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The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25 EAN: 9780375431944 Format: Large Print ISBN: 0375431942 Label: Random House Large Print Manufacturer: Random House Large Print Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 528 Publication Date: April 01, 2003 Publisher: Random House Large Print Release Date: April 01, 2003 Studio: Random House Large Print |
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 - South Beach DietThis book is very informative. I liked most of the recipes, but found some of them a little too exotic for my taste. I lasted on Phase 1 only 11 days. Was feeling too sick and dizzy to continue. Am now on Phase 2 which is much easier for me. The book stressed many salads which must be great for warmer climates. I substituted soups made from chicken broth and green vegetables. Rating:  - Success at lastVery simply the best diet I've ever tried. I've lost 20 lbs that I've been trying to lose for about 15 years in just under a month, and have kept it off for 4 months with no problem. This book explains how carbs, protein and sugar works in the body, and how to make good food choices no matter where you eat. Once you understand and conquer the carb and sugar addiction the rest is "cake." I highly recommend this "way of life" to everyone. Rating:  - Where's the diet?Most diet books have one good page. In between the 100 pages of scientific theory and success stories and before the 100 pages of suggested menus and recipes, there is usually a page that outlines the diet in a flexible pattern. Not here. Over all, this seems like a good sensible diet, low glycemic carbs, low saturated fat, a phase to get you started, one to keep you going and one for maintenance, but it's a huge flaw that the book doesn't contain a template for daily menu planning. The key to healthy eating, is a good plan and a well stocked kitchen. That's hard to do when all we have to get on with is a set menu that requires foods cooked with specialized recipes three times a day. Who wants to get up before work and cook a quiche? Who gets enough time to come home for lunch and cook some more? Dr A's big mistake was handing this diet to a registered dietician. Foodies may enjoy her recipes but those of us who need to get control of our eating should be thinking less about exotic variety and recipe preparation, not more. My advice is to print-out the diet templates from the online sites, tape it to the refridgerator, and plan your meals as you go. Simplify. Rating: - A good food plan for your life, not just a dietI started on this food plan about a month ago and have lost 13 pounds easily and without ever feeling hungry or deprived. This is a way of eating that I can follow the rest of my life. It's healthy, easy, and best of all, it works! Rating:  - Practically worthlessMy review is about the South Beach Diet book, not about the diet. I purchased the book because I wanted to find out why so many people, doctors included, have told me that the South Beach Diet is preferable to Atkins. After scanning the first chapters, I began looking for information on the actual diet plan. While it has pretty good instructions for Phase 1 (the first two weeks), it has no instructions at all for Phases 2 or 3, other than food lists. Now, left to my own devices, I could eat an unhealthy, weight-gaining diet very easily by selecting only foods on the Phase 2 list. There is no hint about quantities or frequency. Yes, the book includes detailed menus, right down to portion sizes, ounces, and artificial sweetners, which oddly contain too much detail when juxtaposed with the rest of the book. I am very unlikely to follow sample menus -- and trust me, the sample menus in the South Beach Diet book are no more appealing than any other diet menus, with breakfast, for example, being heavily dependent on vegetable juice, grapefruit, and nonfat milk. When I got to the part about Phase 3, the maintenance phase, the menus didn't get much better. It almost made me cry to see that a maintenance breakfast still consists of vegetable juice, oatmeal with nonfat milk, and a hard-boiled egg. Not exactly anything to look forward to. So, I could go on and on about how disappointing I found this book, but the main thing is, I need a framework so I can come up with my own menus. Again, I'm not knocking the diet -- I've heard it works, and I'd like to try it. Maybe I can get the details from a discussion forum or online group. |
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