Review: Less tired, less irritable, less stressed - and more nourished
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2014
I've been on my own personal weight loss journey for over a year now. At the start of that journey, I was 156 lbs. I was eating whatever I wanted, whatever was convenient, whatever was nearby - basically, whatever. Since that day, I have lost 34 pounds and while I attribute a lot of that loss to exercise, it could NOT have been done on a "whatever" diet. Aside from the number on the scale, I feel 100% better on a daily basis: less tired, less irritable, less stressed.The biggest difference in my diet today versus a year ago is the presence of high sodium, refined grains, sugars, processed white bread and pasta. The foods this book calls "fun-fake-foods", that lack nutritional value. It's just not a part of my life anymore. I knew these things were bad for me - I felt the temporary emotional comfort I got out of eating them and the endless hunger that continued to follow, never satiated - but I never knew what to eat instead. Don't eat this? Got it. But what should I be eating?The Zero Stress Diet solves this problem with its own version of the Food Pyramid that's a seesaw, echoing its principles of balance to remove stress from your life. It gives sensible advice plus some eye-opening information about the effect of wheat, gluten and dairy on most adults. The information on unfiltered water is also quite surprising. The best thing about it is, it doesn't eliminate all the "fun-fake-foods" from your life. This is the balancing effect - you can eat these things, but in very small quantities and not all the time.I also learned about healthy enzymes, health tests you can get to gauge your nutritional deficiencies, and more. This is the best diet resource I've bought in a long time, and everything it says makes sense.