The 30-Day Low-Carb Diet Solution [Paperback]

Michael R. Eades M.D. (Author), Mary Dan Eades M.D. (Author)

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Publication Date: November 14, 2003

From the authors of the phenomenal bestseller Protein Power comes a quick, easy-to-follow low-carb diet plan designed to get you on the fastest possible track to losing weight, feeling fantastic, and improving your health. If you've heard all the recent publicity about how low-carb eating can turn your health around - by keeping your insulin levels down and getting your excess weight off - but don't want to wade through hundreds of pages of explanation or complicated formulas before you get started, The 30-Day Low-Carb Diet Solution is for you. Unlike any other low-carb diet book in the market, this book gives you low-carb 101: the basics of low-carb eating without all the fuss.

In this much-needed book, two of the most trusted names in low-carb dieting who have helped millions of readers lose weight provide the simplest possible diet designed for the best possible results. Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades give you the step-by-step basics-what to eat, what to avoid-and even provide specific low-carb meal plans to guide you at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks for a full month. For those who would rather design their own meals, they include expert advice for easily creating a customized plan based on your current weight, health status, and goals. They show you the exact portions of carbohydrate-rich foods you can enjoy now to reach those goals and how to increase those amounts to maintain your health and weight for the long haul.

Simply by knowing your height, weight, and gender, you can quickly determine how much protein to eat for optimal health-no complicated measurements, charts, or formulas to follow. The Drs. Eades include everything you need to get started now: self-assessment quizzes to help you effortlessly tailor your program to fit your needs, fill-in worksheets for planning meals and tracking your progress, and other important nutritional information for easy reference.

By following the simple but highly effective and powerful diet in The 30-Day Low-Carb Diet Solution, complete with 30 days of meal plans and more than 100 delicious and easy recipes, you'll be on your way to a thinner and healthier you in just a month!

AUTHORBIO: MICHAEL R. EADES, M.D., and MARY DAN EADES, M.D., are the authors of the New York Times bestselling Protein Power, which has sold more than three million copies. They are also the coauthors of The Low- Carb Comfort Food Cookbook (Wiley) and authors of The Protein Power LifePlan. The Eades have done many appearances on national television shows, as well as several highly successful infomercials that have helped millions of people lose weight and get healthy.END

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From the authors of the phenomenal bestseller Protein Power comes a quick, easy-to-follow low-carb diet plan designed to get you on the fastest possible track to losing weight, feeling fantastic, and improving your health. If you’ve heard all the recent publicity about how low-carb eating can turn your health around–by keeping your insulin levels down and getting your excess weight off–but don’t want to wade through hundreds of pages of explanation or complicated formulas before you get started, The 30-Day Low-Carb Diet Solution is for you. Unlike any other low-carb diet book on the market, this book gives you low-carb 101: the basics of low-carb eating without all the fuss.

In this much-needed book, two of the most trusted names in low-carb dieting who have helped millions of readers lose weight provide the simplest possible diet designed for the best possible results. Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades give you the step-by-step basics–what to eat, what to avoid–and even provide specific low-carb meal plans to guide you at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks for a full month. For those who would rather design their own meals, they include expert advice for easily creating a customized plan based on your current weight, health status, and goals. They show you the exact portions of carbohydrate-rich foods you can enjoy now to reach your goals and how to increase portions to maintain your health and weight for the long haul.

Simply by knowing your height, weight, and gender, you can quickly determine how much protein to eat for optimal health–no complicated measurements, charts, or formulas to follow. The Drs. Eades include everything you need to get started now: self-assessment quizzes to help you effortlessly tailor your program to fit your needs, fill-in worksheets for planning meals and tracking your progress, and other important nutritional information for easy reference.

By following the simple but highly effective and powerful diet in The 30-Day Low-Carb Diet Solution, complete with 30 days of meal plans and close to 100 delicious and easy recipes, you’ll be on your way to a thinner and healthier you in just a month! --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Low-carb 101– all it takes is 30 days!

From the authors of the phenomenal bestseller Protein Power comes a quick, easy-to-follow low-carb diet plan designed to get you on the fastest possible track to losing weight, feeling fantastic, and improving your health. If you’ve heard about all the research that shows how low-carb eating can turn your health around by keeping your insulin levels down and getting your excess weight off–but don’t want to wade through hundreds of pages of explanation or complicated formulas before you get started–The 30-Day Low-Carb Diet Solution is for you.

The Eades are two of the most trusted names in low-carb dieting. They have helped millions of readers lose weight. In this book, they provide the simplest possible diet designed for the best possible results. Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades guide you through all the basics step by step, explaining how to:

• Identify the foods you should eat–and avoid the ones you shouldn’t
• Create a customized plan based on your current weight, health status, and goals
• Determine how much protein to eat for optimal health
• Measure the exact portions of carbohydrate-rich foods you can enjoy now to reach your goals

Featuring 30 days of low-carb meal plans, almost 100 delicious, easy recipes, self-assessment quizzes, and fill-in worksheets for tracking your progress, this guide will have you on your way to a thinner and healthier you in just a month! Isn’t it time for you to find

The 30-Day Low-Carb Diet Solution?

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (November 14, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047145415X
• ISBN-13: 978-0471454151
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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142 of 143 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just starting low-carb'ing? Buy this book!, December 21, 2002

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Bryan Vacinek "bryanv" (St. Louis Park, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 30-Day Low-Carb Diet Solution (Hardcover)

If you already understand and believe that eating low carb is the best way to loose weight and improve you health this is the book to get you started fast!

I already own their other books, I think the first Protein Power book is excellent, but there's a ton of details you have to read through to understand how your body works and why this diet is best. Many other authors have similar books with the same details, but their diets are different. I believe in PP most. It's easy to follow, not as strick as Atkins and who doesn't feel good about a married doctor couple writing about this new way to diet. Actually it's not at all new, Atkins came up with this diet 20 years ago. The 11/2002 Duke Univercity study has proven the diet safe and more effective than low fat diets, so low-carb is in the limelight again.

I was worried the book would be worthless for me since I have many other low-carb books, but it's an excellent quick read and get's you into the details of the diet fast. I will recommend this to all my friend that want to know how I lost 35 pounds in about 4 months (still working for more).

About half the book is text, the other half is menus and recipes. The menus are great for those that just want to follow a plan and not worry about menu planning. They are so well planned, they even built in use of leftovers the next day. All meals are interchangable so if you don't like a certain lunch, just sub with another. The recipes are very good and get you going. Many other cook books are available if you want more, but cooking low-carb and finding foods that may be new to you isn't always easy.

Buy yourself this book and start the new year out right!

111 of 113 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Low Carb Simplified!, December 21, 2002

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Lee Mellott "Skin Care For Wrinkles" (Frederick, Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 30-Day Low-Carb Diet Solution (Hardcover)

The Eades have been promoting a low carb lifestyle for many years. They have authored a number of books including Protein Power and The Protein Power LifePlan.

In their latest book, "The 30 Day Low-Carb Diet Solution", the Eades have simplified low carb living. They give easy to understand explanations as to why low carb eating is the solution for weight and health problems. They outline a 30 day eating program. Tips are given for what foods to eat and what to avoid.

They also include close to 100 recipes such as Hobo Pork Chops, Swiss Egg Casserole, Salmon in Tomato Tubs and more. Each recipe includes the carb and protein count.

Instead of complicated charts, easy self-aassessment quizzes are included to help you determine the portions of carbohydrate foods you can enjoy to reach your goals.

The book is laid out in a reader friendly format. Pick it up and start losing right away. No complicated science that can become overwhelming, just clear explanations that make sense.
Follow the 30 day food plan for exactly what to eat or interchange the meals.

An appendix gives the carbohydrate content of many foods. Also portion sizes are illustrated. The Eades also include a sample meal planner worksheet and recommendations for vitamins.

The book's one drawback is it does not include inspirational stories of folks who have lost on the plan. Nor does it include any ideas for keeping yourself on track mentally.

If you are looking for a simple to follow low carb plan, this is the book for you!

57 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Nuts and Bolts of How to Eat and What to Eat Low Carb, August 3, 2005

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rachael_m (Los Angeles, California) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The 30-Day Low-Carb Diet Solution (Paperback)

If you don't need or want the science behind "Protein Power" or low carb eating, if you want to eat Low Carb healthy, then this is THE book to get. It's become my bible for low carbing as a way of life.

Three small questionnaires show whether low carbing is the way to go for you. A simple chart based on height and weight shows the minimum protein requirements per meal for women and men. The protein serving lists correlate with the protein charts to show what to eat and how much for small, medium, large, extra large, and extra-extra large protein servings. There are three Carbohydrate serving lists: Small servings for the corrective phase of the diet (weight loss or health restoring), Medium servings for transitioning for increasing the amount of carbs when approaching goal weight or health target values, and Large servings for the maintenance phase. What's the point of reducing weight or gaining health if you can't maintain it?

Carbohydrate servings include vegetables; fruits; and bread, cereals and grains. Yet another list shows the carb contents and quantities of combination foods (dairy, nuts and soy). There's several lists of what to eat of "good" fats. There's a generic easy meal plan, 30-days of meals as examples, how to do exchanges within the carb servings, and a section of recipes including egg dishes and breakfast foods; soups and salads; meat, fish and fowl dishes; vegetable dishes; vegetarian dishes; desserts and preserves; and condiments.

Not only have I lost weight from 134 (March 2005) down to 113 (June, 2005) and maintaining (I'm 4'11), I've gained health. My blood values are all within normal ranges. I have more energy, my moods have leveled out, my clothes fit beautifully and look good, I don't have any more sugar cravings or the feeling that there's not enough food on the planet to satisfy me, and I can easily adapt this way of eating to restaurants, social events, and vacationing. In fact, I lost a pound while out of town in Memphis, TN over the long Memorial Day weekend, 2005. By the way, there's a wonderful list of what to eat when dining out at many kinds of restaurants in the book "Protein Power," pages 126-130.

I have several of my patients in my acupuncture clinic following this way of eating through this book. Both are early stage adult-onset diabetics, both have dropped nearly 40 pounds in 4 to 5 months, both had gastric reflux which lessened and one with sleep apnea greatly improved. Blood sugar values for both have dropped. One patient was able to forego taking any medication for her diabetes, the other had her doseage reduced. Both of their general practitioner doctors are highly pleased.

This book is well worth your time and money. You've everything to gain (health and life).