Eat Carbs, Lose Weight: Drop All the Pounds You Want without Giving Up the Foods You Love [Bargain Price] [Hardcover]

Denise Austin (Author), Amy Campbell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 2005

Yes, you can have the carbs you love and lose weight--and it's healthier for you, too! Just follow this revolutionary, satisfying eating plan from beloved fitness guru Denise Austin.

If you love carbs, you've looked at the low-carb diets that are all the rage and despaired of ever finding a program that works for you. Denise knows the feeling. As an active person, Denise knew she had to keep carbs in her life--they gave her power and endurance for her demanding days. Daunted by low-carb diets, she searched for a diet that would allow her to eat carbs and not gain weight. Instead, she discovered a diet that helped her lose weight.

In her first diet book ever, Denise Austin teams up with Joslin Clinic nutritionist Amy Campbell to produce a sound, nourishing, truly delicious eating plan that allows readers to welcome their favorite foods--like real bread, hearty pasta dishes, and even potatoes--back onto the table, and still lose all the pounds they want, this time for good! Denise offers a 4-week program--based on her own diet and her 9 Rules of Weight Loss--that will guide carb-lovers to a healthful way of enjoying their savory, crunchy, energy-giving fare. Find out:
o What really causes carbohydrate addiction and how to avoid it without "cutting" carbs
o What foods set you off and how to satisfy your cravings without bingeing
o Which carbs help you look and feel younger
Enjoy the more than 100 mouthwatering all-new recipes--and discover an eating plan you can honestly imagine staying on for life! You can have your carbs--and lose weight, too!

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About the Author

DENISE AUSTIN is one of the most popular and trusted personalities in the fitness field. She is the author of 8 books and the star of more than 50 top-selling videos. Her two fitness shows, Fit and Lite and The Daily Workout, appear every day on Lifetime Network. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

AMY CAMPBELL, M.S., R.D., C.D.E., is a nutritionist with the esteemed Joslin Clinic at Harvard University. She lives in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• ISBN-10: 1594862338
• ASIN: B000GYI1KQ
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #760,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A native of San Pedro, California, Denise started gymnastics at the age of 12 and earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Arizona, graduating in 1979 with an exercise physiology degree. She began her career teaching aerobic exercise classes in the Los Angeles area and went on to cohost the The Jack LaLanne Show, in 1981. (Denise considers Jack LaLanne one of her role models, and she is delighted to still speak regularly with the 94-year-old fitness legend.)

During more than 25 years promoting health and fitness, Denise has created 82 workout videos or DVDs. Her enormous number of sales led to her 2003 induction into the Video Hall of Fame.

Denise has been married for 25 years to Jeff Austin, a sports attorney and brother of tennis champ Tracy Austin. They share a home with their two teenage daughters, Kelly and Katie.

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes Carbs and yummy foods even my kids like eatting!!!, January 17, 2006

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Lisa "njgal10" (NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eat Carbs, Lose Weight: Drop All the Pounds You Want without Giving Up the Foods You Love (Hardcover)

I borrowed this book from the library as I wasn't sure if I would like it. I like Denise Austin and use her tapes but I wasn't sure about her diet, plus I was considering the glycemic diet as well. I liked the fact that this diet is very simliar to the principles followed in the glycemic diet, except it uses the glycemic load of the food (a more updated version based on newer studies), which allows more foods I personally like and are extremely health beneficial to be eaten like watermelon, pineapple, etc. This diet doesn't leave me feeling hunger or having cravings like other diets I have been on. I have read the entire book and have been following the diet plan for 11 days and have lost 7 lbs in the first week! I like it so much I am going to buy the book something I never do, because this diet suits me so well.

I tried south beach and did lose 30 lbs while on it (which over the course of the holidays was regained), but now finding myself being a single mother of 2 children, I wanted less time consuming recipes with afforable foods that my children would like eatting too, this plan has that.

If you don't want to or can't cook all your meals Denise gives you guidelines for substitutions, eatting out, how to maintain once you reach your goal weight. She does suggest you follow her plan as written for the first 28 days but she is reasonable and even advises if there is something you don't like, have a food allergy, or is simply not to your taste substitute it with another meal from the plan you do like or with a food from the substitution list.

Denise also gives guidelines for exercising which is stressed as key for life long health, steady weight loss, and maintenance.

The only thing that would of made this book better is a shopping list for each week of the plan since she would like you to follow the plan exactly during that time. I understand way she didn't after the first 28 days you can mix and substitute rendering the lists useless, but it still would of been nice.

That said I would highly recommend this diet to anyone who loves carbs and enjoys cooking healthy tasty meals.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Recipes but Not the layout, September 10, 2005

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Robyn D. B. Marshall "robyyc" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eat Carbs, Lose Weight: Drop All the Pounds You Want without Giving Up the Foods You Love (Hardcover)

I am not keen of the layout of this book. She has the meal plans layed out for 4 weeks and then the recipes are broken into seperate breakfast, lunch and dinner chapters with the corresponding day above. I LOVE her book Target Female Fat Zones. In that book she has a daily meal plan, total calories targets of 1400, 1600 or 1800 (the carb book has similar). In the Target Zone book she also has a useful tool of a shopping list for the week which this book lacks so you have to go through and figure it out for yourself. The added bonus in the TFFZ book is the different exercises well layed out in progression.

I decided to get the book from the library and take the recipes that I like rather than buy the book as it is not as well layed out as my Target Female Fat Zone book. Save your money and get her Target FF Zone book - - it's more bang for your buck and will help you get in shape AND lose weight!

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Like the theory but not the recipes, September 12, 2005

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M. Buckley (Southern Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eat Carbs, Lose Weight: Drop All the Pounds You Want without Giving Up the Foods You Love (Hardcover)

I really like Denise Austin and I really like what she has to say in this book, it seems to me to be more truth and less sensational than the other popular diet books. The trouble I have found is that I am a finicky eater and there are a lot of foods I do not care for, most of which are in the recipes. If you like a lot of variety in your foods, you probably will like the recipes but for me there are very few recipes I will be likely to try. The bad thing is that she encourages you to follow her plan with the recipes because they are each balanced to follow her plan and if you make the recipes the way she tells you to in the other you are supposed to, then that is part of the plan. But it appears to me that the plan is basically out the window if I were to change each of the recipes to suit my tastes. So, I would not say the book is useless because I like what she has to say and I like the fact that she encourages exercise along with it but for me, the recipes are no good.