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Summary: Wonderful recipes!
Review: The recipes in this book are wonderful and easy to prepare.
If you stick to this way of eating, you will lose weight.
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Summary: You look marvelous!
Review: This is a wonderful book; it is full of great pictures, excellent recipes, and lots of little anecdotal stories. A lot of people believe that this could not possibly work, and a lot of people are wrong. You will feel better than you have felt in a long time, and you will be eating a greater varitey of food than ever before. If you follow the rules you will lose weight and find yourself again! The rules do force you to think about what you are eating, and this is a good thing. Just that alone should be worth the price of the book: it teaches you to make informed choices, and to get out of an endless cycle of automatic eating. You will find that vegetables really do taste good. I have been discovering all sorts of great ways to fix food, and especially the vegetables. When I was growing up, my mother opened a can and then boiled the poor things to death. A watery grave is not good for anything! Try these recipes and rediscover what good food tastes like, and enjoy yourself. I did find that just by cutting foods that trigger binges, I was eating less at meals automatically. If your insulin levels aren't shooting through the roof, you can't go into a feeding frenzy, and consume more than the entire population of an emerging third world country. You probably will eat more calories automatically, since the book does emphasize eating more fat than most of us thought we could. But in general, you will find that even with more calories and fat, you can still lose weight painlessly. Then wait for your friens (who will be jealous) to say, "You look marvelous darling." Even if they can't imitate Billy Crystal, they will think you look great, And it just might inspire them to do the same.
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Summary: Trust Somers on This One
Review: This diet is extremely flexible, despite what its critics say, and it is extremely effective. I lost 10 pounds in the first 9 days, and it was not water weight. And I DID keep track of my calories, and I was indeed eating more food. Re some of the reviews that follow: eating fruit by itself is not a new idea; it's been promoted by health-food experts for years. It's logical, when one realizes that fruit requires very little digestion by the time it hits the stomach.
As for Zoran Anzelc's accusation of plagiarism, he should get his facts straight. Michel Montignac is neither a scientist nor an expert in the field of nutrtion. He, like Somers, stumbled on a diet that worked for him. He neither invented the Glycemic Index, nor is he the first to publicize it. Anzelc's tirade is ironic, to say the least, since Montignac's diet isn't even the same as Somers'! For example, Montignac makes no mention of food combining, which is the cornerstone of the Somers diet. Even his recommendations re "good carbs" differ from Somers' in some significant ways.
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Summary: This diet isn't what it claims to be
Review: Why does this diet seem to work? Because by restricting yourself so much (for example, don't combine carbs with fats), you're automatically forcing yourself to pay attention to portions, eating patterns, etc. If the people who claimed to lose weight through "proper" food combining actually kept track of their caloric intake, they'd see how many calories they're actually cutting out of their diet. Fewer calories consumed, combined with more calories burned through exercise, results in weight loss -- nothing else has EVER been proven otherwise to help.
This is not a magic formula, folks. It's just a good, upbeat, (mostly) reasonable plan for taking control of your diet and learning to enjoy food. Her notions about consuming fruit only at certain times are just plain silly (no French person I've talked to, and I know a few, follows that rule!) -- especially when you consider that tomatoes, which she allows, are fruits, not vegetables.
Kudos to the author, though, for helping people learn to like good food in moderation.
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Summary: Saved by Suzanne
Review: This book, and ultimately this diet, have changed my life. Over the course of my first six months on the diet I lost the 20lbs I had intended and my cholesterol level dropped 60 points!!!! It is over a year later, and while I am not as strict as I initially was, the weight has stayed off and I follow the basic diet principles every day! I have learned so much about the importance of proper eating and have been greatly motivated to continue investing in my health.
The book, itself, is easy to read and follow. I have heard some people say that they found Suzanne's personal stories and photos alittle too "mushy" and unnecessary, but I found them pleasant and a nice way to break the monotoned script that so many diet books seem to present.
I have since "turned on" many friends to this diet-although I seem to have had the most success. I have since bought her subsequent diet books as well and have found them equally as motivating. I am forever in debt to Suzanne (my friends laugh when I say this) for presenting this diet and book to us.
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Summary: Ditto to Z. Anzelc
Review: Zoran Anzelc is absolutely correct about the similarity between Ms. Somers' book and M. Montignac's book; I have read both. He is a scientist and researcher; she is not, and in all probability, she must have borrowed from him. His book is worth reading as he allows CERTAIN carbohydrates with protein and lists those items in numerical order, indicating which are permissible. In fact, if one eats those carbohydrates with protein, the weight loss may be quicker as that interaction effects a quicker metabolism. Also an aside, not mentioned by either writer, but by Susan Roberts of Tufts University, "adding fiber to low-fat diets can triple the weight you lose" (water-based meals - soups, stews). Hope this is helpful.
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Summary: Great Program!!!
Review: I have recently purchased this book, and have been following the program for 10 days and have lost 6lbs already, I have thirty more to go and plan to stay on this, I don't feel like I'm on a diet at all, and all of the recipes I've tried so far from the book are wonderful.
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Summary: Lowers blood pressure & controls weight in the long term.
Review: These are the greatest cookbooks I've ever owned. The recipes helped me lose weight, then maintain my weight, as well. I can eat anything I want, then I can go to level 1 anytime I want. My blood pressure went down to an average of 110/65. I also work out (Taebo & Pilates Method), but I'm not afraid to eat during the holidays because I can always go back to Somersizing. I don't have to be very picky when I'm around company because Somersizing helps me control my weight!
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Summary: It's a piracy (scissors and paste book)!!!! PIRACY
Review: The French nutritionist named Michel Montignac originally wrote this book. I've read his interview in ONA weekly magazine published in Slovenia. Michel says, that Somers bought his book in France and got it arranged by someone else for her own edition. She has published the pirate version of the book, whose real author is the expert and the pioneer in his field. The book is the bestseller in France and the rest of Europe. In my country it was reprinted three times, despite Slovenia has less than 2 Million people. I can't believe, that S. Somers who appears in TV shows and soaps would be able to write such an exacting piece of work, unless working hard over 15 years in the field of nutrition science. I haven't read Montignac's book yet, so I don't know if the method described in his book works or not. Dear buyers of the book: when you buy it, all the credits should go to Michel Montignac, whose the original author and founder of the method which helps millions around the globe to lose their weight. My review might help you to find out the truth. I can't understand that celebrities as Somers use such a dirty trick for getting rich and become more famous because of the work they didn't write or cannot get the picture. Someone from show business can rob someone who worked over 15 years in nutrition field of science, in an easiest way. S. Somers couldn't be the author of her book without PIRACY, I presume, because she's celebrity (celebrities are known of having no interests in science, because they don't have time to work in narrow fields of it and S.Somers isn't educated to be the nutritionist at all, so how would she possibly write such a book? My opinion is that S. Somers should be ashamed of her deed as a celebrity and returns all of millions of Dollars to M. Montignac, who gave millions of people around the globe a hope to lose their weight in an easiest way. With those Millions of Dollars lost because of piracy, he might discover something else. I'm sorry I cannot write the original title of the book in French, in Slovene is called: "JEM, TOREJ HUJSAM" I give one star for her because of the polling system here. She deserves 0 (ZERO) and a lot of shame being the celebrity and act like a thief. BOUN APETITE!!
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Summary: LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE, TOO!!!
Review: GUESS WHAT??? My blood pressure went from 142/90 to 110/64 in THREE WEEKS while eating Suzanne's way- meat, cheese, real cream, dairy butter, and rich sauces, but no sugar or starchy foods. I grew up skinny, but after my kids and several low fat diets I couldn't lose it anymore. I GAINED on low fat diets. With the Somercizing plan, I lost 40 pounds, then fell off the plan. I gained the weight back (even though I had 40 more to lose) but only decided to start again when my blood pressure went high for the first time in my life. As I said, my blood pressure went from 142/90 to 110/64 in THREE WEEKS while eating Suzanne's way- meat, cheese, real cream, dairy butter, and rich sauces, but no sugar or starchy foods. Now it's 96/62. I had not gotten far with the new effort when I had gynecological surgery. My doctor said I needed to eat more protein and less sugar and starch because my tissues were weak from a lifetime of eating too much processed food. So, even medical doctors are starting to see the value of low carb diets!! No, you don't eliminate vegetables as many would have you believe. Eat all the low-starch veggies you want, and top them with full-calorie dressings, cheeses, butter, cream sauces. And eat all you want! It's a godsend. They taste sweet and delicious once you train your taste buds away from sugars and starches- and that happens amazingly fast when you can fill up on all you want of steak, pork chops, pot roast, sausage, bacon, eggs, and all the things that are supposed to be so bad for you. THANK YOU SUZANNE!
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