Dr Joel Fuhrman End To Dieting

2009jewellz
2009jewellz Posts: 187 Member
edited November 23 in Health and Weight Loss
Hello. Anyone following his plan? Have you read his book? Let me hear it.

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  • tiptoethruthetulips
    tiptoethruthetulips Posts: 3,371 Member
    edited August 2015
    Sometimes it helps if OPs provide a few more details, saves us googling.

    Anyways looking at the reviews on Amazon it looks like its low carb vegan diet though apparently it does allow for a small amount of animal products for non-vegans/vegetarians.

    Reviews also indicates that he is anti any other type of diet including calorie counting.

    As someone who likes meat and dairy it isn't for me.

  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    No thanks. Way too restrictive. .
  • 2009jewellz
    2009jewellz Posts: 187 Member
    Hmm what is OP?
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    2009jewellz wrote: »
    Hmm what is OP?

    OP= original poster. Which is you :)

  • andympanda
    andympanda Posts: 763 Member
    know people who it worked for, but both were them was also a heat attack survives, and was lowering their cholesterol, and it has worked for him long term. AS other people have said, cutting too much stuff out (tying this as I am eating chicken soup and a role.) I have Lost over 140 pounds burning more calories then i eat. My cholesterol has lowered myself by eating a well balanced diet, yet not cutting anything out completly, just cutting back on a lot of stuff.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    I don't hold with prescriptive diets because they don't work for me...as with most people I will stick to a diet as long as I am motivated and then I will stop and revert to my " normal" lifestyle which involved eating too many calories and moving too little ..hence decades of losing weight and putting on more..eg yo-yo

    I don't do that any more ...month 16 of a new, 56lb lighter me ...6 months at goal

    So let me ask you something OP (original poster)... How many diet plans have you tried in your lifetime? Bored of it yet?
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,338 Member
    I don't understand how a highly restrictive diet is an end to dieting...
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    I don't understand how a highly restrictive diet is an end to dieting...

    Good point :)

  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    The idea is that it's more burdensome to think about calories or even portion size and being able to eat "as much as you want" = not a diet.

    I don't agree either.
  • lauracups
    lauracups Posts: 533 Member
    It wasn't until I STOPPED doing the Furhman, followed by the 17 day followed by Isagenix (totally suckered into THAT one) that I started losing and keeping it off. I lost 30 before starting here by cutting back on the amounts of all things then 20ish here by fine tuning that.
  • evileen99
    evileen99 Posts: 1,564 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    I don't understand how a highly restrictive diet is an end to dieting...
    It's more like an end to eating....
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Sorry, no diet here, just CICO.
  • mommastein13
    mommastein13 Posts: 3 Member
    Well, doesn't seem like anyone who has responded has read his book or followed his program. It's a whole food, plant based diet. After the first week or so (detoxing from bad foods), I have never felt better...
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    mommastein13 wrote: »
    Well, doesn't seem like anyone who has responded has read his book or followed his program. It's a whole food, plant based diet. After the first week or so (detoxing from bad foods), I have never felt better...

    What toxins did you have? Sounds horrid!

    But there was one response above where someone claimed they started losing weight *after* she stopped the Fuhrman diet.
  • sheldonklein
    sheldonklein Posts: 854 Member
    OP: then why did you ask?
  • andympanda
    andympanda Posts: 763 Member
    The guy appears often of Dr. Oz, that's enough to scare me away.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    His earlier book from around 2004, Eat to Live, focused a lot on portion control while eating a plant based diet about 90% of the time.
  • MoiAussi93
    MoiAussi93 Posts: 1,948 Member
    I've never tried it, but I do want to at least read his books at some point to see if there is anything I might want to incorporate into my diet. I probably wouldn't convert fully to his recommendations (I'm a carnivore at heart!) by I would definitely consider some adjustments if I think it makes sense. A good friend of mine has read all of his books, and she has said very good things about how she feels when eating the way he recommends. SHe really does rave about him. FYI, the guy is highly respected and an ivy league educated doctor...so he's not some quack with a fitness blog. It certainly can't hurt to try following his plan...more veggies never hurt anyone.

  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    I did "Eat to Live" for a couple of weeks several years ago. It left me feeling very hungry, unhappy, and lethargic.

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  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    @2009jewellz what are your health goals? Sometimes it helps to discuss whether you want to get your diabetes in check or lower cholesterol, etc. It helps us understand why you'd want (or need) to do such a restrictive diet for the rest of your life.
  • cndkendrick
    cndkendrick Posts: 138 Member
    Really though, you all are rude a.f. It is no wonder as to why the OP has not come back to respond.

    OP, following a WFPB "diet" is trending at the moment. Once you get off the sugar, its a nice whole way to eat.
  • Kimegatron
    Kimegatron Posts: 772 Member
    cndkendrick wrote: »
    Really though, you all are rude a.f. It is no wonder as to why the OP has not come back to respond.

    OP, following a WFPB "diet" is trending at the moment. Once you get off the sugar, its a nice whole way to eat.

    I really didn't see anyone seeing rude, and I'm sensitive and emotional a.f.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    Pretty much any diet will work if you follow it and every diet has some people who fail.
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    cndkendrick wrote: »
    Really though, you all are rude a.f. It is no wonder as to why the OP has not come back to respond.

    OP, following a WFPB "diet" is trending at the moment. Once you get off the sugar, its a nice whole way to eat.

    Is it Friday where you are?
  • cndkendrick
    cndkendrick Posts: 138 Member
    Kimegatron wrote: »
    cndkendrick wrote: »
    Really though, you all are rude a.f. It is no wonder as to why the OP has not come back to respond.

    OP, following a WFPB "diet" is trending at the moment. Once you get off the sugar, its a nice whole way to eat.

    I really didn't see anyone seeing rude, and I'm sensitive and emotional a.f.
    t

    That's presh, however, I think you would feel differently if you were OP.

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