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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
A novel and clever diet book! May 06, 2008
By S. Joyner
Dr. Lang has found a charming way to explain scientifically how your metabolism can work for and against you. Written as a breezy novel she has skillfully broken down the workings of why diets do and don't work. She includes a plan that guarantees results by encouraging you to change ineffective eating habits and replace them with a better way of eating and living as well. The book is a blend of science and human behavior and causes you to really look at how you are living. She takes the iron fist in velvet glove approach and doesn't scold for mistakes but firmly encourages success. A must read for anybody who craves intelligent advice on creating new, better informed lifestyle choices.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Accurate Title! Jun 06, 2008
By A. Egendorf
This book is really different. It was an easy read, not a slog, and I really learned a lot. Most of the ideas I had about weight loss principles were kind of vague. This book actually clarified things for me.
I've never read a diet book that gave practical suggestions about how to go about changing my eating habits. This one is full of practical help, for example the idea of collecting neighborhood menus and pre-selecting items so that when I'm in a rush, I can order super fast or have someone else do it for me. That way I can bring food to meetings and not wait until I'm starving when the meetings are finally over.
Reading this book has made me realize that losing weight actually might be possible!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
how profound Jun 10, 2008
By Sherri F. Nester
i am just amazed. what a monumental task for a doctor to sit down and just write. i am 58 year old female, i consider myself educated, and up to date with all the medical reports about food and health issues. we eat generally what is considered to be very healthy food. i have had problems with my waight since i turned 40. i have tried many diets, they all work, just for a while and than you gain all that you lost and then some.this book gave me the knowlege, and tools to deal with my waight issues, not just words. since i started reading the book i have lost just about 10 pounds, my energy levels have gone up, and i am getting a lot of complements as to how rested i look!!!!!!!!!
"thank you doctor lang"
Sensible, sustainable and fun - a recipe for success Feb 04, 2012
By I.M. Grateful
I met Dr Nikki Lang a couple of years ago. I had mentioned to her the unwanted 20 pounds that have lurked around my waistline for some years now and how my own doctor had told me that my arthritic knees would feel much better if I lost even 5 pounds of it. She gave me a copy of her book. Being busy, and frankly a bit of a skeptic, it sat on my bookshelf for about a year.
While on vacation in Europe over Christmas, I managed to finish the book on the plane. Once home, I resolved to just try her recommendations. It was counter-intuitive to me to eat five meals a day if I was trying to lose weight, but all her principles seemed sound, and in the end, if those five meals contained only 300 calories each, I would wind up eating 1500 calories per day which is certainly a lot less than I normally eat.
I have been doing this for three weeks now, and I feel great! I didn't anticipate that I wouldn't feel hungry. I didn't anticipate that my body seems to just like staying on an even keel of smaller amounts of food every few hours, rather than a roller coaster ride of famine and feast.
I also enjoy the creative process of choosing what I feel like eating and working out how to make it contain 300 calories. My kitchen scales and calorie reference book are getting quite a workout. Sometimes I feel like something savory like smoked salmon. Sometimes I feel like something creamy like yoghurt. If I can't fit everything I want into the present meal, I know it is just a couple of hours or so until the next meal so I can eat it then. If I am in a hurry, I have my standard 'grab and run' 300 calorie meal.
Further, I am losing weight. At a pound a week, it is a slow process, but since I have had these extra pounds for years, the five months it will take to lose them is really a very small part their existence.
Since I am never hungry, I enjoy the creative process, and I actually feel better eating this way, I am anticipating eating this way for the rest of my life.
This is the most sensible and sustainable approach to the huge problem of weight loss that I have ever experienced. Bravo!
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