Customer Reviews

5-Day Miracle Diet

5 star:		(43)
4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

I really struggle with cravings for breads and sweets, but the blanced approach of Adele Puhn's program has helped me curb these hunger pangs. The diet has also helped to alleviate a headache that I've carried for the last two months.

It's basically an eating schedule: protein and whole grains for breakfast and lunch, veggies and fruit as snacks throughout the day, and the most "sensible" dinner I've seen in any diet book. She explains the basis for developing the program and why it works. It's inspiring - you CAN be free from cravings.

Adele's mindset is that this way of eating is a way of life, not just a diet. Of course you can't live without ever having another piece of cake or glass of wine. The program allows for that - requires it, in fact.

This book easily earned five stars. The program is relatively easy to follow, the dietary guidelines are in keeping with RDAs and other programs with high success rates, and the book conatains a helpful section adressing the psycological aspects of dieting.

A must read!

For anyone who has ever tried to lose weight, this book is the one for you! I've tried just about every diet out there but Adele's plan really works. I've been doing the 5-Day Miracle Diet now for two weeks and have already lost 9 lbs. More importantly, just like she says in the book, my cravings are gone and I have more energy than I've ever had in my life. I admit I was skeptical when I started her plan but on day 5 I noticed a huge difference in my energy level. I no longer need my coffee in the morning or any sweets throughout the day.

Her plan may sound complicated at first but once you follow it for 5 days you don't even have to think about it anymore. Like she says the weight just falls off and you feel wonderful! I can't say enough about Adele's book and how it has changed my life in just two short weeks. This book is not just about losing weight, it's also for anyone who wants to be free of cravings forever and have more energy than imaginable to enjoy life!

I find the book and program therein easy to comprehend. The author, Adele Puhn, provides a complete, doable program that when followed delivers on every promise she makes. Using this book as a guide, I have "owned" the program for 9 months now and lost over 110 pounds, dramatically improved my health and well being, and brought order to decades of destructive eating habits and the ensuing blood sugar chaos. Before I purchased the book, I was a little put off by the word Miracle in its title; however, I have come to agree that it truly IS a miracle. Thank you to Ms. Puhn for writing this book and sharing her program. For me, it is literally life-saving.

I did not like the way this book was organized. I found I had to read it a million times and had to flip back and forth for the info I needed. HOWEVER, it really worked for me! I lost 50 pounds, going from a size 16 to 8. I gained so much energy that I actually became an exercise junkie. I was never able to stick to any kind of exercise before. Unfortunately, I have gained weight due to a pregnancy, but as soon as I stop nursing, I'll be back on this diet again!

This is the only one of MANY diets I've tried that has not only worked initially (which many do) but has become an easy-to-follow eating lifestyle that, more important than weight loss, has me feeling great every day. I gave it the initial five days, and it ended my depression and lethargy, gave me sustained energy, and led to me losing 5 pounds. I've kept with the way of eating established in those five days. The thing I especially like about this diet is that it's incredibly easy to internalize and follow, and after the first couple of days you feel great and just don't have cravings... I always feel well fed too. Before you try anything else, and I had tried almost everything else, give this program a shot... it will change your life!

I first read this book and tried this diet in 1997. By combining it with exercise (low impact - walking) I'd lost 10 pounds in a very short time. I could see and feel a major difference in only 2 weeks. I'm no nutritional expert or anything and I've never been able to follow those diets where they tell you specifically what you have to eat at various times of the day but the program works. This book worked for me because it gave me a list of choices and the overall principles involved in controlling my cravings (blood sugar levels). I love sweets and in 5 days by following this plan, my cravings for sweets were gone. Most diets seem to talk about cutting out the fat in your diet to lose weight. We underestimate the impact that sugar has on our diets - at least I did. Over the years, whenever I feel myself getting above my desired size, I revert back to this diet. It always works. I've just lost another 6 pounds and intend to lose another 4 at least. I've incorporated some of the principles in my everyday lifestyle such as eating something within (I think its) 30-45 minutes of when I wake up, the snacks every 2 hours after breakfast and the 2 snacks in the afternoon. I also started buying no sugar peanut butter after I read this book. I still do. It's not nearly as good as Jif, but I realize what the sugar does to me. I highly recommend this for anyone who's interested in weight loss. I've been trying to convince my sister for years.

When I first started to read this book, I thought this was a diet that I would never be able to do. Adele Puhn states in the book, "just give me 5 days". I figured that I could stick with it for 5 days. I have to admit, the first several days were tough. At times I was light headed and didn't feel quite right, but at the end of the 5 days I could not believe how good I felt. Not only that, I had not been sleeping well for years and now I was sleeping soundly through the night. As Adele promised, I was not craving those high calorie foods that I always craved when I was "dieting" and yes I did lose weight-11 pounds the first four weeks. I recently visited relatives and ate on their schedule instead of my new schedule and immediately found I was not sleeping well again and was craving those sweets. This was additional verification for me that there really is something to controlling your blood sugar and I know that I feel so much better following this program. Thanks Adele

This diet plan keeps your blood sugars level. You will find yourself not craving sweets or feeling hungry. It is important that you eat. I dropped 10 pound in 2 weeks. I never felt so good. My energy level is great, I wake up feeling awake and I no longer feel tired in the afternoon.

This is the BEST eating plan ever. A friend and I went on it together, and by the end of five days, we were both hooked. It's not just a diet, it's a way to live your entire life. It provides fantastic information, although the organization is a bit confusing. Not only does it teach you HOW to eat for life, but how to shop for food, how to stay on the plan and eat in restaurants, on vacation, at special events, etc. You will be amazed at how quickly and steadily you lose weight and feel so much better. Stabilizing your blood sugar helps to improve your mood, so aside from looking & feeling great due to the weight loss, you really FEEL HEALTHY, have lots of energy, etc. I have suggested this book to several friends and family members. Everyone who has done it has had immediate success with it. I will continue to recommend it to everyone I know who is ready to change his or her life for the better! I cannot overemphasize this - BUY THE BOOK!

I am using Adelle's diet and it is working. However, it is really difficult to get past her cheesey, disorganized, scatter-brained approach to writing. Rather than putting the core information in a accessible place in the book, she scatters it about, and fills the middle with pseudo-inspiring mantras (she must say 100 times that extras should be something you ABSOLUTELY ADORE until I can practically envision her doing a high kick in her cheerleading outfit). My advice: give it a quick read and outline the good stuff in a page. One other comment: this book seems to assume that the reader is overweight in part due to a complete lack of exercise. If you, like me, exercise at least 5 times a week, you may need to eat a little more for breakfast than her diet recommends.