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Summary: THERE'S SOMETHING TO IT!
Review: My 59 year-old Aunt Maggie was overweight all her life until she followed the recommendations of this book;she lost 55 pounds in six months! Being a typical Scotswoman, her diet was naturally (!) full of potatoes, breads and biscuits and pastries. Maggie looks ten years younger and her energy level has tripled(this is obvious by family observation!)
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Summary: The Carbohydrate's Diet
Review: This book has revolutionized my life! I am 51 years old and have been on diets since high school. Many of them over and over again. You wouldn't think that I should weigh over 200 lbs with all that dieting! But this diet addressed my carbohydrate addiction. Something I had never heard before. The diets I had been on before had me eating lots of the things I was addicted to, and had my family wondering, "Why can't she lose weight?" and, "She could be so pretty." When I started on "the diet", the first thing I rejoiced about was the fact that I was finally in control of what and when I ate. That was the most significant change in my life. Besides the fact that now I was eating the things that I had always wanted to eat in the first place! I don't experience those familiar cravings 2 hours after I eat a meal. I am satisfied at night and I'm not thinking about what I could eat after dinner,(until bedtime!) I have lost 18 lbs in 8 weeks and for the first time I'm not thinking, "as soon as I reach my goal, I'm going off this diet". This is something that I want to continue for the rest of my life, because my blood pressure is down and I won't get Adult onset Diabetes like my father has. I am so thankful for this discovery, that is isn't a matter of "willpower", but BIOLOGY! I love the new me!
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Summary: It sounds like they wrote this book about me!
Review: This book describes exactly the symptoms I have been feeling for the last 2 years - I have put on almost 40 lbs even though my lifestyle and eating habits have not changed. Once I started reading this book, I could not put it down - they were describing me! This book may not be for everyone but unless you know what it's like to have the systems of carbohyrate addiction (ie..dizziness, fatigue, feeling out of control) - you will never know how wonderful it felt to find a solution to the problem!
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Summary: Talk to your doctor and then get this book!
Review: After more than 10 years of feeling tired all the time, I found a doctor who was willing to run a number of test - the results showed that my triglycerides were through the roof, an indicator of too many carbos. His recommendation was the Lifespan Program. I have been on it for over 5 weeks now and I am truly amazed. I no longer obsess about food or my weight. I no longer have a midafternoon crash, I can actually make it past 9 pm and I can think clearly again. I've lost only 3 lbs but could care less - I am just so thrilled to feel alive and awake again! I know this diet is not for everyone, but it is for me, and I thank the Hellers for it. I have also found recipes from the Schwarzbein Principle (very similar diet) fit the Carbohydrate Addicts programs really well.
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Summary: Alcoholism and the Carbohydrate Addicts Lifespan Program
Review: I've battled alcohol for 15 years while at the same time running 4-6 miles nearly every day and eating a fairly healthy diet. I've also read at least 20 books on nutrition and spend anywhere from $150 to $200 on supplements, minerals, vitamins, etc., per month. Is that a paradox or what? I'm not overweight but I just couldn't shake the booze and was becoming ever more aware of the pit I was digging for myself. When I read the Heller's book, I substituted the consumption of alcohol with their commentary on carbohydrate consumption and I now have 34 days of sobriety and a plan to run a marathon on my 55th birthday. Cravings are cravings, regardless of what the substance being consumed. I'm hell bent to see age 100 kicking and screaming. Very cool!
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Summary: I'm doing it
Review: I read the book from cover to cover. I'm still unsure about the proportions of carbs in my reward meal? How do you figure spagetti to veg. to meat without weighing and measuring? I'm probably undereating carbs in my reward meal because I can't really figure the third proportion. Then it was confusing as to whether I had to eat a veg. every time I ate a protein? Anyhow, I lost the first week but haven't lost anything in the past 2 weeks despite sticking to the program like glue and drinking my water, avoiding all the "no-no" foods etc. I'm about to give up, I'm not hungry, have energy, feel good, but need to see the scale going down or else it's not worth it.
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Summary: Just be sensible
Review: It's a sad day. A day when we all worry so much about our weight and read about all the latest diets every time that they come out. I'm right there with you. I did the diet for a while, but the lack of carbs all day left my muscles listless and tired. This diet is fashioned only for totally inactive individuals. If you exercise at all you will be left weak and tired. Just eat healthfully, keep it simple and try to stay away from processed foods.. best of luck.
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Summary: It worked for me 25 pounds in 30 days.
Review: I have been on this diet for about 30 days now. I admit that I have slipped a few times. When I started I weighed 225, today I weigh 200.Two weeks into the diet I was getting comments about how I looked like I had lost wieght. This is easy to stay with most of the time. I never feel hungry. It is really amazing how just cutting a few things out of your diet, can make that big of a change. I don't know if this will work for the long term, but so far so good.
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Summary: not for me
Review: I kept going through the list of restricted foods and realized that almost everything HEALTHY that I like for breakfast (apples, oatmeal, cereal,whole wheat bread) is off limits. The authors make the statement that "needing a good breakfast is an old wive's tale." Says who? If I followed this diet, I would eat eggs and cheese every single morning and end up with cholestorol readings through the roof. I honestly believe that a common sense approach to eating combined with a regular exercise program is the way to maintain your ideal weight. I can say one good thing about this weight loss program: a cup of coffee in the morning is still allowed! The bottom line: I lasted three days on this diet and realized that it was a recipe for a very unhealthy approach to eating,
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Summary: Extremely helpful!
Review: I think the hints and suggestions in this book are motivating to restrain myself from any carbohydrated foods. At least to watch myself what I eat. I found this book extremely helpful and also to bring awareness to the carbohydrate addiction which plagues so many. Another book that I found very helpful in my frustrating quest to lose weight, was a very inspiring book to restore my self-esteem by Dietmar Scherf "I Love Me: Avoiding and Overcoming Depression" also available at Amazon.
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