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| Review Date: July 17, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Christi Dant, Severna Park, MD |
| Nothing new here. The book was disappointingly heavier on menus, recipes and citations than on substance. I did not find this book particularly informative, interesting or compelling. There was about 25 pages of genuine information and explanation. I have found much more compelling explanations about the impact of dietary changes on human health from books on the Paleo Diet. What Galland wrote made sense and he makes a good case for his contentions, but it struck me as largely rehashed and repackaged with nothing terribly novel. I don't believe for a minute that more than a very few people could maintain this diet for more than a few months, let alone a lifetime. If I'd been looking for a cookbook, I might have appreciated it more. |
Enjoyed and Great food suggestions!
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| Review Date: April 12, 2010 |
| Reviewer: S. Smith, |
| This is great book. I have applied some of these ideas and able to lose weight and quit thinking about food "all the time." I have tried several of the recipes and find many of them easy and tasteful. The recipes are presented in different levels to make it easy to understand. If you are looking for educational ideas, this book is a great tool with practical ideas. |
always hungry
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| Review Date: March 20, 2010 |
| Reviewer: lovetodance, Richmond, VA |
| I really tried to make this work. The recipes for the most part are good but very time consuming. I spent a lot of time trying to find the specialty foods. In the east it is harder to find a health food store that carries everything. Spent a lot of money as well. I did ok while off work a few days but when I went back to work I had to find a lunch that had portability, unfortunately it didn't have staying power and by my 5PM break I was starving and wouldn't be eating dinner until 7:30PM. It did help lower my blood sugar however on a few occasions in conjuction with medicine it was too low. I gave this three stars because it is way too strick and not easily interchangable. The concept and food combinations are good but didn't work for me. If you don't work, do not take diabetes medication and have ample time for food shopping and preparation it might work. The only exercise I did get was shopping for all the food and by the end of a day after preparing all the food; I was exhauseted with no energy or extra time for exercise. |
Help for inflammation
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| Review Date: March 8, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Servant of God, Oklahoma |
| I've been doing this diet for the past 8 days with my husband. Despite being hungry a good deal of the time, neither one of us has lost any weight. However, my inflammation has gone down. I was recovering from pancreatitis and it is the first time I have ever been pain free in that area. Verdict is still out on weight loss, but there is no doubt it is healthy, delicious food. The green tea crusted salmon sounds gross, but is absolutely delicious! |
My husband's blood sugar level is now in the normal range!
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| Review Date: February 6, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Joanne, |
| My husband's blood sugar level was in the high 200's. He and I both went on the Fat Resistance Diet and my husband's blood sugar level dropped into normal ranges -- even down to 94! The only thing we did was follow this book. Two weeks into the diet, my husband dropped eight pounds. I dropped over five pounds and, I feel like it was effortless! We don't need to know all the details of how the diet works, we just follow it. The recipes are REALLY easy to follow. I never cooked with so many ingredients, yet I have no trouble following the recipes. The Asian Coleslaw, Omega Blast Granola and Immune Power Soup are some of our favorites. And we don't have to give up red meat, so my husband can still grill. |
Too much flipping!
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| Review Date: January 28, 2010 |
| Reviewer: luvstoreadinca, |
There is just enough information on leptin that informs but does not overwhelm you on the subject. The book provides a very good 14-day menu plan with delicious meals, which I have made a few of. I believe that a significant amount of weight could be lost following the plan. However, I found it too time consuming trying to make up a shopping list for each meal because the layout necessitates flipping back and forth from the meals section to the recipe sections, which are divided into individual sections for breakfast, lunch, dinner; snack/drinks; and soups/sides/dressings. That's six sections you have to flip through for each day just to make up a shopping list!
They do provide a shopping list for each of the two weeks, but I'm not going out and buy 20 tomatoes, 1 pint of cherry tomatoes, and 4 plum tomatoes all at once for one week. It sounds like a simple task but when you have to purchase a total of 31 produce items (varieties of lettuces, etc.), 9 dairy items, 7 meat/protein items, 12 pantry items, 5 nuts/grain items, additional spices and several miscellaneous items to have on hand, is where it is too much to deal with.
It has kept me from really applying the plan, as I just don't have the time to sit down and flip through the different sections for just a few meals at at time. It would have been nice had the editor put the ingredients for the recipes each day on the same page. I would have given the book 4-5 stars because the food I did make was very good and relatively easy to put together, but because of the complex shopping list and layout, I had to give it only 3 stars. I don't know if I'll ever have the time to work out this plan as much as I would like to. |
Didn't work for me - and totally unrealistic for normal people
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| Review Date: January 10, 2010 |
| Reviewer: tatiana, Boston, MA |
I gave this four stars three weeks ago - well I have followed the diet faithfully and I have gained a pound.
I do believe that his eating plan is very healthy, and the recipes are wonderful, and it probably balances your system, but I'm sorry, there is no one-size-fits-all diet out there.
This diet was way too much food for me and too many calories! As for people who say calories have nothing to do with it, every diet counts calories. They call it portions, or points, or whatever, but it's all counting calories and it has to be adjusted to you, and how big you are and how much you can eat. Dr. Galland's recipes list the calories and he basically counts them for you - he just has too many for some people. I was bloated and too full with this diet. Of course some calories are better than others and different foods are used in your body differently, and chemicals are not good and fresh vegs are the best - all common sense. But there's no reason to spend a fortune on 6 different types of fish in one week (which means shopping every day or eating frozen fish - yuck), or spend 90% of your day preparing food and have all these leftovers in portion sizes that don't fit the diet!
Feb 1 - Just wanted to add that I added a star for the fantastic recipes. Otherwise I have ditched this diet and started counting calories - rigorously - with weighing and measuring and writing down everything that goes into my mouth except things like lettuce and spinach. You'd be amazed how the calories pile up with salad dressing, or butter, or two saltines. Anyway, I am losing 1-2 pounds per week and I use many of Dr. Galland's recipes. However, I pick whichever one I want. I still have that banana split thing, but I leave out the walnuts and half the ricotta. My banana split is 220 cals. My BP has gone down too.
Also, when you count calories you don't have to give up your social life. If friends want to get together over dinner - fine! (One of my dieting secrets is not to tell anybody because friends won't invite you out anymore and people at work become an expert and start telling you what to do.) I just look at the restaurant menu online ahead of time, figure out what I want, add in the wine and a potential dessert and figure out the calories. Then I cut back accordingly during the day. It usually means eating nothing but a huge dry salad for lunch but that's OK.
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It works!
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| Review Date: December 16, 2009 |
| Reviewer: 8 Redlegs, San Antonio, TX |
| As a decades long veteran of the diet wars I've tried just about everything that was out there to lose weight and improve my health. The problem with all the past diets was that I was always so damn hungry inbetween meals. I found this book while surfing around on the internet. I've been on the program now for 2 months, I have lost 12 pounds almost effortlessly. When I am hungry I am genuinely hungry, I feel satisfied with what I eat and those drive-me-mad cravings for sugar or over-processed foods have virtually disappeared. My energy is beginning to pick up and my blood pressure has come down. The recipes are fairly simple to follow as is the plan. You do have to do a little reading at the beginning to understand the process but it is worth it. It may not have a glamorous title or be a fancy fad, but this program does work. I was skeptical of yet another plan but I only have good things to say about the book and program. Give it a try. |
I'm glad I tried this!
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| Review Date: December 7, 2009 |
| Reviewer: R. Culver, Seattle, WA |
| I have been very overweight my entire life. I'm currently 37 and have spent the last two years tryig to lose weight from pregnancy. An acquaintance told me about this and though I am not someone who believes in diets, there was something about the concept that peeked my interest. I got a friend at work to try the plan out with me and we have successfully lost weight. We are not quite at our goal weight yet, but litterally we are only a few pounds from it! What I am most impressed about this is how it has completely re-programmed my mind and body to eat better. I have to admit, initially, we both had a difficult time with some of the recipes on the plan and during those first two weeks, we could feel the "detox" working. At this point, we have been on the plan for about 3 months, now we thoroughly enjoy the foods and even crave them. Since we are not ready to "maintain," we repeat stages 1 & 2 over and over. But we have found several recipes that go in-line with the plan and have incorporated them into our diet. I recommend this diet to anyone who is serious about making a lifestyle change. Not even my own mother recognizes me in a crowd of people - this is the thinnest I have ever been and the best I have ever felt. |
Don't just lose weight - get healthy!
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| Review Date: December 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Jennifer Wennekamp, Rio Rancho, NM USA |
We were overweight, our pre-teen daughter was obese, my husband's cholesterol was 250, and we seemed to catch every cold or flu in town. I knew I needed to change the way we ate, but I couldn't find anything that worked and was safe enough for my kids.
Thank God I found The Fat Resistance Diet! We've been on the diet for about six months now, and it works without going hungry - in fact, I usually can't finish everything on the menu! My husband's cholesterol is down to 130 and he's at his ideal weight, my daughter's weight is now normal for her height, and I've lost 25 pounds. We almost never get sick anymore, and when we do it is very mild. Best of all, my chronic pain is gone and my husband's psoriasis is much improved.
The book contains guidelines for eating healthy so you can design your own menu, and a complete menu plan if you're like me and need more guidance. Most of the recipes are delicious, and the menu is never boring. There are only two drawbacks to this diet: your grocery bill will go up (but isn't better health worth the investment?) and following the menu plan requires LOTS of cooking. Unless you have at least two cooks in your house, plan to simplify the menu by having leftovers for lunch or choosing only the easiest recipes.
I was able to control my weight with Atkins, but I looked old and felt unhealthy. The Fat Resistance Diet makes us look and feel healthy, each stage is nutritionally complete, and we get to eat lots of delicious food. We're never going back to the way we used to live! |
It Works!!
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| Review Date: October 25, 2009 |
| Reviewer: lana, |
| This is my 2nd time following the fat resistance diet. Both times I have lost weight fast. I'm currently on the 2nd week of stage one and have already gone from 125 to 120. The recipes are great. There are only a couple my husband and I don't care for, and even those ones aren't anything horrible. The only negative things about it are that I have to cook alot more than I use to and my cost of groceries has gone up. Some things I find amazing about the diet... the first time I went on it was after I had gone through a pregnancy. My body fat was at 26% within a few weeks I got it down to 19%. Usually with excersize and diet you loose some muscle along with the fat, but when my fat was measured it showed I had lost strictly fat. The other cool thing is I have quite the sweet tooth and this diet totally curbs my sweet cravings. And I hope this isn't to much information, but my stomach doesn't get gassy with this diet. I just feel good while I'm on it! I use to yoyo diet and really restrict calories, that's horrible for your body and really just turns it to mush, the fat resistance diet REALLY works! |
Very Useful Information.
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| Review Date: August 31, 2009 |
| Reviewer: J. Griggs, |
| My wife has been using the material in the book and has found it to be very helpful. We have noticed improvement in her arthritis pain and asthma. It is also helping us eat better. Thank you. |
From what I've read great book
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| Review Date: August 14, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Billie J. Fortin, |
| From what I have read the books given me lots of info. Will finish reading it and try the suggestions. |
it works!
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| Review Date: June 30, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Valereye, MA |
This book finally explains why it's so hard to lose the fat even when you exercise.
The diet is doable and gets easier the longer you are on it.
It's based on the same principles as the Roseland diet, but easier to follow and an easier read. |
The fat Resistance Diet
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| Review Date: February 21, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Nina B. Orlow, Brazil |
The book lacks information directed to the older generation and especially women post menopause.
The recipes are great and easy to follow. This a book that must be read if you want good and healthy recipes.
The slim chai tea is delicious.
Nina Orlow |
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