Review of Lupus: My Search for a Diagnosis (Paperback)

I felt like I was reading about myself, couldnt better describe the pain and frustration in waiting for an answer - excellent book - highly recommend!



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Review of The No-Beach, No-Zone, No-Nonsense Weight-Loss Plan: A Pocket Guide to What Works (Paperback)

No-nonsense style, very concise (except for various calculation examples, which might be good, as math literacy is alien concept for most).

About myself: 12 years ago I was 160 lbs. (I am 5'9"). Once I hit 230 lbs a few weeks back, I got myself a stack of books, including this one, to avoid previous failures (210 lbs to 190 lbs 2 years ago and gaining it all back and some more).

Jim Johnson's advice was instrumental in setting up my diet and stopping systemic overeating. So now I am under 218 lbs and feeling great on 1500 calories a day. Even more importantly, now I know there is no quick fix - one has to change a lifestyle. It is all about patience, perseverance and will to treat your body right.

The only suggestion: to count calories use software, not paper. I use FitDay.com - it's free.

Product Description
Created for the dieter who would rather follow science than the latest fad or celebrity, this book synthesizes years of research to present one dependable weight loss plan that really works. Using a combination of consistently proven diet and exercise strategies that require no special props or aids, readers are shown reliable ways to get weight off and keep it off. Information on calculating calorie needs, determining BMI (body mass index), and working out percentages of fats, carbs, and proteins in a diet are offered. The author leaves nothing to hypothesis, giving the truth about cellulite and how to tell when one's weight is a health risk. Fact is better than fiction where successful weight-loss is concerned and this book delivers all the scientific findings concisely in a convenient format.

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Review of The Cortisol Connection Diet: The Breakthrough Program to Control Stress and Lose Weight (Paperback)

I don't do stress well at all!After years as a first grade teacher and a stressful personal life, stress almost hospitalized me.Couldn't eat, couldn't sleep.I was running on a pure histamine.My adrenals were shot-no emergency energy!I was covered with rash, depressed when I could come down enough.My muscles were wasting away.Then my thyroid crashed and I could barely drag my legs around to walk.After the thyroid started up again, the doctors "blood type diet" didn't do much.Then I saw an article on Dr. Talbott in a magazine and followed the advice while I waited for the book to arrive.I've only been on the plan for 10 days and the depression is gone and, oh, yes the brain fog.I can do 30 minutes a day on my crosstrainer.I am sleeping better and feel more positive.All this after I had to quit work five years ago because this syndrome is so debilitating.Great book!Read it!Use it!It's for everyone since we're all living under stress.I'm into The Cortison Connection now.I fell like I'm giving myself a second chance at life and loving it.
If you're tired of starving to loose weight and want to eat to achieve a healthy body and spirit, this is the best.I don't have those awful sugar cravings anymore. Did I mention I was on heavy Prednisone for five years and had drug-induced hypoglycemia?Anyway, this food plan (it's not a diet because you're never hungry) is perfect.I was never able to get the weight to drop off and now it's coming off.
Thanks, Dr. Talbott.People like you come along far too infrequently.Penecillin and the polio vaccines for the 20th century.Obesity for the 21st!If anyone should question this books importance, open your eyes to how few fit people you see.We've been "digging our own graves with a spoon"! Examine the statistics.It makes perfect SENSE. It's soooo simple!

Product Description
In his best-selling The Cortisol Connection, Dr. Shawn Talbott explained how elevated levels of the cortisol hormone, when triggered by stress, will increase appetite, enhance fat storage, disrupt blood sugar control, and eventually lead to obesity that can cause diabetes and other serious conditions. This concise follow-up puts Talbott's cortisol control, diet, and exercise ideas into an accessible format.
The Cortisol Connection Diet shows beleaguered dieters how to eat for quality and for quantity at every meal. It focuses on the quality of carbs, fats, and proteins as well as the quantity, and explains how to use food, exercise, and dietary supplements to control cortisol and blood sugar. Most importantly, the book shows readers how to change their metabolic response to food and shed those seemingly impossible last 20 pounds. Included are a three-week log to chart diet, exercise, and supplements; and a sample regimen for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and supplements.

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Review of The Ultimate Metabolism Diet: Eat Right for Your Metabolic Type (Paperback)

i generally do not write book reviews because running a household and raising four boys keeps my free time relatively short. so, i am writing my first because this book re-ignited my weight-loss fire that had been a dying ember since the birth of my last child and subsequent weight gain. i have struggled with weight since my teens, and celebrated my one year wedding anniversary with a 100lbgain. i was able to lose some weight, gain some, lose some, and gain some. i read a variety of books ranging from the zone to the old/new atkins to eating right for my blood type and so on. i would try the "lifestyle change" for a week or two, become quickly frustrated about the lack of results, and put the text back on the designated weight-loss shelf. this book was different for me. the meal plans and supplement suggestions i had run into before, but they were never presented in conjunction with detailed information that explained the bioogical processes of MY body. before, i felt as if i was taking a proverbial stab in the dark, whereas the questionaires in each section helped refine what was happening with ME. i don't see this book as a magic cure all that will rid of my weight affliction forever, rather i view is as an invaluable tool, and even more importantly, a first step on my long overdue journey to losing weight, understanding my body, and living a healthy lifestyle. i know i can finally suceed.

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Atkins, the Zone, the South Beach Diet. Anyone with a serious weight problem has probably tried - and failed - to use one of these diets to lose weight. And it's not their fault. According to weight loss specialist Dr. Scott Rigden, there is no miracle diet that works for everyone because everyone possesses a unique body type and corresponding metabolism.People can be divided into five different metabolic types that have a corresponding plan of specific dietary and lifestyle habits that make weight loss work. In this book, Rigden helps readers determine their metabolic type and then devotes a chapter to each one with dietary, exercise, supplement, and medicine advice complete with glossaries and case studies. He also includes chapters on emotional eating and how to mentally prepare for weight loss. Readers find out why conventional diets don't work and, using the guidelines in this book, jump-start their metabolism and experience safe, permanent weight loss.

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