The Whitaker Wellness Weight Loss Program

by Julian Whitaker

Book Overview

This physician-designed diet and wellness plan revs up your metabolism, resulting in permanent weight loss and overall improvement in health and well-being. Dr. Whitaker's proven holistic approach... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401602975
• ISBN13: 9781401602970
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The best book I've ever read on healthy eating!!!

The Whitaker Wellness book is a book I would recommend everyone read. Whether you want to lose weight or just want to eat better, feel better, or live longer (or just make the most of the time you have) this will be a great help to you. It is an easy read, very practical and along with giving you a concept for dieting or shall we say learning a new way of eating, he gives you three weeks of meals all laid out including the recipes, breakfast through your evening meal. So you don't have to wonder how to actually get started. And you will be surprised at how delicious the recipes are! Oh my! I HAD to get the book because I had dinner at my daughter's house when they started on this eating plan and the meal was so awesome, I had to have the recipe. I figured if that was the kind of food coming out of the book, I needed to find out what else was in there. It is written by a medical doctor who has a clinic where he works with all kinds of patients, many of them having heart problems. He lives and works in Southern California and I even know someone who has been to him for treatment. He is a highly respected doctor - not a cuke with a bunch of goofy ideas. The advice is solid medical counsel based on scientific fact, delivered by an experienced medical professional. You can't go wrong with this book. It is worth taking a look at to see if it is something you need to explore. I still reference this book on a regular basis and I have had it now for about 5 years. Some of my family's favorite meals come from his book. You will love it too.

The Whitaker Wellness Weight Loss Program

Great no nonsense, no hype facts and direction to healthy weight loss. A companion recipe book is available that adds more great recipes to the plan.

If you want low carb...

If you want a very low carb diet, complete with ketosis (not ketadosis), that offers sensible, healhty, easy-to-fix menus and recipes for three weeks, this diet book may be for you. Dr. Whitaker suggests only 10 carb grams per main meal, although one might pick up an additional, absolutely minimal amount in the 2-3 high protein snacks recommended (eg: celery stick with filling that that is high protein). He acknowledges that sticking to the diet can be tough and suggests punishing yourself in some way if you go off the diet as a way to instantly discipline yourself. One example given in book: Donate money to your least favorite charity. His chapters mention recent research on various topics, including coffee. Coffee does have its pluses, research shows, although it also has drawbacks as well. If you are a coffee drinker, you may want to have a cup a day. Much very recent research is saying that while low carbers lose a lot and more than those on other types of diet (low calorie, low fat) at first, eventually, in the long term, it all just about evens out. So if you don't like going low carb and how it makes you feel, you may not want to rush into this type of diet but opt, instead, for a balanced lower calorie diet (healthiest) than the eating habits you now maintain. However, one use of this book you may want to consider, anyway, are the easy daily menu suggestions with easily found ingredients. One can always adjust carbs up (about 130-135 carbs a day is maximum in the new food pyramid, I believe) and make other adjustments if one wants to.