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How I Gave Up My Low-Fat Diet and Lost 40 Pounds: ...and How You Can Too! | 
 enlarge | Author: Dana Carpender
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 218611
Media: Paperback
Edition: Expanded edition
Pages: 312
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1592330401
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.283
UPC: 080665304019
EAN: 9781592330409
ASIN: 1592330401
Publication Date: July 25, 2003
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 A user's guide to low-carb dieting March 21, 2008
MarkTwain2007 (UK)
This book is best described as a user's guide to adopting a low-carb diet, not only for weight-loss but also simply for better health. It isn't evangelical about any particular diet plan but instead presents a balanced and informed discussion of virtually all types of low-carb diets -- Atkins, Protein Power, Zone, GO, Neanderthal, Bodybuilder's, Carbohydrate Addicts Diet, liquid fasting, and even a diet that Carpender created herself based on the Glycaemic Index principle.
Additionally, there are many hints and tips based on Carpender's own painful experience, as well as those of people she's helped. You'll read about supplements, what to do if you hit a plateau, exercise, cheating, ready-made low-carb products (US not UK), and more. And, of course, the whole medical concept of low-carb dieting is explained in a good easy-to-understand way.
The book is very easy to read and enjoyable. It's more like a magazine article than a book, and science is kept to a minimum. I imagine that Carpender is the kind of person who lights up a room when she enters it and her enthusiasm and good humour definitely come across. But be aware that she is not medically qualified -- she's just an ordinary person, like the rest of us, and her strengths and qualifications are simply a vast amount of experience in this field. She's clearly very informed about the topic and claims to have researched medical texts extensively.
I particularly enjoyed the chapter on vegetarianism. Unlike many low-carb experts, Carpender doesn't dismiss this out of hand.
What's missing from the book are recipes, which is strange considering Carpender's earlier book was "500 Low-carb Recipes". She might have included just a few here. I would also have liked more discussion on what some say are the negative sides of low-carb dieting -- kidney issues, for example, or cholesterol problems. Carpender dismisses these in passing (as all experienced low-carb dieters tend to do) but she should set aside a chapter to discuss them in the same even-handed and thorough way she treats everything else.
Perhaps surprisingly, I wouldn't recommend this book to those new to low-carb dieting. It's a little too cursory. Entire diet plans that take-up full books are reproduced in single chapters. Instead, I think this book is ideal for those who have tried a low-carb diet and failed, but want to try again and take stock of the whole situation.
This also isn't just a "weight loss book". It's a book to read if you think you have an issue with carb-based foods, such as an addiction to sweet things. Carpender herself isn't simply a fat person who became thin by low-carb dieting. Like many low-carb dieters nowadays, she considers herself a person who has genuine, medically-identifiable problems with the 'traditional' (ie 20th century) carb-based ways of eating. For people like her, and myself too, low-carb dieting isn't an option. It has to be a way of life if good health is to result. And this book presents the low-down on what can be done about it.
As a minor point, I gave this book five stars but marked it down because there are a surprising number of typos on its pages. I think this is inexcusable.
The best low carb book I have read. July 13, 2004
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have read many of the diet books themselves and books around the topics.This is the most practical approach I have come across and includes lots of stuff which the hardline books tend to ignore such as indulgence and cheating! Also the only one specifically to address low carb for veggies and how to mix and match to suit almost anyone.
 A well-balanced diet excellently explained October 28, 2002
33 out of 34 found this review helpful
Dana Carpender explains in great detail the reasons why a low-carb diet is the best choice, but her informal style makes for easy reading. She's researched the subject very thoroughly indeed, and leaves no stone - or kilogram - unturned, yet when you read the book, you feel as if you're chatting with a friend who understands completely how you like to eat.If you want to lose weight and keep it off, and you've had enough of tiny, expensive low-fat meals with no taste, give this book a try. It's a great introduction to the low-carb principle that still gives you plenty of detailed and well-researched information. Best of all, a low-carb diet is easy, nutritious, filling and absolutely delicious. And it works.
An Excellent 'Low Carbohydrate' Diet Book! December 5, 2000
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
This book makes an excellent addition to any low carber's collection. Dana Carpenter has taken it upon herself to look through all the low carbohydrate dieting books and present the information in such a way that is not too technical or clinical. Above all, this book provides what other books on the subject usually lack - a friendly understanding tone. Instead of just another "How To..." diet book, she gives practical advice on a wide range of subjects that most low carbers encounter during their lifetime including dinner parties and 'cheating'. All I can say is that I cannot wait to read the follow up!
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