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Let me guess... You've tried every diet under the sun; You've lost weight and put it back on; The more you diet, the more you crave food; You have almost given up hope of being and staying slim.
Do you want some good news? It's not your fault. You are not greedy or weak-willed. You've just been given totally the wrong advice.
This is the first book to explain why traditional diets are the cause of the current obesity epidemic, not the cure.
It shows that eating less leads to three extremely common medical conditions, which cause overeating. This book can change your life. The Harcombe Diet will help you lose weight and keep it off. There is absolutely nothing to count and you can have unlimited quantities of real food - carbs and fats.
Count calories and end up a food addict. Stop Counting Calories and Start Losing Weight.
Do you want some good news? It's not your fault. You are not greedy or weak-willed. You've just been given totally the wrong advice.
This is the first book to explain why traditional diets are the cause of the current obesity epidemic, not the cure.
It shows that eating less leads to three extremely common medical conditions, which cause overeating. This book can change your life. The Harcombe Diet will help you lose weight and keep it off. There is absolutely nothing to count and you can have unlimited quantities of real food - carbs and fats.
Count calories and end up a food addict. Stop Counting Calories and Start Losing Weight.
About the Author
Zoe Harcombe is author of "Why do you overeat? When all you want is to be slim". She gives diet advice on Real Radio FM and BBC Radio Wales and writes regularly for newspapers and magazines. Having suffered from both anorexia and bulimia she has spent 20 years researching the causes of overeating. Zoe is a graduate from Cambridge University.
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105 of 105 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I started this 'diet' 14 weeks ago as my parents were raving on about it. I had already cut down on caffeine prior to the 5 day detox (I actually did 10 days detox because I was finding it quite easy) During the detox I did have some headaches due to caffeine withdrawal but I expected this and it didn't put me off.
Phase 2 was full of fantastic foods that I'd never have dreamed were healthy - Who would have thought that fat does not make you fat!!!
14 weeks in I have lost 38lbs in weight and over 4 inches off my waist!
It is about time someone took the govt to task about this reduced calorie / reduced fat nonsense they are peddling.
I have never felt healthier in all my adult life and I no longer crave carbs!
Big thanks to Zoe Harcombe for all her research and beautifully easy way of explaining complex scientific principles!
Phase 2 was full of fantastic foods that I'd never have dreamed were healthy - Who would have thought that fat does not make you fat!!!
14 weeks in I have lost 38lbs in weight and over 4 inches off my waist!
It is about time someone took the govt to task about this reduced calorie / reduced fat nonsense they are peddling.
I have never felt healthier in all my adult life and I no longer crave carbs!
Big thanks to Zoe Harcombe for all her research and beautifully easy way of explaining complex scientific principles!
46 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the first time i've ever reviewed a book but the diet is so good i had to.
I've got both the diet book and the recipe book and have now been doing the diet for 10 weeks. I started at 13 stone 4 (i'm 5ft 7) and have now lost a stone and a half.
Like loads of other reviewers i've tried all sorts of other diets and mostly ended up losing a little and then putting a load back on when my will power ran out.
Phase 1 is hard, but i gave up alcohol and caffeine for a couple of weeks before i started and that seemed to really help with the headache issue - i've had really bad headaches doing previous 'detox' diets but didn't have that problem with phase 1.
During phase 2 (which i'm still on) i've managed to go out for dinner several times without putting a load back on. I did learn the hard way though that you can't drink rose wine with a fat meal- i didn't realise it was so sugary!
I feel so much better and my eating habits have totally changed - something i was sure wouldn't happen. I was hugely skeptical when i started the diet particularly about the idea that you could lose weight without doing any exercise. Anyway i don't do any regular exercise at the moment (something i now feel i have the energy to change) and have still managed to lose weight. i still can't quite believe it!
The Harcombe Diet - Stop Counting Calories and Start Losing Weight: Diet Book
I've got both the diet book and the recipe book and have now been doing the diet for 10 weeks. I started at 13 stone 4 (i'm 5ft 7) and have now lost a stone and a half.
Like loads of other reviewers i've tried all sorts of other diets and mostly ended up losing a little and then putting a load back on when my will power ran out.
Phase 1 is hard, but i gave up alcohol and caffeine for a couple of weeks before i started and that seemed to really help with the headache issue - i've had really bad headaches doing previous 'detox' diets but didn't have that problem with phase 1.
During phase 2 (which i'm still on) i've managed to go out for dinner several times without putting a load back on. I did learn the hard way though that you can't drink rose wine with a fat meal- i didn't realise it was so sugary!
I feel so much better and my eating habits have totally changed - something i was sure wouldn't happen. I was hugely skeptical when i started the diet particularly about the idea that you could lose weight without doing any exercise. Anyway i don't do any regular exercise at the moment (something i now feel i have the energy to change) and have still managed to lose weight. i still can't quite believe it!
The Harcombe Diet - Stop Counting Calories and Start Losing Weight: Diet Book
71 of 73 people found the following review helpful
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GOOD NEWS GUYS AND GALS, IT WORKS:
BUT ITS TOUGH AT FIRST AND YOU HAVE TO STICK AT IT.!!!! WILLPOWER IS REQUIRED.
Firstly, this book worked for me.
I should tell you that i also work out 3 days a week, i dont take any suppliments except a multi vitamin, and i understand diet and nutrition to a resonably high degree and from years of trying just about every trick in the book over the years as part of my training, (and failing)
In truth, If you excercise in conjunction with this diet, the weight will fly off.
Lets put it like this, on day 1 of this diet. i was 17 stone, muscular but with frankly too much fat on me, at day 6, i was 16 stone, thats 14lbs of fat gone, and i didnt change my training at all.
Now, after 4 weeks im a very lean 15.5 stone, with great definition and my muscle is not wasting away.
Bare this in mind. this diet is tough!! Phase 1 is frankly a killer, i really mean that.
If your used to junk, sugar and fats, your going to feel like your stomach is knawing itself to death, and you will (as Zoe says) feel pretty rubbish for a few days, day 3 seems to be the worst (you will see what i mean)
But the good news is, you dont have to be hungry because you can eat as much as you like off the "allowed list"
I must have eaten 2 bags of carrotts (as "crudites", specified in the book as snakcs), in week 1.
If you are not a gym goer, this diet will still work. but let me explain why in simple terms.
The reason this diet works is, that there is very little if any atall carbs in phase 1, this is the "miracle" phase of the diet where the most weight is lost quickest.
The science:
Coming from a bodybuilding angle,there are certain things people should know about losing weight, especially women, as they are the most easily conned by the industry.
1)If you dont eat carbs, you will lose weight,its as simple as that, for the reason Zoe highlights regarding insulin, Carbs make insulin, excess insulin is stored as fat, hence insulin is called the "fattening hormone".
This is all totally true.
2)Also guys, a tip not shared in the book, is avoiding wheat,
Wheat, although a good part of any diet and very wholesome, is a major cause of water retention in the body, any bodybuilder knows that in order to shed excess water retention and fat, dont eat wheat products or Carbs.
This means no:
Pasta - all kinds
Bread - all kinds
Potatoes - all kinds
Beer- all kinds
Basically anything with wheat or carbs in, except the naturally occurring carbs found (as Zoe says) in meats and anything off the "allowed list"
WHATS DIFFERENT ABOUT ZOES BOOK?
Zoe writes the meal plans out for you, so you dont have to think, it also makes shopping easy, very easy, as you can plan in advance and orgabise your budget, and the great thing is that its also geared for people who dont make plans, and as long as you stick to the principals.
Guys,. it works, wether you train, or not, it will work.,
STICK TO IT.
BUT ITS TOUGH AT FIRST AND YOU HAVE TO STICK AT IT.!!!! WILLPOWER IS REQUIRED.
Firstly, this book worked for me.
I should tell you that i also work out 3 days a week, i dont take any suppliments except a multi vitamin, and i understand diet and nutrition to a resonably high degree and from years of trying just about every trick in the book over the years as part of my training, (and failing)
In truth, If you excercise in conjunction with this diet, the weight will fly off.
Lets put it like this, on day 1 of this diet. i was 17 stone, muscular but with frankly too much fat on me, at day 6, i was 16 stone, thats 14lbs of fat gone, and i didnt change my training at all.
Now, after 4 weeks im a very lean 15.5 stone, with great definition and my muscle is not wasting away.
Bare this in mind. this diet is tough!! Phase 1 is frankly a killer, i really mean that.
If your used to junk, sugar and fats, your going to feel like your stomach is knawing itself to death, and you will (as Zoe says) feel pretty rubbish for a few days, day 3 seems to be the worst (you will see what i mean)
But the good news is, you dont have to be hungry because you can eat as much as you like off the "allowed list"
I must have eaten 2 bags of carrotts (as "crudites", specified in the book as snakcs), in week 1.
If you are not a gym goer, this diet will still work. but let me explain why in simple terms.
The reason this diet works is, that there is very little if any atall carbs in phase 1, this is the "miracle" phase of the diet where the most weight is lost quickest.
The science:
Coming from a bodybuilding angle,there are certain things people should know about losing weight, especially women, as they are the most easily conned by the industry.
1)If you dont eat carbs, you will lose weight,its as simple as that, for the reason Zoe highlights regarding insulin, Carbs make insulin, excess insulin is stored as fat, hence insulin is called the "fattening hormone".
This is all totally true.
2)Also guys, a tip not shared in the book, is avoiding wheat,
Wheat, although a good part of any diet and very wholesome, is a major cause of water retention in the body, any bodybuilder knows that in order to shed excess water retention and fat, dont eat wheat products or Carbs.
This means no:
Pasta - all kinds
Bread - all kinds
Potatoes - all kinds
Beer- all kinds
Basically anything with wheat or carbs in, except the naturally occurring carbs found (as Zoe says) in meats and anything off the "allowed list"
WHATS DIFFERENT ABOUT ZOES BOOK?
Zoe writes the meal plans out for you, so you dont have to think, it also makes shopping easy, very easy, as you can plan in advance and orgabise your budget, and the great thing is that its also geared for people who dont make plans, and as long as you stick to the principals.
Guys,. it works, wether you train, or not, it will work.,
STICK TO IT.
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Brilliant Book - I have lost 16lbs in my first 2 weeks - and no bad side effects. No cravings and I have weaned myself off coffee !
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Superb !
Published 1 month ago by churchhouse16
Finally, a diet that works!
What a breath of fresh air - a diet that actually works. We have lost weight quickly so it spurs you on and it is really enjoyable we love the food. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. K. Simpson
losing weight but hungry
Great diet,I must say that first.Absolutely agree with the science bit! I have lost one stone in three weeks,also good.It is going to be hard to sustain ,for me anyway! Read more
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Stop counting calories& start losing weight recipe book
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Explains it all very clearly
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