The big breakfast along w/ the sweet really prevents hunger well. I’m not overly rigorous w/ it either. So far it’s a breakfast bar, milk, and a chocolate glazed donut. Then I have a bagel for a.m. snack. Then a balanced lunch, cheese for afternoon snack, and a chef’s salad w/ some chicken or steak for dinner. That’s it. Even if you did crave something late that night, you just drink some water and know that you’ll get whatever you like when you get up in the morning, instead of a waiting until the weekend for a cheat day. It’s a no brainer, and the weight is slipping off at a fast, healthy rate. It doesn’t feel like much of a diet since there is no denying of anything, just a switching around of food timing.

I’m not obese by any stretch of the imagination. And I’ve tried every diet there is including Weight Watchers (the non-diet). I’ve struggle with the same 15 pounds for years. I workout like a mad dog, but just manage to maintain a weight that I am not thrilled with. Some say that maybe this is my natural weight. I’m not buying that.

I’ve just started the plan and eating a 600 calorie breakfast is not easy though I’ve always eaten breakfast. I’m trying it because I work irregular hours (never the same daily, weekly, monthly) and I always come home late after eating regularly all day and binge on chocolate and wine. So we’ll see… but to debunk something that has clearly helped a great number of people is just unfair and not very nice. I would gather that most of the critics here have never really struggled with their weight.

So perhaps I’ll find that this is bunk, but I at least read the book thoroughly and it is sound nutritionally. I’m giving it a try.

Ok,maybe some people loose weight, i would because i would feel ill with such a breakfast and would not get anything down after some days.

I love to eat, i love good food, but these examples of a breakfast make me want to puke.
Yeah sometimes i eat unhealthy..especially around a holiday like christmas..or on a weekend when the family gathers…

But just reading these beakfast suggestions makes me crave fruits and salad with a nice acidic dressing..only after i do no longer feel sick.

The problem with insulin and carbohydrates is not the carbohydrates themselves..it is the simple carboyhdrates and the starches without the other components which are in whole foods.

If i drink coke and eat cookies i will feel hungry again very soon, a painful kind of hunger caused by dropped blood sugar leves after a sugary high.
But the same ammount of calories with a cup of coffee…yeeeah…with sugar! ,whole grain bread and a salad is causing exactly that what the diet claims for itself, feeling better, more energetic.

You crave coke, that´s ok..just eat a healthy sandwich…you crave fries? Then dig in, if you deep fry them then add a salad and some oven baked nuggets or eat something healthy for the next meal.

But if you eat a healthy diet for some time, the cravings for fast food, chips and sweets will get lower.
And you will also feel stronger what the ‘bad food’ does to your body like the up and downs with the blood sugar level, or feeling bloated…and if you listen to what your body tells you, everything else will fall into place

It works just the way the Dr. says it will.

My afternoon cravings are gone, and so is my afternoon fatigue. My waistline, which had disappeared into a blob with menopause, has reappeared!!! I am so grateful to the Dr., and so happy. At last, my cravings for sweets, and my appetite, are under my own control!

Getting used to eating such a big meal before 10 a.m. was not easy, but now is routine. The breakfast almost completely shuts off my desire for the food, for the entire day and evening. Truly amazing. I am grateful to the Dr. that I am sending her a hand-written thank you note. She is a god-send, no less.

How sad that the book is slammed here by so many so-called nutritional experts.

I am a practical woman. The diet works, and that is all that matters to me.

As it turned out in the sonogram I had polisistic ovaries. Normally this is falsy cured by giving the woman contraceptive pills (more hormones). She explained the importance hormones play in the metabolisim of the body and how we can regulate this by changing what we eat and at what time because different hormones operate at different times of the day (like adrenaline, for example).

So, she put me on this diet for 2 months of heavy breakfasts and in this period I lost 18lbs, my period came back (ZERO poliscistic ovaries) and I wasn’t at risk on becoming diabetic anymore (NO HORMONES, NO MEDICINE) I continued to see her because she changed my diet a bit after 2 months. I started eating some carbs for lunch (very Venezuelan to eat rice for lunch with chicken or whatever) and a few or any with dinner.

This happened 8 years ago, before any book became popular. Of course, she treated me. She was my endocrinologist. I would advice anyone to do the same and ask your Dr. for his opinion and not to judge a book by it’s cover.