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Summary: Good Eats, Bad Advice
Review: This book has incredibly flavorful, easy recipes using the classic formula of fresh, traditional ingredience used simply. Unfortunately, the health advice is pure bunk. I enjoyed these recipes to an all time cholesterol high.
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Summary: Eureka! I've found it!
Review: 'Stole' the first book from my daughter and will buy her a new one since I have enjoyed making the recipes and the philosophy seems to work for me. No sugar, yummy fruit smoothies for breakfast, very few hunger cravings, good wholesome food to eat in what seems to be the right combinations. I feel better - have been off caffeine for a week, no ups or downs and have lost 2+- pounds. Yup! It works, (if I do!) More common recipes for us common folk, please. Though I feel like I'm in Italy or France when we eat the yummy fare Suzanne suggests. Would have been hard to have raised 7 farm kids without meat and potatoes though.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book had a lot of the same information as Suzanne Somer's other book on Somersizing "Eat Great, Lose Weight", however, this book has some updates to the original book as well as many more wonderful recipes. I originally started the Somersizing program after hearing that it could level out hormones. Having had two diseases that related to an imbalance in hormones, the idea that this program could balance out my hormones was the big draw. I did have some weight to lose, but that was not the major incentive for starting this program. After 10 weeks on the program, I never felt better in my life. I'm menopausal, but my hot flashes and night sweats have diminished to almost non-existent. I'm eating well and plenty and have so much energy. Oh, and I've lost 19 pounds to date. Some of my friends also started the program when I told them how well I was doing. All have had good results so far. One friend, who is diabetic, is amazed that her blood levels are the same all day. There are no more drastic spikes. Food combining can be a little tough to understand in the beginning, but once you master it, it is not that difficult to maintain. The main problem is the way that we have been conditioned here in the United States to eat over the years (pizza, white pasta with meat sauce, hamburgers, meat and potatoes and chemically altered foods that sit on the shelf for years). I highly recommend this way of eating to anyone who wants to feel healthy and slim down.
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Summary: A great Diet very Healthy and it works
Review: I've lost 9 pounds in two weeks and I do not fell deprived at all. Try this diet you won't regret it at all.
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Summary: Somercising--My Last Diet
Review: This was my first diet. It's my last one. It's not a diet, but a lifestyle.The concept of food combining has helped me get back to a healthy weight. I started at the beginning of July. It's been eight weeks and I have lost 23 pounds. It's still falling off. The principle is this: starch, sugar & caffeine give you false energy. If you eliminate them, your body finds alternate sources of energy: your fat! The energy source, being consistent (at least in my body) provides continual power to your body, so you don't EVER feel tired. In fact, I'm never "wiped-out" anymore, and I'm rarely tired enough to sleep. And I rarely exercise, though I stand and walk all day in my teaching job. I lost weight quickest on this diet when I walked twice a week. The second principle has to do with food-combining. No proteins with carbohydrates. See the book for details, but I'll just say this. I feel like this diet is a "healthy" diet. My sister in law was on the Atkins diet, lost so much weight. But I never wanted to go on that diet, since it seemed *WRONG* to not have grains in your diet and to pork-out on meat. Suzanne's diet also allows fruit, where the others say you cannot have fruit. The book is written so personally that when you've finished reading it, you feel like you KNOW Suzanne personally. At least I do. It's chock-full of photographs of her family, her grandbaby, her daughter, etc. Someone reviewing above said it's good for the short-term. I disagree. When you reach a plateau, trick your body by eating just fruits and veggies for a week. You'll begin to lose weight again, then go back to somercising. You'll enjoy reading the book. And I'm sure you'll lose weight.
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Summary: I'VE LOST 67LBS SO FAR!!
Review: I have been "Somersizing" since February, 2000 & have lost 67lbs so far!! I love this diet-if you can all it that!! I started with the first book, "Eat Great, Lose Weight" & bought her 2nd book a few months later!I really like the plan! It is very easy to live with!! I eat lots of oatmeal & cream of wheat!! Yumm! I have only made a few of her recipes, I mainly adapt my recipes to the ingredients I can eat!! There are lots of good things to make!! I still have 100 lbs to go, but am very confident that I can do it!! Thanksgiving is coming up & that will be a true test, but I can do it!! I feel so much better now & am a happier person because of what this diet has brought to me!! I highly recommend this diet over the Atkins diet!! You can eat so much more with this plan!!! Thank You Suzanne!!!!
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Summary: Everyone I know is sharing this book with friends!
Review: Everyone I know seems to be on this diet. My relatives are all dropping pounds and swear by "Somersizing." Suzanne Somers discovered this diet while seated in a garden in a medieval French village. That tells me it must be a great diet! I love France. After finishing a delicious dinner, she stood up and picked some cherries from a tree overhead. Her host told her that would cause indigestion and keep her up all night. It turned out to be true and she discovered the centuries-old theory of food combining. This dictates that certain foods must never be eaten together. This diet allows proteins and fats to be eaten together, but never with carbohydrates. Her plan is low in sugar and carbohydrates, but permits all sorts of fruits. Fruit must however be eaten on an empty stomach. Vegetables, bread, cereal and pasta may never be eaten with fats or proteins. She has tried all the other diets and finally found one that worked for her. When she hit 40, her metabolism slowed down and she was getting fewer and fewer results. She finally tried food combining and it worked. She lost 20 lbs. She believes sugar was the enemy. She recommends going cold turkey the first week you are on her diet. Diet alone cannot help you loose weight, so she also recommends exercise. One thing she says is that you should give yourself at least a few weeks to start seeing the results. Her plan includes: Eliminating sugar, starch, white flour, caffeine and alcohol. You must eat fruit alone on an empty stomach. Proteins can be eaten with cheese, butter and vegetables. Pasta may be eaten with veggies. You must wait three hours between meals if switching from a protein/fat meal to a carbohydrate meal or vice versa. Eat at least three meals a day and don't skip meals. It sounds simple until you have to give up your buttered toast with jam and tea! I am going to try the fruit idea for sure and try to incorporate more of her ideas. I already hardly eat sugar because I found Stevia, which tastes so much better than all those artificial sweeteners. So, give this diet a try. My uncle has lost quite a few pounds and swears by food combining. He also loves to eat! Now tell me, who do you know who is 53 and looks as good as Suzanne Somers? That should be proof enough!
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Summary: Good for the Short Run
Review: I had lost about 18 lbs, without exercising, most post-baby weight. But I did hit a wall and stopped losing weight. I missed stuff like a turkey sandwich, bananas and white pasta. The cookbook portion has some great recipes, but some ingredients are expensive and they do require a LOT of prep work. It does introduce you to some great new foods and spices, but tough to continue in the long run.
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Summary: WANT A WEIGHTLOSS PENPAL
Review: Ive read both of suzzane's books and actually liked them. The first time I tried the diet I lost 10 pounds within the first week then started to loose an average of 3 to 4 pounds every week after. I also worked out like a maniac though. Ive gained around 20 pounds this summer and want to get back on this diet however I find it very hard to do when im the only one I know doing it. If anyone would like id love to have someone to share my diet experiences with (problems,questions,motivation,ect). So if you are interested e-mail me at Belladonna8402@hotmail.com or if you have instant messanger service you can im me at aries2277. thanxs
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Summary: This is the Food Lovers Diet!
Review: I learned about this diet in the proverbial check-out line in the supermarket. Having tried several "high protein-based" diets, I thought this one might be on the right track. I literally drove straight from the supermarket to the bookstore and bought the book. And I have been enjoying weight management while eating fantastically ever since. (And I DO love to cook and eat! Why not! ) I was "Somersizing" and maintaining 125-130 lbs. (I'm 5'6") before having two beautiful children in the last two years. After our first baby's birth, I lost 40 lbs. in 4 months, and I've lost 50 lbs. in about 5 months following our second baby's birth, all the while confident and relaxed that it would work and it has. All of her delicious recipes work, they're simple but tasty, and I cannot think of one food I can't eat on the diet, except that you must avoid high-glycemic carbs (potatoes, white flour, a few other foods) and substitute whole grains, etc. You also must avoid sugar especially at first. Later, on Level II she shows you how to modify your desserts to fit the diet and use a little sugar. I've written Suzanne myself to thank her for the first diet that ever really worked for me! And I've tried Atkins, Protein Power, Carbohydrate Addicts, Scarsdale, G-Index, and low-calorie/low-fat (yuk). I urge you to try it if you are the least bit interested. It really works, and has taught me how to stay fit and trim with confidence, and without counting any calories or working out like a madwoman.
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