The New Beverly Hills Diet book review

The New Beverly Hills Diet worked for me but there were times such as all fruit days that I craved something more substantial and filling. During the 35 Day plan I lost 15 pounds (5 pounds a week during the first three weeks) but once the 35 days was up, I was not able to continue eating the way I did during the diet. I do believe that there is something to food combining, but Judy Mazels program was too strict for me to follow. One book that is easy to follow is The Hay Diet Made Easy by Jackie Habgood, which gives straightforward information about food combining.

The diet is very effective. In the first 35 days on the Beverly Hills diet I lost 17 pounds. I found that my craving for sugary products was greatly reduced/eliminated. I truly enjoyed the fruit mixtures. The recipes in the recipe book are very tasty.

I have one concern that I would like to hear from others on. I am taking hormone supplements, in addition to dieting. I am noticing some hair loss and have to wonder whether it is the result of the diet, the hormone supplements, or the mixture.

Weight loss on this 35 day diet occurs almost exclusively by eating (carbohydrates) fruits of high fluid content which induce diuresis (water loss) via urination. It is true that pineapples, grapes and watermelon will activate digestive enzymes which will break down stored body fats when no other nutritive values are applied. However, starvation or lack of proper nutrition will have the same weight loss effect...Dieters, be aware.

I must commend Judy Mazel on writing a very easy to understand diet book as compared to others I have read ( The Zone e.g.). However, I am not so sure how well her diet would hold up with health professionals. Her diet does not provide for the kind of nutrients the human body needs just to get throught a day. After having read the book and tried the diet I have lost weight. I have also lost my energy level. I often feel sluggish and confused. I believe it is not practical or safe for the average person. It provides a nice guideline to dieting, but to follow it to the letter, as she recommends, is not going to make for a happy, healthy person, no matter what your weight is.

I tried the diet a few months back and am about to try it again. Previously I made it to about the 20th day. I then found it hard to stick to which I think may have been because I hit a plateau and didnt lose anything for quite a few days. I lost a total of 10 pounds in 20 days. The diet was very expensive and took alot of will power. Some days I felt really great and others I felt sluggish. I experienced alot of gas and some stomach cramping. Ive tried quite a few diets and The Beverly Hills Diet and Weight Watchers 123 Success seam to be the only ones that have worked so far.

Yes, food combining and using principles of enzymes and digestion does help. However the use of just fruit is limiting. FOLKS, it all really boils down to eating healthy carbohydrates, good fats and quality proteins on a low calorie diet while getting adequate nutrition. I pretty much as already eating most of the time as this book dictates so it wasnt really a major revelation or anything to me. I read it in the bookstore and thought that it was ok but severely lacking in facts and references to backup what the author was preaching. For a better book on diet, read the Okinawa Program Study and the Zone. More evidence and remember rapid weight loss of more than 2-3 pounds a week is bad news because then you are losing water and muscle and not fat.

I did this diet religously for two weeks. Yes, it works. But so does eating right. The difference is, you will lose weight very quickly doing the beverly hills diet. Eating right, you will keep it off. On the BH diet, expect the moment you go off of it to gain double what you lost.

The New Beverly Hills Diet worked for me but there were times such as all fruit days that I craved something more substantial and filling. During the 35 Day plan I lost 15 pounds (5 pounds a week during the first three weeks) but once the 35 days was up, I was not able to continue eating the way I did during the diet. I do believe that there is something to food combining, but Judy Mazels program was too strict for me to follow. One book that is easy to follow is The Hay Diet Made Easy by Jackie Habgood, which gives straightforward information about food combining.

I am a student of Holistic Medicine specializing in Nutrition. I am researching the concepts of food combining and tried The New Beverly Hills Diet. As a professional dieter and with obesity in my background, I am most impressed with the conscious food- combining program that Judy Mazel teaches. I lost 30 pounds in two months, feel healthy, look great and know that I found the way to remain thin for a lifetime. I have been recommending this program to clients, friends and family. Thank you my friend Judy Mazel. Amy Person-Pullen

If anyone has ever told you to look to your,roots to find who you are and what works best for you I remember this diet as a teenager, my mother still has the book she bought in 1981. This was the year I graduated from high school and it was a time when I too was watching my, girly figure. It helped me alot to just get off the extra 5 pounds or so from eating too many sweets. I was so happy to hear that she had revised the book, because I knew how succussful my mother and I had both been while on it. I am very happy to say that after only being on the diet 6 days, I have already lost 6 pounds and am on my way to the ,New Skinny Me. Tonight I get to have steak and believe me, it is going to taste wonderful. I plan on savouring every single bite. For all of you who are contemplating using Judy Mazels wonderful book, I do encourage you to do just that. I took a biology class in college and even did a paper on how enzymes work, I do believe this diet is a synergistic one with your bodys way of metabolizing food. Just the fact that she tells you in the book to stop eating fruit the rest of the day once you are finished because fruit does digest much faster than other foods and when they are combined inproperly, this produces a sort of fermentation effect in your stomach. This is where good old indigestion occurs. I have had no stomach pains except for prune day, and that was only because the old pipes needed cleaning if you know what I mean. Please, I exhort all of you to buy this book. It is a great summer diet too because the fruit is so refreshing on a hot day. I wish you all the best.

I have been on the Beverly Hills Diet twice. I am pretty good about staying within the strict guidelines of diets like this. The first time was quite effective and I lost seventeen pounds over three weeks. I tried this again a few years later and while I stuck with it and lost about thirteen pounds again, I have to say I cannot recommend this diet. I believe the initial three week program is too difficult for most people and too stressful on the body. I happened to be taking my first trip to Hawaii when I was into my second week. I was only thirty at the time and not in bad shape. I was jogging a couple nights and felt an inordinate amount of stress on my heart so I decided to stop running on both days. The diet is too fruit centered for too long. Some days are difficult because you may dislike foods like papaya so you can get into trouble. As for living the Beverly Hills diet lifestyle, it will be unrealistic expensive and difficult for most people. As most doctors would probably tell you, you can eat an aweful large amount of fruit without taking in many calories. That is likely why the diet works. Because of the kind of nutrition the diet provides over an extended period of time, my opinion is this diet is dangerous. That is the reason it was modified. If your personality is such that you must lose weight quickly, far easier, more nutritious and less dangerous is the cabbage soup diet. The insanity lasts only a week, you can lose 7 to ten pounds and by the third day you are already incorporating starches and protiens making it a breeze. Its simple and one page long that can be downloaded from the internet. It doesnt pretend to be a lifestyle. After that find a diet you can LIVE with every day of your life.

4 years ago I came across the book by accident and being the heaviest I had ever been and very desperate, I decided it wouldnt hurt to try, I had already tried everything else... now I refer to the book as my bible. It was not easy but after a couple of days the weightloss motivated me to continue and within 6 months I had lost 60 pounds.I took pictures of myself when I started and every 3 months after that and it is amazing to look back at them, I really advise you do the same when you start this diet, it is good motivation...

Keeping my ideal weight will always be a challenge and as soon as I tend to slip (vacations are tough) I grab my bible, it puts me back on the tracks and makes me feel a lot more energetic and healthy.

I would like to make a comment about the reviewer A reader from New York(March 24 2000). the Beverly Hills diet is not meant to be done for just 2 weeks and then stopped, no wonder you regain, the Beverly Hills diet is a change in your foodpattern, a way of life that you should try and stick with to lead a healthier life, this is clearly specified in the book, so please do not blame Judy Mazel for your weight gain and obvious lack of discipline. To everyone who is ready to try it I would like to say this. the first 6 days are the hardest, then you realize you are over the first half of the 10 days of just fruit...and believe me, the first bite I took of my tunafish sandwich on day 11 was the best I ever had. Good luck people, you can do it and dont be put off by people with negative remarks telling you it cant be healthy etc. I realized those people are just envious of the fact that you are losing the weight when they just dont have the motivation to keep it up and you know what That just motivated me even more. And thank you Judy Mazel...

I bought this book after seeing the amazing results that my best friend was getting. I am on day 10 and have already lost 6.5 pounds despite the fact that for two days I only followed the diet for breakfast and ate whatever I wanted the rest of the day. There must be something to Judys plan, because losing weight on it is faster what it would be if I ate nothing at all. Its very easy for me because food preparation is simple.(and Im pretty busy). Im excited about it because I can eat a variety of things. I have not had any gas, bloating, or felt lightheaded. Another friend of ours with ALOT of weight to lose (more than 100 1bs) is following the original diet and has already dropped 13lbs in 10 days.(She hasnt felt weak or lightheaded either.) The only thing I dont like is that Id like 1 or 2 recipes for chicken preparation, there isnt much guidance there unless you buy the recipe book. Temptation to cheat isnt too great because you can have your favorites here and there, AND because the rapid reduction is so motivating. ALL in ALL, I say TRY IT. Youll lose the weight FAST and keep it off. Hows that for the best of both worlds.

I started this diet yesterday and Ive lost 2 pounds already, but Im debating whether I should switch to another diet.

Didnt your mom ever tell you to go easy on fruits My mom did -- and shes right. She used to warn me that eating too much of certain fruits (pineapple, cherries, etc.) would give me a tummy ache. Im remembering her words of wisdom as I sit here with stomach cramps after eating prunes and strawberries all day today.

I envy the success stories Ive read of those whove completed this diet, but Im not sure its worth the health risk. I was looking up diet book reviews on the web and found a Good Housekeeping review of the book (see http.//homearts.com/gh/health/67dietf1.htm). The GH review warns against this diet for the very reason that fruit binges arent healthy and this diet is low on protein.

Just be careful.. Your body is a precious commodity, no matter how much you think you need to lose.

Oh, and in answer to the dieters question about what to drink on this diet, Mazel recommends water, tea and coffee. If you drink alcohol, she limits the types you can have. (Id say water is your best bet.)

It isnt what you eat or how much you eat that makes you fat, it is when you eat and what you eat together, announces this follow-up to the smash original Beverly Hills diet plan. In a switch from the original, this updated version gives day-to-day advice and support and a full 35-day menu plan that includes a more balanced diet that includes animal protein (the first 10 days of the original diet included nothing but fruit). Theres no portion control or forbidden foods, ergo the books mantra. Cheesecake and cheekbones, hamburgers and hipbones. Enthusiastic and encouraging author Judy Mazel dropped from 180 to 108 pounds by following this diet, optimizing the enzymatic action of foods by eating fruits by themselves, by not mixing carbohydrates with proteins or eating carbohydrates after proteins, and by following protein with protein. The many additional rules of this diet may be hard to keep track of, but the guideline thats easy to remember is that champagne goes with everything (however, wine goes with fruit, and other alcoholic beverages should be combined with other carbohydrates). Warning. some of the prescribed fruits--there are mangoes, papayas, pineapples, and apricots galore--will be hard to find out of season for anyone who doesnt live in southern California.

Book Description
Imagine a program where you can indulge in your favorite foods--from steak to pasta, and even champagne--and still lose weight easily. Then imagine being able to maintain your new slim shape forever. With this new program, author Judy Mazel has made your dreams a reality. She shows you how to take charge of the foods you eat to achieve a lifestyle eating plan that will keep you off the fat track for good.

The secret to your new slimhood rests with Conscious Combining. Refined and expanded from its introduction in Mazels original book, this technique teaches you how and when to mix different food groups for optimum weight control. Youll also learn the four golden rules of weight management, plus the significance of enzyme interaction in weight loss.

The program now includes a 35-day Born Again Skinny diet with recipes for your new food lifestyle. This is a diet many Hollywood stars have embraced. Judys private client list has included luminaries such as Jack Nicholson, Jodie Foster, Maria Shriver and Engelbert Humperdinck. They, and countless others, found this to be the lifestyle eating plan that changed their shape forever.