The Snack Factor Diet: The Secret to Losing Weight--by Eating MORE (Paperback)

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Eat all day and still lose weight!

Go ahead. Ruin your appetite on snacks. Because if you want to be more energetic, feel younger, and lose weight, you have to eat more. That is the advice from Keri Glassman, and the basis for the program you’ll find in The Snack Factor Diet. Glassman reveals how snacking helps you:

• Keep your metabolism revved
• Maintain high energy levels
• Slow the aging process
• Put an end to hunger-related mood swings
• Eliminate sugar cravings

This proven, groundbreaking diet includes an easy-to-follow menu plan and hundreds of intensely satisfying snacks for every craving.

Sweet Chocolate Pudding or Banana Peanut “Ice Cream”
Salty Pizzettes or Prosciutto Wraps
Creamy Black Bean Dip or Apple Yogurt

About the Author

KERI GLASSMAN, M.S., R.D., is the president of KKG Body Fuel, Inc., a nutrition, counseling, and consulting practice, and the founder and president of KeriBar, a nutrition snack bar company. She received her M.S. in clinical nutrition from New York University and has appeared in or on Marie Claire, Glamour, Shape, Men’s Journal, Self, Fitness, Life & Style, Us Weekly, Men’s Fitness, WebMD, Oxygen, Today, and The Early Show.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (April 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307351769
• ISBN-13: 978-0307351760
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #482,780 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Snack factor makes munching a must!, July 26, 2007

By	Lee Mellott "www.SkinCareForWrinkles.com (my ... (Frederick, Maryland) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This review is from: The Snack Factor Diet: The Secret to Losing Weight--by Eating MORE (Hardcover)

I really wanted to love Keri Glassman's, "The Snack Factor Diet". Glassman writes in an easy to follow style and the book is packed with information. And who wouldn't love to snack several times a day. However, there were many things I don't like about plan.

Glassman is a good writer and she is very easy to understand. She shares a lot of good nutritional information in this 244 page book. But I felt her overall plan would be hard to follow. The plan begins with a 3 day cleanse. This includes dandelions, cucumbers, all you can eat celery stalks, lean meat and lemon water. Did someone say STRICT DIET! To be fair however, the cleanse is optional and designed to blast away your cravings etc.

The "real" diet is better but restrictive. Though she blasts low carb diets in her book. Her book is pretty low carb. She calls potatos, rice, cereal, pasta etc. starches and you are limited to one or two a day at breakfast depending on your weight!

A typical day on the plan might include milk, fiber cereal, and walnuts for breakfast, shrimp salad with avocado and dressing for lunch, chicken breast with veggies and a little fat for dinner. And two snacks.

The book focuses on eating snacks each day and though Glassman lists a lot of snacks, I personally felt the snacks were not necessarily optimal choices. For on the go snacking she recommends for example cottage cheese and yogurt. These items need to be refridgerated so how on the go is this?

Many of her snack choices seem unbalanced. Two or three slices of bacon or two turkey meatballs. I really think that selecting a protein and a carb for each snack is what will keep one full and content to the next meal. Some of her choices were strictly protein or carb and fat etc.

Glassman also wants you to keep a food journal and discusses the importance of exercise and managing stress. She advises drinking lemon water instead of using fake sweeteners and she gives extensive nutrition information and simple recipes. She does not give nutrition information on her menus. Glassman does a great job of explaining her plan and you can elect to plan your own meals around the information she gives or follow set menus.

Overall I think it's a restrictive plan but if you don't mind only one starch a day, you may want to give it a munch.

Lee Mellott

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easiest diet ever!, May 8, 2007

By	StrattonLvr (Hoboken, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Snack Factor Diet: The Secret to Losing Weight--by Eating MORE (Hardcover)

This book is great! I've reached my goal weight and keeping it off has not been hard. This book taught me to change my outlook on food and to listen to my body. It even introduced me to new foods with all the different recipes provided. There are so many great ideas on meals and snacks, that I planned out my weeks of meals so that I'd have a perfect variety and never get bored. This book was so easy to read and I learned lessons I know I'll use for the rest of my life.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An idea that really works, April 24, 2007

By	Robert M. Stein (Silver Spring, MD) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Snack Factor Diet: The Secret to Losing Weight--by Eating MORE (Hardcover)

I thought the book was terrific. I found it easy to read and who couldn't like the idea that I could eat almost whenever I wanted to. I found that there were plenty of choices among the diet plans which made sticking to the diet much easier than any I had tried before. I lost weight on the plan and yet I instinctively knew that I was doing nothing to harm myself. Diets that are heavy on meats or require you to starve yourself are unrealistic or unhealthy in the long run. I'm never as hungry when I sit down to eat a regular meal since I went on this diet which makes it much easier to control how much I eat. This is a diet that I truly feel I will make a part of my life.