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A Fruity Diet With Incredible Results, October 27, 2005
This review is from: Let's Do Lunch: You'll Never Have to Diet Again (Hardcover)
As someone who has lost over 180 pounds naturally through diet and exercise, I have grown to love and admire anyone else who has been able to do the same for themselves.
That's why I was so anxious to read Roger Troy Wilson's story about losing an unbelievable 230 pounds in his new book called Let's Do Lunch. As a low-carb weight loss success story myself, I just HAD to know how he lost his weight and kept it off for many years now.
Well, what I discovered was the most peculiar and unique "diet" plan I think I have ever seen in my life. It's definitely NOT low-carb, low-fat, low-calorie, or portion-controlled. None of those ever worked for him no matter how hard he tried to lose weight on them. I don't know where Wilson came up with this way of eating, but it helped him shed the pounds and keep it off. Anything that can help you do that is worth taking a look at.
In Let's Do Lunch, Wilson not only shares his story about ballooning up to a "5-foot waist" (my waist got as big as 5'2"!), but also the many letters of thanks he has received from those who have enjoyed his special program. The enthusiasm these people have after losing weight is contagious and makes you want to know how the Let's Do Lunch plan works.
As a very successful businessman, Wilson knew he had a problem with obesity but ignored it for many years. As many of us former 400+ pounders will attest, the rollercoaster ride of lose, gain, lose, gain was ruthless. Trying time after time to find that one way of eating that will sustain us for the rest of our lives was challenging and draining. Surely there had to be a better way to control your weight?!
For Wilson, there was. And actually he can thank his son for getting him started on the greatest achievement of his life. When they say the old phrase "out of the mouth of babes," it was definitely true for Wilson.
His son had put some grapes in the freezer to have as a refreshing and delicious treat later in the day. But when Wilson found the grapes in the freezer, he immediately thought they were ruined and started blaming everyone for it. He went to his wife first, but she said she didn't do it. So then he calls his son and I'm sure he responded something along the lines of, "Chill out, Dad, it's cool. You've never tasted grapes this good before!"
And so Wilson tried one of these frozen fruits and was just amazed by how incredibly delicious they were. So he kept eating and eating them. He did the same thing the next night and the next night beginning a pattern that eventually led to the basis for the Let's Do Lunch program that helped him shed those pounds.
While Wilson makes it clear this is not a fruit diet, fruits of all kinds are highly encouraged to eat in the quantities of your choice. Besides the fruit, most of the rest of the Let's Do Lunch plan is fairly close to livin' la vida low-carb -- eliminate sugar, starches, and unnecessary carbs and consume more protein for satiety. As for the high sugar content in all of that fruit he endorses, Wilson said he doesn't think that sugar is fattening although the sugar found in candy bars and sweets is fattening. Hmmmm.
I chuckled when I read about how the "thin" version of Wilson is getting so much attention these days because I can personally relate to that experience. You life really does change after losing such a dramatic amount of weight. But I am envious of Roger Troy Wilson. He got his tummy tuck after losing weight and is so happy with it. This is a struggle for so many of us who have lost weight, but now have the hanging skin to look at every single day. Someday it will happen, someday. Wilson said it has made all the difference in the world how he sees himself when he looks in the mirror.
In a nutshell, the Let's Do Lunch weight loss plan calls for four things: eat fruit, make lunch your priority meal of the day, eat less fattening foods that you enjoy, and have corn, beans, and peas instead of bread, pasta, potatoes or rice. That's it. Do those things and you are well on your way to losing weight the way Wilson did it.
Of course, you will want to read Let's Do Lunch to get a better understanding of the who, what, where, why, when, how of this new way of eating. His "Helpful Tips" chapter answers all of those nagging questions you may be having about dieting in general and how Let's Do Lunch works to melt away the fat from your body. You'll have to turn to page 55 to see how often you should weigh yourself. It's not what you think.
Wilson also helps you deal with the inevitable cravings you will experience, what to do when you feel the desire to cheat, how to order when you eat out at a fast-food or sit-down restaurant.
But I know you are wondering about that little word known as exercise. Am I gonna have to sweat myself to death on this diet? In a word, nope! Wilson said exercise is not required on his program, but it will most certainly enhance the weight loss and health benefits you will enjoy if you do. Your body will also become more toned, energetic, and active. When you shed over 100 pounds off of your body, you cannot help but start moving faster and faster in every activity that you do. I am more active today than I have ever been in my entire life. And I'm sure Wilson is as well.
There is a structured 14-day eating plan for people who need to be told how to eat. Follow it strictly if you need guidance about doing the Let's Do Lunch plan. Wilson even provides a handy grocery shopping list about what you can and cannot buy to eat on his program. And in case you were wondering, what would a book about weight loss be without throwing in a few favorite recipes at the back of the book?
Wilson has made the Let's Do Lunch so user-friendly that you won't have any trouble reading it from cover to cover in one sitting. What an amazing story of weight loss triumph and success Wilson has to share. While my path to becoming skinny was very different from his, I have great respect and admiration for anyone who can get their obesity under control for good.
Won't you be the next Roger Troy Wilson to change your life forever? If so, then Let's Do Lunch.
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80 of 83 people found the following review helpful:
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Best Diet Book Ever!, May 7, 2009
You start by eating until you are full in ALL the food groups, whenever you are hungry, no matter how often that is and no matter how many calories you consume...even if you start by eating 10,000 calories a day! And you do this until your hunger cravings are gone and until all your cravings for all the fattening foods that have caused you to fail in the past are gone. Then, you still eat until full, but only at mealtimes.
Further, you get to eat all the lean red meat you want, along with all the unprocessed starchy carbs and sweetest fresh fruits and fruit smoothies you want, and including all the veggies and salads you want.
The foods and recipes cause your blood sugar to stabilize, which then forces you to start feeling less and less hungry with each day that passes. Thus, you begin to eat less and less, consume fewer and fewer calories and lose all the weight you want.
There are about 70 recipes in the book, a 14-Day Meal Plan, a chapter on exactly how to eat out (even at fast-food restaurants), a chapter on satisfying every craving and a complete grocery-shopping list. There is nothing left to question.
And on top of everything else, there is a free website to get your questions answered, and to get new recipes and new foods...www.letsdolunch.com/boards
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EAT HEALTHY CARBS UNTIL FULL, AS WELL AS ALL THE LEAN RED MEAT AND ALL THE SWEETEST FRESH FRUITS AND FRUIT SMOOTHIES YOU WANT!, August 27, 2006
This review is from: Let's Do Lunch: You'll Never Have to Diet Again (Hardcover)
Diets fail for one of two reasons...you end up being hungry all the time, or you end up craving something. With Let's Do Lunch, you are never hungry because you eat until you are full whenever you ARE hungry, and Let's Do Lunch eliminates all of your cravings. For example, Let's Do Lunch is full of healthy carbohydrates that you can eat until full and lose weight, and you don't have to count carbs, calories, fat grams, points or anything else.
Further, America's 3 favorite fattening foods are hamburgers, French fries and pizza. Let's Do Lunch has Let's Do Lunch Burgers that eliminate the cravings for the hamburgers, Potato Pancakes that eliminate the cravings for the French fries and Pizza Soup that eliminates the cravings for pizza.
The Let's Do Lunch Burgers are better tasting than regular hamburgers and are made with lean ground sirloin, ground white meat turkey and mashed pinto beans. The mashed pinto beans make the Let's Do Lunch Burgers so moist that they melt in your mouth, and yet the only thing you taste is the sirloin...and you can eat the Let's Do Lunch Burgers until full and lose weight!
The Pizza Soup is better tasting than pizza and is made with diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, lean ground sirloin, pureed pinto beans and other pizza toppings, and when the soup is hot you submerge a slice of mozzarella cheese on top, which melts right into the soup. Again, you can eat this Pizza Soup until full and lose weight.
The Potato Pancakes are better tasting than French fries and are made with blended butter beans, adding chicken broth, corn, diced green pepper and diced onion (if you like), and these ingredients are made into patties and fried in olive oil. Once more, you can eat these Potato Pancakes until full and lose weight.
Then, you can eat all the lean red meat you want, and Let's Do Lunch has crispbreads and corn thins, which are large, round, crisp and hold a burger. You can eat your salads with your favorite dressing on the side and with aged cheese crumbles on top. Some butter popcorns are non-fattening because there is no butter in the popcorn...there's soybean oil, but the author says that soybean oil is non-fattening. You can eat all the sweetest fresh fruits and fruit smoothies that you want and still lose weight, because the author discovered that fruit sugar does not turn to fat in the body. Therefore, you can literally eat all the cherries, grapes, frozen grapes, watermelon, pineapple, bananas and fruit smoothies that you want and still lose weight...and when you do this, it eliminates the cravings for the regular sugar foods.
Further, the author says you can drink all the wine you want, because it is made from grapes, and there is even a vodka that you can drink, again because it is made from grapes (CIROC VODKA).
There are over 70 recipes in the book that you can eat until full and lose weight, and they are in all the food groups.
If you go to the letsdolunch website and click on "message boards", there are over 1200 people already registered there, and they all say the same thing, "I read the book, I didn't believe it because it sounds too good to be true, BUT IT WORKS!
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