Title: Bread Is the Devil: Take Control
of Your Diet Demons and Blast the Fat Forever
Review: I’ve decided to cut bread and
gluten out of my diet due to arthritis, but I picked up this book because of
the title. I do feel that Bread is the
Devil and it is a hard item to ignore.
Everyone eats bread and loves to eat it warm fresh from the oven. Yummy with butter dripping off the sides,
hungry already. I digress, and now I
need to think about a healthy serving of fruits or vegetable instead.
Bread is the Devil is an interesting book that helps you cut the white
bread, fried breads, and other empty calorie items from your diet. You can eat bread, but make sure it is whole
grain, me I just cut it all out and after 3 months I feel great(my back/spine
arthritis is better and my hip feels almost normal again.) But I think that cutting bread out would help
many lose those unwanted pounds and help you become healthier overall. Cut those empty fat/calorie/carb filled items
from your diet and feel good again. By the way, fat is your friend….sugar and
white carbs are the enemy.
Cutting carbs is a great way to lose weight and it is really not that
difficult. Have a goal in mind will make
it easier to say NO to the Devil carbs out there. Losing weight or just cutting back on empty calories
makes this book a good read for you.
Keep in mind that not every book can help everyone, so read a few
different books on healthy eating and pick what works well for you.
Publisher: Published January 3rd 2012 by St.Martin's Press
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781250000224
Quick Review: 4 Stars out of 5.
Where Did I Get the Book: The public library.
Synopsis: Stop mindlessly
inhaling the breadbasket and stop shoveling in the M&M'S–Bread is the Devil
is the solution to all of our diet saboteurs.
Nutritionist Heather Bauer can count on the fingers of one
hand the number of her clients who don't already know what they should eat to
lose weight. So why can’t they (and their best friend and their neighbor) lose
weight? Because Bread is the Devil! Yes, that's Bauer’s shorthand for the
inevitable, demonic pull that certain bad habits exert on people who try to
change their eating routines to drop the pounds. Many of us have been there:
You had a sensible, healthy breakfast, high in protein with complex carbs.
Ditto for lunch—soup and a salad with a warm rush of accomplishment and self
control for dessert. But now it's dinnertime and you're out with friends: enter
a large basket of warm, sliced, crusty sourdough bread with a little tub of
chive butter. Suddenly you're in the seventh circle of hell—the one reserved
for gluttons. Bread’s not your devil? How about ice cream or chips or that big
slab of buttercream-frosted birthday cake?
Bread Is the Devil will help you fight those hellish
cravings that stop you from losing the weight you want. By identifying how
certain factors promote overeating, Heather will:
* Identify the top-ten Diet Devils that challenge healthy
eating
* Provide specific, proven strategies that free you from
these devils once and for all
* Offer up a simple, flexible guide that will help you reach
your goal in twenty-one days and make eating fun again
* Suggest an easy, affordable, and doable shopping list for
eating at home as well as great meal choices when eating out
Bread is the Devil will help you say good-bye to your
devils, for good.
Author Biography: Heather Bauer, RD, CDN is a nationally recognized nutrition
expert, author, and founder of Nu-Train, a New York City-based diet and
nutrition counseling center. Over the last decade Heather has taught thousands
of people how to safely lose weight and keep it off for good. Her success
stories range from those working long hours on Wall Street, to doctors,
lawyers, mothers, athletes and celebrities.
In 2008 Heather released her first book,
The Wall Street Diet, a program designed especially for busy people that don't
have time to diet. In Heather's second book, Bread Is the Devil, she provides
time-tested strategies and a 21-day plan to help readers overcome common diet
pitfalls, what Bauer refers to as "Diet Devils". Some of these Devils
include "The Late Night Shuffle (for those midnight marauders that just
can't stay out of the kitchen), "Road Hogging" (for travels who
decide to put their healthy habits on hold when on the road) and "The
Plunge" (for anyone that wonders where that whole sleeve of cookies went).
Heather sits on Cooking Light Magazine's
Nutrition Advisory Board and has appeared on popular TV and Radio shows such as
The CBS Early Show, CNN, The Tyra Banks Show, FOX Morning News and Martha
Stuart Radio on SiriusXM. She has also been a featured nutritionist in The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Self Magazine, In Touch, InStyle, Shape,
Gotham Magazine and Ladies Home Journal.
Heather received her BS and RD from the
University of Wisconsin and is a member of the American Dietetic Association
(ADA) and the New York State Dietetic Association (NYSDA). She lives in
Connecticut with her husband, daughter and twin boys. When she's not chasing
after her children, she's usually out running.
Other Reviews: The Mommy Files, Examiner, Play this Way
Looks like I need to read this one!
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