The Fat Resistance Diet: Unlock the Secret of the Hormone Leptin to: Eliminate Cravings, Supercharge Your Metabolism, Fight Inflammation, Lose Weight & Reprogram Your Body to Stay Thin-

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I've lost 16 lbs. so far. It works.

The Fat Resistance Diet: Unlock the Secret of the Hormone Leptin to: Eliminate Cravings, Supercharge Your Metabolism, Fight Inflammation, Lose Weight & Reprogram Your Body to Stay Thin-
Leo Galland
Manufacturer: Broadway
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The Leptin Boost Diet: Unleash Your Fat-Controlling Hormones for Maximum Weight Loss

ASIN: 0767920538
Release Date: 2006-12-26

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No more counting carbs, calories, or fat grams! This revolutionary diet plan works with your hormones to curb your appetite, boost your metabolism, and take the pounds off for good!

Cutting-edge research shows that losing weight is not about carbs, calories, or even willpower—it’s about a hormone called leptin, and how it functions in your body. Leptin is your body’s natural weight-loss mechanism: it curbs your appetite, jump-starts your metabolism, and when working properly makes you literally fat resistant—you will lose weight effortlessly and efficiently and never gain those pounds back.

If you’re struggling to lose weight, chances are you are “leptin resistant”—your body no longer responds to leptin, making it impossible for you to slim down. The Fat Resistance Diet is the first and only eating plan designed specifically to combat leptin resistance and reprogram your body to start melting away the pounds. Using a breakthrough combination of anti-inflammatory and hormone-balancing foods, the three-phase regimen delivers:

A loss of six to ten pounds in the first two weeks.
A loss of at least two pounds a week thereafter.
Fun, flavorful meals that make sticking with the plan a breeze.
An easy maintenance program that keeps you fat resistant for life.

With over 100 delicious recipes designed for maximum satisfaction and eating pleasure, the Fat Resistance Diet is the only diet you’ll ever need—a brand new way to eat that will transform your body into a lean, fat-fighting machine.

Customer Reviews:

This Works.......2007-09-26

After a lifetime of diets,my search stops here.Well done book which really allows you to change your lifestyle and realize that what you do eat is more important than what you do not eat.This did not start as a weightloss plan,maybe that's why it's so good. I strongly recommend this book.

Easy Read.......2007-09-19

This book is an easy read with a lot of useful information. There are a lot of good points for living a healthier lifestyle and it isn't just about eliminating food.

A real feel better book.......2007-09-11

This book is filled with information on making your body feel better and lose weight . . . An easy read . . . I'm just getting started and already feel better.

hmmm.......2007-08-31

I have read just about every diet/nutrition book out there. This is the first one that actually had some new information that I was not previously aware of. The concept is great, but the diet is so rigid it would be very hard to actually follow the food choices - oh wait, there are no choices! That is right, no substutions at all. It is interesting to read though.

I've lost 16 lbs. so far. It works........2007-08-15

I've lost 16 lbs. so far. If you could get an appointment with a famous Harvard-trained doctor who had a phenomenal record of success in helping anyone lose weight--based on all the latest research. And if it would cost you less than $25--and you would be guarantied to lose weight and stay thin for the rest of your life. Would you take the appointment? If yes, buy this book and follow the advice. I did and you can track my progress below. I eat only the recommended foods and enjoy them very much. And I am so happy not to be starving, or filling my body with "heaven-know's-what's-in-these?" pills, herbal concoctions, or shakes--which, when I stop buying them, I know I'm going to have the same weight problem in 6 months. This is a way of eating that can last you your whole life long. If you are familiar with "SuperFoods", then those same (natural) foods are what you'll be eating in this eating plan...with some very interesting additions. If you don't mind eating healthy foods that have been around since almost the beginning of time--and ignoring every food that was "invented" in the 20th century and that has a catchy name (Tostitos!)--then try this and follow it exactly for one month and watch the weight loss occur. You will never look back. If by chance it doesn't work for you, then it likely means you need to attend to the psychological or physical stressors that hammering your body/life and preventing your body from working as it is designed to. If so, I sincerely recommend looking into EFT as the best way to deal with that. This will be my last post, until I hit my weight loss goal of 30 lbs. which should come in early December, I'm guessing. The comments I've posted since I began eating this way are below.

40 days 16 lbs lost. This is effortless. I am never hungry because I eat whenever I feel like it.

30 days 13 lbs. lost...this has included two vacations where I weathered lots of meals where I was forced to make hard food choices that would have crushed me with any other way of eating. With this method of eating I had no problems at all. In fact, I lost 3 lbs. on my last vacation. This is the real deal--finally a way of eating that focuses on good foods that requires zero calorie counting--and does what it is supposed to do--lose weight--even for a 50 something person with a slow metabolism.

15 days 8 lbs. lost

14 days in and I've lost 7 lbs. and my body is clearly in weight loss mode. I still love the food choices. I would have lost more, I think, but I spent 5 days at a resort that had an incredible desert buffet and I couldn't help myself from tasting. I otherwise ate the foods recommended at the resort and didn't gain any weight! Interestingly, I've stopped eating nearly as much food--stop at one serving at dinner, where I always had two. Also, I crave all the foods that I'm eating and have lost my cravings for any foods (cheese, sweets) that used to be my downfall. Everything that the book says would happen is happening.

6 days into the diet and have lost 4 pounds. I love it because it's a simple list of approved foods. Haven't been hungry and have had more energy...which has turned my normal 4 mile walks (which never helped me lose weight) into 3 miles of jogging a day. I do like to eat greens and vegetables and fruits, so I've had no trouble taking to this way of eating. I like the idea that I will have a way of eating that I can easily sustain without thinking about it. I'll write more as time goes on

The 3-Hour Diet: How Low-Carb Diets Make You Fat and Timing Makes You Thin

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Worked for me. I recommend it!
Catchy
Eating Every 3 Hours
Practical, Effective and Overall WONDERFUL PLAN
We're paying him....

The 3-Hour Diet: How Low-Carb Diets Make You Fat and Timing Makes You Thin
Jorge Cruise , and David L. Katz
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ASIN: 0060792299
Release Date: 2005-03-28

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Stepping around the low-fat versus low-carb debate, Jorge Cruise (Eight Minutes in the Morning) suggests that losing weight isn't in what you eat, but rather, when you eat it. The core idea behind The Three-Hour Diet is that by timing your meals and snacks every day, the pounds will come off. No restrictions, no exercise.

While reality is rarely that simple, the advice offered here is nutritionally sound, emphasizing plenty of fruits and vegetables, and filling in with lean proteins, healthy fats, and just enough carbs to keep meals interesting. Following Cruise's guidelines for portion control, you'll eat an average of 1,400 calories per day, filling half your plate with fruits or vegetables, and dividing the other half between the rest of the food groups. Healthy meals from fast-food joints and freezer cases are included, and a substantial recipe section offers everything from a bacon and cheese omelet to rosemary lamb chops. A month-long journal is also provided, giving you space to plan each meal in advance (a key part of the diet), along with daily motivational hints and visualization exercises. A few pages cover basic exercises--but the emphasis is definitely on the diet, which Cruise asserts will work, regardless of whether you choose to work out.

Cruise's straightforward, no-excuses encouragement works well with the simple formula the plan is based upon, and the clever Three-Hour Plate™ makes it easy to keep portion sizes in check. Still, closely monitoring meal time might seem like a challenge to some of the "busy people" for whom the program claims to be specifically designed. If counting calories or net carbs sounds daunting—but keeping a close eye on the clock doesn't—you might just find weight loss success in these pages. —Jill Lightner

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Tired of fad diets and their lack of results? That's just how Jorge Cruise, author of The Three-Hour Diet, wants you to feel. Cruise's guidelines encourage sensible portion control and plenty of vegetables, but--perhaps more importantly--they encourage dieters to feel good about themselves by teaching self-acceptance and positive visualization. Stressing an easy-to-follow visual food plan that insists on incorporating snacks and treats into your day, he contends that carb-bashing is a highly ineffective means of maintaining a healthy weight. How can you sort out weight-loss fact from fiction? Amazon.com contributor Jill Lightner got some straight answers from Cruise.

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Following the amazing success of his New York Times bestseller 8 Minutes in the Morning, America's #1 online weight loss specialist Jorge Cruise is back with a revolutionary diet book that keeps with his trademark hassle–free, time–friendly approach.

It's a fact: the low–carb craze is everywhere. Although low–carb diets produce short term weight loss, the results are not sustainable. Dieticians, fitness experts, and medical publications are slowly awakening to the fact that the low–carb diet isn't the answer to weight loss nor a solution to the obesity epidemic. Jorge Cruise's The 3–Hour Diet reveals that timing is the revolutionary weight loss element that has been kept secret until now. By eating small, balanced meals every three hours you reset your body's metabolism and achieve amazing results. Eating every three hours turns off your "starvation protection mechanism" ensuring that fat is released and fat–burning muscle preserved. So get ready to lose 2 pounds each week! All with no calorie counting, no starvation, and no deprivation. Bottom line, timing will sculpt your body slim.

With his now trademark easy–to–follow instructions, accessibility, and client success stories, Jorge Cruise's The 3–Hour Diet is a fluid combination of proven success and categorical innovation. Weight loss has never been easier!

o For overweight people disillusioned with the low–carb craze and other fad diets that don't work or are even unhealthy. Also aimed at people with busy schedules looking to lose weight quickly and effectively, utilizing a dietary approach instead of committing to a workout regimen.

o 8 Minutes in the Morning has sold 1.8K through BookScan.

o The dark side of low–carb diets is only just beginning to rear its ugly head, and this book has the potential to be at the forefront of the low–carb backlash. In this book readers will find:

o Why low–carb and other fad diets make you fat, and why timing is the key to sustained weight loss.

o The Cruise Down Plate approach to eating that supports lean muscle development by eating your favourite foods (including candy and carbs) with no banned items and no calorie–counting. Includes frozen foods and fast food options!

o How to prevent emotional eating.

o A 28–Day Planner designed to promote organization and accountability for the dieter.

o An all–new meal and recipe guide, that is both delicious and healthy.

Customer Reviews:

Worked for me. I recommend it!.......2007-09-13

I got this book about a month and a half ago. I also got the cookbook and followed the recipes. I started on the diet for real 1 month ago. In the last month I have lost 20 pounds and 2 inches off my belly. All I have done is followed the diet with a little cheating and jogged 2-4 times a week for 30-40 minutes (not part of the diet, but a good idea since I cheat a little). I don't know how proven the science is behind eating every 3 hours, for me it is more of a psychological thing...if the meal I just had didn't seem to totally fill me up it doesn't matter because I know I'm going to eat again in another 3 hours. i also like that it does not rely on only one type of food nor does it totally prohibit any food. It is all about decreasing calories and portion control. The cookbook is so great because if you follow the recipes you don't even have to think about how any calories you are eating because they have already been counted for you. Admittedly some of the recipes are not all that great tasting, but there are o many of them in there that we have found plenty that we love. This is not just something you do half heartedly, it is all or nothing if you want results, but it is very easy to stick to. It is not just atemporary "diet" it has become a way of lifelong healthy eating.

Catchy.......2007-08-31

I like evaluating new diet books now and then and this one caught my eye with its catchy title. While the title almost implies that you only have to diet for three hours, the true meaning is that you need to EAT every three hours. By doing this, your body doesn't go into starvation mode which will eventually undermine your goal to lose weight.

Reader friendly and well laid out, I'd have to say its not a bad plan all in all. However, even if you follow it to a 'T', you'll be doing the same thing you've always had to do to lose weight successfully- eat less and exercise more. Readers unable to lift weights due to shoulder pain or a torn cuff might also like Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff.

Eating Every 3 Hours.......2007-08-11

With client success stories and the same easy-to-follow instructions that helped make "8 Minutes in the Morning" a bestseller, Jorge Cruise's "The 3-Hour Diet" is a winning combination of proven results and categorical innovation.

Practical, Effective and Overall WONDERFUL PLAN.......2007-07-28

As a "professional" dieter-having tried and paid for almost every pill, diet and device in the universe-I can't say enough positive things about this book,as well as the online site the auther developed. This eating plan is totally livable, easy to follow without weighing and measuring, and ultimately the best thing since white bread (no pun ingtended). I have been on this for only 2 weeks now and I am down 6 pounds-no easy feat for a 58 year old short woman who has another 20 pds. to loose. I highly recommend this book, and his eating plan as well as his simple exercise plan. In addition, having used other weight loss sites, I truly love his -it is easy to navigate, has a great deal of inspiration from people all over the place who have lost huge amounts of weight(and I mean huge-like 155 pds) and had great ideas that are easy to implement.

We're paying him...........2007-07-01

.....For things we ought to know. I guess it sounds "new" and "good" when its put with the word "diet" in front of it. Being the fact that we are practically obsessed with out weight as Americans anything with the word "diet" seems like yet ANOTHER way to be strict and try something else to shed the pounds. Thing is... as a technicality, I've read about similar plans elsewhere. small portions spaced out for about six meals a day should work BECAUSE we live in a world where people skip meals only to gorge themselves when they do eat is worst than eating six small continuous meals.

I do admit his "ideas" of portions COULD be practical for those who are visualizers but otherwise it comes off as stupid and... well not practical while people like me, who have to look at calories and make guesses, are better off with the six meal ideas and just remember "I eat again in three hours". Well I'm coming off the soap box now, and just saying, have some common sense people and become more conscious of what is going into your mouth.

Does This Make Me Look Fat?: The Definitive Rules for Dressing Thin for Every Height, Size, and Shape

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Look for best and dress your best

Does This Make Me Look Fat?: The Definitive Rules for Dressing Thin for Every Height, Size, and Shape
Leah Feldon
Manufacturer: Villard
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ASIN: 0812967658
Release Date: 2002-12-10

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With a rousing “we’re all in this together” attitude, Leah Feldon proves that a well-chosen wardrobe can render any figure fabulous. “All we have to do,” writes Feldon, “is choose the right clothes—clothes that camouflage any real or imagined figure flaws rather than highlighting them—and learn how to do it with ultimate style and confidence.” Take five pounds off your look with a new hemline; disguise a bit of bulge with a cleverly designed blouse; highlight your best assets with the perfect accessories. The key to “camouflage chic” is dressing to suit your body type, comfort level, and lifestyle—all while maximizing your own personal flair.

Instead of spending another moment agonizing in front of the closet, you’ll learn how to:
* distinguish between “yes” and “no” colors
* lose the tummy without the tuck
* perk up your basic black
* create optical illusions for a long, lean look
* conquer the dreaded bathing-suit challenge
* follow timeless tenets of good taste

Packed with empowering, easy-to-implement tips, fun illustrations, and celebrity style secrets, Does This Make Me Look Fat? provides all the information you’ll need to create a slimmer, more stylish, and better-proportioned look (and to help your man do it, too!).

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Not only about shape, but about style, too.......2007-08-31

If you (like me) are blessed with a beautifull curvy body that looks best when it's naked, and worst when dressed to the nines, this book is for you. The best is that you can really understand the principles (if you don't, create your personal model on the Land's End website and try them out). The book will give you a perfect guideline on how to follow fashion wisely, spend less and still stay ahead of the crowd of fashion victims. It relies heavily on black (people bring me a chair to sit down if I wear black as it makes me look like an undertaker's diploma piece), but the method of "camouflage chic" works as well with other darker colors. Especially helpful if you sew yourself and have to make decisions on style and detailing without being able to try the garment on!

What a neat book!.......2007-07-28

This book is so cute and well written! I loved the author's sense of humor and laughed so much while reading this. She's got some great artistic principles that she applies expertly to different body styles. If you want to look thinner, don't consider losing weight (unless you need to), just dress as she suggests to look 10 pounds thinner. Great author with a realistic view of women and their body issues.

not only for soft shaped ladies! basic rules of harmonious figure.......2007-05-29

I am Italian and I sew. this means that clothing is a basic necessity for me. I am blessed with a good figure but everytime I help a friend in looking at her best, I have not been able to tell her why I insist for a certain lenght or a neckline. in this book there are the reasons why certain harmonies are so perfect and why other choices are wrong on two ladies apparently similar. It is the basic book to reinvent the proportions of the body you don't know how to look at- yours -and to look just beautiful. it is the written version of what enhainces without all the mistery aura of the "good tasted gurus". to be read and to be offered as a gift.

Basic Image Information.......2007-05-22

This book is a good place to start when interested in how to "camouflage" those body imperfections.

Look for best and dress your best.......2007-05-13

This book is filled with good advice and guidance to help someone to dress more attractively for their body type as well as look thinner. The choices one makes in purchasing clothing after reading this book are more selective and more interchangeable. The focus will be on looking for clothing that looks good on you. Also, you will know what style to look for and what color that's best for you. This book helps you to build a good wardrobe that can give you different looks with less items. If you want to look thinner and better in what you wear, then buy this book.

Eat Fat, Look Thin: A Safe and Natural Way to Lose Weight Permanently, Second Edition

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Eat Fat Look Thin: Natural Way to Weight Loss
5 stars is all they'd let me give, it needs more!
Very Good Read
A Real Wake Up Call!!
Really Good Book - But Not Quite Great

Eat Fat, Look Thin: A Safe and Natural Way to Lose Weight Permanently, Second Edition
Bruce Fife
Manufacturer: Piccadilly Books, Ltd.
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Release Date: 2005-01-15

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Eat delicious, full-flavored foods and lose weight permanently with this new, all natural, no-hunger, weight-loss program. You can enjoy rich, full-fat foods and lose weight without the hassle of counting calories, weighing portions, or suffering from hunger.

This book exposes many common myths and misconceptions about fats. It reveals new, cutting-edge research on the world's only natural, low-calorie fat--a fat that not only has fewer calories than any other fat, but one which also stimulates metabolism and burns up calories. Yes, you can lose weight by eating fat, if you use the right kind. Combined with a sensible eating plan, you can shed excess weight, enjoy the foods you love, and gain better health.

This revolutionary, total-wellness program is designed to keep you both slim and healthy using wholesome, natural foods, and the most health-promoting fats. It has proven successful in helping those suffering from obesity, diabetes, hypoglycemia, heart and circulatory problems, yeast infections, chronic fatigue, and many other conditions.

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Eat Fat Look Thin: Natural Way to Weight Loss.......2007-08-06

Very informative book that shatters myth that saturated fat coconut oil is bad for your health: in fact, it's about the best oil/fat you can eat to improve your health. Includes some easy but very tasty recipes too. Would recommend to anyone interested in exploring better nutrition, in addition to those interested in weight loss.

5 stars is all they'd let me give, it needs more! .......2007-07-14

This book is totally awesome to say the least. I've been a bonified "health nut" for years, but this book gives you a lot of the information that I've took hours to research and read all in one book! So I recommend it to everyone that is concerned about their health and wanting to have some correct, and good knowledge to go on. It is not only about weight loss, it encompasses good fats, bad fats, why fat helps you lose weight, boosting your metabolism many other ways, and all the benefits of healthy eating. It really is a Healthy Lifestyle Plan as Bruce stated! I have used coconut oil for years now, (and read his book in about as long ago but seen I could write a review here today!) and it is truly a wonderful addition to anyone's diet. Not only do I use it in the kitchen, my husband and I use it in the bedroom--since it is anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and anti-parisitacal it works great for having a balanced "flora and fauna" in that area. And it makes a superb hair conditioner as well, gets rid of dandruff too (which is fungal). There are just so many uses for it...

Very Good Read.......2006-07-24

I totally agree with Master Hahn's review, especially the slant that Fife has for animals fats. It certainly does come out. Certainly a worthwhile purchase. As always, bear in mind that we need to read a lot of books in the low-carb world to truly get a well rounded view of the subject. This books fits in well with all the others.

A Real Wake Up Call!!.......2006-03-21

"Eat Fat, Look Thin" by Dr. Bruce Fife is an excellent book that explains exactly why you don't want to consume polyunsaturated oils like soy, canola, cottonseed, corn, and why you are risking your health if you do. Dr. Fife also explains the dangers of eating any soy that is not fermented. The book also explains the benefits of coconut and coconut oil and other healthy fats that your system needs to function properly.

After reading the book I dumped out all of my junk food and processed foods and started taking virgin coconut oil and eating only natural whole foods (mostly organic). Both my husband and I are losing weight and feel so much better!

This book is for anyone that is seriously interested in their health! Dr. Fife's book is based on the research of Dr. Weston A. Price (see www.westonaprice.org). I first checked it out from the library and read it. It was so good that I wanted my own copy for reference.

Really Good Book - But Not Quite Great.......2005-09-04

While hyped as a "Coconut Diet Book", this book actually "wanders" into several dietary areas. A lot of the information was VG and backed by continued research. And while there was a general emphasis on a low-carb approach, at times it seemed that approach came closer to a "moderate carb" recommendation.

On the positive side, the authors addressed the strong advantages of incorporating coconut oil into the diet . I especially found fascinating their discussion about the WTS (Wilson Thyroid Symptom) and the situation of T3 not being converted in tissue leading to a hypothyroid type condition (even though T3 levels in the blood could still be registering as normal!). While supplementation of T3 medication could be an obvious answer to medical types, the authors' recommendation of use of coconut oil to raise the body's temperature - and thereby enhance the enzyme that processes T3 more fully into body tissue - was a very interesting concept that bears further consideration.

I was disappointed in one regard in that the book emphasizes the advantages of coconut oil's saturated fats while downplaying the equal advantages of saturated fats from animal sources (ignoring for example that the native Okinawan diet emphasizes the use of lard quite extensively). I realize that the book was designed to emphasize the advantages of coconut oil, but seeing as how it drifted into so many other areas, it was still a point that could have been more easily addressed. (In fact there were times when a reader could almost discern a definite slant against animal origin saturated fats.)
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There was one other area where I was disappointed with the position of the authors, and that was directed at their obvious bias against commercial milk. I would be the very first to loudly proclaim that raw milk (obtained under sanitary conditions) is by far a much healthier product that commercial milk. The authors however declare commercial milk to be basically a "death product" (making the chart of "FrankenFoods") by citing concerns with pasteurization and homogenization.

Yes, pasteurization does kill off the enzymes in milk - but then every time one cooks their vegetables (or meats, grains, etc.) they very likely generate more heat than that generated in the pasteurization process... and thereby kill off the enzymes contained by that food. One needs to stop and consider that while a food products enzymes can be important, the more important enzymes are the one's located in the human body naturally. I find it interesting that pasteurization (a low heat process) is evil as it kills the milk enzymes and yet when the authors discuss "Dietary Goitrogens" that they recommend, quite properly, the cooking of cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, broccoli, etc.) and even bean sprouts as the cooking process (a high heat process) inactivates the goitrogens that can create thyroid problems. Oh yeah, and the cooking also kills the enzymes in the cruciferous vegetables and bean sprouts. Milk enzymes are apparently supremely important and yet the enzymes of cruciferous vegetables and bean sprouts apparently are not.

As to homogenization, the authors cite the theory addressed by a Dr. Kurt Oster, citing that homogenization causes an enzyme called xanthine oxidase to become trapped within tiny fat globules in the homogenized milk and that as a result the XO eventually passes through intact into the bloodstream where it acts as a free radical attacking the arterial wall. This simply is pure bunk.

The authors cite the Weston A. Price Foundation as their first listed "Most Useful Web Sites". Dr. Mary A. Enig is the Vice President of that organization and has this to say about Dr. Oster's theory:

"According to Oster, XO that remains in pasteurized, unhomogenized milk is found on the exterior of the membrane of the milk fat globules, where it is broken down during digestion. XO in raw milk is similarly digested. Oster postulated that because homogenization reduces the fat globules to a fraction of their original size, the XO is encapsulated by the new outer membranes of the smaller fat globules which form during the homogenization process. He believed that this new membrane protected the XO from digestive enzymes, allowing some XO to pass intact within the fat globules from the gut into the circulatory system when homogenized milk is consumed... A fundamental flaw in Oster's theory involves the difference between a fat globule and a liposome. Fat globules basically contain triglycerides and cholesterol encapsulated in a lipid bilayer membrane composed of proteins, cholesterol, phospholipids and fatty acids. They occur naturally in milk in a wide range of sizes. The fat globules in unhomogenized bovine milk are both very small and very large, ranging in size from 1000 nanometers to 10,000 nanometers. After homogenization, the average globule size is about 500 nanometers with a range from 200 nanometers to 2000 nanometers. Oster considered homogenization of cow's milk to be a 'procedure which foists unnaturally small particles on our digestive tracts.' Yet sheep's milk fat globules are reported to be 'very small. . . [and consequently]. . . easier to digest' and in fact globules from this milk are described as 'naturally homogenized'. The milk fat globule membrane from sheep's milk does not separate and butter cannot be made from such milk even though there is twice as much fat in sheep's milk as in cow's milk. The fat globules from goat's milk are similarly small. Once again, goat's milk is considered easier to digest than cow's milk for this reason. So there is nothing unnatural about small milk fat globules. Fat globules of all sizes are broken down during digestion, releasing the hundreds of thousands of triglycerides as well as any enzymes they contain. (Milk fat globules actually contain more than seven enzymes, of which XO is one - the other major ones are NADH2, iodonitrotetrazolium, 5-nucleotidase, alkaline phosphatase, phosphodiesterase and gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase.) These enzymes are broken down into individual amino acids (enzymes are specialized proteins) and the triglycerides are broken down into individual fatty acids and monoglycerides. Although Oster described these small milk fat globules in homogenized milk as liposomes, several researchers have pointed out that liposomes are very different in basic composition. Liposomes are typically 200 nanometers or less in size and do not contain complex protein components. Liposomes do not occur in nature but were developed by scientists as a way of delivering components such as drugs to the cells in the body."

Interestingly the authors of this book highly recommend goat's milk.

To further cite Dr. Enig (who is also the author of "Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils, and Cholesterol"):

"A team led by A. J. Clifford looked carefully at Oster's theories. In a study published in 1983, they noted that 'neither liposome formation during homogenization of milk nor absorption of intact liposomes from the gastrointestinal tract has been demonstrated.' In reviewing the major published findings, Clifford reported that 'absorption of dietary xanthine oxidase has not been demonstrated.' Clifford's team cites studies showing lack of activity of serum xanthine oxidase from pigs and humans fed diets that included milk or were without milk. Further, Clifford's team noted that 'a relationship between intake of homogenized `dairy foods' and levels of xanthine oxidase activity in the blood has not been established.' There was even one study which showed an increase in serum xanthine oxidase when corn oil was fed, whereas milk and cream showed no such increase."
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I believe that incorporating inaccurate portrayals that "may" have been the result of personal beliefs (for example inferring problems with other helpful fats and foods), the authors actually may have diluted to some extent the more positive messages that were being sent.

Overall would have to say that I agreed with 90% of the book.

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Low Fat Low Carb as recommended by Author of 8 Week Cholesterol Cure
The Type II Diabetes Diet Book by Calvin Ezrin
Comme ci, comme ca
More than just weight loss!
Low carb explained with authority

Your Fat Can Make You Thin
Calvin Ezrin , and Kristen L. Caron
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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While many American's have found temporary success with low-carbohydrate dieting, few maintain their weight loss. Drawing on proven medical research and years of successful clinical use, Your Fat Can Make You Thin clearly explains how to regulate the body's serotonin levels to maintain energy and health while burning excess fat--and keeping it off for good.

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Low Fat Low Carb as recommended by Author of 8 Week Cholesterol Cure .......2007-09-11

I have both this book and The Type 2 Diabetes book, 3rd edition which was written by this author and co-written by the author of The 8 Week Cholesterol Cure. Both authors recommend a low Carb diet to bring your weight down. Both recommend a LOW FAT Low-Carb regimen. I had concerns about a low-diet affecting brain function but, Larry McCleary's book, The Brain Trust put my mind at ease there. The recipes are good. Lot's of chicken and fish.

The Type II Diabetes Diet Book by Calvin Ezrin.......2002-09-30

I was diagnosed with diabetes around 3 or 4 years ago. I have floundered around trying to find out the right way to eat etc. The nutrition class I went to was led by a very heavy nutritionist. The class really became a turn-off for me. I kept having to increase my diabetic medicine until I was taking 4 and 1/2 pills per day. Then I ran across "The Type II" book--fantastic! Dr. Ezrin not only explains everything but gives you an eating plan as well as recipes. I went on this program February 15 of this year..and today, September 29, 2002, I have lost a total of 116 lbs. (which was my goal set with my Doctor) and I am completely off all my diabetic medicine, my blood pressure is normal. I try to tell anyone who wants to hear--about this book. I am now going in to the stabilization and then on to maintenance. I look at food a lot differently. I have lost weight many times before, but never had a maintenance plan that would help keep it off. Needless to say, I am very excited and happy! Thank you Dr. Ezrin!!! Note: You do have to make up your mind to be faithful to this program!

Comme ci, comme ca.......2002-05-02

This book is a pretty good source of low carb info but not informative enough for the reader who wants to know the ins and outs. I would recommend Life Without Bread over this book if you want to read one excellent low carb diet book.

More than just weight loss!.......2002-04-09

I won't repeat the praise (which I do feel is warranted) for Dr. Ezrin's treatment of insulin-resistance and weight loss. I want to point out another vital issue addressed in this book: seratonin depletion.

Depleted level of seratonin (which can't be measured on any test) cause a wide variety of health problems, often misdiagnosed as thyroid problems, Chronic Fatigue, etc. (See the article about it on my website...).

Read this to understand the problem - and the solution. It's totally curable, with a simple treatment. And "Your Fat Can Make You Thin" even has a chapter addressed to your doctor to help explain things from a medical point of view.

You have nothing to lose, and your life to regain!

Low carb explained with authority.......2001-10-06

I've been overweight all my life but this book has me well on my way to better things. I've tried low fat and it never worked. This book spoke to me with authority and intelligence explaining the connection between carbs, insulin, water and fat retention and seretonin levels. I see now why I and so many of my family members are carb junkies. Within a few days I saw unexpectedly rapid results. There's a "wall" you go through after a day or two but once on the other side, low carb eating feels normal and the results are great both physically and emotionally. Give this book an honest try and you will know within a week whether it's right for you!

The Thin Books: Daily Strategies & Meditations for Fat-Free, Guilt-Free, Binge-Free Living - Revised and Updated Version

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Excellent, excellent, excellent!!!
Best Diet Motivation Book Available!
daily visual helps a lot...
Can't say enough good things

The Thin Books: Daily Strategies & Meditations for Fat-Free, Guilt-Free, Binge-Free Living - Revised and Updated Version
Jeane Eddy Westin
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For years, The Thin Book and The Thin Book 2 have provided readers working on weight loss with inspiring messages to boost their sagging motivation. Now, readers can find both helpful resources in one compact, comprehensive guide. The first part is a topical guide to thin living that includes effective strategies and action plans for success. The second part includes 366 daily readings to help readers build their self-esteem with positive thinking, positive feelings, and positive doing. Readers can use this book every day to enhance their total weight loss program.

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Excellent, excellent, excellent!!!.......2006-03-10

This has been an invaluable tool in my weight loss. I love (and have been following the Action Plan) and tremendously enjoy the daily readings. I recommend this book with enthusiasm. (Down 40 punds to date).

Best Diet Motivation Book Available!.......2004-08-08

This is the best book EVER for daily motivation to stick with your diet, or weight-management program, even better that the books put out by Over-Easters Anonymous. I have used this book many times, over a number of years, and continue to be motivated again EVERY TIME I read it.

The book is filled with specific, concrete suggestions of new ideas to try to keep yourself motivated, and sticking to your program. It gives new, specific things to consider and work on that are REALLY USEFUL, unlike many other books.

daily visual helps a lot..........2003-09-18

i recently started reading this book and it is very motivational. it makes you think. only then can you succeed in weight loss and MAINTAIN which is the bigger challenge. i can't say enough about it. buy it!

Can't say enough good things.......2002-07-16

This is far and away the best book on compulsive eating I have read. Every paragraph contains a nugget of wisdom, a motiviational statement that shoots straight to the heart, or an insight that will leave you breathless if you share this affliction.

If you have a problem controlling your eating -- if you eat from stress, from boredom, from emotion, or if you just find it difficult to resist temptation, or stop when you start ... you HAVE to read this book. Rather than start ANOTHER "diet" next Monday like you always do, grab a copy of this book and start a new way of life.

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Sharply and brilliantly insightful.

Our fragile humanity

Imaginative, fascinating book

Gaitskill has Grown...

Fat or Thin, its still Beautiful

Two Girls Fat and Thin
Mary Gaitskill
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Veronica

On Beauty

ASIN: 0684843129

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Sharply and brilliantly insightful........2007-03-13

Reading Mary Gaitskill is like reading Kathryn Harrison's prolix sister.

This book tells the tale of two damaged women who coincidentally meet and after doing so reexamine their pasts, which include sexual trauma and unstable family situations.

Though Gaitskill's prose occasionally reads like a psychology textbook, she thrills the reader with sparkling, profound insight into the cruel hothouse of sexuality and confusion her characters grow up in. One girl, the overweight one, is friendless and lonely; the other, the thin one, is pretty, popular, and indulges in a mean streak, though certain early encounters in her life have mixed up the wiring in her brain and made her a masochist.

I didn't think the book was quite as interesting when dealing with the characters as adults (in particular the overweight woman, Dorothy), and the ending left a little something to be desired, but Gaitskill is unrivaled in her ability to put you right into the minds of her wounded characters, and lay bare the world they live in (internally and externally).

Despite getting a little soft in the end, I thought this was a brilliant book at showing the trace-line from what happens to us as children and how our confused, uncomprehending, inchoate, not-yet-mature-enough-to-understand thoughts and reasoning colors who we are and what we do for the rest of our lives.

Our fragile humanity.......2006-06-01

I was a little wary about the title but this was not at all about weight gain and/or loss; weight was incidental. In this fiercely intelligent novel, Dorothy and Justine are both desperately lonely women, both victims of abuse, and yet are different in other ways. Their parents often failed them, their childhood was often full of shame and self-sabotage, but Gaitskill writes this with complexity, always aware that a victim can also be a victimizer. Gaitskill is never sentimental. Underneath her narrative, underneath the pain and the sex scenes (which are never fully loving) and the disappointments and loneliness, is a raging anger at the inability of human beings to connect - on race, on class, but mostly on gender. I sensed that Anna Granite, the intellectual whose shadow dominates this narrative, and who is the reason Dorothy and Justine first meet, is Gaitskill's platform for displaying her keen intellect; and sometimes there is a hint of didactism. But this is a minor quibble. The last section moved me very much and proved that although Gaitskill abhors sentimentality, she can certainly do sentiment well. `Humanity' is a word often found in this book. Our sexuality is connected to our humanity. Our ability to treat other human beings like human beings is what makes us human. In the end, Gaitskill's brilliant, wonderfully feminist novel was, for me, about how easily we strip each other of our humanity.

Imaginative, fascinating book.......2006-04-17

The book begins with the narrator noticing a message on a laundromat bulletin board, instantly drawing my interest. My interest never flags, with the author's symbolic visual and intellectualized descriptions of her environment and things that happen to her. The books feels like I was watching a movie in 3D.

The two main characters are both young women. Dorothy Never is overweight and masochistic while Justine Shade is a thin, masochistic and sadistic free lance journalist. Dorothy meets her through the bulletin board ad she sees on the "Definitist" philosophy. This author-created philosophy permits the main character (Dorothy) to work out neuroses formed by childhood traumas such as peer teasing and especially incest, and move forward in her life.

I found the names of characters, places and philosophy to be both creative and entertaining, as were the Hopper-esque visuals of New York City which added magical touches to the novel, making it all the more seductive. The references to the weight of the two women -- one fat, the other thin -- symbolized in an interesting way the always present theme of emotional deprivation.

Many things happen in this book that detail the intellectual and mostly emotional journal of two shattered personalities.

Gaitskill has Grown..........2006-02-24

Maybe it's because I read Veronica before reading Two Girls, but I was somewhat disappointed. I'm always interested to see the evolution of an author I enjoy, but I could feel myself backpeddling.

As always with Gaitskill's writing, she paints a beautiful portrait of lonliness and isolation without necessarily writing a "sad" book. Her major characters are clearly cut, interesting and incredibly multi-faceted, and her minor characters are sketches that weave in and out of the background without feeling like characitures--a feat well accomplished. You feel for both Justine and Dorothy, but maybe not as much as you wish you could. Because while they are both interesting and sympathetic, they are simultaneously repulsive and unlikable.

The needs are there and the language is moving but the background of the Ayn Rand character and her followers is somewhat laborious. While Anna Granite served to bring the two girls together, she was uninteresting and the segments involving her were draggy. Perhaps my reaction to this part of the story has something to do with the fact that, like Justine, I never "got" the whole Ayn Rand thing. Her books and so-called "philosophy" were uninspired and uninspiring to me.

All in all, an enjoyable read, but it doesn't hold much of a candle to Gaitskill's later works. If you thought this book was decent or better, I'd suggest picking up some later Gaitskill. It's worth the time and investment.

Fat or Thin, its still Beautiful.......2005-10-18

Just like her short story collection, Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill's novel, Two Girls Fat and Thin, left me speechless. The story seemed simple enough: the thin girl is interviewing the fat girl about her time working for the author/cult leader, Anna Granite. They are both wary of each other, the interviewer thinks the interviewee is crazy and the interviewee feels that her entire belief system is under attack by the interviewer. But in the end a strange friendship/bond/understanding will form between the two of them.

But its so much more than that.

While I completely appreciate all the goofy reincarnation of Ayn Rand (can I assume that she's the object of ridicule throughout the book!?), I can't help but be drawn into the actual lives of Dorothy and Justine. Dorothy's affiliation with a literary cult leader seems almost unnecessary, though executed perfectly. However its the `compare and contrast' of these two women's lives that really makes the story - how they are terribly different physically and emotionally, BUT how they are also very similar. They both share strange and horrible relationships with their parents, were both molested as young children and have finally achieved a sense of independence just before their meeting. You get complete character dissections of each of them: what they want, what they think they want and what they already had. Where both women have unresolved unresolved conflicts from their past, its too late to doing anything about them. It seems that their acquaintanceship, while mistrustful at first is their stepping stone to personal redemption.

Mary Gaitskill is yet again justly perverse and sexual, especially through Justine and her trysts through childhood and her current ill-suited lover and sadist, Bryan. Dorothy recounts her painful years of being an overweight girl growing up and only finding acceptance within Anna Granite's circle.

Two Girls, Fat and Thin is an amazing book - with very wise and witty language. There are many moments when Gaitskill sums up in a few words everything you need to know about what creates strong relationships between strangers. These are not stereotypical characters, these are not trite and uncomplicated scenes. For a book that will give you a lot to think about and won't require a dictionary to get through, you can't go wrong.

Fat Chicks Rule!: How To Survive In A Thin-centric World

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Fat chicks Rule!
THIS BOOK ROCKS!
Fat Chicks Rock!!

Fat Chicks Rule!: How To Survive In A Thin-centric World
Lara Frater
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"I can't wait for this book!"-Marilyn Wann, author of FAT! SO?

A fun, fact-filled guide to living the big girl's life with style, Fat Chicks Rule!: How To Survive in a Thin-Centric World, tackles the weighty issues that large women face in our thin-obsessed society. This lavishly illustrated book provides information on everything that the plus-size woman needs to know, including where to shop, the dieting scam, how to be fat and sexy, the fat acceptance movement, famous fat chicks in history, fat chick entertainment, snappy comebacks against the fat-phobic and much more. Dedicated to every woman who feels she needs to lose a few pounds but really doesn't, Fat Chicks Rule! shows you how to live fat and happily ever after.

Lara Frater is a New York City-based fat acceptance activist.

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Fat chicks Rule!.......2006-05-03

I picked up Lara Frater's wonderful book and I'm so happy I did. This is a great book for the fat chick. It's filled with awesome advice and info.

THIS BOOK ROCKS!.......2005-07-26

Round. Plump. Zaftig. It doesn't matter what word you use, they all mean "fat." And it's beautiful. That's the message from Lara Frater in her new book, "Fat Chicks Rule." LF doesn't apologize for being on the heavy side and neither, she says, should any woman (or man) who's in the same general size category. Fat is fun. It's cool. It's a survival asset in more cultures and at more historical periods than anyone at the New England Journal of Medicine is ever going to admit. LF gives tons of information about the history of fat, the history of women, background on why the medical profession is not necessarily your friend, as well as advice on tips that makes it a little simpler for fat chicks to work, shop, play and travel. Most importantly, she tells her readers that as long as they eat well, exercise, and let common sense dictate their impulses to lose weight (rather than the billion dollar diet industry), they'll probably do just fine. I picked this book up on a tip from a friend at work (we're all on the heavy side) and I was amazed and excited to read a message that finally made sense to me after having heard the same recycled dogma from doctors, the government, and other so-called "professional" health experts who were obviously more interested in selling their own "health products" than my health. This book is a gem!

Fat Chicks Rock!!.......2005-07-15

We had a chance to read Lara Frater's "Fat Chicks Rule!" When I asked Liza what she thought, she simply replied, "This is every woman's story..."

Lara talks of her "thin voice" - you know the one that promises you friends, romance, success, beauty - if you could only lose some weight. The same little voice the drives us back to the roller coaster world of dieting. And then one day, she stepped off the ride, and began to live her life . . .

And she wants the reader to live too! She wants them to reclaim their bodies from the diet industry and from media stereotypes of beauty. The writer takes the reader on a how to journey of Ruling as a Fat Chick!!

Fat Chicks Rule! is a great resource for everything the Fat Chick needs to live her life fully. Need a role model? Check out Fat Chicks in history or famous entertainers. Lara has done her homework; a practical guide covering everything from size-positive movies to shopping tips to dare we say it? Yes folks, SEX!! It's all there and more.

Even witty comebacks for those insensitive remarks. . . My favorite being, "There's a thin person inside you." "That's because thin people are so tasty!"

So, if you need some advice, looking for a place to shop, or need a little boost in the self-esteem department - check out "Fat Chicks Rule!"

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Calorie Queens: Living Thin in a Fat World

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Especially helpful if your family doesn't support you!
Easy Read!
I loved this book! Really life changing! great recipes
Simple, effective weight loss!
Jackie and Diane Scott changed my life!!

Calorie Queens: Living Thin in a Fat World
Jackie Scott , Diane Scott Kellum , and Brett A. Scott
Manufacturer: Center Street
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Jackie Scott and her mother Diane Scott had tried just about every diet under the sun, sometimes losing weight but always gaining it back. So, with the help of Dianes husband, Brett, a board certified neurosurgeon, they developed their own diet complete with menus, shopping lists, over 100 recipes, and generous helpings of common sense. They soon discovered that not only did their calorie-based diet work for them (Jackie lost 100 pounds, Diane over 200 pounds, and even Brett lost 50 pounds) but it worked for their friends. This is not a starvation or a fad diet. Its not really a diet at all.Its about learning how to eat for a lifetime from two real women who have been there and are making it work.

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Especially helpful if your family doesn't support you!.......2006-04-03

Jackie & Diane asked themselves why diets failed THEM in the past and what it would take for THEM to succeed. It just so happens that I had the same issue.

The recipes are very simple and easy to follow. I am a non-cook so, this is important to me. With this book, you can fix meals that are not "diet" and can still lose weight. If you would like books that are good companion volumes to this book are:
Uncle Sam's Diet & The Step Diet (The Step Diet comes with a pedometer and is based on the data gathered by the National Weight Control Registry).

No book can be everything to everybody. I read this and had my "AHA" moment. Jackie & Diane point out that you need to take care of yourself because no one else will

Easy Read!.......2006-03-24

Thoroughly enjoyable, readable, funny and serious at the same time. The concept makes sense and gives confidence that once the weight is lost, you are ready to keep it off. I like the been-there-done-that stories, makes their success all that more remarkable. The recipes are very good - not diet food but meals the whole family can enjoy.

I loved this book! Really life changing! great recipes.......2006-01-08

I really love this book--the concept of Eucalorics really makes sense to me! I have tried several of the recipes and they are delish! I think this is a whole new way to look at calorie coounting and I am extremely excited about meeting my weight and health goals. Finally a reasonable way to gain control over eating!!

Simple, effective weight loss!.......2005-11-27

There are tons of weight loss books on the market. Many of the authors have never struggled with their weight. Jackie and Diane are a mother and daughter who have lost 300+ pounds between the two of them. They know what it's like to be heavy.

The two tried a number of diets and studied the diet books on the market. They came up with the simple conclusion. If you want to lose weight you have to eat less. You don't have to combine foods in a certain way, cut out carbs or exercise till you are blue in the face. You simply have to burn more calories than you are taking in through diet and exercise.

Throughout the years there have been many diet plans that agree with Jackie and Diane. Cut calories, move a little more - lose weight. Weight Watcher's members count points, Jenny Craig doles out low calorie meals etc. Many of these diet plans enable members to lose weight. The problem is people gain the weight back and usually a few extra lbs with it!

Jackie and Diane advocate a different approach. They advocate a system called EUCALORIES or normal calories. They suggest you select your goal weight, making it a realistic one and then multiply that weight by 12. For example if you wish to weigh 135, you would multiply 135 by 12 and get 1620. Start eating 1620 calories on a daily basis and eventually you will wind up weighing 135. It will take longer than if you cut to say 1200 calories BUT you are more likely to stick with the program...forever! Weight loss can be enhanced by adding in more excercise.

There are drawbacks to the plan. Individuals do differ in their metabolisms, acitivity levels etc. So the actual calorie count per individual may vary. But in general Jackie and Diane say this method will work for most.

One area Jackie and Diane address is dietary guidelines ie how many grains, veggies etc. you should eat. They use government guidelines By following the recommendations you will know how much and what to eat daily. HOWEVER the beauty of the method is, if you don't follow the recommendations..so long as you count the calories (baring medical problems) you should reach your goals. For good health though, it is recommended that you follow the guidelines most of the time. The recommendation for fats and oils is listed on p. 53 as 2 servings per week. This did not look correct to me and I emailed the authors. They said it was a printing error and it should be 2 servings daily.

Eating more calories but still losing weight is much easier than sticking to a low calorie diet, however, there will still be times when one has trouble. Eating protein will help with control. It has been shown that folks that eat a little more protein eat fewer calories and stay in greater control. Though Jackie and Diane touched on nutrients etc. They did not share this information and it is really crucial for many people who lose control when they eat too many carbs. It's not a matter of giving up carbs..its a matter of making sure you eat enough protein to regulate sugar surges.

The mental aspect of weight loss are barely addressed in this book and for two women that were 300+ overweight I think they could have discussed this.

The book is set up so it shares the plan in the first half and the second half is primarily recipes. Recipes include mushroom smothered chicken, ham and egg fried rice, banana muffins and smashed parmesan and roasted garlic potatoes. Each recipe includes calories, fat, carbs and protein. There is also a daily menu plan for 28 days spelling out breakfast, lunch, dinner and allowing you to select your own snacks. The back of the book includes a snack and calorie guide.

Kudos for Jackie and Diane for their tremendous weight loss accomplishment and thanks for sharing this new way of looking at how to do it!

Jackie and Diane Scott changed my life!!.......2005-11-16

I just finished reading "Calorie Queens", but I have been living it for the past year. Let me explain -

In March 2004, I heard Jackie Scott speak at a conference reception I attended in Lexington, KY. At the time I was carrying about 185 pounds on my 51-year-old, 5' 1" frame (I didn't have a bathroom scale, but weighed 188 with clothes at an October 2003 doctor's appointment). I had, however, maintained that weight for about 5 years. I was deathly afraid of the word "diet" -- yo yo dieting was the way I had "grown" from an average healthy nonpregnant weight of 110 pounds in my young adult life (from age 15 to age 30) to an average obese weight of 185 in my forties and now fifties.

Jackie's story of "learning how to eat normally" made so much sense to me -- but I procrastinated 8 months more before actually doing anything about it. I didn't even buy the book (self-published edition) at the time, but the concept stuck.

In December of 2004 I began keeping a food journal and discovered to my great surprise that I was actually eating far more calories than I would have estimated. On January 2005, I weighed in at 180 pounds sans clothes. Between January and August, I dropped about 5 pounds per month following Jackie and Diane's program of "normal Calories" (40 pounds total) -- due to my active lifestyle I ate an average of 1900 calories per day! Since August to the current date of November 16, I have dropped about 5 more pounds. At 135 pounds, I am within 4 pounds of a magic "healthy" weight on the bmi chart of 131 pounds!!

The best part of this highly nutritious, common-sense approach is that you only have ONE PLAN for the REST OF YOUR LIFE. No stage one stage two stage three then maintenance. You are starting on maintenance.

I still keep my food journal. As to exercise, while hauling around those 45 extra pounds made me breathe hard climbing one flight of steps, I now walk regularly, always take the stairs instead of the elevator, dance and play volleyball on the weekends. And my 1900 calorie lifestyle is completely workable with celebrations, eating out, in other words -- normal life! I have learned to "eat thin in a fat world" :-)

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to pursue a healthy lifestyle.

Eat Yourself Thin Like I Did!: Quick and Easy Low Carb Cookbook

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I really tried to give this book a chance, but......
Excellent Low Carb Cookbook!
Read before you buy this book!!!!
too large scale.
Great Recipes!!!!!!!!!!!

Eat Yourself Thin Like I Did!: Quick and Easy Low Carb Cookbook
RN, Nancy Moshier
Manufacturer: Nancy's Cookbooks
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Quick and Easy delicious low-carb recipes developed for people following any low carbohydrate diet. Serving sizes and carb counts for every recipe are accurate and a lay-flat binding allows the cookbook to remain open at all times. Easy to find and easy to use ingredients makes this cookbook a wonderful addition to any kitchen.

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I really tried to give this book a chance, but.............2004-06-15

Everything tastes very odd, and yes, I can cook, so It wasnt a question of loose nut between the book and the mixing bowl, ha ha. I agree with one of the other reviews, in that there are easier and tastier ways to prepare some of the dishes, BESIDES using pork rinds and guar gum over and over. I was very dissapointed and I am returning this book and the companion dessert book.

Excellent Low Carb Cookbook!.......2004-04-27

I'm so pleased with this low carb cookbook that I just had to write a review. I had purchased many cookbooks but unfortunately all of them had very high carb counts and when you need to stick to 20-30 carbs a day, you need recipes that are delicious and will work for you. This great cookbook has so many terrific recipes and ALL are under 10 carbs per serving, most around 5 grams of carbs per serving. Now this is what a true low carb cookbook should be. Also, I know the author has come out with a 2nd revised edition of this book and I'm going to order that one too! I don't need to go any further... treat yourself to a real low carb cookbook written by a Registered Nurse who has lost a lot of weight herself and lives the low carb lifestyle.
One more thing.... if you like sweet treats then you should order the best low carb desserts book I've found to date called Eat Yourself Thin With Fabulous Desserts!

Read before you buy this book!!!!.......2004-03-13

This book should have been titled, "Eat Yourself Thin, by Eating Tons of Pork Rinds". So many recipes call for pork rinds--yuck!! I understand that the Atkins diet uses them a lot, but this book calls itself a "low carb cookbook", not an "exclusive Atkins cookbook". Very misleading. I won't use crushed up pig fat--not very healthy!!!!!

too large scale........2004-01-21

All of the recipes make servings of 12 or more, this is great if a family is on this plan but, i'm just one person and the recipes cannot be broken down for my use. Would love a book of recipes for one or two.

Great Recipes!!!!!!!!!!!.......2003-11-21

This book makes a Low-Carb lifestyle EASY! I have the Eat Yourself Thin with Fabulous Desserts recipe book, too - I highly recommend both!

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