Your Fat is Not Your Fault unlocks the mystery of why achieving and maintaining your ideal weight seems like an impossible task! The reason you haven't yet beat the weight game, author Carol Simontacchi claims, is because you haven't been exposed to the real issues of poor weight management: hormone imbalance, thyroid insufficiency, deficincies in key minerals, yo-yo dieting, and many others. In examining these factors, you'll discover that "your fat is not your fault." Explaining the principles behind our biology and metabolism, the author presents a new and healthier way to eat that is easy to understand, simple to implement, and certain to put an end to you "dieting" days forever. You'll learn: · how to stabilize your weight, while discovering that it isn't hard to be slim; · how to get your entire body, including your thyroid, working for you instead of against you; · how to balance your diet and solve the problem of binge-eating; and · how to prepare delicious and satisfying healthy gourmet meals. With Your Fat is Not Your Fault, readers will discover their own personal program of weight maintenence and healthy living that will benefit them forever.
"You aren't a weak-willed ninny" if you're fat, says clinical nutritionist Carol Simontacchi in Your Fat Is Not Your Fault. "It may be that an obese person's body works differently." Simontacchi sees obesity as a physical disability that can be resolved by following her plan, influenced by Barry Sears (author of The Zone).
About half the book outlines reasons for weight gain: you may lack brown adipose tissue, which stimulates heat production through calorie burning; you may have food allergies; your childhood eating habits or adult dieting may have set you up for weight challenges; you have extra fat cells and your body is predisposed to obesity; your hormones may be out of balance. Your strategy is not to diet--she explains why various diets don't work--but to fix the way your body processes calories. That means avoiding high-glycemic foods (grains, processed foods, starches, high-sugar fruit) and balancing protein (30 percent), carbohydrates (40 percent), and fat (30 percent).
Many of the 61 recipes by Margaret West are higher in fat (mostly olive oil, but also butter and half-and-half) than most dieticians would recommend for weight loss. (A recipe inexplicably titled Baked Potato Without Fat contains two tablespoons of butter.) --Joan Price
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
innovative cousine for health and weight lose:
This book makes a lot of sense. I have not yet begun to cook any of the 31 days recipe because I'm away from home. But as soon as I return from vacations I will definitely work on this plan. Most of the recipies look delicious and healthy. I also want my daughters to read this book and learn to eat the healthy way and maintain their figures. There is no easy way to loose weight because people have to learn to discipline themselves and eat more healthy and wise meals for the rest of their lives.
Why Diets Don't Work:
Carol Simontacchi is a certified clinical nutritionist and has written numerous books on nutrition. Margaret West graduated from the California Culinary Academy, is a former chef, and provided the recipes in Appendix A. This book is not intended as a substitute for medical advice. It is information offered to help the reader in a quest for optimal well-being. There is no "magic pill" to reduce excess body fat. This book suggests a diet to control insulin will reduce obesity and make weight loss... more info
Still some of the same ol', same ol':
Good material - but it still requires changing your diet (translated: dieting). You're supposed to avoid grains, processed foods, etc. Most of us are looking for a way to be thin and still eat whatever we want - which we know is possible because we see plenty of skinny people doing just that. I want to eat grain. I don't eat much processed food, but if I want to, I don't want that to matter. Call me in denial, avoidance or whatever you want. But if some people can eat whatever they want, as much as the... more info
about thyriod:
i would like to know what i need to eat good healthy diet for my thyroid ? thanks catheryn
