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God's Diet: A Short & Simple Way to Eat Naturally, Lose Weight, and Live a Healthier Life
Finally, the end to fad diets! Learn the absolute way to sustained weight loss by adopting a complete, delicious, natural diet.
We've all tried the impossible-to-maintain trendy diets that often deliver immediate results only to backfire the moment our vigilance wanes. God's Diet is the only diet you'll ever need. And once you become accustomed to healthy eating, this "diet" will simply become your new lifestyle. There are no annoying calculations, no food exchanges—no fall-off-the-wagon syndrome. Dr. Gault-McNemee teaches
• How to trim down and improve your health and energy effortlessly
• That everything you need to lose weight is at your local grocery store—no pills, powders, or shakes
• How to get in the habit of choosing natural, wholesome food over gimmicky "diet" food, fast food, and food full of sugar and additives
• That weight loss can be a straightforward, successful, and lasting process
God's Diet is the solution to chronic dieting because it relies on the simplest, most tried-and-true food path to health and healthy eating—one our society has chosen to ignore for decades. Just remember, if God didn't make it, don't eat it!
We've all tried the impossible-to-maintain trendy diets that often deliver immediate results only to backfire the moment our vigilance wanes. God's Diet is the only diet you'll ever need. And once you become accustomed to healthy eating, this "diet" will simply become your new lifestyle. There are no annoying calculations, no food exchanges—no fall-off-the-wagon syndrome. Dr. Gault-McNemee teaches
• How to trim down and improve your health and energy effortlessly
• That everything you need to lose weight is at your local grocery store—no pills, powders, or shakes
• How to get in the habit of choosing natural, wholesome food over gimmicky "diet" food, fast food, and food full of sugar and additives
• That weight loss can be a straightforward, successful, and lasting process
God's Diet is the solution to chronic dieting because it relies on the simplest, most tried-and-true food path to health and healthy eating—one our society has chosen to ignore for decades. Just remember, if God didn't make it, don't eat it!
145 pages, Paperback
First published November 7, 2000
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February 9, 2010
I knew it was time to start again after baby and with the looming new year, Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig offers were flooding my email and snail mail boxes, Costco had a special offer on Nutri-System, and even the dang Hypnosis billboards were screaming at me.
I couldn't bear the thought of tracking, measuring, counting again not to mention the money and stress of preparing two meals for Mom's food and one for everyone else. So I was considering the t-tapp God Made/Man Made diet, which is essentially 3 days of whole foods, then 1 day of "man made" foods. I like the "cheat day" it helped me stick to weight watchers. My cousin posted a note in her Christmas card about losing 75lbs this year doing "clean eating". Hadn't heard of that so I checked out they book from the library. Next to it on the shelf was a book called God's Diet, so I picked that up too.
I read "clean" and it seemed complicated to me. So I read God's Diet (the book is 144 pages and half that is recipes) one afternoon and it just made so much sense to me. It was simple. Eat food that God made, butter, potatoes, brown rice, oatmeal, steak, sour cream (Daisy brand is clean), etc. Drink water. Avoid flour, sugar (in all it's names...saw one lately crystallized cane...aka SUGAR), corn starch and corn syrup. No cheating until you've reached goal, because when you cheat you gain, then you think it's not working so you bag it. If you're looking for scripture you'll be disappointed (several reviewers on Amazon took issue with the book because it doesn't jive with scriptural references to food.) It also doesn't 100% stick to it's title as she allows for sugar free jello, for varieties sake. I generally cook every night, and like to, so I thought I'd give this a try.
I do miss the "ah, too tired/busy to cook let's just order a pizza. I miss bread, crackers, and chips. Doesn't that seem sad. But I eat until I'm full, I don't measure or portion control, I eat nuts and raisins for snacks, and dried apricots or plums for desserts. I am more aware of what is in food...I don't look at calories or fat grams, but what are the ingredients. I have become completely disgusted with the way we as American's eat. Just driving down the road...it's gross. I do get lunch out usually once a week I hit Wendy's (they have chili and baked potatoes). I started taking the Zumba class at the Y so I'm getting 2-3 days of aerobic activity, and I do the wii fit about 30 minutes of yoga and strength training 2 days a week. And I am breastfeeding which is supposed to consume 500 calories a day...
I lost 5 1/2 lbs the first week.
I lost 4 1/2 lbs the 2nd week.
I lost 3 1/2 lbs the 3rd week.
I lost 3 lbs the 4th week.
I lost 1 1/2 this week.
I've lost 18.1 lbs in 5 weeks. I've 'cheated' twice (brownies made for a youth church meeting & the boy brought home the leftovers...not worth it, and cake my sister in law made...totally worth it). Once I was up 1.4lbs the next day but lost 2.4 the day after that. The other time I was up 1 the next day and down 1.4 the day after that. I'm done cheating. It wreaks havoc on my head!
I couldn't bear the thought of tracking, measuring, counting again not to mention the money and stress of preparing two meals for Mom's food and one for everyone else. So I was considering the t-tapp God Made/Man Made diet, which is essentially 3 days of whole foods, then 1 day of "man made" foods. I like the "cheat day" it helped me stick to weight watchers. My cousin posted a note in her Christmas card about losing 75lbs this year doing "clean eating". Hadn't heard of that so I checked out they book from the library. Next to it on the shelf was a book called God's Diet, so I picked that up too.
I read "clean" and it seemed complicated to me. So I read God's Diet (the book is 144 pages and half that is recipes) one afternoon and it just made so much sense to me. It was simple. Eat food that God made, butter, potatoes, brown rice, oatmeal, steak, sour cream (Daisy brand is clean), etc. Drink water. Avoid flour, sugar (in all it's names...saw one lately crystallized cane...aka SUGAR), corn starch and corn syrup. No cheating until you've reached goal, because when you cheat you gain, then you think it's not working so you bag it. If you're looking for scripture you'll be disappointed (several reviewers on Amazon took issue with the book because it doesn't jive with scriptural references to food.) It also doesn't 100% stick to it's title as she allows for sugar free jello, for varieties sake. I generally cook every night, and like to, so I thought I'd give this a try.
I do miss the "ah, too tired/busy to cook let's just order a pizza. I miss bread, crackers, and chips. Doesn't that seem sad. But I eat until I'm full, I don't measure or portion control, I eat nuts and raisins for snacks, and dried apricots or plums for desserts. I am more aware of what is in food...I don't look at calories or fat grams, but what are the ingredients. I have become completely disgusted with the way we as American's eat. Just driving down the road...it's gross. I do get lunch out usually once a week I hit Wendy's (they have chili and baked potatoes). I started taking the Zumba class at the Y so I'm getting 2-3 days of aerobic activity, and I do the wii fit about 30 minutes of yoga and strength training 2 days a week. And I am breastfeeding which is supposed to consume 500 calories a day...
I lost 5 1/2 lbs the first week.
I lost 4 1/2 lbs the 2nd week.
I lost 3 1/2 lbs the 3rd week.
I lost 3 lbs the 4th week.
I lost 1 1/2 this week.
I've lost 18.1 lbs in 5 weeks. I've 'cheated' twice (brownies made for a youth church meeting & the boy brought home the leftovers...not worth it, and cake my sister in law made...totally worth it). Once I was up 1.4lbs the next day but lost 2.4 the day after that. The other time I was up 1 the next day and down 1.4 the day after that. I'm done cheating. It wreaks havoc on my head!
February 22, 2025
Flaming hot pile of nabisco shredded wheat(which is not sinful). The initial sentiment of “if god didn’t make, don’t eat it” makes sense. Then the author goes on to contradict herself at every opportunity. Bread? Never(Nevermind that bread is in the Bible) but diet jello? Totally made by God. She calls junk food illegal and sinful. Also the amount of seed oils she’s suggesting in every meal would send someone into a coma.
I understand now why diet culture in the 90’s had everyone smoking cigarettes and becoming bulimic. It’s books like these that created the problem.
I understand now why diet culture in the 90’s had everyone smoking cigarettes and becoming bulimic. It’s books like these that created the problem.
December 10, 2013
The concept it challenging and worthwhile, but the follow-through directions (i.e. recipes) make it seem impossible. They include jello, artificial sweeteners, and other man-made (not to mention unhealthy) crutches. If the author can't manage to create a solid plan to demonstrate this way of eating, most readers will conclude that it's not a plan worth attempting.
April 14, 2013
I have to question a diet book that leads with "If God didn't make it, don't eat it" but then includes recipes using Equal and diet jello stating that "These aren't good and very processed so use sparingly..."
August 28, 2015
Terrible writing, more like a pamphlet than a book, but great concept.
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