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The Fiber35 Diet: Nature's Weight Loss Secret
The New York Times bestselling diet guide that will help you safely lose weight, look your best, feel more energetic, and stay healthy for life!
If you are
• fed up with short-term fad diets that offer no lasting solution
• craving a healthy alternative to high-fat processed foods and refined sugars
• searching for a way to take control of your health and feel vibrant every day
the Fiber35 Diet is for you!
It's time to revolutionize the way you think about dieting! New York Times bestselling author Brenda Watson has an incredible secret that helped her transform her body and vastly improve the quality of her life—the Fiber35 Diet. This incredible program will show you how to lose those unwanted pounds and maintain optimal health by taking advantage of the extraordinary power of fiber. Fiber is one of the most useful and beneficial ingredients on the planet. In addition to helping prevent many of the major diseases of our time—including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer—fiber helps to curb appetite, increase satisfaction, and actually flush calories out of the body. Brenda Watson will show you how to incorporate it into your diet easily, sharing how to turn this little-known secret to ideal weight and longevity into a lifetime eating system. Loaded with delicious recipes, meal plans, and even a comprehensive workout program, The Fiber35 Diet makes adopting a healthy lifestyle effortless.
If you are
• fed up with short-term fad diets that offer no lasting solution
• craving a healthy alternative to high-fat processed foods and refined sugars
• searching for a way to take control of your health and feel vibrant every day
the Fiber35 Diet is for you!
It's time to revolutionize the way you think about dieting! New York Times bestselling author Brenda Watson has an incredible secret that helped her transform her body and vastly improve the quality of her life—the Fiber35 Diet. This incredible program will show you how to lose those unwanted pounds and maintain optimal health by taking advantage of the extraordinary power of fiber. Fiber is one of the most useful and beneficial ingredients on the planet. In addition to helping prevent many of the major diseases of our time—including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer—fiber helps to curb appetite, increase satisfaction, and actually flush calories out of the body. Brenda Watson will show you how to incorporate it into your diet easily, sharing how to turn this little-known secret to ideal weight and longevity into a lifetime eating system. Loaded with delicious recipes, meal plans, and even a comprehensive workout program, The Fiber35 Diet makes adopting a healthy lifestyle effortless.
320 pages, Paperback
Published February 12, 2008
About the author
Brenda Watson
35 books4 followersBrenda Watson, C.N.C. is an authority on nutrition, digestion, internal cleansing and detoxification. A New York Times best-selling author and public television educator, she validates why digestive health is the foundation for total-body health. Her new book, Skinny Gut Diet – Balance Your Digestive System for Permanent Weight Loss – debuts this Fall.
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December 8, 2008
'm not a fan of the magical numbers that some of these diet books put out there (35, 60/30/10, 0, etc.) and this book's 35 grams of fiber is yet another gimmick that is supposed to give you all that you want in an eating plan. This is, however, a pretty good gimmick. I can't go on enough about how beneficial fiber is for your health (and Brenda is with me)- more fiber= lower caloric density, better digestive health, and better energy balance.
Though the high fiber diet has been given to us before (The Pritikin Principle and The Evolution Diet, Second Edition's LoS Hi-Fi foods are two that come to mind off the top), Brenda gives us a new twist- you don't have to cut back on anything to lose weight, you just need to ADD fiber. This makes sense and will work- our bodies aren't designed to digest fiber and the added mass in our guts gives us satiety.
High fiber is just one aspect of good health, and though Brenda does encourage exercise in addition, there are other things that she could add that make up a perfect diet.
Though the high fiber diet has been given to us before (The Pritikin Principle and The Evolution Diet, Second Edition's LoS Hi-Fi foods are two that come to mind off the top), Brenda gives us a new twist- you don't have to cut back on anything to lose weight, you just need to ADD fiber. This makes sense and will work- our bodies aren't designed to digest fiber and the added mass in our guts gives us satiety.
High fiber is just one aspect of good health, and though Brenda does encourage exercise in addition, there are other things that she could add that make up a perfect diet.
November 21, 2014
I wasn't going to record this on Goodreads, but I read the entire book. There is a lot of good information in this diet book, which does not rely on gimmicks or bad science, but rather presents why we should eat more fiber. Cut a reasonable amount of calories (unlike Weight Watchers which, if you do the math of the PlusPoints equaling roughly 30 calories per PlusPoint, the average amount for weight-loss allowance - 26 PP - is only 780 calories per day), follow the exercise plan, and lose weight with something that won't make your kidneys fail or anything. I intend to try the recipes and incorporate this science into my life.
April 10, 2009
Should be eating the way my mother taught me! She does show you once again the fabulous benefits of eating closer to nature. I learned more about my body and about food and was encouraged to keep eating closer to the source.
August 28, 2009
Brenda Watson, The Fiber35 Diet: Nature's Weight Loss Secret (Free Press, 2007)
I knew it would eventually happen—in an age where we've had decades of quirky, contrarian diet books (how else to explain the low-carb revolution?), eventually we'd get to the point where someone would write a classic diet book and have it hailed as something revolutionary. Welcome to The Fiber35 Diet, a book that basically tells you exactly what people have been saying about weight loss since fat people first started appearing in droves, and people read it and say “what is this wonderful new idea?”. Well, I'll tell you: eat more fruits and vegetables, and reduce the number of calories you take in, and you'll lose weight. Genius, right? It's common sense packaged in book form. Which should be making you ask “why do I need to buy the book?”.
In a word, recipes. The first half of the book tells you stuff you already know (well, some of it you probably only know if you're as oddly drawn to some infomercials as I seem to be). The second half tells you how to put it into action, and gives you some recipes that mostly take traditional dishes and bulk up the fiber. (I'll be making the vegetable bean chili tonight, actually.) Good stuff, some of it even inventive for diet book recipes.
There is a downside, of course, as there usually is, and that is that following the plan laid out here, if you follow it completely, can be prohibitively expensive. Watson recommends colon cleansing along with increasing your fiber intake, and the cheapest decent colon cleansing regimen will set you back fifty bucks or so. Add in the various supplements and health-food-store-only ingredients, and you're looking at a six-figure income in order to be able to afford this. Thankfully, it's not all entirely necessary; after all, supplements are supplements, and they don't, in general, contain things you can't get by quirking your diet here and there. (Granted, fresh fruits and vegetables will cost you more at the store than processed crap, but compared to the costs of the supplements, a couple of extra heads of cauliflower and a few more carrots will seem like a bargain.)
So, yeah, take it all with a grain of salt, but you can't really go wrong with common sense. *** ½
I knew it would eventually happen—in an age where we've had decades of quirky, contrarian diet books (how else to explain the low-carb revolution?), eventually we'd get to the point where someone would write a classic diet book and have it hailed as something revolutionary. Welcome to The Fiber35 Diet, a book that basically tells you exactly what people have been saying about weight loss since fat people first started appearing in droves, and people read it and say “what is this wonderful new idea?”. Well, I'll tell you: eat more fruits and vegetables, and reduce the number of calories you take in, and you'll lose weight. Genius, right? It's common sense packaged in book form. Which should be making you ask “why do I need to buy the book?”.
In a word, recipes. The first half of the book tells you stuff you already know (well, some of it you probably only know if you're as oddly drawn to some infomercials as I seem to be). The second half tells you how to put it into action, and gives you some recipes that mostly take traditional dishes and bulk up the fiber. (I'll be making the vegetable bean chili tonight, actually.) Good stuff, some of it even inventive for diet book recipes.
There is a downside, of course, as there usually is, and that is that following the plan laid out here, if you follow it completely, can be prohibitively expensive. Watson recommends colon cleansing along with increasing your fiber intake, and the cheapest decent colon cleansing regimen will set you back fifty bucks or so. Add in the various supplements and health-food-store-only ingredients, and you're looking at a six-figure income in order to be able to afford this. Thankfully, it's not all entirely necessary; after all, supplements are supplements, and they don't, in general, contain things you can't get by quirking your diet here and there. (Granted, fresh fruits and vegetables will cost you more at the store than processed crap, but compared to the costs of the supplements, a couple of extra heads of cauliflower and a few more carrots will seem like a bargain.)
So, yeah, take it all with a grain of salt, but you can't really go wrong with common sense. *** ½
March 21, 2011
Saw Brenda Watson on PBS and ordered this book and the HOPE book before the prices went up on Amazon.
Common sense teaching--nothing new really, except maybe more detail on the amount of fiber in fruits and vegetables. And she wants you to take gi-normous amounts of probiotics--don't remember which book.
Of course she has a company with her husband selling, what else, fiber and probiotics. There are other companies on the 'Net that also sell these products and I will be investigating some of them as well. Still, I think this is the first program in a long time that I think I can live with.
She, like everyone else, says you need to exercise. Haven't tried the recipes, but they look good.
Overall, pretty decent.
Common sense teaching--nothing new really, except maybe more detail on the amount of fiber in fruits and vegetables. And she wants you to take gi-normous amounts of probiotics--don't remember which book.
Of course she has a company with her husband selling, what else, fiber and probiotics. There are other companies on the 'Net that also sell these products and I will be investigating some of them as well. Still, I think this is the first program in a long time that I think I can live with.
She, like everyone else, says you need to exercise. Haven't tried the recipes, but they look good.
Overall, pretty decent.
January 15, 2012
This was an okay book as far as diet books go. I already knew of all the benefits of fiber, so I was hoping for something a little bit more in depth. It gives a good review of fibers benefits. I would have liked it to be a little more scientific. There was a mention of fiber causing calories not to be absorbed. I tried finding any other mention of this online, but was unsuccessful. I admit I didn't spend a great deal of time looking, but for such a great claim, you would think there'd be some substantial amount of evidence.
I quickly skimmed through the recipes. By this point, I already knew I was eating a high fiber diet and none of the recipes really called out to me, so I didn't try making any of them.
I quickly skimmed through the recipes. By this point, I already knew I was eating a high fiber diet and none of the recipes really called out to me, so I didn't try making any of them.
February 23, 2014
This book is actually not a bad reference. I thought it was going to be another trendy diet book, but was pleasantly surprised to see that Watson actually has a very good nutrition foundation. As someone who majored in nutrition and dietetics, I often read diet books so I can be aware of what patients/clients may be reading and then I will know how to inform them where/if the books are incorrect. This book does a great job in giving the reader easy to understand information about how to eat a balanced meal and couple that with exercise to lose weight. Imagine that, eat right, exercise and you will lose weight. My only complaint is that it doesn't emphasize eating more fruits and veggies. Other than that, not a bad book with some really tasty healthier recipes.
July 5, 2012
A nice reminder that we should be eating more fibre in our diets and the benefits of doing so. We should be striving to have at least 35 grams of fibre every day. There is lots of information if you want to know why we should be eating protein, carbs, fibre, etc. along with recipes and suggested meal plans.
The problem I had with this book is that she wants you to have shakes and bars rather than natural fresh food for two meals a day. And guess what? So is she writing about it because she truly believes in the power of fibre or is it just to sell her products?
The problem I had with this book is that she wants you to have shakes and bars rather than natural fresh food for two meals a day. And guess what? So is she writing about it because she truly believes in the power of fibre or is it just to sell her products?
May 7, 2008
Loved the info in this book. It really got me on a healthy-eating kick. Just beware of the bowel changes if you do start eating this much fiber daily!!! I didn't use the recipes she gave or start drinking the shakes, but I did add a lot more fruits/veggies to my diet, cut out lots of fats and sugars, and looked for foods with high fiber content...that is until I got pregnant. I haven't done very well ever since!!!
January 29, 2014
I really like the concept that nothing is outlawed. You can eat just about anything as long as you stay within calorie limits and have 35 grams of fiber. To get 35 grams of fiber you must eat lots of fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains. I really like that it is very plant based, but meat and dairy are not excluded completely. Haven't actually tried the diet part yet, just read about it.
September 28, 2009
This is a really sesible way to look at not only weight loss but also over-all health. Fiber was to me a good idea, after this book it's a life changing necessity. After following it's premises for about a week I really feel good. More energy, and a feeling of wellness. Oh, and a few pounds lost is nice too!
February 22, 2008
Grabbed this one on the way out of the library and it's okay. Just reinforces my desire to eat more fiber but I'm not one to diet, diet. I only have read about 1/3 of the book. I didn't finish the book but enjoyed the info. I got from it.
February 24, 2009
HA! At long last my deep-love of fiber is vindicated! Seriously, this book is fantastic - following its guidelines has increased my gastrointestinal joy - my toilet overfloweth. Remember, if the GI tract ain't happy, ain't nobody gonna be happy. Long live fiber!
May 16, 2009
An interesting book, but it didn't really teach me anything I didn't already know. I didn't care for the eating plan it offered, but worse wasn't that interested by most of the recipes presented. I've only made a couple things from this book and have been toying with the idea of donating it.
June 24, 2010
I have struggled to lose weight for many years. I have finally lost those pesky 15 pounds and kept them off since around March. This book changed the way I eat and the way I think about eating. It basically changed my life!
December 8, 2011
I don't have to loose weight, but I absolutely believe that adding more fiber to your diet makes you feel better and gives you more energy. It works for me and this book gave me a lot of extra information.
August 11, 2013
For anyone wanting to lose weight or improve his/her overall health and wellness, this book is a great start. It is full of great healthy recipes, snack ideas and exercise tips. Whether you want to try the diet or not, you will find useful information.
January 16, 2008
A good look at the importance of fiber would be the most important message to pull from this text.
April 13, 2008
Didn't sound workable to me.
February 4, 2009
This is a great book if you are looking for information regarding the best foods for your body to help prevent disease, have more energy and loose weight.
August 3, 2015
I found this interesting for a diet book. Tells of the importance of fiber in your diet for your health. I bought just about all of it.
April 12, 2011
I like this book a lot. I find it informative even if I don't agree with everything.
August 16, 2012
A make sense nutritional plan that's easy to understand.
September 23, 2012
So far, so good. Just the keys I needed to remember or relearn.
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