Customer Reviews
Super charge and get started losing weight. - By: CB, 08 Nov 2008 
Seriously, this is a hardcore diet book. There's really no was round it, either. If you want to lose weight, you have to do the diet & if you do the diet, you will lose the weight. It's not an easy fix, but no diet is. So, i defintely recommend it. Another good one that also helped me was: Fatass No More! How I Lost Weight & Still Ate Cheeseburgers & Fries.
Good Carbs, Good Fats, Food Lists, Recipes, Moderate Interval Walking, and Body Toning Directions - By: Donald Mitchell, 12 Aug 2008 If you have never read The South Beach Diet, buy this book instead: It's much more helpful due to the exercise section & latest research on healthy eating & physical activity. If you already have a copy of The South Beach Diet, you need to buy this one as well so you can do the exercises.
I'm a big fan of The South Beach Diet. It helped me lose a lot of weight when nothing else worked. I felt comfortable losing the weight & looked great when I was done, rather than like a survivor of starvation. Whenever I gained a bit of weight since then, returning to Phase 1 quickly took it off.
But there was a problem: I clearly wasn't exercising enough. In the past, I've done a lot of walking & weight lifting . . . but I didn't get much benefitin terms of medical measures like reduced triglycerides. In fact, eating oatmeal & taking omega-3 supplements does more for my cholesterol level than exercise. I know that I need something different.
My eyes opened wide when I got to the section of this book that talked about how moderate amounts of walking (20 minutes every other day) with short intervals of fast movement spaced between moderate walking would do me more good for burning fat than doing all that walking that I used to do at one speed. Now, that sounded great!
Between walking days, you do some moderate body toning. Here is where I had some concerns about the book: The photographs show a lot of stress being put on the back. That's not a good idea for me: I have back problems. I'm not quite sure what to do, but I've ordered the DVD to see how these exercises are to be done & hope there will be detailed instructions there for people with bad backs.
In this book, Dr. Agatston does a good job of describing the various physical illsin joints & feet that baby boomers develop from the wrong kinds of activity & exercise. He even helped me understand how I create vast shoulder pain when I shovel snow the wrong way . . . & now I know what not to do.
If you are under 30, you can probably use this book just as is. If you are older, be careful with the body toning!
The remainder of the book is the same wonderful material on eating good carbs & good fats while avoiding bad carbs & bad fats . . . plus the latest validations of scientific research supporting the assumptions underlying the diet. There are lots of phase 1 & phase 2 recipes, & you can buy separate cookbooks if you want more.
But the best part of the book comesin reading the personal testimonies. They make the book come alive.
Great work!
Good Carbs, Good Fats, Food Lists, Recipes, Moderate Interval Walking, and Body Toning Directions - By: Donald Mitchell, 15 May 2008 If you have never read The South Beach Diet, buy this book instead: It's much more helpful due to the exercise section & latest research on healthy eating & physical activity. If you already have a copy of The South Beach Diet, you need to buy this one as well so you can do the exercises.
I'm a big fan of The South Beach Diet. It helped me lose a lot of weight when nothing else worked. I felt comfortable losing the weight & looked great when I was done, rather than like a survivor of starvation. Whenever I gained a bit of weight since then, returning to Phase 1 quickly took it off.
But there was a problem: I clearly wasn't exercising enough. In the past, I've done a lot of walking & weight lifting . . . but I didn't get much benefitin terms of medical measures like reduced triglycerides. In fact, eating oatmeal & taking omega-3 supplements does more for my cholesterol level than exercise. I know that I need something different.
My eyes opened wide when I got to the section of this book that talked about how moderate amounts of walking (20 minutes every other day) with short intervals of fast movement spaced between moderate walking would do me more good for burning fat than doing all that walking that I used to do at one speed. Now, that sounded great!
Between walking days, you do some moderate body toning. Here is where I had some concerns about the book: The photographs show a lot of stress being put on the back. That's not a good idea for me: I have back problems. I'm not quite sure what to do, but I've ordered the DVD to see how these exercises are to be done & hope there will be detailed instructions there for people with bad backs.
In this book, Dr. Agatston does a good job of describing the various physical illsin joints & feet that baby boomers develop from the wrong kinds of activity & exercise. He even helped me understand how I create vast shoulder pain when I shovel snow the wrong way . . . & now I know what not to do.
If you are under 30, you can probably use this book just as is. If you are older, be careful with the body toning!
The remainder of the book is the same wonderful material on eating good carbs & good fats while avoiding bad carbs & bad fats . . . plus the latest validations of scientific research supporting the assumptions underlying the diet. There are lots of phase 1 & phase 2 recipes, & you can buy separate cookbooks if you want more.
But the best part of the book comesin reading the personal testimonies. They make the book come alive.
Great work!
