eyes.2c Reviews

The Fast800 Diet: Discover the Ideal Fasting Formula to Shed Pounds, Fight Disease, and Boost Your Overall Health   by Dr. Michael Mosley           A combination of ideas put forward about food, exercise and losing weight by Mosley are ringing bells with me. Particulars he's mentioning are factors my doctor has been raising with me. Although my need is more to do with excess weight putting pressure on my arthritic knees. The book is pithy, easy to read, not too complicated in its explanations, fairly straightforward and most importantly, held my interest. The things that struck me most included: that Mosley gives "a number of options so you can tailor the program to your needs, goals and motivation...based on 800-calorie fast days—it’s high enough to be manageable and sustainable but low enough to trigger a range of desirable metabolic changes." So changing metabolism gets a tick and there are Options available for the way you might approach the pr...

The Easy Mediterranean Diet Meal Plan by Susan Zogheib     My doctor has said I must loose weight. So after having flirted around the "doing of" for some moons, and putting my repeat doctor's visit back by a month when I realized I'd procrastinated for far too long, I knuckled down to just getting on with it. I've flirted with 5:2, with Intermittent Fasting and lastly this, the Mediterranean diet. "What a timely opportunity," I thought when this book came to my attention. The book does explain exactly and succinctly what the Mediterranean Diet is. It has a good list of meals, weekly menu plans, what to buy etc. Great, especially for those of us who just want the best help with the least amount of list making. It gives calories for all meals, which actually suits the way I work. So that was an important plus. (A couple of problems though, I cannot with a clear conscience use almond milk due to the amount of water it takes to produce one gallon,...

Six weeks to Skinny Jeans by Amy Cotter DEA Diet, Exercise, Attitude are the author’s 3 basic components of philosophy for weight loss. And I agree but (…she wails, and pummels the nearest cushion) it’s just SO HARD!! The author asks, ‘Do you feel overwhelmed?’ Yes, I do and I’m not even out of the preface. This guide to weight loss certainly presses all the right buttons and uses today terminology touching upon aspects that are being discussed in many venues—from magazines to doctors’ consulting rooms. We have ,(not in any order), BMR or Basal Metabolic Rate and calorie importance, Glycemic Index facts, Insulin levels and clearing the body of such cravings. Those carbs and sugars are so pernicious! I particularly went into alert mode at the little gem that it takes 28 days to change your taste buds—is everything cycled to the monthly calendar? But, I take note and take heart. If I can stay away from sugar (in things like wine, chocolate, Haagen-Dazs and various loved fr...

So I’m watching Forest Gump on TV and, in between, the Ads. And there’s an Ad just come on for fiber and the importance of fiber from grain products. (Just exactly what this book, Wheat Belly is talking about in terms of wheat and other whole grain products and belly fat)….and Oh Yes, it’s not just wheat we have to worry about! But an eye opener of a detail I picked up on is the concept that today’s wheat is not what it was during our grandparent’s day due to several factors including gene modification. This central point of the way wheat has changed and how that change in turn affects our bodies is pretty compelling. What are the scientists and producers doing to us!! Not to mention that we should be reading all the nutritional info on our bottles and cans and jars of food as wheat is an ingredient present in heaps if products. If you’re a celiac this is beyond grim. I must admit I have been toying prior to reading this book, about reducing or cutting out wheat, but the arguments i...