Stop the Insanity by Susan Powter Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Stop the Insanity
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."
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: Easy Read Really Works!
Summary: 5 Stars
Susan Powter is a little nuts, but this books is great. It taught me what I was doing wrong... or just I say how I had been tricked by the food industry and labels. I thought I was eating low fat for years, and I couldn't figure out why I wasn't losing any weight. I now know how to figure out how much fat something has in relation to calories which is the key. For expamle "low fat" mayonise is 50% fat! Also how important exercise is. I lost over 50lbs and its not a struggle to keep off! Lots of great practical advice.Book Review: Excellent Read!
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this book to have not only alot of humor but to be very motivating and her ideas are always backed by facts. I liked her analagies.Book Review: Feeling worthless because of your weight? READ THIS BOOK NOW
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read many different books on weight loss, and quite a few are very good. THIS BOOK IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. It is wonderful, it is thruthful, and it offers you hope, at a reasonable price (I don't mean money here, I mean lifestyle changes). Without knowing it, I was already on Suzan's "plan", and had already seen some success, to the shock of my family and friends who didn't see how I could lose weight without following their dieting advice. Suzan's book let me know that I am moving (and breathing and eating) in the right direction, and I am so grateful that she shared her story with all of us.