Mastering Leptin: The Leptin Diet, Solving Obesity and Preventing Disease, Second Edition by Bryon J. Richards, CCN with Mary Guignon Richards. (Paperback)

I can not say enough good things about this book. It has a LOT of information on how the body stores and burns fat, addresses every issue that prevents or slows down weight loss, and gives easy to understand suggestions for nutrition and healing your body. If you want to feel good, feel alert, and have energy while losing weight (and not have constant hunger and cravings) then this is a MUST have book.

Everyone needs this book - if you want to live longer and stay heathly, if you are just starting on a diet, if you have been yo-yo dieting for years, if you have 5 lbs to lose or hundreds, if you have totally given up but feel awful about your health and weight, if you have any eating disorder or health conditions (most are related to poor nutrition), then this book can help you find a healthy way to eat.

It is a big book, and contains a LOT of information which can seem overwhelming, but it is broken in to small chapters and organized very well. It is written clearly and in every day language so its not hard to understand and not filled with medical technical jargon.

To begin all you need is Chapter 14 and 27 to start feeling better and eating to turn your body into a fat burner (rather then a sugar burner) and start losing weight. From there you can read the chapters that relate to your body and health issues. At your leisure you can take in the rest of the information, which is enough to give you a clear understanding without being so much that it becomes boring or overwhelming.

It is truly an eye opener to learn how the body works and how simple habits we’ve all gotten into (like snacking at night, sugary breakfast foods) have slowly turned our bodies into sluggish, piles of mush. Their plan allows you to eat healthy, lose weight and really does eliminate almost if not all hunger and cravings.

8/26/06 - I lost 7 lbs. in the first week just making the 5 simple changes they suggested and the changes to what or how much I ate were slight - I had been dieting since May 2006 and struggling to lose 1 or 2 lbs. a week, but this week was not hard at all.

I have been dieting for decades and struggled every time - losing and gaining it all back and more since I first tried to lose 5 -10 lbs when I was 13 years old. I am an expert at putting off hunger and cravings, counting calories and eliminating fat. For decades doctors would tell me eat less (so I did down to 800 - 900 calories a day) or gave me perscription diet pills (which I took for almost 5 years but still it didn’t work) and then this year at age 50, with about 150 lbs to lose, I had been considering stomach bypass surgery because I just can’t take it any more.

But now after reading this book I feel like I have the knowledge I need for nutrition and being healthy - scientific research has finally found the answers (or at least some of them) to why diets don’t work and how to get heathly and stay fit without struggling each and every day.

I don’t know if every week will be like this week or if I will ever reach my goal weight (140 lbs), but I do know if I continue to apply the information I learned in this book I will be able to feel a lot better, have lots more energy, and lose weight.

I am definitely glad I got this book - I plan on referring to it often, reading it and highlighting it - I feel it can change my health for the better, and it may be of benefit to others as well.

Rating: 5 halos

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