This book was absolutely fabulous! Thank you for your contribution in this field. There are so many comments I could make, but I gave a stab in the two below.

This ENTJ really enjoyed reading the book. It makes total sense to me that personality typing can help people build weight management plans that work for how they make decisions. Fundamentally, all diets work the same way- getting you to eat fewer calories. Finding the right lifestyle system for you is the hard part. I think this book gives valuable clues for how to find the right system.

With this book, Roberta Wennik is marrying her deep knowledge of wellness and diet to the field of type to help answer the question of “So what?” that so often arises after someone is introduced to Psychological Type. Type training clearly has a new voice and application area.

To Eat or Not to Eat provides a new twist on how to approach the dilemma we face each and every day. Whether it’s at work during a slow part of the day, at dinner with friends, or any number of other situations, we have to decide when and what to eat. This book outlines helpful ways to make those decisions that feel right because they are geared toward our own personality traits.

Rich in examples and suggestions, To Eat or Not to Eat, That Is the Question, is more like a conversation with author Roberta Wennik. An expert in personality type based on the Myers-Briggs, Wennik explores decision making that can impact health behaviors. If you’re ready for change and willing to put in the time to understand what makes you tick, this book is ready to guide you.

This is not another typical quick weight loss diet and recipe book. In fact the author addresses weight loss along with other lifestyle habits including “physical activity” and stress management in terms of how we make decisions about these areas of our lives, and our relationship with food, exercise and stress management. It is all about taking control of our decisions and not feeling guilty about them. It is not a book of what we can and cannot do.

Roberta Schwartz Wennik, M.S., R.D.N. has created a masterful and powerful book that helps you truly make healthy lifestyle decisions using your own unique personality type. To Eat or Not to Eat, That is the Question (…but not the only question!), guides you through determining your unique personality type and then applying decision-making resulting in your being in control with healthy lifestyle decisions. This book is packed full of credible resources to choose what works for you. It guides you to successfully experience life on your own terms and with you in the “driver seat”. I highly recommend this book!!

To Eat or Not To Eat s not a book of dieting rules. In fact, it’s not a diet book at all. Diet plans squeeze the person into a rigid plan. This book is different. This book fits a flexible, unique plan to the person. Roberta Wennik brings her readers a new way of seeing their choices about food for what they really are – a series of small decisions that move readers towards or away from their health goals. It applies mindful,
personalized decision-making skills to food, exercise, and stress and provides readers with a new approach. The reader is led through determining their Personality Type and then shown how to use the Z-Pattern of decision-making to make better decisions. By following the Z-Pattern to decide whether “to eat or not to eat,” the reader will move towards a healthier weight and better overall health – they will learn to decide mindfully in order to live intuitively.

This process helps the reader consider where they are in their readiness to change, and then gives them practical certainty, a road map to find their way to a different way of thinking about change. So many people are intimated by change – so I think this process will benefit people who are “stuck” and who want to think more deeply about the way they make decisions. When you know your personality profile, it’s the first step toward understanding how and why you make decisions. And then you learn how your current way of operating may be just what’s holding you back from moving forward toward weight loss, or toward other areas in your life that you might want to improve.

Roberta’s book moves you along a continuum of self-improvement by first identifying your personality preferences and then helping you understand why you make the decisions you do. You learn to tap into other preferences to move you out of established habits.

To Eat or Not To Eat, That Is the Question – While you might already know your MBTI® personality type, using the Z-Pattern of decision making and relating that to living healthy, is a new approach. The obstacles to eating and living healthy are discussed from the perspective of personality type.

Roberta’s book highlights a new way to apply type theory and offers ideas that will be helpful to all.