5-Day Miracle Diet

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Summary: An excellent resource if you want to change your life!
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Everything the book promises actually works! Being a skeptic, I gave it 5 days just for fun...The fun hasn't stopped 5 weeks and 10 lbs later! The numerous physical benefits from this style of healthy eating can't be overlooked. Gaining confidence through weight loss aside; my skin, hair, and nails are thriving. The food choices are vitamin packed and "metabolically clean" giving you energy AND a lean body.

The 5 Day Miracle Diet contains simple tools and an easy to follow plan to dispell old eating habits and correct your body chemistry quickly. I recommend more food preparation tips and recipes to help maintain enthusiasm for long term maintenance of this effective program.
C. Shaw

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Summary: This really IS a miracle diet
Review: I find the book and program therein easy to comprehend. The author, Adele Puhn, provides a complete, doable program that when followed delivers on every promise she makes. Using this book as a guide, I have "owned" the program for 9 months now and lost over 110 pounds, dramatically improved my health and well being, and brought order to decades of destructive eating habits and the ensuing blood sugar chaos. Before I purchased the book, I was a little put off by the word Miracle in its title; however, I have come to agree that it truly IS a miracle. Thank you to Ms. Puhn for writing this book and sharing her program. For me, it is literally life-saving.

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Summary: It Works!
Review: I first read this book and tried this diet in 1997. By combining it with exercise (low impact - walking) I'd lost 10 pounds in a very short time. I could see and feel a major difference in only 2 weeks. I'm no nutritional expert or anything and I've never been able to follow those diets where they tell you specifically what you have to eat at various times of the day but the program works. This book worked for me because it gave me a list of choices and the overall principles involved in controlling my cravings (blood sugar levels). I love sweets and in 5 days by following this plan, my cravings for sweets were gone. Most diets seem to talk about cutting out the fat in your diet to lose weight. We underestimate the impact that sugar has on our diets - at least I did. Over the years, whenever I feel myself getting above my desired size, I revert back to this diet. It always works. I've just lost another 6 pounds and intend to lose another 4 at least. I've incorporated some of the principles in my everyday lifestyle such as eating something within (I think its) 30-45 minutes of when I wake up, the snacks every 2 hours after breakfast and the 2 snacks in the afternoon. I also started buying no sugar peanut butter after I read this book. I still do. It's not nearly as good as Jif, but I realize what the sugar does to me. I highly recommend this for anyone who's interested in weight loss. I've been trying to convince my sister for years.

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Summary: It Works!
Review: I first read this book and tried this diet in 1997. By combining it with exercise (low impact - walking) I'd lost 10 pounds in a very short time. I could see and feel a major difference in only 2 weeks. I'm no nutritional expert or anything and I've never been able to follow those diets where they tell you specifically what you have to eat at various times of the day but the program works. This book worked for me because it gave me a list of choices and the overall principles involved in controlling my cravings (blood sugar levels). I love sweets and in 5 days by following this plan, my cravings for sweets were gone. Most diets seem to talk about cutting out the fat in your diet to lose weight. We underestimate the impact that sugar has on our diets - at least I did. Over the years, whenever I feel myself getting above my desired size, I revert back to this diet. It always works. I've just lost another 6 pounds and intend to lose another 4 at least. I've incorporated some of the principles in my everyday lifestyle such as eating something within (I think its) 30-45 minutes of when I wake up, the snacks every 2 hours after breakfast and the 2 snacks in the afternoon. I also started buying no sugar peanut butter after I read this book. I still do. It's not nearly as good as Jif, but I realize what the sugar does to me. I highly recommend this for anyone who's interested in weight loss. I've been trying to convince my sister for years.

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Summary: This Book Made Me Ill
Review: I order all three of Adele Puhn's books and started reading. I started on the diet on a Monday morning. After what I had read I thought this really might work for me. It was low carbohydrate and protein. It allowed me to have some fruit, vegetables, a piece of bread, a little cheese, some eggs, etc. It didn't involve making up food from a recipe which I really don't find I have a lot of time to do -- especially in the morning. So I did breakfast and then hard chew and then hard chew and what I was supposed to have for lunch and the chew in the afternoon and the dinner and really didn't cheat. Well I got to Friday after following this for five days, not feeling wonderful but still OK and had no clue as to what was coming. On Saturday I started with leg cramps, then cramps in arm, neck, throat, chest, and abdomen. I assumed that it was probably a lack of potassium or calcium or both. I called my doctor and she advised me to go off the diet and eat things rich in potassium and calcium which I did. Within 24 hours the cramps lessened. By late Monday there were gone.

I can't in good conscience recommend this diet but I did get a lot of good information on what foods can help you curb your appetite and control your sugar highs and lows and the importance of hard and show chews.This one just didn't work for me.

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Summary: Sensible and Effective
Review: I really struggle with cravings for breads and sweets, but the blanced approach of Adele Puhn's program has helped me curb these hunger pangs. The diet has also helped to alleviate a headache that I've carried for the last two months.

It's basically an eating schedule: protein and whole grains for breakfast and lunch, veggies and fruit as snacks throughout the day, and the most "sensible" dinner I've seen in any diet book. She explains the basis for developing the program and why it works. It's inspiring - you CAN be free from cravings.

Adele's mindset is that this way of eating is a way of life, not just a diet. Of course you can't live without ever having another piece of cake or glass of wine. The program allows for that - requires it, in fact.

This book easily earned five stars. The program is relatively easy to follow, the dietary guidelines are in keeping with RDAs and other programs with high success rates, and the book conatains a helpful section adressing the psycological aspects of dieting.

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Summary: Sensible and Effective
Review: I thought it was a good book with alot of good information. I did try it for a week or so but found it kinda hard to stick to. I did feel better though and am going to try again.

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Summary: Starving in Michigan
Review: I was left so hungary on this diet, all I could do was think about food. I kept an eye on the clock just waiting for the two hour mark, when I could have something to eat. This diet book was of no use to me. Of course you will lose weight if you starve yourself.

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Summary: Don't Let the Title Fool You!
Review: This is NOT a fad diet. This is a simple, straighforward and helpful guide on HOW TO EAT. Puhn's style is friendly and upfront. I read this book over two years ago, and my eating habits will never be as random and damaging as they used to be, because the principles described are EASY to implement. GREAT BOOK!

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Summary: The 5 Day Miracle Diet-It really Works!
Review: When I first started to read this book, I thought this was a diet that I would never be able to do. Adele Puhn states in the book, "just give me 5 days". I figured that I could stick with it for 5 days. I have to admit, the first several days were tough. At times I was light headed and didn't feel quite right, but at the end of the 5 days I could not believe how good I felt. Not only that, I had not been sleeping well for years and now I was sleeping soundly through the night. As Adele promised, I was not craving those high calorie foods that I always craved when I was "dieting" and yes I did lose weight-11 pounds the first four weeks. I recently visited relatives and ate on their schedule instead of my new schedule and immediately found I was not sleeping well again and was craving those sweets. This was additional verification for me that there really is something to controlling your blood sugar and I know that I feel so much better following this program. Thanks Adele