• Introduction: Candor, Appetites, Guarantees, Reasons, and Results
• LEVEL I: The Physical Diet
  • Chapter 1: The Basic Concept of the Half-Diet Diet
  • Chapter 2: What Your Body Will Do for You
  • Chapter 3: Sip, Savor, and Smell; Don’t Guzzle, Gulp, and Gorge
  • Chapter 4: Make Water Your Ally
  • Chapter 5: Five Per Fortnight (Finding the Exercise You Love)
  • Chapter 6: Fasting and Slowing
  • Chapter 7: “Repair the Breach” (Giving Away the Half You Don’t Eat)
  • Chapter 8: Poetry (Living In and Seeing the Moment)
  • Chapter 9: The Horse and the Bridle
  • Chapter 10: Review of the Principles and Practices of the Physical Diet
  • First Intermission: The Other Appetites
• LEVEL II: The Mental Diet
  • Chapter 11: “Eat Half” Mentally
  • Chapter 12: What Living Life at Half Speed Will Do for You
  • Chapter 13: Sipping, Savoring and Smelling Your Life
  • Chapter 14: The Clear Water of Thought as your Ally
  • Chapter 15: Exercising the Mind.
  • Chapter 16: Mental Fasting (and Slowing)
  • Chapter 17: Giving Back (and Knowing When You Have Enough)
  • Chapter 18: The Poetic Part
  • Chapter 19: The Mental Bridle
  • Chapter 20: Review of the Principles and Practices of the Mental Diet
  • Second Intermission: Giving Free Reign to our Spirits
• LEVEL III: The Spiritual Diet
  • Chapter 21: Finding Your Spiritual Appetite
  • Chapter 22: What Slowing Down and Tuning Your Spirit Will Do for You
  • Chapter 23: Spiritual Sipping and Savoring
  • Chapter 24: Living Water
  • Chapter 25: Exercising Faith
  • Chapter 26: Fasting and Slowing and Feasting
  • Chapter 27: The Spiritual Appetite for Giving and Serving
  • Chapter 28: Spiritual Poetry
  • Chapter 29: The Spiritual Bridle
  • Chapter 30: Review of the Principles of Practices of the Spiritual Diet
  • Third Intermission: Diet Redefined
• SUPPLEMENTS and Afterthoughts
  • Chapter 31: Spiritual Connections
  • Chapter 32: Holiday Eating
  • Chapter 33: Proof from Rhode Island
  • Chapter 34: Who is Winning?
  • Chapter 35: The Power of Napping
  • Chapter 36: The Addictions of Personal Technology
  • Chapter 37: Of James, Bridles, Tongues, and Tillers
• Conclusions

The Half-Diet Diet is an accessible and universal weight-loss program. Rather than focusing on convoluted and challenging diets, Richard Eyre, bestselling author of Teaching Your Children Values and The Turning, provides a simple way to control your appetite. The weight-loss solution? Eat half. Too easy? No! But worthwhile. Richard provides the program to accomplish your weight-loss goals by taming your physical, mental, and spiritual appetites. The most complete diet book to date, The Half-Diet Diet is guaranteed to improve your mind, body, and spirit.

Richard and Linda Eyre are New York Times #1 bestselling authors whose writing career has spanned four decades and whose books have sold in the millions. They have appeared on virtually all major national talk shows, including Oprah and Today, and have seen their books translated into a dozen languages.