Fatass No More! How I Lost Weight and Still Ate Cheeseburgers and Fries
Is this you? You go on a diet, you lose a little weight, you stop dieting, you gain back more weight. Do you go through an endless cycle of counting calories and watching everything you put into your mouth but nothing ever seems to work? What if you knew that there was a better way to lose weight that is relatively painless and easy? What if you knew that you could do it on your own and that you can even eat cheeseburgers and French fries or whatever else you like while you’re doin… Buy Fatass No More! How I Lost Weight and Still Ate Cheeseburgers and Friesat Amazon
To the author of this book, I just want to say a big thank you for being so honest with us.
I bought into the low carb craze, starting with a popular food combining plan, then to Atkins. I know these plans work for some, but not for me. I started suffering from severe fatigue, chronic mood swings that were hard to control (this from being so darn tired all the time), never lost weight, but what was my breaking point was when I started having irregular heart beats, my arms would tingle and go numb, my hands would swell and icth (that, and being on bi-polar meds when I knew something else was wrong). Turns out I was reacting to Splenda. I thought I was having heart attacks! Scared me to death! Then I realized, how do you low carb if you can’t use sugar subs, when the whole point of the diet is to be sugar free. Well, a light bulb went off and something clicked. We think low fat diets are bad because they emphasise replacing fat with sugars and chemically enhanced foods, so low carbers won’t touch low fat stuff because of the hidden sugars and chemicals, yet they will eat low carb stuff with chemical sweeteners, this makes no sense!
At that point, now that I will never touch a artificial sweetener in my life, I needed to learn how to balance foods so I can eat real foods, including fat and sugar, to be healthy and lose weight, and this book did that for me. It makes so much sense. It is hard to learn portion control, to eat only when hungry and to stop when full, not stuffed, but everyday it gets easier and easier. I do make good choices over bad (whole grains over processed, fruit over desserts, etc, but now that I eat from all food groups, I get full with less food, something I never experienced with low carb.
Its nice to be free of the “diets”. All the money spent on diet cookbooks and special ingredients never did anything for me, but taking the advice of this book has done a lot, and it cost me nothing more than the cover price. No specialty ingredients, no plan to follow or lists of foods I can eat or need to avoid, just good old fashioned common sense.
Thank you!!! I wish more people could read this book. Especially all those suffering from 1 diet to the next.
And by the way, since I have stopped doing low carb and eat like a real person, no more mood swings. Gone, all of them, and no more fatigue! I’m able to work out daily now and live my life, something that seemed so out of reach just 2 months ago.
2.0 out of 5 stars
No solid advice and promotes unhealthy eating
Kim Rinehart did not do a great job on this book in my opinion. She says it’s ok to eat cheeseburgers and such all the time if you have a smaller meal later, but it’s not healthy…
This is what I thought Secrets of a former fat girl would be from
all the good reviews. This is a much better book in that the author
shares her story AND…unlike lisa delany’s book tells you how she
did it. Bravo Kim!
2.0 out of 5 stars
I just don’t agree
Am I the only reviewer here who just “doesn’t get it”? First off, this book will tell you nothing you didn’t already know (eat less and you will lose weight, DUH!!).
I bought this book mainly because of the great reviews. I found the book to be just okay. It was easy reading about a subject I am interested in. I didn’t think there was any great insight found in this book. Most people know that to lose weight you have to eat less calories and work out. That pretty much sums up this book. I didn’t learn anything new, but more importantly to me I didn’t get any motivation nor was inspired by the words in this book.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not very healthy or practical
There is no way anyone could keep up the kind of lifestyle described in this book. If they could, why would they want to?
2.0 out of 5 stars
A bit trite
I decided on this book over another one based on the reader reviews. It sounded like it would be a great read and that I would get a lot out of it.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Honestly, not impressed…
For some reason, I expected this book to tell me something I didn’t already know. It didn’t. I think we all know what she has to say, it just reinforces the age-old “eat less,…