Stop the Insanity by Susan Powter
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Book Reviews of Stop the Insanity
Book Review: EAT, BREATHE, AND MOVE...
Summary: 4 Stars
susan powter has energy, and she loves to talk. what she says in 250+ pages, can be summarized in one sentence: IN ORDER TO BE LEAN, STRONG, AND HEALTHY, WE MUST EAT, BREATHE, AND MOVE. i am not sure if this book would be categorized as autobiography or health and nutrition. it is at times, almost a stream of her consciousness... but susan powter is a bright woman and for the sake of helping others, she definitely wants to share her story about how she finally succeeded at weightloss. i respect people who call it like they see it and so i enjoyed reading her book.Book Review: Well, she's been there
Summary: 3 Stars
I don't agree with everything in this book, but Powter does have an edge since she's been fat. Her story of her fat years, about feeling miserable and isolated and the quotes from other women (how they feel invisible being fat when people won't even look right at you, and other sad anecdotes) are very moving. I think reading that stuff was more motivational for me than anything else. I never really got into the breathing thing, etc. Ultimately I think you lose weight by cutting calories and exercising more. Her breaking the system, or however she puts it exactly, are mainly about eating lots of low-fat and fat-free foods and cutting out the fatty stuff. For instance, you can eat one 100-calorie cookie and its calories are equivalent to, say, 5 cups of broccoli. But the broccoli's fat free. Yes, it's healthier to eat the broccoli, but sometimes you want a cookie. It'd make more sense for people to have one cookie and eat sensibly throughout the day and take a good walk a few times a week. Not high-volume eating of fat-free stuff. As for the breathing and other stuff, well, it's a bit off for me. But the stories did hit a chord with me, and that's worth something. And by the way, when I did read this book, I did lose some weight, but ultimately I got tired of the broccoli, etc, and put some back on. Now I'm counting calories and trying to work out to Denise Austin's Lifetime fitness programs at least five days a week, and I do let myself have the occasional cookie, and my clothes are feeling looser.Book Review: Discovered this is PART of the Insanity!
Summary: 3 Stars
For many, many years, I religiously followed the low fat, high carb, soy-guzzling semi-vegetarianism espoused by the likes of Marilu Henner and Susan Powter. And with each year I got closer to morbid obesity compunded with severe hypoglycemia, stimulant addiction, [a direct result of the fatigue caused by cutting out natural fats and replacing them with grains as Marilu Henner recommends in her health "makeover." Consider the timing of the Starbucks explosions!] IBS, brain fog and depression. (Before I started cutting out fat and meat I was at my ideal weight!) This approach does NOT work and is almost entirely responsible for the obesity epidemic along with all the other new and strange [think ADD] health crises nearly universally destroying our national well being! While sure, I'd love to look like Henner or Powter, and age like them as well-I am absolutely baffled as to how that diet works for them, when science and real life examples more and more slap it right in the face.
I'd like to save others the fraction of a life you experience when your health is destroyed. BTW, I have restored my health, weight, mood, digestion and so much more by doing almost the exact opposite of what is recommended here. Those who took the time to read my review are free to follow my example or not. Thank You.
Book Review: Good advice, but hard to follow
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Book Review: Don't believe the hype
Summary: 2 Stars
Like every other diet book out there: her argument boils down to:
Eat right
Exercise
She's a hypocrite. She goes on and on about how evil the diet industry is and how she's one of us because she was once fat. Fine: great. But half her arguements I'm not buying: No one fact checks books anymore.
Also, the book is still fixated on fat. Recently, we learned that it isn't just fat that makes us fat. Look at a bag of sugar: if I eat that, will I not gain a pound? It's fat free...
Great Susan: how do we stop the insanity? First: EAT WHATEVER YOU WANT (as long as it's health food)
Second: EXERCISE
Third: BREATHE (I think this is just filler cuz she didn't have anything else to offer).
Instead of starving ourselves, we're to go to a chart of how many calories we're to expend a day. That's still cutting calories.
Also, lumping OA into the diet industry is wrong: it's not for profit. Taking people out for a walk instead of going to an OA meeting is like taking raging alcoholics out for coffee instead of attending an AA meeting. A temporary solution to an underlying problem. Didn't susan later have some sort of substance abuse problem too? Methinks the lady doth protest too much...
She's gotten all her little droogs to write raving comentaries on her book: but who the hell has heard of Susan Powter in the last 10 years. NO ONE!! SA's a flash in the pan.
Here's the scoop: eat right and exercise. Now pay me a billion dollars cuz I'm telling you "the truth."