How I Gave Up My Low-Fat Diet and Lost 40 Pounds (Revised and Expanded Edition) (Paperback)

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I've seen many patients in my chiropractic practice lose weight and improve their health with various low carb programs. I'm impressed at how Dana has foregone the one-size-fits-all cookie cutter approach to dieting, instead giving the reader plenty of options, and a comprehensive understanding of the underlying principles needed for success. Readable, user-friendly, and easy to understand. Recommended. -- Gary Knutson, D.C. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

This book is a breezy, chatty, non-technical, fun-to-read explanation of low carbohydrate dieting why it works, the surprising health benefits, and most importantly, how to approach low carb dieting.

The book details three very different main approaches to controlling carbohydrates (including the Basic Low Carb Diet, similar to Atkins or Protien Power, and the Mini-Binge Diet, popularized as the Carbohydrate Addict?s Diet), plus several variations, finally summing up the basic principles which tie them all together.

The point is to give the reader the tools necessary to construct a new way of eating that will fit his or her body, psyche, and lifestyle, thus allowing them to stay slim, energetic, and healthy for life.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Fair Winds Press; 2 edition (July 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592330401
• ISBN-13: 978-1592330409
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (77 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #101,447 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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99 of 106 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You won't believe how good it is!, April 19, 2000

By	"buggily" (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost Forty Pounds! (Paperback)

I am a born sceptic. I also have been obsessed with food for my entire adult life. When I am going to eat, what I am going to eat, where I am going to eat, if there will be enough food left by the time I get to the front of the line... Not a very nice way to live. This book HAS CHANGED MY LIFE! So far, everything she has said has been true. Everything that she said would happen, has happened. And it's not hard to do at all! Sure, the initial adjustment to serving a meal with no potatoes or bread is a little odd, but you get over it pretty fast. Somehow, this diet just clicked with me. After reading her book, I have at least 6 more reasons to eat this way than just to lose weight. That's not even my focus any more! She explained all the different approaches of all these other authors and shows you how to pick and choose which aspects of which approaches will work best for you. It's remarkably easy to read, too!

I used this book along with Lauri's Lo-Carb Cookbook and the Greg Smithey "Easy Toning" tape, and I lost 10 pounds the first week and, I don't know if my initial measurement was wrong or what, but I lost and INCH off my waist! I have ordered the rest of Mr. Smithey's "Easy" videos now, and use Lauri's cookbook everyday. I have not yet found a recipe I or my husband didn't like.

I hope you find something that works for you. But for my money, this was the best that was out there for me.

55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost Forty Pounds, May 8, 2000

By	"adittmar" (Winnebago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost Forty Pounds! (Paperback)

I bought this book for my husband. He would starve on lowfat diets and never seem to lose much weight. We read this and it helped us create our own low-carb diet that would work for him - a month into it he is 15lbs lighter and most importantly to him is that he has never had so much energy. I get tired of people saying how I am going to kill him with this high fat eating - but I don't call a lean piece of meat with vegetables or veggies and dip for a snack as bad nutrition - not all diets are for everyone but for the people that this kind of diet works for it is god send - which is more deadly being 100lbs overweight or eating meat and veggies? You decide- Thanks Dana your book is great.

52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Only Way To Lose, September 28, 2000

By	J. Crear (Hobart, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost Forty Pounds! (Paperback)

I have been on weight loss diets almost all of my life! I've lost and gained over 500 pounds in my lifetime. This will no longer be the case for me now that I have read Dana Carpender's book "How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet And Lost Forty Pounds" and am following her plan! I am now at the lowest weight I have been in ten years and it was so easy to attain this weight loss. How can you call this program a diet? I've eaten steak, chicken, veggies, cheese and occassionally Peanut M&M's, ice cream and chocolate mousse! This program is not a starvation plan. I have always felt so satisfied and healthy and have so much energy! Best of all I know I will be able to stay on this food program for the rest of my life! If you are tired of the diet Yo-yo I hightly recommend Dana's book. It's a fun, fast paced, easy read and it will be the last diet book you'll ever need to buy!