Review: Wow! I needed this book!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
After reading this book I am thinking back to when I was super skinny. Unlike the author, I was extremely thin all through school. I was always paranoid about how I looked and never felt that I was as adequate as the other girls. Looking back now, I would give almost anything to be able to go back in time and have the thin body I grew up with. A little over 23 years ago, i found out I had a thyroid problem. I was a total vegetarian at the time, went running twice a day and worked out constantly. I gained over 100 pounds in just a 4 month time period due to the thyroid problems and went from 110 pounds to well over 200! It took my doctors a couple weeks to figure out why I was gaining weight and to get me on meds. Unfortunately the thyroid replacement doesnt cause the weight to go away! I lost most of the weight by working out more but then a few years ago, I started eating meat! Meat has been my downfall and has caused me to gain all of the once lost weight back. I feel sluggish half the time and just don't feel like working out at all. After reading this outstanding book, it really woke me up to how horribly I have been eating for the last few years. I am absolutely going back to a raw diet for a while and will be cutting meat out entirely..well..maybe once a month I might eat meat, but definitely not daily as I have been! This is an excellent book! Kudos to the author for the journey that she has been on and best wishes for her future!