Weight Loss Journal

The Martha's Vineyard Diet rocketed to success and the author, Dr. Roni Deluz is already well known for her other diet book, 21 Pounds in 21 Days. This book is an extension (more of a second edition) of the first book (the title is even very similar). While the book is well written and contains some helpful information, I was a bit disappointed that a holistic nutrionist didn't go into more detail about making those changes that are necessary towards keeping weight off.

While it's great to lose 20 pounds in three weeks, it's really not that healthy. How much of that is just water weight that will come back as soon as you start eating the same foods you were before you started the diet? The answer is usually more than half. The main problem with this diet is simply that it is not well balanced, it doesn't address future concerns and it's a little too much like a fad diet to be a book that we could recommend.

This diet requires a lot of intensive food preparation that will throw off a lot of people that are busy. You'll basically be living on soup, but you'll have to make everything yourself. While this is great if you've got a lot of time on your hands, this isn't a diet that's going to translate well for someone that needs to stay on their game for work.

In reality, this is a detox diet that aims to quickly flush everything out of your system. While the author claims that the soup is satisfying, most people get pretty sick of it after three days. The key to a successful diet is finding ways to blast apart the usual excuses, such as I'm too busy, I'm starving, I feel deprived. This diet accomplishes none of these things. It's very hard to recommend a book that is simply not going to be useful to anyone over the long term.

That's not to say that detoxing isn't important. With the majority of diets in the United States, it's a given that we all need to eat healthier and stop ingesting so many chemicals. Detoxing is a good way to lose temporary weight, but if you want to keep that weight off, you're going to have to make some lifestyle changes.

This book is great if you just want to carve off a few pounds or see really quick results. The bad thing is that those results are going to be pretty short lived. It feels like the book is simply trying to capitalize on a trend and doesn't really address the issues that cause weight gain in the first place. Fast results are great, but the depression that sets in once that water weight comes back, is going to be a lot to handle for some people.

Overall, this is not a book that I could recommend to any dieter. There simply isn't enough solid advice or good information that you can take away from reading it.

Originally posted 2008-11-18 09:02:36. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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