The Insulin Resistance Diet Plan & Cookbook: Lose Weight, Manage PCOS, and Prevent Prediabetes Kindle Edition

The first part of this book explains insulin resistance, its relationship with food and metabolism, and what an insulin resistance diet is. It explains different factors that determine your metabolism and how different foods can affect it. Controllable and uncontrollable factors involved in the development of insulin resistance are outlined. There is a general list of good foods and those to avoid as well as general rules such as controlling carb intake and eating every 2-4 hours. Possible side effects and outcomes are discussed.Exercise, body image, and troubleshooting common diet problems are covered as well as intuitive, mindful eating. Then the book has a 4 week meal plan to jumpstart your healthier eating. It includes items from the recipe section of the book and has a grocery list for each week as well as pantry staples to purchase.Around page 70 the recipes begin with condiments such as Caribbean jerk rub and fresh berry vinaigrette. Each recipe has a prep time, cook time, number servings, nutritional info including glycemic load, a brief description, ingredients, instructions, and a tip such as how to serve or what to substitute.The breakfast chapter includes things like oatmeal pancakes, quinoa waffles, and asparagus-scallion frittata. Salads & Soups contains recipes such as fruited bean salad, chicken barley soup, and arugula chicken salad with tahini dressing. Snacks and Sides covers recipes like apple leather, roasted brussels sprouts with walnuts, lemon asparagus, and garlicky hummus. Vegetarian and Vegan has recipes like mixed bean chili, cauliflower-pecan fritters, and vegetarian egg pizza. The Poultry and Meta chapter includes recipes for braised pork cutlets with spinach, marinara-braised meatballs, beef and navy bean stew, and artichoke-chicken bake. The chapter on drinks and desserts includes coconut macaroons, dark chocolate chia pudding, buckwheat crepes with berries, and green pear protein smoothie. There is also a chapter on fish and seafood.I think it would take a lot of time, money, and energy to follow a meal plan like this. You will be buying all sorts of things that you don’t normally buy and then following new recipes daily. I just don’t see myself being able to do that with two small kids. That doesn’t even take into account the fact that my kids probably wouldn’t even try most of the new foods. If you are single or in a situation that will allow you to try this, however, I think it would be great.I am going to take the information from the first part of the book and try to work on making small changes slowly so that they build up to bigger changes. I have PCOS and have long suspected that I am insulin resistant, but I’m not under doctor’s orders to change my diet immediately (yet). I will work in some of the recipes until I can get us all eating healthier.Some of the recipes contain more ingredients than I like including things like shredded carrots, lime zest, and ground almonds or shredded celery stalks. Those are little things that just add up to a lot more time in the kitchen so I’ll be looking for ways to alter the ingredients and make them easier where I can.Overall I think that I will get some use from this cookbook, but I really wish someone would make a cookbook for insulin resistance for those of us who don’t have that much time to be in the kitchen. The recipes all say something like 15 minutes of prep which may be true if you have all the gadgets and are an experienced cook. I doubt I could do it that quickly.I received a discount on my purchase in exchange for trying the product and leaving an honest review. Because I also rely on amazon reviews when researching purchases, I try to make my reviews as helpful and unbiased as I can. I will update my review if anything happens to change my opinion.

While I appreciate the effort put into this book, the recipes are crazy expensive. Can anyone send me a cheaper list of recipes? The weekly grocery list is quite long and NOT CHEAP.

If you are someone who likes to cook and is comfortable in the kitchen then this book is a great choice. I can see, however, how this book would be difficult and overwhelming for people who don't consider themselves a cook.The pros are the wealth of information about PCOS and how it functions, simple exercise plans to follow, and truly inspiring recipes.The cons are the lengthy and moderately expensive weekly shopping list for her 28 day meal plan. Now again, if you are a cook there are many staples such as spices and other ingredients that you probably already have on hand. But even then, the shopping lists are lengthy.For myself, I thought this was JUST a recipe book with maybe a blurb about what PCOS was, and so I only bought this for the recipes. That makes the cons not that substantial to me personally as I have no intention of following the meal plan, and also have a well equipped kitchen.

This book is helpful but the meal plans were kind of unrealistic for me. They require lots of expensive ingredients and it's difficult for me to make meals like this on my budget. I have used the strength training program though. It is helpful to refer to this as a guide as I navigate my new diet.

This book did an OK job of explaining insulin resistance and which foods are good choices. However, I didn't find the recipes practical (I am an experienced home cook who is not afraid of new flavors or techniques). The meal plan outlined would list a recipe for dinner, such as fish, but not suggest any sides or include them in the shopping list. So, the meal plan is really going to take some extra work on your part to execute, which may be daunting when you're just starting out with a new way of eating. There were a lot of recipes using uncommon ingredients, such as venison - I don't know any hunters which is the only way I would know to get that meat. I would have preferred that they would be more adaptable recipes and suggest options for what might be on hand.

I am trying to prevent getting Type 2 diabetes. The standard American diet only promotes this health condition and makes drug manufactures rich. It is easy to understand, explains why eating this way will help you and gives you lists of positive and negative foods. I am glad I purchased this book. It is the best eating plan to stay healthy. I worked for Social Security Disability before retirement and know of the devastating effects of diabetes on people. There are recipes also.

Great tasting food & I would recommend this book to anyone that wants to get healthy. This diet is easy to follow, a lot of fruit and vegetable chopping but most recipes are easy to fix& taste great. I chop a lot of the fruit & vegetables & freeze them to make preparation quick & easy, also some recipes can be made & frozen to use later. I use a crock pot for many dishes. I got the fire version of this book &like it so much I ordered the paperback. When the doctor told my daughter that she is diabetic I got the book for her & also loves it. Good luck😀

I haven't started this program yet, but have to admit I am feeling pretty discouraged after reading the first portion. The week 1 shopping list is HUGE (like good-bye paycheck) and the recipes for dinner and lunch seem pretty complicated. It looks like there might be some tasty meals in here but I cannot imagine this as a sustainable meal plan unless your have hours and hours to cook every day. As someone who hasn't eat much meat the last few years, I was also disappointed that there wasn't much instruction on how to cook the meal. Like the salad on the cover? It just says, "add cooked chicken." That's not very instructional I feel.

I bought this book for My daughter who suffers from PCOS and Hypothyroidism, she has raved about how great the book is and has began enjoying cooking again. She has told Me the recipes are delicious and easy to make it helped her to have a good look at foods she thought previously to be good for her and shopped accordingly, it is so good to see someone You love looking happier and feeling more confident. Thank You xx

Fab recipes easy to follow! The meatballs are amazing! Easy to read and very informative! Would recommend

interesting

this was purchased by accident, since I suffer from this disease, any new and helpful books are difficult to find. safe and prompt delivery and prompt refund was issued upon return. would suggest to others who also suffer from PCOS.

It is a great book in terms of educating the reader about insulin resistance. The theory parts of the book is excellent however, recipe part of the book could be better. After all it is a cook book.There are no visual representation of the finished recipe on the page, you will have to blindly imagine how it looks like.