Overview
The Ideal Weight Program is a highly effective weight loss and weight maintenance program. The program is designed by Stephan Guyenet, PhD, and Dan Pardi, MS, PhD. Dr. Guyenet is the author of the book, The Hungry Brain - A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. For this book, Dr. Guyenet interviewed 30 of the most cited obesity researchers alive today from around the globe.
This program is broken down into 11 mini courses, each teaching a critical element to success.
There are three diets in the program. The main diet is called the Simple Food Diet and it is designed for successful weight loss.
The Lean Maintenance Diet is designed for successful weight management after weight loss. The third diet, called the Flash Diet, is a more aggressive weight loss diet that is based on a protein-sparing modified fast.
Please view the mini course on each diet to determine if one is right for you. The program also includes How-to Guides for each of the three diets in the program, and a recipe pack for the Simple Food Diet.
Ideal Weight Program Mini Courses
Other Components of the Program
- How-to Guide - Simple Food Diet
- How-to Guide - Lean Maintenance Diet
- How-to Guide - Flash Diet
- Recipe Pack - Simple Food Diet
- Personalized “Protein Units” calculation
- Meals plans, Cheat Sheets, and Food Prep docs per diet
- Weight Insight Questionnaire
How-to Guides
Recipes
Resources for Our 3 Diets
Simple Food Diet (SFD)
SFD - Cheat Sheet
SFD- Food Prep
SFD - Meal Plans Week 1-4
Flash Diet
FLASH - Cheat Sheet
FLASH - Foods Prep
FLASH - Meal Plans Week 1- 4
Lean Maintenance Diet (LMD)
LMD - Cheat Sheet
LMD - Protein List
Protein Target
Your protein target per day (in grams or a “protein units” ) can be calculated here at the link below:
Protein Target (Units or Grams) - Click Here!Weight Insight Questionnaire (Coming Soon)
This questionnaire is designed to measure your opportunities for improvement in six key domains that affect body weight: your food environment, appetite, food reward (food seductiveness), sleep, physical activity, and psychological stress. We developed it for people who are interested in losing fat or avoiding fat gain. Please answer the questions below to the best of your ability. Results are free and you will not have to provide your email address or sign up for anything to receive them.
Program Creators
Stephan Guyenet, PhD
My name is Stephan J. Guyenet, PhD,and I co-created the Ideal Weight Program with Dan Pardi, MS, PhD. I'm a researcher and writer who specializes in the neuroscience of eating behavior and obesity. I have a lifelong interest in health, nutrition, and fitness that has guided my career. My research has been cited more than 1,700 times by my scientific peers and my general-audience book
The Hungry Brain has received an outstanding reception from researchers, doctors, and the general public. The Ideal Weight Program dovetails with the concepts in my book.
The Ideal Weight Program is an evidence-based system for sustainable weight management. This course-based program teaches you the science of body weight and eating behavior and translates it into simple, practical strategies for weight management. It offers three different diets based on your personal weight management goal - from rapid fat loss to healthy weight maintenance - along with recipes and meal plans to support it.
Dan Pardi, MS, PhD
My PhD work studied the connection between sleep, cognition and decision making, with eating behavior and weight control. Stephan and I met in 2011 at a scientific conference, and from that moment on, we regularly discussed the science of weight regulation and tactics for practical weight control.
For my own personal journey, I can truly say I no longer struggle with controlling my body fatness. Instead, I harness the factors determining fat regulation detailed in this program. We are proud to bring you this program here. We hope you find success by applying these principles and further developing your weight-control know-how and skills.