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4 Stars If you have read or participated in a weight loss proggram..
If you have participated in a safe and sane weight loss program or read a safe and sane weight loss book, you probably have 65% of the information provided in the audio CD.

What I liked about this audio CD is the intial focus on getting your mental self ready to lose weight. After personally losing over 50 pounds in a year and then trying to cheerlead my sisters and friends into losing “my’ way (which happened to be Weight Watchers and exercise) I have seen personnally that if a person is not mentally ready to lose, they won’t. You must “wrap” you mind around it first, which Dr. Ian focuses on with his book. Afterwhich, Dr. Ian does a good job with offering common sense and practical food choices and exercise options.

This is a good program to start with (although many nutritionist say we don’t need to detox, which Dr. Ian does in his program) if you need to lose weight and you want to do it safely.

4 Stars not a perfect book, but it works for me!
This book incorporates a diet plan that is filled with healthy food and a lot of exercise. The concept is pretty basic…eat healthy, nutritious food…exercise a lot…and you will lose weight fast. You really do lose weight fast too! I’ve lost about 12 pounds this first month, which I think is typical if you follow the plan well. The diet consists of natural “real” food like fruits and veggies, so if you don’t like that you may not do well on this diet. I do, so I haven’t had a problem with it.

Pros:

1. It does give variety. Sometimes you get to enjoy a soda, or a piece of pizza. Obviously, those aren’t the majority of the meals because you wouldn’t lose any weight that way but it keeps you from wanting to binge on food or break the meal plan.

2. You get enough food!! You will feel a little bit hungry but get real people! Your body is being deprived of the calories it needs to maintain weight so you are going to feel some hunger. If you can’t put up with that emotionally, you are not ready to lose weight in this way. I am mildly hypoglycemic so my body would def. let me know (esp. with all the exercise) if I wasn’t getting enough food. I am getting the healthy nutrition I need. If you feel that you need to supplement this diet, you can take a multivitamin.

3. The recipes in the last third of the book are very tasty, and easy to prepare.

4. It works! 12 pounds in 28 days and still going!

5. It devotes a part of the book to getting yourself ready emotionally, which is great! Emotions are the biggest factor when losing weight. I’m not sure if it got my head where it needed to be to tackle this issue, but it helped me concentrate on how to stay on the right track.

6. It is a plan that is both strict and not strict. It gives you guidelines for what you need to eat everyday, but you have choices on how to prepare it. For example, it will tell you to eat 6 oz of a lean meat (like fish or chicken), but you can cook it in any low fat way you desire as long as you don’t fry it or include the skin.

7. You can combine the foods in any way you want. While it tells you to eat one cup of rice, 2 servings of veggies, and 4 oz of chicken you can eat them separately or together as one meal. Sometimes, I’ll eat them separately to eat little meals often and other times, I’ll combine them to make tasty dishes like an Asian stir fry.

8. My goals are set in four days instead of 6 months, and that is A LOT easier to reach.

Cons:

1. The recipes in the back are confusing in that you are not sure how to incorporate them into the different modules. It would have been more helpful if each recipe included information on exactly what module that recipe would work for.

2. Portion sizes are smaller than my normal eating portions. I don’t have a problem with that as long as I spread the foods out over the course of the day so that I am never REALLY hungry.

3. You will need some extra help on basic guidelines on how to create healthy food, as the meal plans do not spell it out for you. You do have the recipes, but you may not always want to follow them. Another reviewer mentioned that they didn’t know where to find air popped popcorn. I am surprised that person does not know how to prepare air popped popcorn, but the book could have helped the reviewer on that if it had been more specific.

4. It relys on lots of exercise! You will need to devote a good amount of time to exercise. That was fine with me, as I was exercising already, but you will have to learn to love exercise.

You can do it guys! I say get the book and make a change!

1 Star 4 DAY DIET
THE INFORMATION IN THIS BOOK IS NOT TO EDUCATE THE EDUCATED BUT TO EDUCATATE A PERSON THAT KNOWS NEXT TO NOTHING.

2 Stars Not for me, but maybe others
I personally would NOT buy this. It is

first of all NOT 4 days it is 7 units of 4 days

secondly, I found nothing new in the book ESPECIALLY if you are familiar with his other works

third I do like the man, he uses common sense but I’d buy one of his other books or The South Beach Diet and then moderate out to a weight watchers

mode. thats how I lost 11 lbs in 8 days and that’s how I work to keep a stable weight.6 years ago, but i now want to lose more and this is not

a way I find pleasant or easy, sorry.

Fourth, many who diet really can not or do not want to exercise all that much. This demands exercise

For the non exercise person, I recommend Get Fit in Bed,

it strenghthens your core in a relaxed , simple SAFE way…it was developed for ICU patients but it WORKS for healthy people and is addictive as it makes you feel good and after a few months you feel the difference in core strenghth.I have been doing these for at least 5 years and I have given this to my closest friends and family and told Chiripractors and MDs to recommend to patients.

Hope I helped you

4 Stars Great book, but I am still left with questions…
I purchased The 4 Day Diet from a local book store, and within 1 day I had already read 50 pages. The book is definitely an “easy read”. While reading through the book, I found a handful of minor publishing errors which led me to question the quality of information Dr. Ian Smith provided (specifically: the low glycemic index chart, cups for 1 serving of blueberries, goal setting). It bothered me so much that I contacted the publishing company, St. Martin’s Press (SMP), to make them aware of the errors. I was told that SMP is aware of the few errors in the book, and that the best bet would be to return the book where I purchased it at and wait until the corrected edition comes out. By this time I had already started the Induction Module of the diet. I did not return the book, and corrected the book errors in my own personal copy.

On the first day of Induction I felt awesome. When Day 2 came, I was beginning to feel like my food was limited. Needless to say, when Day 3 came, I was looking forward to my unlimited fruits on Day 4 that the whole Induction Module just flew by. I am now on Day 2 of the Transition Module and I feel GREAT! I feel confident that I will make it through the rest of the diet.

My few questions are:

1. When you finish all 28 days, do you start over with Induction or Transition? Or do you just maintain the diet by rotating the remaining 5 modules?

2. What modules do the recipes in the back of the book correlate with?

3. When a module calls for cooked vegetables or meats, can they be cooked or served with a little butter or oil?

Overall, I am pleased with the book. Also, if any of you reading this review know the answers to any of my questions, please reply to them in your review. Thanks, and Happy Dieting!

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5 Stars LOVE LOVE this cookbook
I love the ideas that this book has, it has pictures too which makes it even better. It’s always nice to have a picture of what the food you are trying to cook looks like so that you can compare the final product! I would totally recommend this book and already have to my friends!

4 Stars book review
It has a lot of great recipes you can actually use and find the products. I really liked that a lot of the recipes worked together and you can make extra so you only have to cook one night to make two meals.

1 Star Bi Loser Cookbook
I never received this book and am very dissapointed. Mary Ann Rhodes. I want my money back today.

3 Stars Not for kids…
I was really looking foward to getting this book, it was a let down. The recipies are good but only for adults I was hopping for healthy things that I could also give to my kids and they would eat it and good snack ideas that they could take to school, it didnt have any of those. When I think family cookbook I think the whole family kids, teens and adult. when they think family they think adults and maybe teenager. Then the ingridients, they are things in there that you will only use in 1 or 2 recipies and they are expensive. With how the economy is is not really stuff you should buy for just 1 or 2 things. Its not bad its just nor realistic.

1 Star What a let down
I was swept up in the press of this book. So much like all the others. I would NOT recommend this book to anyone else. Get it for free from the library.

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5 Stars A solution the works in the real world
I bought this book about a month ago while I was recovering from tonsil surgery. I had already purchased a few other books of the same self hypnosis/mind re-programming nature. Out of what I have read, this book made the most sense. While some people might dismiss his 4 golden rules as being simplistic or even faulty (how can you lose weight eating whatever you want?), the premise behind these rules makes perfect sense and I have seen the change in my eating habits and my relationship with food. This is coming after years of emotional and binge eating, certainly in part triggered by the frustration of trying to stick to an eating plan that seemed to leave me feeling hungry, unsatisified and still carrying extra weight. I have lost weight thru the use of these conventional restrictive plans, but it has never stayed off because the truth is that life happens and the only way to be successful in losing weight and keeping it off is to be able to apply your eating habits to the real world, not just the small bubble of your home.

5 Stars McKenna’s CD is a daily must!
Paul McKenna is a Master Hypnotherapist & I have tried others before! For the first time in my life I have control over my eating! I highly recommended it for all who are over-weight. His mothod also improves self-esteem & releaqsing of feaqr.

5 Stars What do you have to lose?
Paul McKenna’s techniques have been around for a while. Do they work? a resounding yes! Some reviewers seem to have misunderstood the information that was given in the book. No where does he state that you can stuff your face with all the food you want. He states to eat what you really want. But, then, he goes on to describe HOW you are to eat it. Slowly, very slowly. So that your stomach has time to realize there is food in it and stop when you are comfortable, not when you feel like a stuffed turkey. Yes, his techniques are common sense. But how many obese people do you know really stop and think about how they eat, they just eat. I have the CD but haven’t listened to it yet, due to being too busy. I’ve started slowly doing the techniques, he has described and they are working for me. So, get the book, read it, and try the techiniques. What do you have to lose, except the weight?

5 Stars Worked for Me!
I’m 45 years old and 175lbs, although I was 185lbs four weeks ago. This program works. I haven’t seen 175lbs in ten years. The book has four common sense rules, the last of which is to stop eating when you think you’re full. Easier said than done, but the CD at the back of the book helps you do it. The old garbage in garbage out cliche applies. The CD somehow gives you the willpower to eat sensibly. I can still eat In-N-Out Burgers, or whatever I want, I just don’t have the desire to eat all the leftovers from my kids. It’s not a diet, it’s a minor lifestyle change. Highly recommended!

5 Stars I Can Make You Thin
I have just started to begin using this program and I am seeing small changes. I hope the weight will start falling off soon!

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From the award-winning champion of culinary simplicity who gave us the bestselling How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian comes Food Matters, a plan for responsible eating that’s as good for the planet as it is for your weight and your health.

We are finally starting to acknowledge the threat carbon emissions pose to our ozone layer, but few people have focused on the extent to which our consumption of meat contributes to global warming. Think about it this way: In terms of energy consumption, serving a typical family-of-four steak dinner is the rough equivalent of driving around in an SUV for three hours while leaving all the lights on at home.

Bittman offers a no-nonsense rundown on how government policy, big business marketing, and global economics influence what we choose to put on the table each evening. He demystifies buzzwords like “organic,” “sustainable,” and “local” and offers straightforward, budget-conscious advice that will help you make small changes that will shrink your carbon footprint — and your waistline.

Flexible, simple, and non-doctrinaire, the plan is based on hard science but gives you plenty of leeway to tailor your food choices to your lifestyle, schedule, and level of commitment. Bittman, a food writer who loves to eat and eats out frequently, lost thirty-five pounds and saw marked improvement in his blood levels by simply cutting meat and processed foods out of two of his three daily meals. But the simple truth, as he points out, is that as long as you eat more vegetables and whole grains, the result will be better health for you and for the world in which we live.

Unlike most things that are virtuous and healthful, Bittman’s plan doesn’t involve sacrifice. From Spinach and Sweet Potato Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing to Breakfast Bread Pudding, the recipes in Food Matters are flavorful and sophisticated. A month’s worth of meal plans shows you how Bittman chooses to eat and offers proof of how satisfying a mindful and responsible diet can be. Cheaper, healthier, and socially sound, Food Matters represents the future of American eating.

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5 Stars Healthy Nutrition
The book “Food Matters” is a comprehensive, textbook-like compilation of useful information on healthy nutrition. It’s easy reading - not bogged down with mumbo-jumbo.

5 Stars The perfect Pollan companion
Maybe you, like I, have read all Michael Pollan’s books about food. Maybe you’ve even read The China Study. But whether you’ve read all of these or none of these, Bittman’s book will be engrossing and enlightening without being repetitive. This was a quick, enjoyable read that — bonus! — I can put into practice with Bittman’s recipes. Love this book.

3 Stars Simple to follow
Very simple to follow and could be summarized as: Eat less animals and more vegetables. Not sure about the recipes. Tried making the whole wheat flat bread and was not what I expected. Heavy not light. Does not use yeast or baking powder so how can you get air bubbles? Would have liked a more in depth book with more sophisticated recipes…

5 Stars A very important book for our times
I love the way he simply presents the facts, and there’s no bullying or political correctness to deal with, although some of that is necessary. I haven’t gotten to the recipes but I will most certainly try to make some small changes in the way I eat as a result of reading just the first part of the book.

Americans are too fat and by making a few changes in our daily intake we can change the world. What a concept.

5 Stars Good purchase
I have other cookbooks by Mark Bittman and enjoy his recipes. I got this book to learn more about the health of the food we eat every day. But I really enjoyed his insight into how our society and our food chain interact. His economic observations are enlightening and his style thought provoking.

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Genre: Exercise/Fitness
Rating: NR
Release Date: 18-DEC-2007
Media Type: DVD

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5 Stars LOVE ITTTTT
Did it everyday and I went down 3 dress sizes in 3 weeks i think that speaks for itself.

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Awesome product!

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While doing the exercises, it doesn’t seem that you’re getting any real ab workout, but the next day you’ll feel that you definitely were.

I can’t wait until I’m feeling better and able to do the video as I’m supposed to… alternately with the Cardio Max DVD for a total of 5 to 6 days for two weeks at each level.

5 Stars Just like being in the gym!
I’m 51 years old and have exercised regularly since I was 22. I did this workout for the first time yesterday, so I’ve only tried Level 1 so far. I felt like I was in class with Jillian! She moves through the exercises quickly, so your heart rate stays up. The exercises are simple, so its easy to maintain proper form. She does a very good job of showing the moves. I loved it! I really felt like I had a workout comparable to what I get in my gym class.

By the way, I’ve had a bilateral mastectomy with TRAM reconstruction. What that means is that I’m missing about 40% of my tranverse abdominal muscle (the one that runs vertically from the pelvis to under the ribs). Even with that limitation, I was able to do every exercise that Jillian did in Level 1. I look forward to trying Level 2 and 3.

5 Stars awesome workout
I really like this workout because it incorporates using the leg muscles while doing a workout with the weights. This helps you burn more calories. I love it.

4 Stars fun and callenging
I bought this product about 1 month ago. I found it very challenging at first, but have been progressing, as they said I would. This is not just a weight lifting video. It is a cardio workout, as well, and will make you sweat. I recommend it to anyone who wants a break from the gym or wants to build strength at home. If you are beginner, do it with low weights or no weights until you are confident with your form and balance.

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