The Coconut Ketogenic Diet: Supercharge Your Metabolism, Revitalize Thyroid Function, and Lose Excess Weight

Followed the diet perfectly, lost 25 pounds in 25-30 days. Kept it off easily--half a sandwich fills me up during first year afterward. Two years later, I got a little rounding on the belly, went on diet for 2 weeks and lost inches. I had gotten inactive and ate more sugary foods so I gained a few pounds, but I am 5 pounds less than when I ended the diet. My doc says coconut oil helps your body deal with sugar.But you must wait months between dieting with coconut oil. You will lose just so much--then it is bad to continue the diet. It will stop working and it would be unhealthy to keep eating such a limited diet. Stop and do it again in a year. You can use other types of diets AFTER you are stabilized and eating normally for 9-12 months.Only problem was with so little food being eaten I felt constipated and had to take laxatives every week to keep dry bowels from stopping the system up. The carbs the diet allows must be fibrous. I am sorry that didn't use them that way so I had to deal with laxatives. This probably just affects people like me who have dealt with the problem since birth.Now, between diets, I eat coconut candies I make--1 pack or 'dose" of sweetner (NOTtoxic splenda) 1 cup coconut oil, few tablespoons (or more) of real peanut butter (vegetable oil in PB would undo all the good effects of coconut oil) and a tablespoon or so of cocoa, with a dash of salt and vanilla. These have so little carbs, but they fill you up between meals.This sweetened coconut oil should not be used during diet stage, just as no sweets/artificial sweetner should be used. You break the sweets addiction with this diet. You will learn to love water again!TIP! Don't use the expensive coconut oil if it seems hard to swallow 3 tablespoons a day. It has more substance to it. The cheaper oil that Tropical traditions sells -expeller produced--seems to have the same values but it melts like water when you are swallowing it, goes right down. It doesn't seem like you are eating much at all. With this diet you will learn to also love coconut oil since you use so much!After the diet, cook with coconut oil--use the cheap stuff for frying, putting on popcorn, stir frying, baking when only a tablespoon or so is needed. For pie crusts, etc., check the recipes in the book--it can't be used in larger amounts like butter or Crisco.Coconut oil is so good for you--it is amazing.

Oh my gosh! an awesome book! This will explain everything to you, some time in almost too much detail. Whenever I go on a diet I read everything I can about it...it's like a cheering squad for me I get so excited to get started. This is one of those great books that will inspire you to go on the diet. I've been off and on low carb diet since the early 70's and have lost a ton of weight on them and also feel great when I stick to them. Over the years due to my abuse of the low carb diet I don't lose as fast as I use to and age also plays a factor in this as well, so I started doing a little research on the ketogenic diet.I was aware of Bruce Fife books on the coconut diets he has written and knew about how coconut fat will get you into ketoses quickly. I didn't even notice he was the author of this book! I'm almost finished reading it and am doing the low carb now so it will help kick start the ketogenic diet when I begin. I'm looking forward to lots of pounds melting away next month! I've already started cooking some of the foods I'll be using for the diet. I've found if you already have your legal foods ready you won't cheat because you have what you need...just warm it up! BUY this book it's worth every penny. It explains, encourages, and gives you the guide lines you will need to be successful. Hope this will help you decide to get this book it is so worth it!

I love this Author, Dr. Bruce Fife. He is very interesting and I like how he backs his science up by providing his resources. I have 4 of his books now. This book is especially helpful to me. I've read it twice, gifted it twice and am practicing his method. I agree with Dr. Fife, in that it's a shame he had to use "Diet" in his title. Unfortunately, this is what sells and this is what will prompt people to read his book. The term Ketogenic isn't a new theory, its a proven science and has been around for years. This book teaches you about all the important ingredients we eat, he gives you the science and helps you to understand food and your body chemistry better. Then he teaches you how coconut oil and coconut products will help to make you a healthier person and helps you change your eating habits. It's not the diet that will help you loose the weight and feel better, it's the removal of sugars, reduction of gluten and carbs that will. If you can gain the knowledge of how sugar, oils, cholesterol and carbohydrates affect your physical and mental health, you can change your way of eating quite easily. I totally recommed this book to anyone. I don't have diabetes or heart disease, but I do have an autoimmune disease and Hashimotos; I truly believe that this change will cure me. I know it will take time and I'm going to give it my best effort.

So other than repeating himself a little more often than he should, some of that being filler I think for the book, Dr fife's insight into everything from metabolic processes to how to overcome so many things through this diet or super helpful.I would strongly recommend this for anyone looking to learn about how the body processes different nutrients, as well as how and why we gain weight, as well as how we're able to eliminate additional weight and balance out our health. I've been following his program outlined in this book for 2 months now and I've never felt better. This isn't just a ketogenic book, or a book about how to do the keto diet. This is an educational, informational manual on how your body works and what you can do to supercharge your health.