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Summary: Wonderful book with great insights
Review: This book is great. I have read and re-read it several times and always find something new. It really explains how and why we gain weight. It also is excellent in explaining how we lose weight. I have been following this book for a 3 weeks and already lost 12 pounds. It is very easy to follow and I am never hungry. Plus the recipes are fabulous and easy to make.Give it a try, you won't be sorry.
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Summary: The best recipes and the best system
Review: After being a strict vegetarian for 15 years (and teaching cooking classes at a health foods complex), I was highly skeptical about Suzanne's system. But I'm a researcher, and I did my homework. Food combining is, indeed, an old and accepted theory of healthy eating. This is not an anti-carbo "diet"; it calls for the healthy food groups, only in different combinations so that insulin levels aren't spiked, thus causing the body to store calories as fat. After reaching 50 and having a size 6 lean, mean machine, I suddenly put on matronly inches. Whose waistline was I seeing in the mirror anyway? Certainly not MINE! I couldn't fit into my clothes. Menopause wreaked havoc with my body. My low-fat vegetarianism didn't work at all for me anymore. All my workouts (Pilates, etc.) couldn't trim the excess inches I was continually adding. I began to feel desperate and out of control. So, as a last resort, I tried Somersizing. I have known Suzanne was a fabulous cook ever since discovering an article about her culinary expertise 20 years ago. But these recipes and these sauces, in particular, are extraordinary! The latest book with its zucchini noodles, parmesan sauce, mozzarella marinara, and other delectable goodies is a triumph! I love to cook again! The simple wine reduction sauces are fabulous. The information about good fats is "freeing"! My husband and I are losing inches and eating tremendous food. My body is returning to its size 6 dimensions. I couldn't be more positive about this program. The information by Suzanne's endocrinologist is right on-target. It all comes together and finally makes sense. If you don't want to do the program, at least make the delectable foods! And if you DO want to follow the program, buen apetito and viva the weight loss! Also note: Suzanne's no-chemicals, no-preservatives sugar substitute, Somersweet, is due out in May. Another breakthrough for healthy cooks who have had to do without sugar for years. This woman is no dumb blonde. She's on the cutting edge!
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Summary: Want to lose weight?
Review: I can say that after trying many different methods of shedding pounds, that without a doubt Suzanne's way of eating is BEST for losing wt and keeping it off. It is a way of life, NOT a DIET. She allows you to still eat carbs, which is crucial for energy. Other popular diets now that eliminate carbs are impossible to live by, and leave you feeling hungry. Definitely NOT something I could do forever.
Food combining and eating healthy WHOLE carbs is the way to go. Whenever I have tried to go to low calorie, low fat- tradional dietician recommendations, I not only DO NOT lose weight, but even GAIN.
Suzanne has a great solution here and it is something you can live with and NOT feel deprived.
The first 2 weeks of her diet I lost 10lbs...when I recommend it to my mom, she too lost the 10lbs in 2 weeks.
By the way, I am a chronic prednisone user and diabetic, and EVEN with that combination, this WORKS. Blood sugars are best when I follow this way of eating.
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Summary: I ALMOST RAN OUT of TIME
Review: HI readers,like you I have tried almost every diet out on the market.I even had my stomach stappled,and I lost some weight, then restretched my stomach and gained it back, but I have a lovely scar from center of chest down to my navel. Now I weigh 297lbs. at 5'3in. and I don't exercise, but I have developed Diabetes 2 at age 38. Here I am looking at Suzanne Somer's book thinking she was a nice flake in 3's COMPANY but what does she know she's gorgeous. My mother at age 60 bought her book and she said I'm going to try it because she believes what Ms. Somers states about how Fat-Free and Light products or Sugar-Free are full of SUGAR and bad CHEMICALS. My mom is a great cook she served me Suzane Somers meals. I stopped eating ice-cream and fast foods, and now 3 weeks into this life style and I have lost 15lbs.and my mom who is 160lbs. has lost 25lbs. Still I have cheated and lost weight!! My DIABETES sugar readings are in range and I am getting more energy, so now I've started to exercise a little and I even went for a walk the first time in 10 years. My depression seams to be getting better because I haven't needed any medication since I started this new Life Style. I can't call this a diet because I eat when ever I want and until I'm stuffed. I have cut out some things but now I eat cheese cake and sour cream, and decaff. coffee with whole cream, its devine considering I haven't had a cup since I quit smoking 8 years ago. Now at 42 maybe I will live longer so I can enjoy life again and my newborn grandaughter Karissa. I am a canadian and I can't get all those lovely foods that you grow in the states and I am still eating great foods. So thank-you Suzanne for my Life cuz now I have a chance. GRATEFULL
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Summary: A Diet that Really Works
Review: All of Suzanne's books are great, this newest one is no exception. It's loaded with useful information to get you started on a healthful diet that really works. Since buying her first book I've begun growing my own fresh herbs to use in Suzanne's recipes. Let me tell you, the recipes in her first two books are fabulous. I can't wait to try out the new ones in this book. Uncomplicated, but not too simple, these recipes are a lot of fun to prepare and serve. They bring out the gourmet cook in everyone. I began Suzanne's diet two months ago, I have lost 27 pounds. The woman who told me about it has lost almost 60 pounds since November. Personally, I've motivated at least a dozen people to rush out and buy "Eat Great Lose Weight" and "Get Skinny on Fabulous Food" so they too can "Somersize". This plan is working for every one of them. I'm sure they'll all be buying this new book as well. I should be at my goal weight by swimsuit time this summer, but let me tell you, if Suzanne comes out with a fourth book--I'll be the first one in line for it.
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Summary: "What's In My Diet Rather Than Being On A Diet"
Review: I have all 3 of Suzanne Somers books and find Eat, Cheat, and Melt the Fat Away has added even more insights for people who have special dietary needs. I started Somersizing last June and have permanently lost 33 pounds by September. My weight does fluctuate by about 5 pounds for a total loss of 38 pounds depending on the food combinations I choose to have. Initially, I was really skeptical about whether or not I could give up what Suzanne classifies as "funky foods" which were a significant part of my diet. I was even more concerned about all the foods she allows one to add to their diets and not actually gain weight. I soon realized that the foods I sacraficed for years and now brought back into my diet made the loss of the other foods not a problem. I also saw the weight start coming off rather quickly after the first couple of weeks. I now choose to be a "no starch" and "no sugar" gal as a regular part of my dietary intake. If you don't change your thinking about what is going to make up your everyday "Diet" and just treat the principles she outlines in her book as a type of "Diet" to loose some weight, then I believe it would be very difficult to keep excess weight off permanently. In fact, I've seen this happen to several people who asked me what "Diet" I was on. I told them I wasn't on a "Diet" but rather have made conscientious different and permanent choices regarding my daily eating routine as a part of my lifestyle. I've encouraged those who ask what I've done to read Susanne's books. Some who have read her book(s) have treated the principles she provides as a "Diet" anyway. As a result, their habits go back to what they were before following the principles she outlines and they put weight back on. For those who ask if I'm still on my "Diet" (as they haven't seen the weight come back on), I smile and respond with..."if you mean will I put the weight back on again when I go off my "Diet", then the answer is "No" because my so called "Diet" is a permanent part of my life now."
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Summary: Too much Somersize marketing-early books are better
Review: Suzanne Somers' diet is a good idea and it works. However, based on her earlier successes, Ms. Somers' has started marketing a series of products to help follow her diet. This book is filled with recipes that all require her new products. Buy her old book where she still focused on using what is in your kitchen. These recipes are merely marketing for her products.
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Summary: Nice recipes here
Review: Suzanne Somers did her homework when she went looking for a diet to beat middle-age spread, and enlisted the help of California endocrinologist Diane Schwarzbein. The "Somercize" diet is low-carb but not no-carb like the Atkins program. The major benefit here is two-fold: Want to reduce refined starches and sugars in your diet? Look no further. The recipes here are mostly low carb and low sugar. You can use saccharine or "Somersweet" --a mix of fruit fiber and fructose that is still sugar but lower in simple sugars than sucrose or corn syrup. Unfortunately, it's only sold on Suzanne's website, but she does provide the alternative of artificial sweetners. The second benefit is that if you don't care about sweets, you can ignore the desserts and head for the main dishes, which are all thoughtfully created with delicious vegetables, meats and seasonings to please the most discriminating palate. The Somercize diet is a combination of the fad for food-combining; here fat and protein are ok, carbs like vegetables or whole grains are not eaten with fat or protein, and fruits go alone. Some foods are "funky foods" --that is, a mix of carbs and fat or carbs and proteins, and they are verboten until you lose sufficient weight. Will it work? Possibly. Some people do report great results. But the value here is probably more in the cookbook, which really does have very nice recipes for low sugar, well-prepared meals. And if you do get Somersweet or use saccharine, there are ice cream recipes...so how bad can this be? An attractive book, possibly useful even to Atkins dieters who can navigate those recipes with carbohydrates. And certainly if you are editing sugar out, you won't suffer with this plan.
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Summary: Just plain delicious!
Review: Whether or not you follow the somersize program, you will love the recipes from Suzanne Somers! They are very tasty! And for anyone looking to find delicious ways to include more vegetables in your diet you'll find lots of ways to incorporate them.
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Summary: I Enjoyed The Family Pictures
Review: I have had several years of success on low-carb diets, and I have always thought Suzanne Somers brought a valuable perspective to the issue because she's NOT a scientist or a doctor, and explains things in the plain language used by the rest of us. As the latest medical research is showing us, the science behind this diet is very solid, and she provides plenty of reference for people who want to explore that further. But her goal in this book is to speak as one dieter to another. However, I must say I can't understand all the readers who have said they could do without the photos and references to Suzanne Somers' large and happy family. There are so many people who succeed at work but not at home. It's rewarding to meet in print somebody who balances both. Aside from learning more about what Suzanne Somers really believes about the priorities of family and friends, there is the obvious point that high-protein/high-fat/low-carb diets are the ones that give people both the energy and emotional well-being to write books, spend time with their families, and entertain their friends.
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