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The Two Martini Diet: How I Lost 100+lbs While Eating Well and Having a Drink ReviewWhen you reach the age of 69 and pushing 300 pounds, you already know that you are in dire straits to do something about your weight for the sake of your health -- and fast! That's precisely the situation Gerard Sorlucco found himself in before deciding he was too sick and tired of all the diet plans that were out there and instead turned to his own program that helped him go on to shed over 100 pounds while still enjoying a martini or two. Thus was borne the concepts you read about in this book.
Sorlucco readily admits he is not a nutritional or medical expert by any stretch of the imagination so he avoids the whole "diet guru" status that many who write books on this subject try to pass themselves off as. He is simply sharing the plan that worked for him that made him healthier and slimmer than he was before. Just like my own personal 180-pound weight loss success did for me in 2004, today he is a fireball of enthusiasm about seeing people do what they have to do to get their weight under control before it's too late for them.
Right off the bat, you realize this is a different kind of diet book because Sorlucco doesn't include many meal plans or recipes for you to follow. Instead, he gives you the grim statistics from governmental and health organizations that lay out the problem for you to see (as if you didn't already know!) and encourages you to do what he did to beat it in your own life. I couldn't help but love and appreciate his insistence that people take personal responsibility for their own health and getting it in order rather than burdening the healthcare system any more than it already is. We need to overcome this individually and not expect others to do it for us.
As someone who chose a high-fat, low-carb nutritional approach to losing weight, I was appreciative of Sorlucco's take on the whole "fat leads to heart disease" propaganda that was embraced hook, line and sinker by the American Heart Association in 1957 and has been the backbone of what constitutes a "heart-healthy" diet ever since. He believes this "all fat is bad" message is dead wrong and that it has done more damage to the obesity and disease we are seeing in 2009 America. Sadly, though, he lumps in saturated fat with the trans fats as "bad" and thus misses an opportunity to educate people about what healthy eating really is.
While Sorlucco does inform people to avoid the "comfort food carbohydrates" like white bread, potatoes, pasta, white rice, and HFCS-sweetened sugary sodas to avoid lowering your HDL "good" cholesterol, increasing your LDL cholesterol and triglycerides causing you to take a dangerous statin drug, and putting yourself on a one-way ticket to Type 2 diabetes, he also has a thing or two to say about those of us who choose to eat a low-carbohydrate diet -- and it ain't very good!
Describing carbs as "an essential part of a healthy diet" (when the reality is there is absolutely NO dietary need for carbdohydrate whatsoever in your diet unlike fat and protein), he promotes the consumption of the obligatory "fruits, vegetables, and whole grains." Which ones, Mr. Sorlucco? Does it matter if I choose bananas over berries, beans over broccoli, whole grain bread over a low-carb wrap? I certainly think so and it's just a copout to tell people to eat more of those things without specifying that there are better choices even within that subset of carbohydrate-based foods.
I give him credit for saying Dr. Atkins was "half right" when he acknowledges that the late, great one was the first in the country to warn of the dangers of an insulin surge from the consumption of refined carbohydrates. But he turns right around and scorns Atkins dieters for choosing this way of eating because "over time most gain it back as their bodies seem to sense the loss of essential micronutrients" while beginning to eat carbs again. Sorlucco instead says people should choose a more "balanced approach of healthy carbohydrates, protein, fats, and exercise." Well, yippee skippy for you, but that doesn't work for everybody. He also gives grief to other lower-carb plans like Dr. Arthur Agatston's The South Beach Diet while praising Dr. Barry Sears' The Zone Diet for providing "some good ideas that [he] incorporated" into his weight loss plan.
So what about the "two martinis" and the actual diet part of this book? Well, other than a little wine for his Sunday brunch with his wife and a glass or two here and there of various other alcoholic beverages, I didn't see much of it in this diet. And he even acknowledges too much of it can be detrimental to weight loss. This is curious since the book shows a couple of martini glasses. The diet itself is centered on eating a portion-controlled amount of food, stopping when satisfied, eating very slowly to savor the taste of the food, and selecting lower-fat, whole-grain based foods eschewing meat in favor of salads and veggies. Okay, that's fine, but I'd be starving my head off if I even tried to eat this way.
I'm proud of Jerry Sorlucco for finding the plan that works for him and following it to great success as a permanent lifestyle change for him. But this diet would drive me nuts!The Two Martini Diet: How I Lost 100+lbs While Eating Well and Having a Drink Overview

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