The Ultimate Metabolism Diet: Eat Right for Your Metabolic Type

By Scott Rigden and Barbara Schlitz

Atkins, the Zone, the South Beach Diet, good carbs, bad carbs, the liquid diet--anyone with a serious weight problem has probably tried (and failed) to use one of these diets to lose weight. And it's not their fault.
Everyone has a unique body type and corresponding metabolism, and because we are all different, there is no one "miracle diet" for everybody. Dr. Scott Rigden has twenty years of experience as a weight loss specialist in Arizona where he also runs a successful weight loss clinic. Over the years, he has discovered that people can be divided into five different metabolic types. Each type has a corresponding plan of specific dietary and lifestyle habits that make weight loss work.

The author provides quizzes and questionnaires that help readers determine their metabolic type. In each chapter devoted to that type, he gives dietary, exercise, supplement and medicine advice complete with glossaries and case studies. He also includes a chapter on emotional eating and one on how to prepare mentally for weight loss and recipes.

Find out why you can't lose weight using conventional diets and, using the guidelines in this book, jump-start your metabolism and experience safe, permanent weight loss

• Language: English
• Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
• Release date: Jan 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9780897935517

Reviews for The Ultimate Metabolism Diet

[chellieanne-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book is full of great diet and exercise information based on your metabolic type-but you have to figure that out. There are questionnaires and profiles to help you but it is too confusing for me. If you have a supportive doctor or dietician to help then I can see how this book would work as a resource and reference. I think to make this program work I would need some support and feedback so It is going back on the bookshelf until I have more energy to digest it.

[vpfluke · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

It is a little hard for me to give a proper review of this book because I do not seem to fit into the categories of people whose metabolism is considerably awry. I think the book assumes that you might know how to lace yourself in one of these categories. Each chapter has a little questionnaire that you can answer. If you score enough yeses, that chapter has diet materials that could prove real useful to you. I wish there were an overarching thesis that I could hang onto, but there isn't one. I've tried to tag all the possibilities of this book, and with the few owners, these should show up on the tag lists for this book (such as carbohydrate sensitivity, hormonal imbalance, liver detoxification, et al). The author does recount stories of people with various situations , and I actually found these interesting to read. Some of the metabolic problems a few people have seem intractable, and I think for someone in that situation, that this book might prove beneficial to them. How general practitioners and internists see things like this book talks about, they probably wouldn't have a lot of sympathy. So, I'm not sure how all this information will play out.

[melindalibrary · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This book begins much like a college textbook: full of fifty-cent words and lists of vocabulary words. You'll need the vocab words in order to understand what is said in the chapters, so that can be helpful. A couple of things throughout this book that raised my eyebrow: according to the author, there are 5 different metabolic types (quizzes are provided to help you discern which one you are) and people should eat different combos of food depending on their type. The eyebrow raising part? EACH type is diagnosed to need a "specially designed, soy protein powder" and, basically, eat a 1600 calorie Mediterranean diet. There appears to be very little difference in the recommended diet for these "different" metabolic types. This wonderful powder that is required for each metabolic type is $40 for a 14 day supply, and must be prescribed by a doctor. This is the only brand endorsed by the author. This powder is mentioned so repeatedly that I flipped through the book to see if the makers of the product endorsed him or helped to publish this book. The other thing that raised an eyebrow: in the chapter about emotional eating, the author advocates ways to deal with people who undermine and undervalue you. One of the techniques he recommends is the Parrot Technique (a/k/a Broken Record Technique), which can be helpful if one knows how to use it. The author inexplicably gives a short shrift in explaining how to utilize it, as opposed to the good detail he uses in describing the other techniques.The pluses to this book: case studies of each metabolic type and results of their achievement using the diet, and the emotional eating chapter. The drawbacks: basically, the recommendation to lose weight is eat 1600-1800 calories a day (those calories should be made up of fruits and veggies, with a little protein and complex carbs thrown in), drink water, and exercise. Do you need to spend 16 dollars to know that?