The Monday to Friday Diet

The Monday to Friday Diet

Lose the weight you need and keep the life you want with this exciting new real-life diet.

"This week is going to be different to all the others; this is going to be the week I get my food, my diet and my life on track, for good'.
How often have you said that, only to have it all come apart by Wednesday?
At last an honest diet that works with real life!

In The Monday to Friday Diet Susie Burrell unmasks your "food enemies" - the people in your life that hold you back from reaching your weight loss goals. Susie gives you the advice and strategies you need to deal with these "food enemies", so you can keep your friends, and finally lose the weight!

The Monday to Friday Diet provides the critical tips and tricks to manage your working week, set rules, know your daily trigger points and set your own weight loss principles. By following Susie's simple Monday to Friday program over just 20 days you will revolutionise your approach to weight loss.

You will discover that you can lose the weight you need, and keep the life you want!


Susie Burrellcompleted both her nutrition and dietetics and psychology degrees at the University of Wollongong in 2000, and went on to complete Honours in Psychology in 2002, in which she completed her thesis on childhood obesity and parenting styles.

Initially Susie worked as a community dietician at Fairfield Hospital for three years before obtaining the specialist obesity position at the Children's Hospital in 2003, a position she has held since and one in which she is now regarded as an expert in the area of childhood obesity and the dietary management of insulin resistance.

Susie is a keen writer, and since 2003 her work has appeared in a number of publications, including The Daily Telegraph, Dolly, Cosmopolitan, Good Health, Parents, ALPHA and Runner's World. She is currently writing a weekly column for The Sunday Telegraph in addition to regular pieces for Weight Watchers Magazine, Woman's Day and Bicycling Australia. She is also regularly approached for comment by the media on all areas of nutrition, and presents segments on Today Tonight, Sunrise, Today and New Idea TV.

Susie is a qualified sports dietician and has worked with a number of elite level teams, including the St George Illawarra Dragons, Sydney University Rugby and South Africa Blue Bulls, and is the current consultant sports dietician at The Parramatta Eels Rugby League. She is also the proud consultant to leading supplement supplier, Body Science.


The Monday to Friday Diet

Random House Australia
Author: Susie Burrell
ISBN: 9781742755212
Price: $29.99

Interview with Susie Burrell

Question: Why was it important for you to write The Monday to Friday Diet?

Susie Burrell: I wanted to write a book that really targeted the daily issues that I see with my clients that impact their ability to keep on track with their diet and control their weight - long working hours, shift work, travelling, socialising so people can learn to juggle all the demands of a busy life without their weight suffering


Question: How did you draw on your own clients to write this book?

Susie Burrell: 90% of my clients know what they 'should' be eating but struggle to bring it all together on a day to day basis - so each and every example or idea comes from one of my clients who I have seen over the past 10 years.


Question: Can you talk about the structure of the book?

Susie Burrell: There is a daily outline where ideas and suggestions are given for individuals to be able to adjust their calorie intake according to the demands of their week, with recipes and meal plans for each day along with extra tips and tricks to deal with the various situations we find ourselves in daily such as working late, eating out, socialising.


Question: How easy is it to implement the tips and tricks in The Monday to Friday Diet into our lives, seven days a week?

Susie Burrell: That's the whole idea of the book! That all the tips and tricks are exceptionally easy to implement!


Question: How can we easily overcome the bad eating and lack of exercise that comes along with the demands of a busy social and work life?

Susie Burrell: Accepting that eating well and moving our body on a daily basis is something most of us will have to do for the rest of our lives.


Question: What should we do in regards to diet and exercise when it does come to the weekend?
Susie Burrell: Have limits, enjoy where we need to but then learn to compensate for extra calorie blow outs with lighter meals and extra exercise the following week.


Interview by Brooke Hunter