About GR Phelps Publishing
Books with a purpose, on topics that matter.
GR Phelps Publishing
Books with a purpose, on topics that matter.
G.R. Phelps publishes short, practical books for busy people. Each one takes a subject that affects how we live or work, strips out the waffle, and leaves the reader with something they can use the same day: a habit, a checklist, a phrase that works.
The series began with health and fitness and now covers the working day as well, from meetings to customer service to selling. Every figure is traced to its source, every tip is tested in practice, and no book is longer than it needs to be.
About the author and founder
Graham Roberts-Phelps has spent more than 25 years teaching people how to work better. He has run some 4,000 courses for more than 30,000 managers and professionals in over 20 countries.
Graham is available for in-house training, workshops and conference speaking.
The book that changes how you eat
From business meetings to better eating
Who audits the auditor?
I spent three decades in boardrooms and training rooms in more than twenty countries. My job was to help managers see the decisions they were making on autopilot. Why that supplier? Why that price? Why that meeting, again?
I was good at it. I was also thirty kilograms heavier, eating a meal deal at my desk and calling it lunch.
One day the question turned round. If I could spot a bad decision in a sales pipeline, why could I not spot one in a supermarket aisle? So I did what I told every client to do. I followed the money, read the small print and asked who benefits.
The answer was not me.
What I found
Not your fault. Now your responsibility.
The food industry has spent sixty years and billions of pounds learning how you decide. It has engineered the bliss point of sugar, salt and fat. It prints health claims on products that deserve none. It knows your cravings better than you do, because it built them.
That is not a conspiracy. It is a business plan. And it works on clever people best of all, because clever people think they are immune.
I was one of them. Then I lost thirty kilograms, turned my blood results from red to green, and wrote down how.
The book
The briefing you never received.
You Are What You Don't Eat takes the tools of the boardroom into the kitchen. It names the five worst offenders, one chapter each: sugary drinks, breakfast cereal, processed snacks, alcohol and fast food. It audits forty everyday eating habits, from the hotel breakfast to the sandwich at the desk. Every claim is sourced, logged and checked by a registered dietitian.
It ends with a ten-week escape plan. One change a week. Nothing to buy, nothing to weigh, nothing to resist.
No diet. No sermon. Nothing to sell.
In-company half-day workshops
What could your people change in ten weeks?
Quite a lot, as it turns out. This three-hour workshop, in person or online, takes up to twenty-five people through the ten-week, one-change-a-week method behind the books. No diets. No judgement. No pretending anyone will give up cake for ever. Everyone leaves with a personal plan, a line to say out loud and a tracker for the fridge door. Ideal for wellbeing weeks, team days and the week the resolutions run out. Ask for dates and a proposal.
