Healthy Living Books Books

Rating: - Definately works!
Having battled with weight control for many years and tried every diet there is, I was very sceptical about reading yet another book on the subject of weight control. However, 3 weeks on I have completely changed the way I think about food and how I eat. I have lost half a stone already without even trying, although it took me a week to wean myself off wheat and diary, but all my friends are telling how well I look and I definitely have more energy. This book is well written and easy to read.

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Rating: - Lots of pschyo babble and no advice
I bought this book based on the positive reviews on Amazon, but was very disappointed. The book is patronising and treats the reader like a child. I'm not going to lose weight solely by thinking differently and giving up key nutrients found in things such as dairy, cereals, etc. If you're looking for advice on diets etc. then don't buy this book. In fact, unless you believe that writing lists and changing the names of foods so that your brain doesn't want them e.g. call bread 'glue' so you won't want to eat it - I think that the human brain is able to know the truth - then don't buy this book.

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Rating: - Life changing
I bought this book nearly 2 weeks ago, and I have to say it is life changing. If you have a problem with food, emotional, overeating, comfort eating, any of these, this book is for you. I cannot begin to tell you how my life has changed due to reading this book. I have had a problem with food for all of my adult life. Diet after diet after diet, food has ruled my life, consistantly. And guess what, I have basically shed and gained the same weight over and over again. I was told about this book and went to the bookshop and looked at it, didnt want to do the exercises, didnt want to change what I was doing basically (ha, and she wonders why she couldnt get rid of the weight!!). Then I turned 40, read a bit more about the book, and with book tokens I had been given went and bought the book. I havent looked back. Food does now not rule my life. I am indifferent to it, and I have never been able to say that!! I have been tested to the limit, especially in past few days, hurt my back, (usually feel sorry for myself and "treat" myself), no, not this time. Relationship problems, comfort eat, no again!! Kids go to the takeaway and get my "fave" chips, I look at them while hungry, and again, no thanks, total indifference.
If you never buy any other books GET this one. It is amazing, and the cd is sooo relaxing.
Enjoy.

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Rating: - Well worth a read!!
I have always been into exercise and considered my diet fairly good, but I have never been able to get into exactly the kind of shape I want. So, on recommendation, I read this book and found it very interesting. A lot of the things I had been including as part of my diet everyday, are in fact not good for you, and the reasons given for them not being good for you, made perfect sense to me, particularly the parts about bread milk. Also, the section about not eating too many different kinds of food in a single meal was interesting, as I had seen in eating competitions that the competitors often ask for a different kind of food (on top of what they have to eat as part of the competition) because that helps them eat more, something I thought was strange when I first saw that. This book is also of a comfortably readable size, not some huge door-stop-of-a-book. On the whole, well worth a read and not too time-consuming.

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Rating: - Reader, Herts
I was encouraged to buy this book by all the rave reviews. I was very disappointed. Not sure exactly what it is if it is not a diet. Anything which asks you to remove wheat, dairy, sugar etc. and eat no carbs after lunchtime is pretty close to a diet as far as I'm concerned. Well done to the readers who found it suited them - it is not for me. Much prefer the encouraging, supportive, and empowering approach in "Beyond Chocolate" by Sophie and Audrey Boss - now that is a life changing book!