Dr. Peter Springberg is a retired Air Force Nephrologist now living in Colorado. In 1997 he invented a diet, actually a lifestyle change, which he has followed since. His basic premise was to lose weight and maintain that weight loss over an extended period of time, you clearly had to eat less and do more. The problem for most people who want to lose significant amounts of weight, is they do neither for very long.

As a serving Air Force officer, especially when he became more senior and commanded first a small hospital and then a mid-sized medical center, Dr. Springberg became very familiar with acronyms; it seemed logical to him to center his new lifestyle/diet plan around some easy-to- remember acronyms. 

Twelve years later he weighs what he did in eighth grade, twenty-six pounds under his usual weight as an Air Force colonel and sixty-seven pounds under his maximum weight from the late 1960s. A few friends have successfully tried his straight-forward method; one lost over fifty pounds. Reading books and newspapers and looking at Web articles over the past year, he decided it was time to write a book himself. Many of the others he's read are either technical or convoluted, so aren't easy to translate into, "what do I need to do."

Dr. Springberg has finished the first draft of a short (35,000 word), easy-to-follow plan, starting with his own story and then moving on to how his ideas can be adapted by others. At present he is in the self-editing phase, having taken a short course in how to accomplish this. He then has three primary readers lined up: a professional writer, the Colorado poet laureate and an eighteen-year-old neighbor who is trying his diet concepts.