The Fat Flush Plan
Foreword by Barry Sears, Author of The Zone The Fat Flush Diet Plan is a revolutionary diet program from one of the Top 10 Nutritionists in the United States, according to Selfmagazine. Based on a satisfying, healthful, and cleansing combination of essential fats, balanced proteins, and quality carbohydrates, Ann Louise Gittleman’s Fat Flush was first popularized on iVillage.com, The Women’s Network, and quickly embraced by millions of women across America. Thousands of dramatic testimonials later, the Fat Flush message board has become one of the most popular diet and fitness boards in the history of iVillage. Now, widely known nutrition specialist and bestselling author Ann Louise Gittleman shares this program with readers. Simple, safe, and highly effective, The Fat Flush Diet Plan works via a process of detoxifying the liver, thereby increasing metabolisman excellent way to begin dieting as well to continue weight loss. This is also the only diet program that can suc… More >>
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Losing weight is extremely simple. Spend more energy
than you consume, and the weight will come off.
Guaranteed. All it takes is some knowledge, dedication
and discipline. There is no silver bullet, all
these fad diets work to the extent the end result
is a negative difference between energy consumed
and energy spent. Get a good calorie guide, eat
1200-1500 calories a day of whatever food you want
to eat, exercise for at least 40 minutes 5 times a
week and you will lose weight. If you’re not, you
are cheating somewhere. There is nothing more to it.
If you want to make some people rich by buying these
books, by all means do that. It will not change any
of the above.
I have learned the only way to cleanse your body is to fast for one day. Diets do not work. ONLY WILL POWER.
Ann Louise Gittleman, The Fat Flush Plan (McGraw-Hill, 2002)
We were doing so well there for a while. Yeah, the book gets a little heavy on the new-age diction (things “resonate to” ideas way too many times in this book), and the constant talking about the necessity for eating organic food (with a helpful recipe in the back for soaking your foods in bleach-water if you can’t buy organic) was a bit unnerving, but everything else seemed to be on pretty solid ground. But then came the word that has become the yardstick for measuring the scientific objectivity of every nutritionist on the planet: aspartame. And Ann Louise Gittleman, as so many have before her, utterly fails the test.
In short, the so-called “dangers” of aspartame have been so overblown by the press and a few wild-eyed (and very large-mouthed) activists that it has now been blamed for everything from MSG-like headaches to Multiple Sclerosis. (Odd that the MS Foundation’s denial that the claim holds any sort of truth whatsoever got nowhere near as much press coverage.) What reports and studies is your nutritionist reading? Easy way to find out: ask them about aspartame. If they start getting fluttery around the eyelids, switch your nutritionist, quick.
Gittleman here attempts to softpedal the anti-aspartame mania the first couple of times it appears by focusing on sweeteners approved for the plan or saying that her bias against the stuff is caused by its water-retaining properties. But keep reading. Once you get to the last fifty pages or so, you’ll stumble upon a turn of phrase here, a word there, that strongly implies Gittleman has it in for aspartame for a lot more than that. Which draws the whole scientific basis of the book into question. (There are a few other shady bits, but the aspartame question is the easiest to determine, so I’ll stick with it.)
Ultimately, another diet book with a few good, logical ideas that can be found in a number of other places, some really awful overdramatization, and a lot of questionable stuff between the two poles. **
I didn’t like this book, because it doesn’t fit my lifestyle. If you have the time to shop the groceries you must shop for the diet and have the time to cook what you need to cook, then I think maybe could work, I don’t know.
I bought it because I am into the lowcarb lifestyle, and I rather do Atkins a thousand times before doing this program, and it has worked wonderfully for me, I am talking about Atkins of course.
This book is not enough at all. May be because while i am desperate to lose as much weight as possible, I knew more even than what is in the book. But, I believe it contains valuable info.