Book Review: The Fiber 35 Diet

Miracle Nutrient for Weight Loss and Better Health

Mar 22, 2007 Tracy Rose

Tired of low-fat and low-carb diets? See how increasing your fiber can change the way you eat and feel.

In The Fiber 35 Diet, Brenda Watson shares her knowledge of fiber and the digestive system to help you lose weight and improve your health.

Watson describes fiber as the “miracle nutrient.” She explains that “fiber and fiber-rich foods actually help regulate blood sugar, control hunger, and increase the feeling of fullness - all of which are essential to losing weight and keeping it off.” (2)

Watson lists 8 reasons fiber is a miracle nutrient:

  1. It can help you lose weight.
  2. It allows you to maintain your weight loss.
  3. It reduces your chances of having a heart attack.
  4. It controls your blood sugar, therefore warding off Diabetes.
  5. It prevents cancer.
  6. It helps with regular bowel movements.
  7. It helps you develop a strong immunity to illness and diseases.

One of the most impressive benefits of increasing your fiber intake is that is actually negates calories you’ve eaten for the day. Taking in more than 35 grams of fiber per day can help you take a 1700 calorie day and make it a 1400 calorie day, making weight loss a reality.

How does it work?

Fiber absorbs calories and carries them out of the body as waste, so they aren’t able to be stored as fat. In this way, fiber act as a natural fat blocker, much like the popular fat blocker pills available for weight loss.

If it’s that easy we should all boost our fiber intake today and take in 35 or more grams of fat per day, right? Wrong! Adding fiber to your diet needs to be done gradually. Though fiber is a natural and healthy nutrient, it can also mess up your digestive system if you overload on it too quickly. Your body needs time to adjust to the increase in fiber.

3 Phases of The Fiber35 Diet:

  1. Phase one: accelerate weight loss by cutting 1,000 calories per day for a month.
  2. Phase two: reduce calories by 500 calories per day until you real your goal weight.
  3. Phase three: maintain weight loss while continuing to eat 35g of fiber per day, without counting calories.

The Fiber 35 Diet is a sensible weight loss plan. The recipes are appetizing, like the Chicken Marsala, Multigrain French Toast with Yogurt and Bananas and Asian Chicken with Bok Choy.

Along with recipes, The Fiber35 Diet offers:

  • Food choices
  • Fiber supplements
  • High fiber meal plans
  • Metabolic boosters
  • Workout plan
  • Detox information
  • Shopping lists

The Fiber35 Diet is an easy-to-follow weight loss plan that will curb your appetite, give your energy, protect your health, reduce your stress, get rid of the toxins in your body, boost your metabolism and help you lose weight and maintain the weight loss.

Branda Watson is a public speaker and the author of The H.O.P.E. Formula: The Ultimate Health Secret and Gut Prescriptions. She studies the digestive system and is a Natuorpathic doctor and Certified Nutritional Consultant.

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Dec 28, 2008 7:58 AM
Guest :
eating 1000 calories per day is unhelathly.. for both men and women!!!
Dec 31, 2008 9:38 PM
Guest :
So is being overweight.
Jan 4, 2009 7:34 PM
Guest :
It is lower it by a 1000 not eat a 1000. Also it tells you not to go below 1200 so if you normally for your size need 2000 then you would only lower by 800. Its in the book.
Jan 21, 2009 7:39 PM
Guest :
I myself have found that fibre is definitely your friend... my husband and I both have had succes with adding more fibre to our diets.. not this particular plan but just simply adding all-bran buds to our morning cereal and various other fibre rich foods throughout the day! ;)
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