The Diet Trap: Your 7-Week Plan to Lose Weight--Without Losing Yourself! [Paperback]

Pamela M. Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2001

Your seven week plan to lose weight without losing yourself. Learn the shocking truth about deceptive diets; Unleash your body's natural ability to lose weight permanently; Overcome stress and soar with energy; Recognise the long-term dangers of low-carbohydrate diets; Activate your metabolism and balance your hormones; Nourish your soul and spirit. Here are the keys to free you from the 'diet trap' and live well for life. Do you feel that too often, you are seduced by the newest diet as a way to regain control of your weight, image, and life -- but that the diet ends up controlling you instead? In this ground-breaking new book, Pam Smith draws back the curtain on the headline diets of the day, from high-protein to low-carbohydrate, and reveals how these diets set us up for failure. Whether you need to lose weight, gain weight, control overeating, or simply get well, this book will bring you nutritional reason and words of hope -- it will get your body working for you and with you.

Product Details

• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: Lifeline Press (September 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895262096
• ISBN-13: 978-0895262097
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,878,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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86 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute must read!, June 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Diet Trap : Your Seven-Week Plan to Lose Weight Without Losing Yourself (Hardcover)

The Diet Trap is the best book I've seen in a long time! Pam Smith designed it for anyone who wants to take charge of their life and make changes to their nutritional and physical lifestyle - but do it the right way. She shows us the harm of cutting corners on fad diets, and instead helps readers incorporate healthy eating and exercise habits.

She also stresses the importance of balancing the emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects; getting good rest; and reducing stress. It's a very common sense approach to living and losing weight!

Every page is packed with clear and easy to read information. The book includes charts, menus, and even recipes to make for an easy read.

If you or someone you know is battling weight or caught up in any of the fad diets - you need to get this book. I highly recommend it!

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Diet Trap, November 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Diet Trap : Your Seven-Week Plan to Lose Weight Without Losing Yourself (Hardcover)

Let's face it. Dieting and the discovering the secret to loosing weight quickly is a top money making proposition in the world today. We all want to look good and be healthy. Many people have found out how to manipulate and fool the body into loosing weight and fat for a period of time. But we also know that our chances of keeping it off are slim to none. In Pam Smith's "The Diet Trap", she explores many of the popular quick methods to reach these goals and why they don't and won't work! As a registered dietician, Pam explains what it takes (eating, exercising,drinking water, rest) for our bodies to release its ability to function properly and rid itself of excess fat storage. It's not a gimmick, it's just the facts. It is not a quick fix, it is a new way of life. Anyone serious enough to face the facts and wants to truly take care of themselves should BUY THIS BOOK. Personally, I have succeeded so far in losing 20 pounds and am on my way to a new way of living after 43 years.

50 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally!, May 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Diet Trap : Your Seven-Week Plan to Lose Weight Without Losing Yourself (Hardcover)

This book examines all of todays popular diets and seperates the fact from fiction. The part-- How Fad Diets Make You Fat--scared me! What have I done to myself all of these years?