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Summary: This diet is a great start.
Review: The book does a great job of explaining the initial phase 1 and I felt things worked out well. I lost about 5 pounds in the first 2 weeks. I felt the other 2 phases weren't as descriptive as the first so I took the good Doctor's advice and bought another book, "Good carbs, bad carbs". This book is also a great book and it goes into much more detail about what is happening inside our bodies when we eat certain foods. These 2 books have helped me to start eating healthier, losing weight, and improving my health by lowering my cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood pressure. The 2 books together have worked well to help me understand the process much better and for the first time in my life, I can see how a healthy lifestyle can taste great. "Good carbs, bad carbs" also explains how too much exercise and too little food can exhaust you and actually cause your body to reverse the process and gain weight. I give both books 5 stars.
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Summary: Easiest and most satisfying diet ever
Review: I'm 52 and have had a slight to moderate weight problem my entire life (about 25 lbs.) Have been on many diets and always lost weight but never could make it a "lifestyle change". This is so simple - I think some those who have given negative reviews are reading more into it and making it more complicated than it is. Who cares if it is a little like the Atkins diet in the first couple of weeks - at least I don't have to do any carb calculations!! I've been on it for 5 weeks, have lost 12 pounds and have lost my usual cravings for candy, cookies, and chocolate. I am able to totally ignore the Krispy Kreme donuts in the employee lounge. You don't have to eat the menu plan - those are just suggestions for people who don't have any creativity when it comes to cooking. Just eat the things on the allowed list and don't eat foods on the "may not eat" list and make sure you eat your snacks and eat enough at mealtime to satisfy you. Yes - once in a while I feel hungry because I've been too busy to eat what I should - so I just catch up by eating allowed foods. Up until now I've always been a "carboholic" and it's really an odd feeling to not need that. I find the Atkins plan too complicated. I have found that most people doing the Atkins plan don't really follow the "rules" but modify it to suit their needs, and I've never met anyone who has stayed on it permanently - so, to each his own!
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Summary: Lost 12 pounds in 8 days-and dont feel hungry
Review: I am like many a veteran of many diets, and ulimately, the real reviews should be written 3 years after beginning the diet. The book is purposefully extremely concise, and the diet rules are simple. It promotes healthier eating by stresing lower fat protien, and allowing for veggies and other varied items in the first two restrictive weeks-so you don't feel like this diet is making you unhealthy. That being said, if you are overweight and have ultimately failed at Atkins and the other diets, this one realy takes all the mistakes learned from the other diets, and pulls it all together.
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Summary: Atkins Dieter Converted
Review: I like the South Beach Diet better than the Atkins Diet. Although both are low-carb based and both work, the South Beach Diet is less fat friendly.
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Summary: AYURVEDA and the South Beach Diet
Review: I use the South Beach Diet along with the diet in the book, AN ELEMENTARY TEXTBOOK OF AYURVEDA by Frank John Ninivaggi, M.D. of Yale Medical School. Both are like the Atkins diet----and work great!!!
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Summary: This works !!
Review: I cannot believe the negative reviews for this book ! I've been on this diet for a few weeks and the weight is literally falling off of me ! Aside from that I feel fantastic and my skin looks better than it ever has.
I had done a lot of reading on Atkins - and speaking as someone with a Biochemistry degree, these diets are NOT the same.
I would thoroughly recommend The South Beach Diet, it's easy, healty and it works !
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Summary: Good Carbs/Good Fats
Review: Great book, great program. Healthy, liveable, few rules, tasty food. No calorie or gram counting, no portion measuring.But there are misconceptions evident even in the reviews - did the reviewers actually read the book?? No, you don't have to give up your carbohydrates - you have lots of carbohydrates from day one on this program. But they're good carbohydrates with a lower glycemic index. And Dr. Atkins is most definitely given credit (pg 22). But as a cardiologist, Dr. Agatston has seen the latest research concerning eating saturated fats and steers his patients and participants on this diet toward leaner meats and unsaturated fats for good reasons. He gives other doctors credit too - from Pritikin to Ornish, those who bucked the system. And he gives an interesting history of the diet system - how we got where we are in this country believing that very low fats and very high carbs was the way to go. Dr. Agatston has taken the next giant step and come up with a healthy, rather simple and effective diet that is unlike anything we've had before. This one is the real deal.
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Summary: How low can people go!!
Review: Too much plagiarism going around in the world!! Thats all I can say. Since I cannot give 0 stars, I am giving 1 star.
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Summary: A "wish I had thought of that" copy of Atkins
Review: This is basically the Atkins' for Life plan, however the author takes some pot-shots at Dr. Atkins' then expresses the same approach right down to the 2-week induction period. If you follow this program or Dr. Atkins, you will undoubtly be successful at both weight loss and improved health. There's a lot more information in Atkins New Diet Revolution, but few reviewers actually read the newer books and always refer to the earliest version - this author does that, too. This book is actually a pretty straight forward explanation of controlled-carb eating. I gave it only one star because of the author taking credit for someone else's work.
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Summary: It seems so hard
Review: I've only been on this diet for about a week, but I haven't lost any of my cravings. The breakfast part is hard for me, because i'm not really one to enjoy eggs. I haven't noticed any weight loss either. It would be much better if we could enjoy "real" desserts that are sugar free besides ricotta cheese and jello.
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