The Insulin Resistance Solution: Reverse Pre-Diabetes, Repair Your Metabolism, Shed Belly Fat, and Prevent Diabetes - with more than 75 recipes by Dana Carpender

Books, books. So, I went to the doc a couple months ago and my blood glucose and A1C were quite high (don't ask). I came home and panicked. I bought a bunch of books and did a lot of reading on the web (though I have to admit that I knew most of what I read already). By the time I got these books, I had already confirmed a lot of what I already knew. This isn't rocket science. Guys like me have to 1) watch what we eat and 2) move around once in a while. Anyone with a moderate level of education on Diabetes knows this to be true. I never opened this book. Never. It's been sitting on the end table for the past 2 months. It looks good enough, but the truth is that I already knew what I had to do. It has been 8 weeks now. I quit drinking ALL soda (only drink water), quit eating chips, quit eating bread, quit eating pasta and quit eating rice. Everything else, particularly meat, cheese, pickles, etc., is what I eat. After just 8 weeks, I have dropped my glucose from 250+ to a 30-day average (if you don't have a test kit, GET ONE, and test often) to 101. Yes, 101. That includes morning, noon and night, both before and 2-hours after meals. No book can make you do what you already know what you have to do. EAT RIGHT, limit portions and eat foods that don't spike your sugar. I was a big comfort eater. I used to eat anything I wanted, whenever I wanted. And I was up to 3 bills. In 8 weeks I have already lost 30 pounds and feel like a different person. I still want to lose another 70, but I already feel GREAT. I used to come home from work and virtually pass out on the couch with exhaustion. No more. I'm doing chores and engaging in other activities much more frequently and with a lot more energy. I'm not saying don't get these books. Education is ALWAYS good. But, if you already know what you have to do, don't waste your money on books. It's a matter of willpower and motivation. I was about rock bottom when my doctor said we should consider taking insulin and he said I had Type 2 Diabetes. I don't like taking drugs and won't do it. I finally decided to give this the proper attention it needs, and it's already paying off. Best of luck to you if you're in the same boat. Think of your family and friends, and DECIDE to change your life. I will tell you, after just a couple weeks, my hunger and cravings went away. I don't even care about Mountain Dew anymore. Or chips. In fact, I've reset my body/brain to view that stuff as poison (which, in bulk, they are). You can do it!

Age 57. 5'9" tall. Female. Weight crept up to 161 over this past year but still not technically overweight. Doctors visit and I discovered I was pre-diabetic. Strong insulin dependent diabetic family history, have seen the perils first hand, and don't want to go there. I read this book and it resonated with me so I gave it a try. Just recently started and I'm losing 1.5 to 2 pounds a week and I'm NOT hungry or miserable like my usual diets. The book itself is an easy read but it took a little time to fully understand the glycemic loads and how to calculate it using white bread as the standard but once I got that it was easy to do. Plus the author provides a solid glycemic load listing in the appendix. Yes, I gave up most starches but I'm following his advice and having a half serving of starch at breakfast and again at dinner. I've stopped worrrying about the little bit of sugar I put in my tea, a piece or two of fruit, and that dark chocolate square I eat each day. Plus I feel better. Yes, it takes some planning and work but all diets require that. I feel like I have the tools here to lose another 7 pounds and hopefully the next doctor's visit will bring good news. This is a lifestyle change and I'm planning to use this as a guideline for healthy eating for the rest of my life.

I bought this book in 2021 after I received lab results with an elevated A1c, and my doctor mentioned offhand that I should look at limiting simple carbohydrates and sugars in my diet. I'm so glad I did. This book offers both solid data for what causes insulin resistance, and reasonable plans for combating it. Reasonable because it doesn't recommend going keto or cutting out carbs to a drastic degree. It was a good idea to include low-carbohydrate recipes in the back of the book, but too many of the recipes call for expensive sugar alcohols (i.e., erythritol) in the ingredients. Eating foods with these substitute sugars was not good for my digestion, and a lot of people have trouble with them. It was better for me to just learn not to use added sweeteners and avoid recipes with high-simple carb ingredients. As for results, I lost 35 pounds using only the advice given in this book. I'll share one tip for free that was a revelation to me: a lot of delicious foods incorporate starchy carbohydrates: pizza, pasta, burgers, sandwiches, potato-based dishes. But it's not the starch that tastes good. It's all the other stuff that makes them tasty: pizza and pasta toppings, sandwich fillers, butter and cheese and sauces on the potatoes. Eat that stuff and not the carbs, and you're already ahead of the game.

I was diagnosed with PCOS a couple of years ago, and although I'm not obese, I've always been a little chunky, but what gets to me are all the symptoms I have--the main ones being facial hair and thinning scalp hair. The term "thief of womanhood" couldn't be more accurate, and dealing with those things will have you desperately seeking answers. I've done my research on PCOS and realized how much insulin resistance had to do with it so that's why I purchased this book in the first place to try and give me a place to start. I sat down and read it in one sitting and loved how much it talked about PCOS. It was really nice to be able to read through this whole book and actually understand what the author was talking about. There's a few recipes I'm excited to try, and although low carb is apparently the way to go according to this book, I can't really wrap my head around cooking with lard and bacon grease lol oh well! It was a great read and I feel I have a much better understanding on what's going on in my body! I would recommend this to anyone as a good place to start!

If you are looking for a deep dive into the world of diabetes maintenance look no further! This author compiled the most minute details to lay out the chemistry needed to defeat high insulin levels, and keep them there. I've researched this topic over the years but never saw the biology explained in a way anyone can understand. Technically, the format is lacking a bit for Kindle, but don't let that deter you from giving this book the chance it deserves. Well done!!

I wouldn't make any of the recipes as they were not to my liking and items I don't purchase. It did help me understand insulin resistance a little better but they make the solution sound so easy and I doubt it is. I will do my best to apply what I was able to understand. I will continue to use as a reference.

After reading so many diet books that just say, 'do this, do that,' it was so refreshing to open this book and hear Dr. Thompson's simple, cogent voice explain all this difficult science about metabolism in terms I could understand. And once I learned everything this book taught me about insulin resistance and its relationship to diet and weight, I was able to take a whole new approach to my health problems. Even better, for reasons I can't fully describe, actually understanding the mechanism of the weight loss I was pursuing made me much more motivated than I had been in past diets, where I was basically following the orders of diet gurus but not fully understanding why I was doing what I was doing. And although this diet wasn't painless, I was surprised by how little effort it took to shift my preferences. I didn't have to starve myself or choke down any foods I hated. I simply learned to avoid certain foods that I've always loved (like cinnamon roles) in favor of other foods that I've always loved (like barbecue ribs!). And once I truly understood what those cinnamon roles were doing to my system, honestly, they didn't seem so appealing anymore. I hardly eat like a 'dieter' these days, but since reading this book I lost 25 pounds and it hasn't come creeping back! I simply feel like I have a much better understanding of my own metabolism, and now I make much more well informed decisions about the trade-offs I'm making when I pick an item off the menu. Can't recommend it enough!

This book explains the reason why we get fat. It's well written and the author explains everything in easy-to-understand details. I didn't know much of what the doctor explained though I have read a great deal on the subject of weight gain. He explains also why some popular diets don't work. There are many delectable recipes in the book though I give only 4 stars to an otherwise 5-star book due to an obvious slip-up. Though the chapters mention a meal plan in Part III, it wasn't included! The book ends abruptly after page 184. So, those of us who need a meal plan are out of luck.

I enjoyed this book from our local library and found the recipe section very interesting too. So much so that I wanted a copy to keep for reference and to try more recipes.

Ce livre est agréable à lire & plein de bon sens, mais je n'ai vraiment rien appris de nouveau, à part que je pourrais trouver sur Amazon de la stévia liquide parfumée au chocolat ou au caramel (aussitôt commandée....)!!! En fait, c'est juste une adaptation de l'excessif régime cétogène afin de permettre une démarche d'utilisation accessible au plus grand nombre. Perso, j'avais déjà adaptée tte seule + conseils du Dr Jason Fung & jeûne de 16h. Mais je n'y ai pas trouvé les infos sur l'insulino-résistance que j'avais espérées (en partic. sur le "phénomène de l'aube") Dommage...

tem recomendações praticas para evitar esse mal moderno, de proporções epidêmicas, inclusive em nosso pais. Essa e a raiz de muitos outros males

This book is really helpful in understanding and coping with insulin resistance. The text size and feel of the book is an added bonus. Will recommend it for anybody eager to learn all about insulin resistance.

Turns a confusing diagnosis of pre diabetes into a manageable plan. Educating and just good sense. My doctors surgery more or less said, 'just lose weight.' Easier said than done when you are insulin resistant and they just recommended the bog standard healthy plate diet. So happy that I read this, I am making progress in just over a month.