The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet: A Simple 3-Part Plan to Lose the Fat, the Wrinkles, and the Years

by Nicholas Perricone

Book Overview

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Perricone- respected physician, award-winning research scientist, and trusted expert on health and beauty-comes the biggest breakthrough in weight... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345485939
• ISBN13: 9780345485939
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The Best Diet & Health book

For me, I think the biggest point about this diet is that if you eat the foods he recommends, it suppresses your appetite like crazy!!! You can eat just a small meal and it will keep you feeling VERY full for hours and hours. He recommends one food after another that has antioxidants, fiber, reduces inflammation, increases insulin sensitivity, and reduces blood sugar. When you eat multiple foods like this, then it really has a huge effect on your appetite and your ability to feel satisfied on a small amount of food. On the other hand, when you eat normal, unhealthy American food, it's often impossible to feel satisfied and you just keep eating and eating until your stomach is in pain from being so overstuffed. That's because of unhealthy ingredients such as flour, sugar, corn syrup, and monosodium glutamate. These things destroy your health and make you unable to feel satisfied and full from eating. As for Perricone's recipes, I don't bother to follow them. I just eat the foods he recommends with the minimum of preparation, because I'm eating for health, not enjoyment. For example, I just cook the lentil beans in water with no seasoning or anything. Also I try to eat as many foods raw as I can so I can get more enzymes and other nutrients from them. I believe in eating whole, unprocessed foods. Besides the foods Perricone recommends, I also eat additional fruits and vegetables. Canned wild salmon is the primary meat I eat. It's fairly low-priced. I've lost 15 pounds so far. Besides the diet, it's also important to do some exercise. It's also critical to stop eating several hours before you go to sleep. You should eat breakfast every day. Lastly, don't keep any junk food in the house and don't use any kind of excuse to buy junk food. As for the 12 supplements he recommends, I've tried some of them. I think they help a little bit, but eating lots of raw fruits and vegetables helps far more. The only one that's absolutely necessary is fish oil for omega 3 fatty acids. It doesn't actually seem to make a noticeable difference in how I feel, but I'm sure it's important because it is something that is present in large amounts in wild meat and humans evolved to eat and require this substance. And since we don't get it in factory-farmed meat anymore, we need to eat wild salmon and fish oil pills. However, the alpha lipoic acid, carnitine, acetyl-l-carnitine, and coenzyme Q10 do seem to be improving my energy and overall health in a subtle way. So I think I will keep taking them. On the other hand, I can get a big energy boost just by eating a large raw salad with high-nutrient veggies like spinach, carrots, red bell pepper, and red beets. My skin does seem to have improved on the diet. The skin on my face is tighter and my face isn't so puffy anymore. It's also more radiant. I think I'm looking younger and better lately. My mood has improved. I generally feel happy and calm and have good energy all the time. When I ate unhealthy food, I felt very i

Best diet book out there!

After giving birth to twins, I struggled for 2 years to loose the extra 15 pounds I had gained during pregnancy. I tried many diets including the south beach, which made me loose 10 lbs at first then made me gain 15 lbs around the 3rd phase. And the first 2 weeks of the south beach are very difficult, I felt deprived and constipated all the time. Dr Perricone diet is the only diet that not only helped me loose the weight but also helped me keep it. As Dr Perricone says, it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle. and I have adopted that lifestyle. I have more energy now than I ever did before and I can exercise 5-6 times/week and I run lot faster and longer now than I did before. And most importantly, I love the food! The 2 week diet recipes are very delicious! My whole family loved the food. while I was on the 2 week diet, my husband kept asking me if I was really dieting because my plate was always full. I did not feel deprived at all! The recipes were so delicious, I even bought the book "stop the clock cooking"! The only downside about this diet is that it involves a lot of cooking but how can you get good, wholesome food unless you cook it yourself? I cooked on weekends and froze a lot.It's lot easier now, I don't have to follow the diet line by line anymore. I know what to eat and what not to eat and I can prepare a meal really fast. My only problem was the supplements. They are very pricey and since I wasn't overweight, I was wondering if I really had to spend all that money on supplements. I decided to buy only some of them, the ones I thought will be most beneficial for me. Of course it included fish oil, Glutamine and a few antioxidants. And one more thing, my skin is also glowing now. Everybody tells me I have beautiful skin. I did not have wrinkles before and I hope I won't have them soon... Thank you Dr. Perricone for coming up with this healthy, healthy diet everybody should be following.

It Works!

After following the program outlined in the book for a month, I have lost 18 lbs., I feel better, and look better. My wife has lost 11 lbs. and really looks great. Eating lots of fish is difficult for us, so we have substituted more lean chicken and it still seems to work. UPDATE: It's now been about 10 weeks since we started the program outlined in this book. I have lost 33 lbs. (half of my goal) and my wife has lost 23 lbs. In addition to the weight loss, our health has improved. I was taking 3 blood pressure medications which were barely keeping it under control. With my doctors OK, I have cut the dosage on one med 50% and stopped another completely. My blood pressure now stays below normal and I expect to be off medication completely. My cholesterol is way down and I also stopped taking my cholesterol medication to see if the diet, exercise and weight loss will keep it down. I have never been a believer in herbs, amino acids, vitamins or other supplements. However, we bought the 12 suggested supplements outlined in the book from online sources at reasonable prices and believe they are helping. None of the many diets we tried have ever worked this fast, improved our health, or were this easy to stay on without cravings.

Dr Perricone's book changed my life!

That may sound a little over dramatic, but it's true. I borrowed the book from the library. I was skeptical and didn't want to spend any money on the book. I have about 25 pounds to lose and nothing else was working so I decided to give Perricone's plan a try. Besides being overweight, I had been seeing a doctor for over 6 months for extreme achiness and fatigue. My doctor ran all kinds of tests and xrays and could find nothing wrong with me. I was also experiencing extreme brain fog and had a hard time thinking clearly. This went on for months and I was getting scared that I was suffering from some exotic disease that my doctor could not diagnose. After only a week on Dr Perricone's program, including omega-3 supplements I bought at Costco and multivitamins, not only did I lose weight but I suddenly had my energy back and the brain fog lifted! It was like magic how much better I felt. I am so grateful to have stumbled on Dr Perricone's book, which by the way I did go out and buy. It was money well spent! I feel like I have by life back. Oh, and it's nice to have perfect strangers come up to me and tell me how clear my skin is. I don't know if Dr Perricone's theories about inflammation and all that stuff hold up in the science community. But I do know that his plan works for me in a way that no other plan has worked.

Doctor Gets Inflamed About Obesity

Although I have lost nearly 200 pounds following a low-carb weight loss program that worked for me, I still remain an active student of health, nutrition and dieting. Regardless of what your weight is, it is imperative that you keep educating yourself about healthy lifestyle choices and learn what it takes to keep your body working as God intended by referencing the truly imaginative innovators and researchers of our day. One such person in the year 2006 is Dr. Nicholas Perricone. Although he is a board-certified dermatologist, he stumbled upon something in his research of complexion problems that even startled him. He found that there was invisible, undetectable layer of inflammation occuring beneath the surface of our skin that was causing our bodies to literally fall apart. One of the results of this inflammation, Dr. Perricone quickly found, was the body's inability to get rid of stored fat. That's the underlying basis for The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet. Although his previous books on wrinkles and complexion problems have been instant bestsellers, Dr. Perricone wanted to devote one book solely to the topic of weight loss to help the tens of millions of people who carry around excessive amounts of weight. For fans of Dr. Perricone, some of the concepts in this book will be familiar to you. But whether you have read his books before or if this is your first time, I have no doubt that you will be able to apply The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet principles to your own life. Ever since I lost my weight by livin' la vida low-carb, I am always apprehensive about any new diet book that I pick up. Actually, I wasn't sure what I would read in Dr. Perricone's book. But imagine my surprise when I noticed much of his weight loss advice matched up perfectly with what I was already doing as part of my low-carb lifestyle: 1. Eat more good fats, especially ones found in fish. 2. Increase your intake of Omega-3 fatty acids. 3. Stay away from sugar, starch and white flour. 4. Consume berries. 5. Cook with extra virgin olive oil and coconut oil. 6. Add fiber to your diet with seeds and nuts. 7. Protein-up your body to keep your hunger satisfied. 8. Exercise 30-45 minutes per day. 9. Drink 8-10 glasses of water daily. 10. Eat sugar-free chocolate made with real cocoa butter. But the more I read through The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet, I realized that there were areas of my diet that could stand to change and this book convicted me of my need to make a few subtle changes. For example, Dr. Perricone encourages people to eat more fish, specifically Wild Alaskan Salmon. This is a naturally low-carb food and would be an excellent frequent addition to my healthy low-carb lifestyle. He also urges readers to use stevia or erithyrtol more in place of sugar and other sugar alternatives. Dr. Perricone is adamantly against using aspartame. There was something else that intrigued me in this book. The concept of eating your protein first, then your fiber, and finally your s