AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR STAVROS MASTROGIANNIS | AUTHOR INTERVIEW
Me: When did you decide to write this book?
Stavros: I have been thinking of writing this book for a few years now because I felt most weight loss books on the market today they are incomplete. Let me explain what I mean. You see, if you want to achieve a lean and healthy body that you can maintain for life it take more than some diet or exercise program to achieve that. You have to know how to make exercising and eating healthy completely habitual so no thinking is required to do the right thing. Most weight loss book that I know don’t teach people how to make exercising or eating healthy habitual. If you look at most diet they only focus on the foods you should be eating or not eating, but did you know that “how you eat” is as important as “what you eat”? Very few diets talk about the important of “how to eat”. Overall in my 28 years in the weight loss field I have identified 7 healthy behaviors that are essential to a lean and healthy body. If you look at healthy regions around the world you will notice that they have these 7 healthy behaviors in common. Yet, non of the current weight loss books on the market today teach all 7 healthy behaviors. Most of them only teach 2 of the 7 healthy behaviors which have to do with exercising and what to eat. My book “Fat No More” is the only book on weight loss and health that covers all 7 and most importantly how to make all 7 habitual behaviors and part of your everyday life.
Me: How long does did it take you to write this book?
Stavros: Although the book itself it took me less than 6 months the write, the information in this book I have been collecting for the past 28 years. I feel this is the most complete book on how to lose weight for life. It is the only book the covers the 7 essential behaviors for a lean and healthy body. If you look at all healthy regions around the world you will notice they have these 7 healthy behaviors in common.
Me: What is your work schedule like when you’re writing?
Stavros: Due to Covid 19, my personal training facility was not a busy so I had more time to do my research and write my book.
Me: Are You Working On Any Other Projects right now?
Stavros: My book basically teaches my Live Your Way Thin System which is the most effect weight loss approach when it comes to losing weight for life. I think it will make a huge difference in the weight loss battle, but I believe for some people might not be the best way to learn my approach to sustainable weight loss. This is why I am also creating an online video course that teaches my Live Your Way Thin System and how to develop the 7 essential behaviors for a lean and healthy body. This course runs for 12 weeks and include group coaching for additional help. The course is perfect for people who need more help with developing the 7 healthy behaviors
Me: What would you say is your most interesting writing quirk?
Stavros: I like to write like I speak, and I like to keep the language simple and easy to understand.
Me: Where do you get your information or ideas for your books?
Stavros: Unlike most fitness professionals I didn’t just study health and fitness, I was raised in it. I was raised on a Greek island in the 70s and 80s and at the time I lived there, lean and healthy was the norm, people lived long healthy lives free from most of the disease people suffer from in the western world. Cancer was a rare disease and brain disease like dementia and Alzheimer’s were none existent. I saw first-hand how people living in healthy regions around the world lived and ate and let me tell you. It is very different than the way I was taught in school on how people should live and eat for a lean and healthy body.
Most of the information in this book did not come from my formal education on health and fitness. It came from my own research and reflecting on how I was raised in Greece.
Think about it, if all the popular ideas on weight loss and health were correct, how do you explain the fact that we are losing the weight loss battle? Obviously there something seriously wrong with the current methods of weight loss, this is why I chose to take a very different approach based on how people live and eat in healthy regions around the world, including where I was raised in Greece.
Me: What do you think would surprise people the most when they read your book?
Stavros: When people learn about my simple approach to sustainable weight loss, which I describe in this book, they get very surprised how simple the whole process is, and how easy it is to maintain their weight loss.
They are so used to restrictive diets and hard workouts when they try to get in shape, they are very surprised that they don’t have to do any of that with my approach. The workout that I advise people to incorporate into their life is very simple and yet extremely effective, there is no counting calories, points or measuring your food and you can still enjoy your junk food.
Stavros: If you look at that 5% of people who can keep the weight off with the current methods of weight loss, you will notice that their whole life is about fitness. They constantly thinking about their diet and their workouts. If you look at healthy regions around the world, people don’t see to worry about their diet or exercising and yet they don’t have a problem with maintaining their good shape. How come? The answer is very simple. All their healthy behaviors that keep them in shape, are habitual behaviors so no thinking is required. It’s like their fitness program is on autopilot. With my approach I don’t just teach people the 7 essential behaviors for a lean and healthy body, but through a unique step by step approach, I coach people how to make these 7 healthy behaviors completely habitual and part of their everyday life. Because they no longer have to think to engage in these healthy behaviors, maintaining the results becomes effortless. It’s like putting your weight loss program on autopilot.
Who Is Stavros Mastrogiannis
There are many weight loss experts who can help you lose weight but when it comes to sustainable weight loss Stavros Mastrogiannis is the expert you want to be talking too.
Stavros is a 27-year veteran of the weight loss field, owner of Live Your Way Thin, a personal training and coaching facility and Danbury CT, and he is the creator of the Live Your Way Thin System. Stavros is not just another weight loss expert, his is a how to lose weight for life expert.
Fitness was not Stavros’s first career choice. He graduated from one of the finest schools in Culinary Arts, The Culinary Institute of America. He ended up in the fitness industry almost out of frustration. He felt that fitness professionals did not understand the average person like him, who did not like exercising, and did not want to give up all his junk food, and complaining about it would not help, so he got involved.
From the very beginning, it became very obvious to him that there was something seriously wrong with the way the industry was approaching weight loss because most people end up regaining the weight back.
What enabled him to come up with the answer to sustainable weight loss, in big part was his upbringing. Unlike most other weight loss experts, his position on weight loss, health, and nutrition, was not shaped by simply studying in a classroom or through the certification process. He was raised on a Greek island where thin and healthy was the norm and people in their 90s lived productive lives. That unique life experience gave him an insight on weight loss, nutrition, and health that very few weight loss experts have.
Stavros held two ACE (American Council on Exercise) certifications for almost 20 years. He has organized many fitness and weight loss events including the Danbury Weight Loss Challenge in 2004 and he partnered with St. Jude Children’s Hospital for the Get In Shape for 2007 Challenge.
