Suzanne Somers' Eat Great, Lose Weight

by Suzanne Somers

Book Overview

Presents a plan for healthy eating designed to help readers lose weight and keep the pounds off, offering a nutritional approach to eating designed to reprogram one's metabolism and promote fitness.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517708612
• ISBN13: 9780517708613
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.7" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

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This book has changed my life!

I've been fighting a losing battle with my weight my entire life. But I've been on this program for about 8 days, and already I feel like a different person! I'm doing Weight Watchers (counting points) as well as Somersizing, and when I weighed in I had lost 7.6 lbs. And the food is wonderful and good for you! Unbelievable! I wish I could tell everyone about this way of eating. I want to go up to people in the grocery store and say "Don't buy that fat-free junk, there's a better way!" The public has been sold a load of BS by the diet industry. I don't know where the idea came from that fat is bad for you and fat-free processed junk food is good for you, but this book will change your way of thinking!I think what worked for me is that I cut everything out at once... caffeine, sugar, white flour, and basically anything refined or processed. I'm not really sure whether my success is due to Suzanne's food combining theory, or that I just cut out carbs and sugar and started eating more veggies and lean meats. But I'm not going to mess with what seems to be working. The first few days I had a pretty bad headache, but now I feel great. I eat till I'm full and I have no sugar or carb cravings. I made it through Halloween and didn't eat a single piece of candy, which I couldn't believe, but I just didn't want it after reading about what sugar does to you! Now I have more energy than I've had in years, I sleep better at night, it's not as hard to get up in the morning, AND... here's the best part, I don't have the terrible stomach problems I used to have. Please buy this book and follow this program if you're tired of being fat and eating diet food!

Not a diet, a lifestyle

The concept of food combining has helped me get back to a healthy weight. I started at the beginning of July. It's been eight weeks and I have lost 23 pounds. It's still falling off. The principle is this: starch, sugar & caffeine give you false energy. If you eliminate them, your body finds alternate sources of energy: your fat! The energy source, being consistent (at least in my body) provides continual power to your body, so you don't EVER feel tired. In fact, I'm never "wiped-out" anymore, and I'm rarely tired enough to sleep. And I rarely exercise, though I stand and walk all day in my teaching job.The second principle has to do with food-combining. No proteins with carbohydrates. See the book for details, but I'll just say this. I feel like this diet is a "healthy" diet. My sister in law was on the Atkins diet, lost so much weight. But I never wanted to go on that diet, since it seemed *WRONG* to not have grains in your diet and to pork-out on meat.Suzanne's diet also allows fruit, where the others say you cannot have fruit. The book is written so personally that when you've finished reading it, you feel like you KNOW Suzanne personally. At least I do. It's chock-full of photographs of her family, her grandbaby, her daughter, etc.Someone reviewing her other book (same somercising idea) said it's good for the short-term. I disagree. When you reach a plateau, trick your body by eating just fruits and veggies for a week. You'll begin to lose weight again, then go back to somercising.You'll enjoy reading the book. And I'm sure you'll lose weight.

WONDERFUL!

I've been "Somersizing" for six weeks and have lost 23 pounds! The recipes are great, and I don't miss starches and sugar at all! I've seen several people inquire about a message board; iVillage.com has a message board devoted to Somersizing, as well as boards for the Atkins diet and several other plans. The women there are so supportive of each other. I hope to see you there!

Excellent Book - Great Information!

As a child I ate a ton of carbs and was fat! As a teenager I elimated sugar and ate a great deal of fats and was skinny for 10 years. After some life changing events I started eating the carbs again for comfort and in 6 short years of this type of diet my weight skyrocketed to an all time high of 225 and constantly increasing. I am only 30 years old and this was not supposed to happen to me (I thought this only happened to older people). I had absolutely no energy and was extremely depressed. To make matters worse I also suffered from extremely painful irratable bowel syndrome! My physician recommended the Suzanne Somers book and mentioned that he has had several patients lose a tremendous amount of weight and have kept it off for long periods of time, in his opinion "A true measure of a good eating plan". I immediately purchased the book, read it from cover-to-cover that night and started the "diet" the next morning. I have been on the plan 4 days and have lost 6 lbs! Each day seems better and better. Susanne's book made me remember that my body just cannot tolerate the carbohydrates and caffiene - which had become the bulk of my adult diet. I hope to be one of the many who have lost large amts of weight and keep it off from her plan, I am confidant I will. Fortunately I have saved my old "skinny jeans" from my thin period and look forward to wearing them with pride once again. Thanks Suzanne!!!!

Easy to live with and it works!

I bought the book 11/98 for my 39th birthday. I decided to set a goal of losing weight by my next birthday and after following her plan I know I will reach my goal. Since November '98, I have lost 62 pounds and have so much energy! I follow level one and occasionally go to level two. The holidays were super easy. I am a busy career woman and I have no trouble cooking her recipes. Before Somersizing I was buying "convenience" foods loaded with hidden sugars and white flour. Thanks to Somersizing, I know what to look for on the food labels and as a result I am no longer addicted to sugar and caffeine and am eating whole, nutritious foods. I don't have "gastric distress" and no bloating after eating. The inches are melting away and I have lost four clothing sizes in almost 5 months. I have tried other diets like Fit for Life and Protein Power and they made me lethargic and uncomfortable. This is the easiest way of eating that I have ever found to lose weight and I know I can follow it the rest of my life and never feel hungry or deprived!