Reviews

Eat, Fast, Slim: The Life-Changing Intermittent Fasting Diet for Amazing Weight Loss and Optimum Health by Amanda Hamilton

tsitua's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.0

shanaetheflyest's review

4.0

Interesting read. I am a firm believer in fasting and juicing, so I really connected with Amanda Hamilton's book. I can't wait to pass it along to my mother.

I won this book in a GoodReads giveaway. This did not affect my review in any way.

mellyfish's review

4.0

An excellent beginner's guide to fasting, including, perhaps most importantly, all the scientific evidence someone wanting to fast will need to defend their decision against people who will try to stop them or make them feel bad about doing it. Fasting is not an eating disorder, it's perfectly healthy, and humans have done it forever. This book has all you need to know to do it safely and effectively. The author is clearly from the UK, so sometimes she talks in liters and stones, but you'll get the gist.

bookchasm's review

2.0

An okay read. I felt sometimes like I was reading an infomercial, even though Hamilton isn't really trying to sell you on anything other than a way of life. A lot of what she says about what to eat just seems like common sense. I skimmed the parts about men and about the woman's menstrual cycle - I've had my period for decades and am pretty sure I'm never going to follow a daily plan for it. I was interested in the "just skip breakfast" idea; I could certainly do that... but the "warnings if you have this or that condition" section should have been at the beginning of the book. Had I read that first, I wouldn't have bothered with the rest.

elephant's review

4.0

This book explains the concept of intermittent fasting as a way to lose weight and become more healthy as opposed to traditional dieting. She explains how long term calorie restriction, which is how traditional dieting works, can actually make people prone to weight gain and how fasting can lead to weight loss, reduce inflammation, help adults to concentrate better and more. She explains the difference in fasting for men and women and shares a variety of fasting plans including the 16/8 lifestyle fast, 5/2 fasting, and juice fasting. She includes recipes and recommends eating whole foods rather than heavily processed foods. I have tried this and found that it is easier to have two "fast days" of eating 500 calories than it is to diet traditionally. On a traditional diet, I feel deprived and cranky. On a "fast" day when I eat 500 calories or less, I know I can eat what I want the next day so I don't feel deprived. I actually kind of enjoy the feeling of hunger on a fast day because I know it is doing something good for my body.
The book is well written and researched and I highly recommend it. I got this book free to read from Netgalley and I did find chapter 10 to be oddly formatted and difficult to follow. I am hoping that is something that they will get straightened out.