This partial review originally appeared on my new blog TRESA'S BLOG.
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I'm only half way through but it makes sense to me. If you want to buy Naturally Thin from Amazon, you can click on it there. Bethenny Frankel writes well and despite the differences in our upbringing I didn't find her approach spoiled or unrealistic (she grew up eating in restaurants, she lived in cities, I grew up on the farm where everyone gained weight as they got older). The food bank idea is rather depressing since I'm one of those people who used to be able to eat and eat and stay @ 110 if I kept up my physical activity level. I won't say exercise because I don't exercise, I work, I hate to exercise for exercise shape and I can't see exerting that much energy and not making a physical difference in anything but myself. I suppose that is the immigrant farm person coming out in me? Back to the food bank, it seems that you have a food bank, like a bank account, makes sense, the more you exercise the more food you can take out of the bank, (the way I can think of it) if you take out too much with fudge cake for breakfast you will have fruit and vegetables and an egg white for the rest of the day? Make sense? AND the food bank continues from day to day but you shouldn't just quit taking food out or only take one kind of food out (starvation or fad diets) or the bank will get upset and not let you take so much out? Now that I've explained the whole premise of Naturally Thin (just kidding)Bethenny's recipes are a little ingredient happy and if you don't like portobello mushrooms you are pretty well up a certain cree but they are more intesting than most by far.
On a scale of 1-10 right now I'd give the book an 8 right now. Talk to me in a month if I follow it which of course I'm trying to do right now. Why? I weigh 150 again. I'm 5'4" and I can still wear a size 6 in stretch jeans, it's not so pretty as it was when I weighed about 140 a couple months ago. I'll keep trying to post about how this book does in the diet department. What made me decide to write about it this morning? It's what is going on in my life (besides having to give the dog a bath and defrost the fridge, it's an RV fridge evidently they are not frost free?) My husband quit smoking in June and has gained weight, surprise surprise. I cut down far enough where some days I have none and some days I have 3 or 4 which I consider pretty good for me. I will make no bones about it. I had to quit, I had blood clots and I'm not old or I don't think I am. Therefore I am gaining weight too. My parents were both overweight and I know what it does to you. I've never been obese and spent most of my life thin till I started working @ a computer. My husband and I plan on walking , haven't done so yet, the new tv season started! I did buy him Nike walking shoes though.
Back to the book, it's a GREAT idea and more sensible than most I've read. I started to pick up the one by Jillian Michaels because lets face it that is the body we want. Jillian Michaels book involves exercise, I won't do the exercise (I decided to quit fooling myself), I'm very muscled for my size which is a good thing and WHY I can wear a smaller size and eat more. It's hereditary, so is the fact my relatives are mostly all fat. So I'll let you know in this blog how it goes with the book Naturally Thin and my diet. I'm also trying to drink 8 12 ounce glasses of water or crystal light drink mix ( I HATE WATER) .
The book isn't bad and I ate sensibly yesterday because of Naturally Thin and it's entertaining enough I'm not skimming through. Buy it and judge for yourself. BTW this is only like the 2nd diet book I've bought in my life so that says something.
PS: You do have to exercise a bit but this book involves a little more than common sense, sometimes common sense needs to be presented in a different way to become clear to you and that's what this book does, present what makes sense, it's painful sometimes, ie no one needs more than one scoop of ice cream @ a time, but it's true!
