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About the Book
The Ten Meal Week is a very thin book. It has a free minimum price. It's currently free to read on the web, but if you buy it (even for free) you get free updates forever. If you really like it, you can consider buying another copy, paying what you think it was worth to you. For example, one fun thing (especially for me!) that you could do is buy it for free, and then buy it again for $1 for every pound you lost following the advice!
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I love food.
I love homemade food, I love restaurant food and I love fast food. I love many types of food, from many cultures.
I don't know whether I love homemade beef lasagna (a modified Jamie Oliver recipe) more than homemade mushroom risotto (a Marcella Hazan recipe, with all the stirring that implies). When I visit Vancouver, I don't know whether I prefer the spicy miso ramen from Kintaro to the bamboo charcoal ramen from Motomachi Shokudo–or whether I should just go to Guu Izakaya and order six of my favorite dishes. I don't know whether I prefer In-N-Out burger to CoCo Curry. I don't know whether I prefer the duck noodle soup from JJ Wonton in Victoria to the Singapore laksa from Kaya in Vancouver, or whether I prefer their Roti Canai to good Naan bread. I also don't know whether I prefer my homemade pistachio gelato to my wife's version of BAKE Japanese cheese tarts. I don't even know whether I prefer the pecan pie from Whole Foods to their apple pie or pumpkin pie.
I do know, however, that every diet I've ever seen would have a problem with me eating everything in the above list–let alone eating many of those dishes in the same week. Heck, the lasagna we make at home probably eliminates most of those diets singlehandedly, especially if you saw how much Parmigiano Reggiano my son adds to it when he "super cheeses" it.
Unsurprisingly, I've never been able to stick to any diet, even the ones (like South Beach) which worked for me when I was on them. I just love food too much.
Through the approach in The Ten Meal Week, I lost 21 pounds in 9 weeks, with no restrictions on what I could eat–just on when I could eat it.
About the Author
Peter Armstrong is the founder and CEO of Leanpub. He has over two decades of experience in software, including eight years as a developer at Silicon Valley startups. He founded Ruboss in 2008, and launched Leanpub in 2010.
Peter coined the term Lean Publishing. Lean Publishing is the act of publishing an in-progress book using lightweight tools and many iterations to get reader feedback, pivot until you have the right book and build traction once you do.
Peter is the creator of Markua, the Markdown dialect used on Leanpub. He is the author of a number of books, including Lean Publishing, Aphantasia and Programming for Kids. He has a BSc in Computer Science and Psychology from the University of Victoria, and he and his wife live in Victoria, BC.