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The diet book nobody would buy

29 June 2025
Adarsh Gopal

Mainstream books about diets, eating right and training are a weird beast.

They’re mostly self help books or meant to reinforce your bias or perspective.

A book that stays true to how an individual should eat will probably have chapters that read :

1. how to measure your food
2. how to log your food
3. how to make sense of the log
4. what kind of intervention makes sense for you given your lifestyle, goals, attitude and motivation levels
5. how and when to shop for ingredients
6. how to figure out how much energy you need to consume based on your weight, height, body composition, goals and lifestyle
7. how to match energy intake to actual foods based on varying levels of fat, protein and carb target intakes
8. how to measure if how you are eating is actually improving your health, aesthetics and physical capacity
9. when do you have to increase or decrease your energy intake
10. how to get an accurate read on your body composition and how often do you check if your composition and health markers are improving
11. what should your activity diet look like to improve your physical capacity, bone health and body composition
12. dealing with allergies, intolerances and understand if a food or ingredient is not right for you

It’s going to be a long and boring book that no one will read.

And that is why nutrition professionals exist.

The activity diet book will look just as bonkers and boring for the lay-person.

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