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 Have you been through every diet out there and wondered, 'What in the world? How're I'm supposed to do this?'

Then here's a book that has taken a lot of the guess work out of combining various wonderful concepts together. Donna Gates has drawn upon food combining, macrobiotics, blood types, and food alkalinity/acidity to pull together an all encompassing system for bringing the body into healthy balance. 

And the recipes are easy and taste good!

While not everything in the book is for me, I've found the information comprehensive.  At their site, http://www.BodyEcologyDiet.com.the authors have established quite a support system.  You may find they have just the answer for you.

Eat Right 4 Your Type
Dr D'Adamo

At first I thought this was a cute marketing scheme -- take something scientific like your blood type and use it to lend credence to a whacky diet of some sort. Then I read the book. I don't think this any more.

If you do nothing else with this book, at least find out what foods are not healthy for you, and AVOID them. This isn't a horribly hard thing to do.

The dusty compartments of my brain where I had stored my 11th grade biology information creaked and groaned as I recalled how blood and antibodies worked. I may have bent a few brain cells trying to remember things from such a long time ago. In the end, I realized this was a scientifically put together piece of work. Not that I can explain or repeat in 10 words or less how this is done. What I can do is confidently say, 'yes, this hangs together.'

Research was done by using real biological stuff to find out what was easily synthesized and what was not. Different types of food were tried by the various 'blood types.' IE Boil it all down to a chemical reaction. Observe what happens. IE Take out the guess work.

Thankfully, we do not have to shop for groceries according to the chemicals. After you find out your blood type (you can mail in for a blood typing kit if you don't know what it is.) you can use the handy-dandy lists.

The largest blood type in the population is O -- and that's the meat eater group, and I'm in it. Being primarily vegetable oriented and falling into the meat-eater group is not all that bad. There are PLENTY of veggies I can eat, some of them I really like. The insight has been to QUIT eating the ones that are not good for me. The basic beans & rice diet is not a good one for me. Green leafy things and roots, on the other hand, are.

A little change in orientation has helped a lot.

Cook Right 4 Your Type
Dr D'Adamo

Of course, knowing what you should eat isn't the same thing as knowing how to go about doing it! And that is always the challenge for me. What I like is a fairly straight forward plan: buy these foods, fix them this way, eat them.

Suzanne Somers' Eat Great, Lose Weight
Suzanne Somers

Food combining isn't a new concept to me; in fact, it's getting older by the day! As much as I loved the theory, though, I was never very inventive, and so looked the other way as I continued to eat much the same as I had previously.

In this book Suzanne Somers has made it pretty much easy to figure out how to eat, and to do so eating many different foods. There are a few key things which I incorporate into my diet without too much trouble, and then there a few key things that are really a challenge -- simply because of my patterns of eating. (Like, who ever thought that putting butter on your toast was a bad idea? If I'm going to have toast, I want plenty of butter!)

I like that she's given an example week and some recepies to work with. I still have to do some thinking and planning, yet so far I'm managing ok, and the results (in my case greater energy and strength and less all around hunger and craving) have inspired me to keep going.

These books have fabulous gourmet recipes!   They are good.  

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Believe it or not, this has some good advice!  Some of the best I've had so far in terms of how to space meals and plan meals.  It's not brand new info, but it's put together differently and the difference matters.

A major part of the plan is: Stay satisfied!

By including key foods and spacing meals, this is achieved while keeping calories lower.  The meal plans are set up for a slight steady lose that is, in the long run, significant.  Because the 'rules' are simple and easy to follow, it's easy to plan meals accordingly and ad lib in ways that don't cause major panic attacks. 

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