The Miracle Carb Diet: Make Calories and Fat Disappear -- With Fiber!, Tanya Zuckerbrot

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(March 7) I heard of this “way of eating” through Brooklyn Blonde, started following the Tanya Zuckerbrot and F-Factor accounts on Instagram, and got hooked by the concept… I had had some success with the 5:2 diet but this seemed to be healthier and more sustainable…  This title is the only book by TZ available at the library, so I got it, but The F-Factor Diet, the book she mentions the most on her Instagram, is actually the older of her two publications (the Miracle Carb one is more up to date, apparently).

It was good, worth the read (done in an afternoon… I did not read all the recipes word for word, and that’s a big section of the book)… and even though I have been following the Instagram accounts for a while, I learned a lot of details I would not have picked up otherwise. The book is very repetitive, as are the Instagrams, but to me that’s a good sign… it means they don’t fool around with speculation or correction.

I would buy the book if I could get it for under $10… the recipes looked good and the four “stages” TZ recommends for a would-be dieter are distinct.

For now, I am just going to try to add 30 grams of fibre to my daily diet.