The 100: Count ONLY Sugar Calories and Lose Up to 18 Lbs. in 2 Weeks Author: Visit Amazon's Jorge Cruise Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0062227076 | Format: PDF
The 100: Count ONLY Sugar Calories and Lose Up to 18 Lbs. in 2 Weeks Description
About the Author
Jorge Cruise is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than fifteen weight-loss books. His mission is to guarantee weight loss for busy people. Science has proven that fitness begins in the kitchen, not the gym. By merging breakthrough dietary science with great taste, he produces delicious belly-fat-melting menus. Jorge has appeared on numerous television shows including the Today show, the Dr. Oz Show, the Rachael Ray Show, Good Morning America, The View, and LIVE with Kelly and Michael.
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: William Morrow; 1 edition (May 21, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0062227076
- ISBN-13: 978-0062227072
- Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 8 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
"The 100" is well-written and offers an extremely detailed low carb diet plan. The basic idea is that you get 100 sugar calories per day. However, before you think this is something really new, understand that Jorge means ANY carbs when he refers to sugar. So, yes, bread, pasta, etc. is all sugar. Carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram, so this is really just a standard low carb diet that allows 25 grams of carbs per day.
The heart of the book is a very detailed meal plan. This is a well written book that will appeal to you if you really want a plan that lays out every single meal for four weeks. Otherwise there is not anything really new. I have also had very good results with the simple and very easy to follow plan explained in The Protein Express Diet: Rapid Weight Loss with a Simplified Low Carb, High Protein Diet and would recommend this book if you need quick results but don't have time to follow a precise plan like the one Jorge suggests.
You get EVERY meal and every snack for 4 weeks. So there are a total of 28 very similar pages showing exactly what you will eat for: Breakfast, Snack, Lunch, Snack, Dinner, and a "Treat." There are no separate recipes; instead, very brief recipes are integrated into the meal plan. Maximum is about 3 lines listing ingredients and basic instructions, even for dinners. Here's an example lunch recipe: "Tuna salad made of 1 can tuna, 2 Tbsp mayo, 1 Tbsp lime juice served on 2 Romaine leaf halves." For every week there is also a shopping list, and there a general food list in the back of the book.
So, I need to say upfront that I've only just READ the book, I plan to update this review in a couple weeks with actual results. I'd like to lose 10 lbs and don't need to do it in two weeks but, hey, if following this plan works, awesome-( I will update my review as I go).
The author in two short paragraphs outlines the pluses and minuses of the Atkins diet(extreme carb restriction), the Paleo diet(extreme carb restriction) , and 'low-glycemic' diets(eating food only with low glycemic index). He then proceeds to say this diet takes the positives without the negatives(high heart disease markers with extreme carb restriction or slow/ineffective loss with low glycemic index).
The plan is broken out into two options: Follow what the author calls the 1 Menu or follow the My Meal Planner. The 1 Menu is a fairly specific guideline with a few options to change it up. My Meal Planner menus provide 4 weeks of daily menu plans.
There is a big list of 'Freebies'- everything from chicken breast to egg whites to lots and lots of salad veggies, dill pickles, cheese and nuts. I think the kicker here is that you should refer to the 1 Menu or Meal Planner menus and construct your meal based on serving sizes suggested there. So, the fine print (or maybe the difference between losing 1-4 lbs per week) might come back to the old calories in vs. calories out.
It is a DIET book- I put emphasis on that because it does breeze over the importance of exercise. The main gist of the diet is summed up in the following sentence: "The way it works is simple: You have 100 Sugar Calories a day to choose from and you can use them anyway you like." BUT and it is a big BUT, he provides an altered definition of sugar. I hate to give away the punch line, though.
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