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Summary: Good advice, but hard to follow
Review: The basic premise of a low fat diet is that you get more "bang for your buck". However, I'm sensitive to most grains, and find that the recipes did little to satisfy my hunger. I kept wanting to eat more and more. I was hungry practically every hour on the hour. I find that if I just have a small portion of the actual taste I am longing for, like a bit of olive oil drizzled on green beans with some baked chicken, I get exactly what I want in the taste I want, and don't need to go back, and I feel satisfied and not stuffed. I don't like feeling hungry all the time. Sure, I could eat larger portions cutting the fat, but I am more of a quality, not quantity person. When I cut the fat that low, my skin and hair got a bit drier, (I've got naturally dry skin and hair due to hypothyroidism).The nutritional advice in this book is very good, and she is very knowledgeable about food and exercise. She managed to lose a lot of weight, but this diet won't work for everyone.
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Summary: This book acts like it has all the answers.
Review: This book acts like you can eat any amount of food as long as it is low fat.Give me a break! What about the dangers of to much white flour and sugar. The fact is if you eat to much of anything you will get fat.I think Ms Powter needs to learn portion control.
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Summary: The Best Motivation
Review: This book helped me in a very unmotivated situation, and it helped me very well. Susan Powter writes so trustworth and she tells her thoughts out of her heart. And she found the best way for her and for a lot of people to reduce weight.
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Summary: The best kept secret is finally revealed
Review: This book is a must for anyone who wants an answer to a better body no matter what size you are or how much you want to lose. I am talking from experience. I lost 80 pounds and went on every non realistic diet and finally someone figured out how to be fit, healthy, and lean in a world where eating is a social function. I get chills every time I talk about what Susan Powter is screaming out at everyone. If you read this book you cannot walk away from it and not learn the lesson of food. This book will make you laugh, cry, and it will change your life.
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Summary: The best kept secret is finally revealed
Review: This book is a must for anyone who wants an answer to a better body no matter what size you are or how much you want to lose. I am talking from experience. I lost 80 pounds and went on every non realistic diet and finally someone figured out how to be fit, healthy, and lean in a world where eating is a social function. I get chills every time I talk about what Susan Powter is screaming out at everyone. If you read this book you cannot walk away from it and not learn the lesson of food. This book will make you laugh, cry, and it will change your life.
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Summary: fantastic
Review: This book is outstanding.Having read the diet books with the forbidden list on page one ahhhhh!, this was a breathe of fresh air. IT WORKS IT WORKS. BUY IT!
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Summary: A truthful guide in a untruthful industry.
Review: This book is wonderful in the way she helps you learn through her own personnal experiences. It is not a bunch of mumbo-jumbo.It is a clear,concise,and accurate reality.That the only way to really be healthy and in shape is to learn how do do things the right way.
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Summary: very motivational!
Review: This book literally gets your butt off the couch potatoe scene and into action! Susan is so energized! She shares that energy with you whether you want it or not. She gives common sense information. It is not hype. It is very helpful. This is the first book of hers I've ever purchased but not the last. Every person with a weight problem or health problem needs to read this book. Susan is very sensible. There are diets galore in this world and then there's Susan Powter's "Stop the Insanity." To me it's just about the only book that gives you a lot of motivation.
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Summary: FANTASTIC
Review: This is the first book I have bought for myself in over twenty years, I simply had to have both it and the exercise video. It is one of those books you just cannot put down, it goes with me everywhere, I have read it over and over. This year I have decided to do something about my weight and state of mind and so this book is helping me more than I can say. Susan, you are a saint among women, you tell it like it is girl and believe me you are the only one doing it. I love your honesty. I have been in those aerobic classes where I was unable to do certain moves because my stomach got in the way, or my thighs were too fat, no-one allowed me to modify the moves, no-one offered me another move to do, I just tried blindly to follow everyone else and failed miserably. Back to food for comfort, add the feeling that I am a total failure. But this wonderfully honest book gave me so much motivation, I felt more energetic after just reading it. I now eat properly, exercise daily and am on my way to being the slim fit person I know was hiding inside me all these years, 17, of being unfit and overweight. To anyone reading this review, buy the book! You will never regret it I promise, Susan proves she is human like all of us, she knows what we suffer and has the solution.
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Summary: Daring & Ruthless Attack on Stifling Corporate Diet Machines
Review: Those who know the contemporary icon "Susan Powter" see the motivational tigress who ruled the infomercial circuit a few years back. Not only must we retain any and all wisdom she put forth on those TV spots, we must keep "Stop the Insanity" on our bookshelves for future generations of potential victims of corporate fast-food henchman and diet fanatics who prey on the innocent Gazzellian souls whose only wish is to find peace in a society that tries to slash the very thurrock of everyman's soul, dooming it to a voyage of despair. Ms. Powter puts a literary lime twist into Kafkaesque prose, cleverly diced into motivational rants against the commercial food industry. It might look simplistic at first glance; try reading a few pages out loud, and when I say "out loud," I mean add a slightly wrung tension to your voice with a medium toned shout. The depths of such writing will reveal themselves through such spoken word, as can be done with Dylan Thomas'work, or Rod McKuen's translations of Jacques Brel's lyrics. If we decide to gain from Ms. Powter's writings, future generations will see not a TV pitchperson but the ultimate revelator, an Amazon brave enough to crush all tools of money grubbing executives who are nothing more than suited stalagmite. "Stop the Insanity" is not just a book, it is a movement that delivers us greatest source of optimism since Norman Vincent Peale.
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