If you love shoes and need to lose weight the Shoe Diet might very well be right up your street. It's really just another diet book but with a reward plan built in - you reward yourself with shoes instead of whatever else takes your fancy.
Actually I can think of a better shoe diet. Buy yourself some walking or running shoes - and use them regularly - it will do you more good than trying to walk in those heels on the front cover :)
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I just read about this book which looks quite interesting. (Anyone read it already?) It is a diet plan which just involves cutting out flour (all types) and sugar from your diet to lose weight.
Now you can quickly see that this will eliminate lots of junk food including cakes, cookies, sweets, desserts, soda, syrup, jam and foods which tend to bulk you out such as bagels and bread. It will take away all those foods which are covered in breadcrumbs and fried too.
I can see it could work if you are someone who is able to cut foods from your diet without developing strong cravings for them as a result.
I prefer the more moderate approach and the gradual changing of habits which I have found to be more succesful with my clients but I still think this plan sounds like it has some merits if you are especially looking to follow a diet.
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While I love the kind of weight loss plan which advises eating well and not denying yourself life's simple pleasures I found it better for myself not to drink a glass of wine EVERY evening but to save it for weekends.
Wine does contain calories unfortunately and even as little as a glass a day is implicated in some cancers (such as breast cancer) plus for me a glass of wine in the evening makes me feel sleepier and increases my appetite for snacks later in the evening.
The recipes sound delicious though so it's probably worth getting just for that and for those occasions when you are having wine it gives you the best wine to go perfectly with your meal.
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This is a book I will NOT be recommending. It advises being good through the week and then having (moderate portions of) whatever you like at the weekend.
While I'm all in favour of not giving up you favourite foods entirely (unless you really don't know when to stop with something) this plan gives the worst of all worlds.
The whole concept of cheating around food is simply ridiculous. We are adults who make adult choices about what we put into our bodies. We create the shape we deserve by our everyday habits. It's not like trying to get away with school rules by chewing gum or talking in class behind the teacher's back - we are only damaging ouselves with our actions.
Janice
I reviewed a good diet plan this weekend which was sent to me by the co-author Tim Godfrey.
Generally I'm not keen on diets but Mediterranean Diet Secrets is balanced and healthy not to mention practical - which so few are. It's more of an eating guide really that you can follow for the rest of your life.
Great things about this plan : I loved the mix and match sandwich idea for lunch (about 1000 different combinations await you!) and the different ideas for dinner for every day of the month. Tim tells me he put a lot of time into testing the recipes and it shows - delicious and nutritious real food. Plus a glass of good quality red wine is recommended (rather than frowned upon) every day.
What's missing? You won't find any exercise guidelines (that may be a bonus for some!) and I would have liked more options for breakfast (although there are a few alternatives in the book).
On balance : Take a look - a refund is offered if you don't like it.
Janice
The QOD Diet describes a weight loss method based on eating differently on alternate days. You eat normally on one day (or at least about 2000 - 2600 calories if that is normal for you - depending on calorie needs) and then restrict calories to about 400 the next day. Calories average out to 1200 - 1500 per day.
The theory is that you will
I had a friend who did something similar years ago - she had what she called her good days and her piggy days. On the "good days" she ate hardly anything at all but on the piggy days she ate plenty (but this was usually chocolate, chips etc and not the balanced diet advocated here). Don't think she lost much.
I have experimented with pure fruit and vegetable days one day a week in the past and that worked quite well for me but it's probably not for everyone (especially if you're not fond of vegetables!).
Post a comment if you've tried the QOD diet. More information here in the Press Release
Janice
I'm looking forward to reading this one when it finds its way to the UK. Although it seems to be based on the familiar Mediterranean diet (renamed to belong somewhere I haven't heard of in California), the publicity blurb does have messages which make my heart glad.
"THE SONOMA DIET doesn't call for any diet foods -- just satisfying, easy-to-prepare meals"
"recommended meals offer a range of delicious "power foods" that deliver maximum disease-fighting nutrients, infused with robust flavors and plenty of variety"
That doesn't sound like too much deprivation then - and 300 recipes too.
There are only couple of points that make me slightly wary of this book and sound like hype rather than a sensible eating plan ("Meals that will actually program your body to lose weight" "Dr. Guttersen takes these power foods to new, high-impact levels, creating "smart combinations" of key ingredients -- and ramping up the metabolic benefits of every meal") - but the jury's out until I read it.
Post a comment if you've managed to get hold of a copy - Mediterranean diet repackaged to sound more American? science or hype?
Janice
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