Do you keep gaining weight, despite your efforts to diet? Do the pounds accumulate around your tummy? Do you feel tired, irritable, and unable to focus? If you answered “yes” to any of the above, you may be one of the millions who have Metabolism B, an inherited condition that causes your body to overprocess carbohydrate foods into excess body fat. There is a reason that some people can eat all they want (and seemingly never gain a pound), while the rest of us fret over every carb. Diane Kress, a registered dietitian and weight-loss specialist, has helped thousands with Metabolism B lose weight—and keep it off—with her revolutionary, scientifically based program. Now she shares its secrets here. Among the many life-changing elements of The Metabolism Miracle, you will discover:
• The reason why cookie-cutter approaches to dieting (subtracting calories burned from calories consumed) cannot work for those with Metabolism B • The tools to lose weight and reprogram your metabolism permanently • A foolproof method to improve your cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar • The return of your energy, focus, and sense of well-being • Sample menus to help you take it one day at a time • Delicious recipes (including vegan) tailored to match each step • An active lifestyle plan to maintain your newfound body weight.
As someone who struggled with Metabolism B for years, Diane Kress knows firsthand the frustration of diets that don’t work. Based on the latest research, her own experience, and the experiences of her clients, she has developed this groundbreaking plan to help you take back your life—starting today.
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BasilandSpice.com, 7/18/09 “I highly recommend this book to anyone who personally is struggling with excess weight, especially around the middle, or who wants to help someone else in that predicament.”
Remedies for Life magazine, 1/1/2010 “New ways to look at weight and weight loss, including considering detoxification and organic foods and supplements.”
About the Author
Diane Kress, RD, CDE, is the owner and director of the Nutrition Center of Morristown, New Jersey. She has specialized in weight reduction and diabetes for over twenty-five years. She researched and developed the Metabolism Miracle, the program that she has successfully taught to thousands of patients.
Product Details
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books; 1 edition (April 28, 2009)
New York Times bestselling author, Diane Kress, RD, CDE, is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator with more than thirty years experience specializing in weight reduction, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes. She owns and directs her private practice; The Nutrition Center of Morristown in Morristown, NJ. She is the author of the New York Times best seller: The Metabolism Miracle and its companion book: The Metabolism Miracle Cookbook. On January 10, 2012, Kress released her breakthrough, all inclusive hardcover book on preventing and controlling type 2 diabetes, The Diabetes Miracle...."the book of her career that promises to change the way pre diabetes and type 2 diabetes is managed now and in the future".
Diane practiced for over 17 years as a traditional nutritionist and headed the nutrition programs of several hospitals in the NYC metroplitan area. After years of collecting, relating, and interpreting data, she concluded that close to 60% of patients who struggled with their weight were on the road to metabolic syndrome and, if untreated, could eventually develop type 2 diabetes. After 17 years working in traditional medical nutrition therapy, she had enough data (over 3000 patients') to rewrite the book on weight loss to match the special metabolic needs of these millions of frustrated dieters.
The book, The Metabolism Miracle, was published in hardcover with world-wide distribution in April, 2009. It reached the New York Times Bestseller List in July, 2009. It was featured in cover stories in Women's World Magazine, First for Women, US News and World Report, Better Home and Gardens, YES magazine. The book was featured on the main page of America Online with several in-depth articles and is a permanent addition to AOL's That's Fit. In January 2010, the UK's Daily Mail serialized the program and gave it front page coverage over a four day period. The book is now licensed in 6 languages and is a world-wide phenomenon. The website: www.themetabolismmiracle.com features media coverage, in-depth information about the program, and more information on Diane Kress. As of January, 2011, Kress has personally taught The Metabolism Miracle program to over 6000 patients and is now in communication with a world-wide base of successful followers.
On December 28, 2010, the companion book, The Metabolism Miracle Cookbook and the paperback version of The Metabolism Miracle were simultaneously released.
On January 10, 2012, the breakthrough "must read" book for everyone with prediabetes/ type 2 diabetes, The Diabetes Miracle, was released. It contains everything a person needs to know to self-manage this disease, including the Miracle Core diet program that begins to regulate blood sugar and improve energy within days.
Diane Kress is now considered the premiere authority on lifestyle treatment of metabolic syndrome, Metabolism B, pre diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Her program is shown to provide permanent weight loss, decrease blood pressure, blood pressure, lipids (LDL cholesterol and triglycerides) and blood sugar. Diane is a member of the American Dietetic Association, American Association of Diabetes Educators, and American Diabetes Association and has been affiliated with the Garden State Association of Diabetes Educators.
April 2011 marked the launch of Diane Kress' subscription website: www.Miracle-Ville.com. Miracle-Ville.com gives members exclusive access to live chat, forums, blogs, music sharing, and videos all pertaining to The Metabolism Miracle/Diabetes Miracle Lifestyle. Members create their own profiles, can private message other members or comment on one another's "walls". Diane Kress is online throughout the day, every day to get involved in chats and respond to readers personal questions.
Diane is also partnered with J&J's Lifescan One Touch as the Diabetes Educator featured in their diabetes self-management program: "DTime". Diane Kress blogs on www.Miracle-Ville.com , www.themetabolismmiracle.com , www.thediabetesmiracle.com, and www.dianekress.wordpress.com
Follow Diane Kress on: Miracle-Ville.com, www.themetabolismmiracle.com, and www.thediabetesmiracle.com
Facebook: Diane Kress Fan Page, moderates four Facebook groups: The Metabolism Miracle, The Metabolism Miracle New Group, The Metabolism Miracle Network and The Diabetes Miracle
When you prominently use such a strong superlative word like "miracle" within the title of a diet book, then you had better be confident in your ability to deliver the goods. Registered dietitian Diane Kress has done her homework and identified a unique issue that inflicts upwards of 60 percent of the population and many of them don't even know it. It's called Metabolism B and requires a way of eating that isn't exactly embraced by the nutritional gatekeepers of our day.
How many of us have gone on diet after diet for years without ever keeping off any weight that has been lost? I've done it way too many times to count, but Kress explains that for some people it may not be our fault that we have struggled so much. And the unsightly belly fat is the worst all the while walking around too tired to exercise, hungry almost constantly, and wondering if this is the best life has to offer you. It's a depressing state that nobody should endure.
People with Metabolism B are different because we (yes, I'm one of them!) cannot eat an excessive amount of carbohydrate without packing on the pounds. Kress is also a Met B, so she understands the struggle just like we do and has developed an effective plan for combatting this once and for all. It's not calories in, calories out, it's not eating disgusting low-fat and fat-free foods, and it most certainly is not mustering up the willpower. There's a three-step process outlined in this book that give you all the tools you need to lose weight and keep it off for good!
Basically, you go through eight weeks of what Kress calls "Carb Rehab" as a means for giving your pancreas a chance to slow down on insulin production, heal and detoxify your liver, and allow fat cells to begin shrinking. You do this through an intense low-carbohydrate nutritional plan which will produce weight loss, improved health markers with your cholesterol and blood pressure numbers, and energy like you've never experienced before! Sample menus and food ideas are included in the book.
My only concern with what Kress shares in this book is her insistence on using "lean" meats, egg whites, low-fat cheese, and such. It's almost as if the registered dietitian in her won't allow her to see there are health benefits to consuming the fats contained in these foods as a regular part of the low-carb regimen for people with Met B. While Kress appreciates the work people like Dr. Atkins have done to promote low-carb principles to the public, she believes their ideas are antiquated since there has been so much research to come out in recent years. Unfortunately, I think she cherry picks the science that makes her case regarding saturated fat and isn't acknowledging the wealth of fresh new data that is out there.
The second part of the plan includes an eight-week or more "Transition...To Carbs" where "healthy carbohydrates" are added back into the diet to "gently restart your rested pancreas and liver." This was an odd change of gears since Kress has already identified that over half of people are walking around with an aversion to carbs. So what exactly is "healthy" about them that you need to put them back into your diet again? She says the carbs aren't the culprit, but it's their Met B condition that needed to get back into balance again. Eating the "low-impact carbohydrate" (I'll assume is low-glycemic load) is what will make that happen. But I think this is a recipe for falling prey to the carb creep that so often befuddles low-carb dieters.
The final phase is the "Lifetime Weight Maintenance" plan that adds even MORE carbohydrates into the diet along with the low-fat foods I previously mentioned as well as a few "treats" here and there. This is where you are supposed to live for the rest of your life, but how does this differ from any other high-carb, low-fat plan out there? What about people like me who are so sensitive to carbohydrate that they cannot tolerate more than 30-50g carbs daily? How does plan help lose weight and then keep it off forever adding back in carbohydrate no matter what their "impact" is?
As much I love the concept of Metabolism B and the low-carb solution that it offers people who are afflicted by it, I think Kress is still somewhat stuck on the idea that fat is somehow bad for you and carbohydrates play a necessary role in metabolism. Neither is true and that's unfortunate. Her insistence on things like eating every few hours, drinking lots of water, exercising 30 minutes a day for five days a week, and other typical dogmatic diet dictates shows she still hasn't caught on to what the latest studies are showing and is relying on her nutritional education to still guide her. I think she is on to something good, but it's not quite all the way there yet.
All you have to do is look around to realize that people are different. If you're a pear, you gain weight in the hips and thighs. If you're an apple, you gain weight around the middle. I know someone (the husband of one of my friends) who first gains weight in his face! The fact is while we can be classified into general categories, we are all really quite different from one another in every way, including our metabolisms.
It should be no surprise to anyone that metabolisms come in different models. Many of you have friends or family members who can eat whatever they want and maintain a healthy weight, while you may have been fighting your weight your entire life.
For example, take my sister and me. No one in the world is as genetically close to me as my sister. Same mother, same father, same height, same eye color, same hair color, and only 15 months apart. That's about where the similarities stop. I'm a pear; Cindy's an apple. I'm 58 years old with no signs of diabetes or prediabetes, while at 57 Cindy has been trying to manage her type 2 diabetes for nearly 20 years. So close genetically and yet so different.
I didn't buy this book for me ... I bought it for my sister, but I have been reading it so I can help her. I now know why we are so different ... I have Metabolism A; Cindy has Metabolism B. If you have a roll around the middle and gain weight easily, you may have Metabolism B like my sister. If you do, you need to order this book today!
Diane Kress, who struggled with her own Metabolism B, has come up with a three step program which will teach you how to live a life in harmony with your own unique metabolism.
Step One is carb rehab. You need rehab because carbs cause your pancreas to overreact and to release excess insulin to handle the rise in blood glucose. Your brain then gives you the signal to load up on more carbs in order to quickly raise the blood glucose. You are going to have to go through rehab to break this cycle.
Step Two is transition, a healthy path to carbs. Once you have completed Step One, your overactive pancreas has rested, your liver is functioning better, and your Metabolism B is ready to be reprogrammed to process carbs normally.
Step Three gives you the tools to keep the weight off for a lifetime. First you will identify your carb range, and then learn which carbs you can eat and how far apart to space your allotted servings. In this chapter, you'll find all the tools you need to continue your success ... charts, lists, and even tips on what to do when you slip up.
You may have Metabolism A, like me, but chances are you know someone with Metabolism B. About 45% of the population is afflicted with Metabolism B. When you see a young slender body with a small roll around the middle, you are probably looking at a person whose future includes weight-related health issues due to Metabolism B. While The Metabolism Miracle can help anyone, those with Metabolism B will benefit most. What I like best about the book is that it appeals to vegetarians and vegans, as well as those who eat meat. Many books appeal to one or the other, but not both. I also love the real-life stories of people who have been helped by Diane. I highly recommend this book to anyone who personally is struggling with excess weight, especially around the middle, or who wants to help someone else in that predicament.
For years I tried all kinds of diets saying to myself they should work if I really follow the rules, but they didn't. I thought I failed. Yet deep down I knew there was more to it. I'm not that lazy, yet the scale said otherwise. Then I learned about The Metabolism Miracle...and it is a miracle. In very clear language Diane Kress explains why my physiology doesn't fit the mold of all those other diets. She tells me why I am different and why those other diets will never work for me; something I knew but didn't understand. And it's backed up by fact based on Diane's research and physiology of the human body. A lot this has been known for a long time, yet no one has put the puzzle together like Diane has before. The book is full of information on how my body's metabolism works. The book explains each phase of the program in easy to follow steps and how your body will react to each step and it's full of data supporting each phase. In reading the book it seemed like there was an answer to each possible question - what if I slip (there's a plan to get back on track); what types of foods can I eat (not only are there sample menus, there are pages and pages of recipes); what do I do if I go out to eat; etc, etc. The book will be a reference book for me for years to come. I really am excited that I've found where I belong.
