Review of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Healthy Weight Loss, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

I am a big fan of this book. I have read it from cover to cover many times and it has helped me tremendously in my weight loss. I have lost 32 pounds. I have love the fact that it is basic common sense, no tricks or magic potions. Your information wasn't a repeat of many diet programs that tell me only what to eat and when -- this book gave me emotional support and suggestions for eating in difficults situations, as at parties and when feeling lonely. Sure I learned what to eat and when, but this book instilled in me a way to gain control of my eating and myself.I realized that I like to eat as a thin person and the weight has stayed off.


Product Description
Shed those pounds the healthy way.

This brand-new edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Healthy Weight Loss not only gives readers critical information on nutrition and health-it also delivers everything they need to know about the mental and exercise pieces of the weight-loss puzzle. In addition, it presents a comprehensive overview of today's most popular diets, chapters on such major diet types as low-fat, low-sodium, low-carb, and low-cal, as well as chapters on dieting for kids, dieting for diabetics, dieting for heart health, and more. Best of all, readers will find five unique diet plans to help them lost weight-and keep it off-starting today!

-Features new research on how nutrition and certain foods affect body weight-Expanded information on surgical and pharmaceutical options for weight loss, plus the skinny on supplements and over-the-counter remedies-Upload exercise chapters with more fat-burning exercises and updated charts for calorie burning (including suggestions for meeting the U.S. Government's new exercise recommendations)

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Review of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Carb Meals (Paperback)

The book contains a reasonable number of recipes and lots of 'hints' that if you've done ANY reading about low carbohydrate eating, will be superfluous.

The recipes run the gamut of carb counts, though I thought that the bulk of them were much higher carb than is helpful.Following the suggestions in this book and the recipes, it wouldn't be all that hard to hit 80-100++ grams of carb per day... which is simply TOO HIGH for many people who are following low carb lifestyles.

Many recipes call for sugar, white flour, semi-sweet chocolate and cornstarch.Come ON... those are NOT "low carb" ingredients.

This is more or less a repackaged low fat/lower cal cookbook with "low carb" thrown on the cover to try to generate some market share.My copy is being donated to a charity, it isn't worth the space on the shelf for someone interested in real "low carb" cooking.

Product Description
Delicious recipes for the low-carb cook. Today's most popular diets rely on cutting down on carbs, but most cooks have difficulty finding scrumptious low-carb alternatives. Enter cookbook authors Lucy Beale and Sandy Couvillon-with more than 330 mouth-watering recipes for the diehard dieter that will appeal to the whole family and are easy to make.

- Includes meal-planning information and charts
- Provides important nutritional information


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