The Fresh Start Thermogenic Diet: The Proven Program for Lasting Weight Loss Through Fat-Burnng Foods Hardcover – Illustrated, May 9, 2006

good book, good purchase, good dietary plan.

She provided a lot of links to her website in the book but never really followed through with details. Overall it is very informative, and generally provides a good structure. Just wish there was more detail.

Very interesting.

This really works and the foods mentioned taste good as well. A great way to get your metabolism stoked and running to the max. I actually lost 7 pounds in 3 days. The food is a little hard to find but it is worth the effort if you want to lose weight quickly.

I thought the book was informative. However, She often referred you to her web-site which did not provide the additional information as suggested. Overall I thought the book was a good food guide.

No substance to the book.

I tend not to trust books that are full of weird before-and-after pictures where backgrounds have been changed, and the people pictured are clearly making efforts to look like total crap in the before pictures, and are make-uped and sucking it in in the after shots.The fact is, pictures of 20 people who claimed to lose weight based on the plan in your book doesn't convince me of anything. I could tell the general population to eat nothing but butter for three months, and I can practically guarantee you that someone out there will lose weight based on my plan. Welcome to the mind-boggling disaster that is human nutrition.The basis of this book is that adding certain "thermogenic" foods to your diet will boost your metabolism and help you effortlessly lose weight. There is SOME truth to this, ingredients such as cayenne pepper and cinnamon have all been scientifically proven to raise metabolism--very, very slightly. It's not going to have some magical fat-burning effect if you add these items to your normal diet. If you're overweight, you're still going to have to cut your calories and exercise.Not that this book doesn't say that--half the book is about cutting calories and dieting. It's just all tucked nicely in the chapters AFTER the ones saying that putting Tabasco in your V8 will make you lose 8 dress sizes.Plus, this book claims that people with "apple" body shapes (although the book inexplicably refers to them as "peaches") should slash out carbs to drop the belly fat.Fact: Carbs do not specifically create belly fat. Never did, never will.All the food we eat, protein, carb or fat, is broken down and either used or stored by the body. If you eat too many calories from steak, you'll store fat just like if you eat too many calories from bread. And cutting out entire food groups isn't going to "melt" fat from any specific part of your body. All it's going to do is deprive your body of the nutrients you would normally gain from that food group. It may help you cut calories overall, leading to weight loss, but to what effect? Yes, I realize your body does go into a special state on a no- or extremely low-carb diet: ketosis. But even the magical *cough*harmful*cough* effects of ketosis don't SPECIFICALLY burn belly fat.The fact is, if your genes are programmed to hold onto fat in your middle, it's going to be really tough for you to lose fat in your middle. Not impossible, just tough. Eliminating a food group isn't going to start taking fat away from one specific area. Think about it, if food were that magical, why wouldn't scientists have discovered a food that increases fat in breast tissue?The only thing that "apples" really should be doing more so than "pears" is monitoring their stress levels. Visceral fat is specifically there to store fat for times of "famine"--i.e. stress. It's an emergency fuel tank. So if you're under constant, chronic stress, your body may be storing excess fat. Otherwise, you should be eating a healthy, reasonable diet and getting exercise to lose weight, just like everyone else. No magical fixes, sorry.Not everything in this book is bad. It has some sound advice, and may be especially appealing to "emotional eaters." However, I don't see any of the actual good advice as "earth-shattering" and I think a lot of what it has to say is misleading to make people think losing weight is going to be some quasi-effortless salsa festival. It's simply not true, and any book that conveys that message is a joke.