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Conquer insulin resistance. Reduce cravings. Eat your favorite foods. And lose weight!
If you have tried every diet and are still struggling with your weight, the real culprit may be insulin resistance. When you have more glucose than your body needs, your body responds by producing more insulin to stabilize your blood sugar level and store the excess glucose as fat. In The Insulin-Resistance Diet, Cheryle R. Hart and Mary Kay Grossman show you how to control insulin resistance and lose weight without sacrificing all of your favorite foods.
Overcome insulin resistance and lose weight with:
- The exclusive Link-and-Balance Eating Method, which balances carbs with the right amount of protein at the right time for maximum weight loss
- Self-tests to determine your insulin resistance and check your progress with linking and balancing
- Real-world strategies for eating at home and out on the town
- Easy-to-make, tasty recipes and livable meal plans
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If you are struggling with weight loss, you are not alone. Two out of three Americans are now considered overweight even though so many of us are forever counting calories and fat grams. But as Cheryle R. Hart and Mary Kay Grossman explain, a medical condition called insulin resistance may be the cause of your weight-loss woes.
A complex relationship exists between food, blood sugar, insulin, and fat. Insulin helps the body transform food into energy and regulate blood sugar levels. When we eat carbohydrates, the body breaks them down into sugar (glucose) to be used as energy. If you have more glucose than your body needs, your body will respond by producing more insulin: the insulin will stabilize your blood sugar level by storing the excess glucose as fat, and this means weight gain. This process is accelerated in people with insulin resistance because they have higher baseline levels of insulin.
So, is the solution to insulin resistance omitting carbohydrates from our diet? Such a diet is neither healthy nor satisfying. Carbohydrates are our bodies' main source of energy and are an excellent source of both antioxidants, which help prevent disease, and fiber, which is essential for proper digestion. Our natural desire for carbohydrates would be difficult to deny. The Insulin-Resistance Diet offers an alternative.
The Insulin-Resistance Diet is really not a diet book at all--it's an eating guide. It allows you to eat all the foods you like in the proper amounts and still control insulin resistance and lose weight. Inside you will find the following features:
- Link-and-Balance Eating Method--links and balances carbohydrates with the right amount of protein at the right time for maximum weight loss
- Self-tests--to determine if you have insulin resistance and to check your progress with linking and balancing
- Food lists--include most foods and serving sizes
- Real-world strategies--provide complete meal plans and snack ideas, lists of name-brand convenience foods, and linked-and-balanced restaurant items
- Recipes--more than forty-five delicious, healthful, and easy-to-make recipes
These features together with in-depth sections on fitness and on understanding our relationship with food comprise a total weight-loss and weight-management program--one that is simple to follow and guarantees success.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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66 of 69 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having read a number of diet books this follows much of the same pattern. It has lots of case studies and background into insulin resistance and how it affects sufferers - but the book could easily have been half as long. It's also more of a lifestyle diet than a prescriptive plan to follow. The 'link and balance' method (basically, every time you eat, make sure that the protein:carbohydrate weight ratio is at least 1:2) that it prescribes is very easy to follow (particularly if you're in the habit of checking food labels anyway) and it has some stuff about 'real world strategies' which are useful. It is somewhat confusing in that it switches between ounces and grams, and lots of the references are American (recipies use cups and I'm not sure if lots of the ingredients suggested such as non-fat cheese are available in the UK). I've only been following it for 2 weeks but it's easy to do and I've lost a couple of pounds already.
43 of 45 people found the following review helpful
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I have read many, many diet books and tried a few. The recent trend in weight loss tends towards some form of carbohydrate control. Or, to translate, depriving yourself of the very things that you like and that made you overweight in the first place.
Most diets are complicated, fussy and harsh. The authors of this book have distilled complex issues into some simple principles. Some people may not like that; they somehow feel robbed by having something simple to follow rather than a complex formula. Well, if you like to complicate your life and stay fat, good luck to you.
How much weight did I lose? Before I started using the principles in this book (early 2007) I weighed 117 kilos/18.4 Stone. I shed weight smoothly but rapidly and one year later weighed 82 kilos/12.9 stone. And that new weight is being maintained. Was it the book alone? No. If you think that you will get thinner by doing one thing then you are deluding yourself and will become de-motivated and probably revert to old eating habits.
You also need some exercise. My route was paragliding, so I got to walk up steep hills; kitesurfing, which is a whole body exercise, swimming and some gym. Sounds like a lot but I was doing a bit of exercise about 3 times a week. I have been maintaining my new weight with little exercise over past 6 months but am maintaining my new eating habits.
And that's all it is. New habits. I made a decision to change and have changed. Look after yourself: get this book, get some moderate exercise in a few times a week and enjoy the transformation.
Oh, there was one downside: I did change my wardrobe three times in a year!! One tip, buy clothes that you are happy to bin three months later. Do what this book says, exercise a little and it will happen for you too. Good luck
Most diets are complicated, fussy and harsh. The authors of this book have distilled complex issues into some simple principles. Some people may not like that; they somehow feel robbed by having something simple to follow rather than a complex formula. Well, if you like to complicate your life and stay fat, good luck to you.
How much weight did I lose? Before I started using the principles in this book (early 2007) I weighed 117 kilos/18.4 Stone. I shed weight smoothly but rapidly and one year later weighed 82 kilos/12.9 stone. And that new weight is being maintained. Was it the book alone? No. If you think that you will get thinner by doing one thing then you are deluding yourself and will become de-motivated and probably revert to old eating habits.
You also need some exercise. My route was paragliding, so I got to walk up steep hills; kitesurfing, which is a whole body exercise, swimming and some gym. Sounds like a lot but I was doing a bit of exercise about 3 times a week. I have been maintaining my new weight with little exercise over past 6 months but am maintaining my new eating habits.
And that's all it is. New habits. I made a decision to change and have changed. Look after yourself: get this book, get some moderate exercise in a few times a week and enjoy the transformation.
Oh, there was one downside: I did change my wardrobe three times in a year!! One tip, buy clothes that you are happy to bin three months later. Do what this book says, exercise a little and it will happen for you too. Good luck
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For over 15 years I have struggled with my weight despite leading a very active lifestyle - my boyfriend and I go the gym 6 times a week and have activity based hobbies. We ate what most people consider a "low fat" diet and carefully read labels. He is a triathlete but managed to put on 10kg over 3 years.
We were stumped. We took on personal trainers and nutritionalists. We did the "little but often" diet, we increased fruit and vegetables... everything that the experts said. But nothing shifted. Our experts thought we must be 'cheating' or secretly eating things not on their programs. Believe me, we followed every scrap of advice.
In September, after a year of effort and only a 2kg weight loss, I decided to see a doctor because there had to be something wrong hormonally. I thought it was perhaps my thyroid.
The doctor did a Glucose Tolerence Test (takes about 3 hrs after a 12 hr fast) and discovered that my body was over-producing insulin. In fact, everything I was eating or drinking was being turned into fat and not feeding my muscles at all. My body was in a fat-making cycle that only medication and special diet can fix.
I'm now on drugs to help my cells accept glucose but, more importantly, I follow this diet. And so does my boyfriend who is not insulin resistant or on the medication. Unlike any other 'diet' - we don't feel 'hungry' all the time because my blood sugar levels are stable. Nor do we get any cravings. We allow ourselves one day per month off the program to indulge in a piece of cake or whatever takes our fancy... but we are actually allowed this on the program anyway because you can eat pretty much anything you want within reason.
After 10 weeks on this diet, I have lost over 10kg and he has lost 9kg. I still have 10kg to go but he has only 2kg to reach his target.
Thanks to this diet, this insight, I now know it is possible to achieve it. For the first time I feel like I have my hands on the levers and controls that produce the right results.
We were stumped. We took on personal trainers and nutritionalists. We did the "little but often" diet, we increased fruit and vegetables... everything that the experts said. But nothing shifted. Our experts thought we must be 'cheating' or secretly eating things not on their programs. Believe me, we followed every scrap of advice.
In September, after a year of effort and only a 2kg weight loss, I decided to see a doctor because there had to be something wrong hormonally. I thought it was perhaps my thyroid.
The doctor did a Glucose Tolerence Test (takes about 3 hrs after a 12 hr fast) and discovered that my body was over-producing insulin. In fact, everything I was eating or drinking was being turned into fat and not feeding my muscles at all. My body was in a fat-making cycle that only medication and special diet can fix.
I'm now on drugs to help my cells accept glucose but, more importantly, I follow this diet. And so does my boyfriend who is not insulin resistant or on the medication. Unlike any other 'diet' - we don't feel 'hungry' all the time because my blood sugar levels are stable. Nor do we get any cravings. We allow ourselves one day per month off the program to indulge in a piece of cake or whatever takes our fancy... but we are actually allowed this on the program anyway because you can eat pretty much anything you want within reason.
After 10 weeks on this diet, I have lost over 10kg and he has lost 9kg. I still have 10kg to go but he has only 2kg to reach his target.
Thanks to this diet, this insight, I now know it is possible to achieve it. For the first time I feel like I have my hands on the levers and controls that produce the right results.
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great information
I've enjoyed reading this book and have gained a lot of information, especially on ratio's of protein and carbohydrates in meals. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mrs. J. M. Furber
THE INSULIN rESISTANCE dIET
This is an excellent guide to weight loss based on sound scientific principles. Easy to read and practical. A weight loss must!
Published 9 months ago by D P
eating for life
This book is simple, and as one of the other reviews points out could be a lot shorter and still have the main communication messages. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Lisa
Very useful for preventing over eating sugary stuff
This book has taught me some simple ways to eat and stay full. What I love the best is the four hour rule. since using it I eat healthy and have lost inches so am slimmer. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Miz
Book that could be a fraction in length - Too much waffle - Nothing...
This book basically contains info on the ratio of carbs and protein that can help with weight loss for those who are insulin- resistant. Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2010 by Sarah Mary
the insulin-resistance Diet
Quite a revelation. Now I understand where and how all the fat comes from. A nice mixture of proteins and carbs can work wonders, without the usual deprivation. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2009 by P. Mazataud
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I tried this diet after doing the Atkins diet for 5 months - I lost weight on the Atkins but it made me feel very ill and was very hard to stick to and lead a normal life. Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2004 by Cinnamon
very good book
This book describes me and my dieting problems absolutly to a T. I can relate so well to this book and all their ideas. It is a sensible eating and life plan. Read more
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