Go Green Get Lean: Trim Your Waistline with the Ultimate Low-Carbon Footprint Diet [Paperback] Review

I wouldn't call this a diet, more of a healthy eating plan that is also tasty and good for the environment.Since trying to be more "green", my skin looks better, I have more energy and the recipes are categorized by season making it fresh and easy to shop.Interesting data on the impact of our food choices.And you are encouraged to drink coffee, red wine and eat dark chocolate!No downside here...

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The Denim Diet: Sixteen Simple Habits to Get You into Your Dream Pair of Jeans (Paperback) Review

In "The Denim Diet", wardrobe stylist and designer Kami Gray, uses an extremely effective yet simple technique that I have been utilizing for years to insure that I don't gain an exorbitant amount of weight especially during the dreaded holiday time.In addition to this, she outlines a program that includes sixteen dos and don'ts that will formulate lifelong habits that will keep you trimly fitting into your favorite pair of jeans.

Not unlike the idea of Will Clower's "The Fat Fallacy: The French Diet Secrets to Permanent Weight Loss," Gray inadvertantly advocates an American take on the French way of eating that eliminates obsessing over the numbers registered on the scale and focuses instead on whether or not your clothes fit.Substitute the black pencil skirt spoken of in Anne Barone's Chic & Slim: How Those Chic French Women Eat All That Rich Food And Still Stay Slim series for a pair of True Religion (the brand is just a suggestion) jeans and you have the ultimate weight-monitoring gargoyle.The test is simple:Do they fit you?Are they tight?After eating certain foods, is there a subtle difference in the fit?When you look in the mirror while wearing them, what do you see from a 360- degree perspective?

So many women, especially those of a certain age make the paramount mistake of turning in their jeans for either leggings or the dreaded elastic waist.Essentially, what this allows is over-eating.Stretch yoga pants while not worn during exercise are not the `thing' to wear while eating lunch with girlfriends at a restaurant.Especially when those girls eschew eating flesh as a matter of conscience and concentrate on high-caloric bread, pasta, beans and cheese to balance out their diets.Caution, indeed, will be thrown to the wind along with those jeans the squeeze you into dreaded muffin-top disproportion.

Wearing jeans with a zipper or button closure or for that manner any form-fitting pant with a structured waistline and button or hook and eye fasteners, keeps your eating in check automatically.My simple rule is to try on your dream jeans every morning--if they fit the way you want, then you ate well the day before.If they don't rewind and figure out which item or which habit did the damage before the damage becomes irreparable. Of course, there is more to Gray's book to just pulling a pair of jeans on and off.Nonetheless the jeans do serve as an important benchmark that aids in self-restraint.

Thinking that you are eating right and actually eating correctly may be two very different things.My example of the women who embrace the vegetarian lifestyle without understanding the subtle balance of the body is a case in point.A little education using Gray's easy-to-read anecdotal sixteen-point plan will make keeping your weight stable a no-brainer. Leaving nothing out, Gray devotes a chapter to each of her eating sensibilities that include: "Slimming Alternatives to Sugar," "White Versus Brown Carbohydrates," "Healthy Organic Food Practices," "Caffeinated Beverages," "Booze," "Breakfast," "Healthful and Ethical Meat Consumption," "Fruits and Vegetables," "Cholesterol, Good and Bad Fats and the Superstars Omega 3s," "Getting Lean Means Better Planetary Health," "Snacking," "Customized Exercises," "Family, Friends and Food Enablers," "Calories, Portions and Proportions," and "Eating Healthy Out and About."Without hesitating to lay down the law, she dictates what you can and cannot eat if your desire is to stay healthy and slim.She follows her rules and regulations with a summary sheet, tips on how to dress five pounds slimmer instantly, how to stock your pantry and provides healthful recipes for each food category.

Gray takes many of the themed-diets like Mireille Guiliano's French Women Don't Get Fat no-snacking portion control based plan, the The Sonoma Diet: Trimmer Waist, Better Health in Just 10 Days!Sonoma Diet's emphasis on power foods like fruit, vegetables and nuts and the glycemic index system of ranking carbohydrates according to how much a certain amount of each food raises a person's blood sugar levels found in The Zone Diet, The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss, Sugar Busters!: Cut Sugar to Trim Fat, Suzanne Somers' Fast & Easy: Lose Weight the Somersize Way with Quick, Delicious Meals for the Entire Family! and The French Diet: Why French Women Don't Get Fat and factors in fashionable diet challenges and enhancements from ultra sugary designer coffee drinks, artificial sweeteners, holiday pitfalls and pig-out friendly fast food to eating green, vitamin supplements, protein bars, aerobic and weight-bearing exercises. She does an excellent job of covering all the bases.

Bottom line?In "The Denim Diet," Kami Gray provides a great nutritionally savvy guide to keep you slim for a lifetime.The title of the program may sound gimmicky and superficial, but disregard it and delve into the book's contents instead.Buy yourself that pair of jeans that you always wanted to fit into and try them on every morning as you follow Gray's sixteen guidelines.Keep track of what works for you and what does not and you will be well on your way to a healthful weight that makes the most of the current state-of-the-art knowledge concerning well being and weight control.Strict vegetarians may need additional nutritional aid. There are strict do's and don't so this is not for the faint of heart or those who make cheating part of the plan. Recommended as one of the best all encompassing plans I have come across.
Diana Faillace Von Behren
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Wardrobe stylist Kami Gray doesn't trust her bathroom scale but says a pair of jeans will never lie. Kami ought to know. She's spent twenty-two years cultivating a way of eating that makes sure her favorite jeans will always fit. In The Denim Diet, she presents her fun, no-nonsense blueprint for healthy eating in sixteen easy-to-remember habits to make and habits to break.

The Denim Diet takes the best of all the diets you've tried and turns them into a simple, yes-or-no approach you can actually follow. With hilarious real-life stories, gourmet recipes, and an infectious positive attitude, Kami will help you lose weight, get energized, and stay healthy without yo-yo dieting, gimmicks, starving yourself, or obsessing over daily weigh-ins.

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The Asian Diet: Simple Secrets for Eating Right, Losing Weight, and Being Well [Paperback] Review

A weight loss book that doesn't offer to change your life in a month?Seriously?In America?

What I liked most about this book is that it takes the long view.The point is to bring your life into balance by changing your lifestyle generally, including diet and attitude.It doesn't offer quick fixes, and Mr. Bussell repeatedly reminds the reader there isn't really any such thing.

Indeed, it's quite possible to read this book as cultural criticism.Why does dairy have so much power in the US?Why do we eat so much meat?Why are we the single culture that loves to ice our drinks?

Money drives much of our culture.There is money to be made in creating problems.Then money is made with promises to fix the problems.Many of the book's better points are made when the author looks at American culture through the lens of Chinese thinking.You don't have to be interested in weight loss to find the conclusions compelling.

Essentially, America is a young nation, and our culture is based on young ideas.We're excited by excess, and we're continually reeling from one new trend to the next, while older countries look on: sometimes in amusement, sometimes in horror.

What does this have to do with why you're fat?The author asks that you give the question some honest thought.Think about the typical commercial for an antacid that promises you can continue to eat fried food because their product blocks the pain signals your body is sending you.Isn't that typically American to be told, "You shouldn't adapt your diet!Why take care of yourself when you can have more french fries!?"

Does that really make sense to you?It may *appeal* to you, but is it advice you'd give someone you care about?

The book is written in a conversational style that's pleasant.There are instructions, of course, but the author doesn't nag.Instead, we're reminded to take the long view of everything, including diet.Dump the microwave and the fast food, and take control of your life by relaxing, getting enough sleep, and eating real food.

Bussell encourages making small changes for the better now, because even if you backslide, over time your progress will snowball into a better quality of life.It's nice to hear that relaxed, longer time-horizon message.It's a calming counterpoint to a culture that pushes the new and the now.Perfection, if it comes, is never quick.Relax, get in balance, and develop healthier habits.Weight loss will follow in time.If this sounds interesting to you, then buy this book.

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In this era of fad diets, detox programs, and "superfoods," this examination of the relationship between diet and lifestyle looks to the Far East to claim that the simple principles to live by are balance and moderation. By rebuilding the connections between what is put into the body and how it functions, the diet outlined in this book teaches the daily effects that particular food choices will have-on bodyweight, energy, mood, and the quality and duration of life-and that ultimately all foods are good in the right proportion. All major food groups are covered, with additional sections on dietary supplements, lifestyle, and attitude,plus a handful of recipes to demonstrate the principles of the diet.

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