Achieve Automatic Weight Loss with the Simple Ultrametabolism Plan

VickiBlankenship: Easy and helpful read.

United States on Nov 25, 2023

Oliver Twist: I enjoyed reading the book and learnt so much about why we struggle with losing weight or experience the "indigestion" or the consequence of eating wrong types of food at wrong time. I didn't realise the timing of eating meals is important, too. Many of recipes are quite delicious and not too difficult to source or prepare.

However, the recipes in this book is geared toward the Americans (perhaps heavy-set or obese ones) and for more than one person. Thus, two stars removed from five.

I live in Europe where we use a very efficient metric measurement system. It is very frustrating to calculate the conversions or look up the conversion chart. The portions are too large for one person, and the scaling down the US measurements to fit one person is too complicated. I ended up unable to eat the whole portions. Many European homes have smaller refrigerators (that would be size of college dorm refrigerators in the US) with tinier freezer compartments. It's hard to store all of leftovers for the next time so some of meals cannot be stored well for more than a few days or frozen.

Why must the amount of sauces, dressings, marinade, pastes be proportionally too much? For...

United States on May 01, 2021

Mrs. G: You’ll never eat the same way before if you read this. And you’ll never have a problem with weight. It tells you to eat all in the right way. Incredibily knowledgeable. I am lucky I found this book I was young, in my 43 I am still 52kgs. It thought me so much.

Italy on Oct 03, 2020

lisa donovan: Nothing new, but a good money earner for the author.

Australia on Nov 29, 2019

Jenny: it's SUPER BORING!!!! but the stuff he says is true but so BORINGGGGGGG god every time​ I read it I fell asleep.

Canada on Dec 14, 2017

D. Zoll: Brilliant push all the other self help/diet books on your shelf to one side. This book is only slightly lessened by the shocking layout on the page. I can appreciate size of text allows for cheaper production and distribution costs but I feel it's best not to make that marginal saving at the cost of the comfort to the reader.

The content makes up for the above.
Yes by now you may be aware of strands of what he's on about but the be considering effects on the body in a totality is the way that medicine needs to go (in my experience and his observation)

United Kingdom on Jun 12, 2016

Rosa Frei: The key message of the book is that food communicates with your genes. Eat the right foods and your body will be healthy, well balanced and strong, and slim. The author addresses every aspect of possible reasons for weight gain and the solutions in a very comprehensive way. An expert book thorough, includes a diet plan and recipes. Highly recommendable!

Germany on Dec 26, 2015

J. Cole: The reviews for this book swing wildly from hearty approval to caustic disdain. The fact is, no one body is the same as the next, and no one diet will work the same for everyone. This does, however, work for some, myself included, who have struggled with weight gain for years with little success. Also, whatever you might think about the science or information in this book, the fact is that it achieves two major things: 1) the recipes taste good. 2) the diet feels very sustainable over the long haul.

There are people who can eat whatever they want, hardly exercise and never gain weight. They have fast metabolisms. Then there are those of us for whom the opposite is true. I hit puberty and started gaining 10 lbs a year until I was 20 years old and 200 pounds. I managed to slow the rate to another 50 pounds in the next 13 years. But a huge period of stress in my mid-thirties, both on the job and with my family, quickly added another 30. When I sat down with this book, I weighd 286 pounds. I seemed to be gaining weight indiscriminately and it was obviously time to adopt a new approach.

I too, have tried some diets. Things work for awhile, and then stop working. There...

United States on Feb 02, 2008

Weston: I have read this book twice, once to just read it, twice to go back through and underline things I never wanted to forget, and now I am reading it again to get ready to put it into action. I am on the E-mail list for this doctor sending case studies of people that he has helped. I must say I am very impressed and wish all doctors could be like Dr. Hyman. He looks at the whole body to find the reasons for sickness. I am surprised by the reviews here that say this is the same old information we have heard before. I have read a lot of diet books and I learned so much in this book about other things that can effect your weight besides eating right and exercise. And if I had heard of something before, now it was explained in a way that I could understand. I felt good that a few things that I had started to believe where confirmed in this book. When trying to get to the bottom of why I am over weight, this very nice to have my thoughts validated. There was a couple reviews that sounded like the person had not even read the book. One said they expected to find out more about the glycemic index, saying they were felt cheated that there was no information, when in reality the theory of the...

United States on Oct 17, 2006