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The Perfect 10 Diet
The 10 key hormones that can help you lose weight.
BACKGROUND
The Perfect 10 Diet, by Dr. Michael Aziz, will help you lose 14 pounds in 21 days. But rather than having you nosh on egg whites, light bread and diet soda, The Perfect 10 Diet reveals a revolutionary eating plan that has helped thousands of Dr. Aziz's patients lose weight without feeling hungry. It does so by stabilizing ten key hormone levels.
By eating foods like whole eggs, whole milk and real butter, Dr. Aziz brings back fat and carbs and shows how you can change your diet and health for good.
The Perfect 10 Diet is separated into three stages:
- Stage One lasts three weeks and involves eating the Paleolithic Diet.
- Stage Two lasts until the stage's objectives are met and includes whole grains in addition to the foods approved for eating in Stage One.
- Stage Three is the maintenance, or lifetime, phase and is much like Stage Two but more whole grains can be consumed as well as the very occasional refined sweet.
The ten key hormones that are outlined in the book are insulin, leptin, glucagon, thyroid hormone, human growth hormone, cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. There are sections describing each of these hormones and their role in weight loss and long-term health.
The Perfect 10 Diet promises to help you look and feel years younger by losing weight, eating the foods you love and never feeling hungry.
PRO
- Promotes the eating of real food
- Debunks popular diet myths and fad diets
- If followed correctly, weight loss and improved health can follow
- Focuses on a clean-eating meal plan that includes fresh and natural foods in their pure form
- Outlines a lifetime plan for eating
- Includes recipes
- Promotes exercise
CON
- Strict vegetarians may have a hard time following the diet
- Similar to other low-carb diets
DIET and NUTRITION
The Perfect 10 Diet goes against numerous currently-held beliefs about what you can and should eat when trying to lose weight. With medical research and scores of studies to provide evidence of The Perfect 10 Diet's plan, Dr. Aziz explains that the real culprit with our weight problem has to do with refined carbohydrates and not with fat.
The Perfect 10 Diet therefore espouses an eating plan that avoids all sugar, except for those occurring in fruit, all processed foods, diet food and light foods. Rather, you consume whole eggs, full-fat milk, and butter in addition to lean meats and tons of fresh vegetables.
The Perfect 10 Diet lists its Perfect 10 foods. Those foods are:
- Eggs
- Shellfish
- Dark meat
- Olive oil
- Wild salmon
- Oranges
- Cruciferous vegetables
- Oatmeal
- Butter
- Whole milk
During Stage One of The Perfect 10 Diet, three meals a day are consumed, with no grains and no alcohol. During Stage Two, in addition to the three meals, you can also add one to three servings of whole grains to your diet and drink alcohol in small amounts. In Stage Three, you can increase your whole grain consumption and eat a refined or processed sweet on a special occasion.
Sample meals are given for each stage as well as lists of foods to avoid, lists of foods that are permitted, eating out guides and recipes.
A typical day during Stage Two might look like this:
- Breakfast: One cup of slow-cooked oatmeal with one-half glass of full-fat milk
- Lunch: Tuna and artichoke salad
- Dinner: Moroccan grilled chicken and mixed vegetables
- Snack: One apple or 1/2 of a cantaloupe
EXERCISE
Exercise is strongly encouraged while following The Perfect 10 Diet. In fact, not only are you instructed to exercise, but you are educated on how specific kinds of exercise influence three key hormones in weight loss: insulin, glucagon and human growth hormone.
In order to lose weight, you are encouraged to walk one hour every day or go to the gym for at least 45 minutes, three to four days a week. A combination of aerobic fitness and strength training are encouraged for weight loss in addition to incorporating more movement into your day.
CONCLUSION
The Perfect 10 Diet is not like your average low-carb or high protein diet. By focusing on medical research, evolutionary biology and basic metabolic principles, Dr. Michael Aziz debunks popular diet myths and replaces them with scientific and revealing facts about how the human body loses weight, processes food and prevents disease.
By focusing on ten key hormones, The Perfect 10 Diet outlines a three-stage plan to help you look and feel better than you ever have.
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Related Diets: Caveman Diet, High Protein Diet, Low-Carb Diet, The Eat-Clean Diet, The Paleo Diet, The Whole Foods Diet, Jillian Michaels' Master Your Metabolism
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I am not a big diet follower, but I am a bit overweight and I have tried a few diets like Atkins and South Beach. Even though I lost some weight (never my target), i always ended up bored out of my mind on these diets. As I read the Perfect 10 Diet, I felt like it was really common sense and addressed a more balanced health goal and menu rather than the extremes of "no carbs!" I also liked that it promoted good fats as part of a healthy diet because I always felt that "low fat" diets were a fraud. Lastly, the section on hormones and their role in health was spot on for me since I have hypothyroidism and getting my thyroids back in balance through medication has made a BIG difference in my ability to lose and keep weight off. So I think this book is worth your read. Thanks.
Very good diet I have lost 12lbs in 21 days .. I am still trying to learn to portion my food properly ..
I love it! It really does work. I have lost 30 lbs in 10 weeks now!
It is just Atkins if you really read Atkins
(and I loved Atkins, but after 7 faithful years it petered out, or I did, hard to say. And I did Atkins with whole, vital foods, as much organic meat as I could manage, etc.) Not meaning to be rude, but it sounds as if he only knows it from rumors. Anyhow, it is sound advice, largely, and i only wish he had given references to where he got some of his statements. He said youm ust do as he says and trust him, but he should give us backup, Like how is veal a problem? And why is the ham worse than the shoulder? And what about the superfoods thyroid problems prohibit? More references, we have been lied to too many times to use blind trust again, and he knows that is true! I must admit, the book probably would be less popular if it had the format I would prefer.
Leah in Alabama I'm 59. The diet was easy to follow and on point for the 14 pounds in 21 days. I was absolutely shocked that I lost 15 pounds in 21 days. You have to get past the first few days of adjustment but after that you are on your way. By the way the 2nd stage of the diet is nice too. Here is the big plus if you love sweets you won't crave them anymore while on the diet, seriously believe me I wouldn't lie.
This diet makes perfect sense. I just started and already I feel better.
I have lost over 40 lbs (2 and a 1/2 mos.), and have never been hungry. I love this diet and my daughter after seeing the results is now on the Perfect 10 too. Thank you Dr Aziz. I have 50 more lbs to go and I think it is a new life style not just a diet. By the way I am so much happier and think it is also because I eat only whole, organic foods - nothing in a can either.
the diet is a lot like other low carbs. I do like it but I was on bio-slim years ago and the thing I liked about that diet is they had a 800 tel no you could call with questions. I found the book to technical and would like a easy readable section at end. to sum it all up!
I have been on this diet for 8 days and I have lost 7.5 pounds! I am very happy with the diet, and it is pretty easy to follow. I agree with what the others said about there being no amounts. I just eat the serving size as listed on the container, etc. i.e. if the serving size for yogurt is 1/2c and the serving size for a kiwi is 1 fruit, then eat one wholoe kiwi with 1/2 cup of yogurt. Not that hard. Stick to this, and it will work!
been on this great diet 21 days, have lost 24.5 lbs and just saw my physician. He was amazed at my weight loss and blood work results...considering taking me off some meds...improved disposition....GREAT
A question to all of you, I am 52, am thinking about doing this diet- recently did atkins with very little weight loss- years ago it worked well for me- how old are you? does anyone have any good results if you are older? Please let me know thanks for your time-Leah
I find this diet to be phenomenal! But I don't have a perfect understanding of it. Can u please contact me and answer my questions.
I lost 11 pounds in 3 weeks. Totally revolutionary.
While I think a lot of the concepts sound good, the book spends a lot of time hammering other diets. I already bought the book, don't tell me all the neg about other diets, tell me about yours. Book could be 1/2 the size. Also, very incomplete and at times inaccurate and confusing. Small example: day one shopping list does not list yogurt but 2 days of first week call for yogurt and even that one says full fat yogurt, one says organic full-fat yogurt. Blood sugar: he says a fasting insulin level should be 5 units or lower, having a diabetic daughter, the common blood glucose numbers should range around 100 or less, so what the heck is talking about about and short of having a built in lab how would one test for that? giving fasting blood glucose numbers would be much easier for most to follow. Not many amounts like ff yogurt with sliced kiwis. what 1/2cup, 1 cup. till i'm full, HOW MUCH? chicken marsala? made how with what, how much do I eat? is there a recipe? just "chicken marsala".
Only been on this diet for a few days and I've lost weight. But even more noticable is my energy level. Through the roof!!!
Have lost weight on this diet after just 1 week!
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