasks; I prefer to hire help or delegate the labour for these tasks so I can focus on more interesting challenges.
11 I love figuring out complicated things on my own. I want to know how everything works, and I get impatient unless I get to direct my own learning process.
12 It’s frustrating for me to work in teams; when I’m trying to achieve a goal, I’d rather go at my own pace than have to coordinate with other people.
13 I love to get information (from books, experts, TV shows, any source) that explains how the world works in detail.
14 When I’m passionate about a subject nothing can stop me from learning everything there is to know about it. I’m almost obsessive.
15 If you gave me a choice between having an expert do something for me, and learning to do it myself, I’d almost always choose the do-it-myself option.
16 I’m highly self-motivated, and I don’t need to know every detail about whether I’m attempting. Just tell me some basic rules, leave me alone, and let me work!
17 I like simple, clear goals, and left to my own devices, I’ll attain them. Having to involve other people in any efforts frustrates me.
18 I like functioning in systems where there’s an established way to do things (for example: the schools system, a company, a family tradition, the military). I’ve earned individual recognition for excelling in such environments.
19 Give me a job, and I’ll get it done if you get out of my way.
20 If I believe in what I’m doing, I go straight into action without waiting for anyone else to come along, and I don’t stop until I’ve achieved my objectives.

“True” Scores: Circle your highest Score Group and then read the explanation from the Evaluation below.
1 – 5 (LI HS)
6 – 10 (HI HS)
11 - 15 (HI LS)
16 - 20 (LI LS)

L / H = Low / High
I / S = Information / Structure

From “The 4-Day Win” p 176 – Martha Beck


DIET PROFILE EVALUATION

(HI) HIGH NEED FOR INFORMATION
(HS) HIGH NEED FOR STRUCTURE
The “VIP” Archetype

Get any or all of the books on the “High Need For Information” resource list.
Connect to any or all of the systems in the “High Need for Structure” section.
Sign up for one or more of these systems depending on your resources/preferences.
Always remain the designer and administrator of your weight management plan.
Stay in your Watcher Self*. Continually connect to your inner power.
Keep yourself from backsliding.

(HI) HIGH NEED FOR INFORMATION
(LS) LOW NEED FOR STRUCTURE
The “Scholar” Archetype

Get any or all of the books on the “High Need For Information” resource list.
Read them. Compare information from different sources.
Decide what sounds sensible and appealing to you.
If you want any structure at all, connect to a “Low Need for Structure” system.
Better yet: design your own weight-loss process.
Stay in your Watcher* space as you learn.
Test every piece of new information.
Trust yourself.

(LI) LOW NEED FOR INFORMATION
HS) HIGH NEED FOR STRUCTURE
The “Apprentice” Archetype

Get weight loss ideas from friends, magazines, newspapers or TV.
Consider one of the “High Need For Structure” ones listed.
Choose one. Get connected. Read as suggested by your chosen programme.
Let the system you choose do their work for your benefit.
Your Watcher-Self* will tell you that apprenticeship is the way to mastery.
Apprenticeship will not last forever.
Your goal is to internalize and “own” the rules you are learning
from the system you have chosen.
Become an excellent apprentice.

(LI) LOW NEED FOR INFORMATION
(LS) LOW NEED FOR STRUCTURE
The “Explorer” Archetype

Get on-line. Ask trusted friends. See your doctor.
Find out which books and systems might work for you.
Any of the books on the “Low Need for Information” section might look interesting and useful to you.
Alternatively, you might enlist in one of the “Low Need for Structure” systems if/when it feels right to you.
Familiarise yourself with the rules.
Get going!
Stay connected to your “Place of Thinner Peace”* so you will know soon when something feels “not right” any more – in which case: revise, switch, find something that will suit your growing-self better.

P179 “The 4-Day Win”

*Watcher-Self – One of three inner rule-making and rule-breaking parts in each human being. The three are The Watcher, The Dictator, and The Wild Child. Manage these Three to work together for your good. P78

*Place of Thinner Peace – Your peaceful, safe and wonderful place where you go to renew your “spirit” and regain your confident purposeful and patient inner self as you steadily, and forever, move along your path to increasingly inner and outer congruence, beauty and self-discipline. P82

“The 4-Day Win” – Martha Beck


DIET PROFILE RESOURCES

HIGH NEED FOR INFORMATION - VIP’s and Scholars
All these books have websites check them out when you want to.

Ultrametabolism – Mark Hyman
8 Weeks to Optimum Health and Eating Well for Optimum Health - Andrew Weil, MD
The Way to Eat – David Katz MD
Eat More, Weigh Less – Dean Ornish MD
The South Beach Diet – Arthur Agatston, MD
The Sonoma Diet – Connie Guttersen
French Women Don’t Get Fat – Mireille Guiliano
The Zone Diet – Barry Sears
Pritkin Programme books – Robert Pritkin
Mediterranean Diet – Online information from various sources
Glycemic Index Diet – Multiple sources. See Christiane Northrup‘s online newsletter
(The Ultimate Weight Solution – Dr Phil McGraw)

LOW NEED FOR INFORMATION – Apprentices and Explorers
Choose a programme that looks Do-able to you, and Do It. Learn from your chosen advisors.

Dieting for Dummies – Jane Kirby, MD
8 Minutes in the Morning – Jorge Cruise
The South Beach Diet for Beginners – online
Get With the Programme – Bob Greene
Body for Life – Bill Phillips
Fat Loss 4 Idiots – online

HIGH NEED FOR STRUCTURE – VIP’s and Apprentices
Don’t be any system’s slave; choose one that works for you, not vice versa.
Any of these should be fairly easy to locate world-wide.

Jenny Craig
Weight Watchers (Weighless)
Overeaters Anonymous
Personal chef services
EDiets
(EATRITE)

LOW NEED FOR STRUCTURE – Scholars and Explorers
The Beck Diet – Martha Beck (The 4 Day Win)
Any buddy system – get some friends together
The Oprah “Spa Girls” plan – Oprah website
Online programme of your choice – pick anything interesting and try it
SlimFast– buy the shakes, follow the plan (Herbalife, Ensure etc)

From: “The 4 Day Win” p 180 – Martha Beck (adapted)