The Insulin Resistance Diet Plan & Cookbook: Lose Weight, Manage PCOS, and Prevent Prediabetes Paperback – April 19, 2016

The measurement conversions table is very useful.The glycemic load table is a great quick reference guide.I recommend this book to anyone wanting to prevent prediabetes.

I have really enjoyed reading through “The Insulin Resistance Diet Plan and Cookbook”! This book is very helpful and easy to use. I have the ebook so it is easy for me to prop it up on my iPad and use it while I am in the kitchen. Having a family with type II diabetes it is very important for me to understand what insulin resistance is and how to help with it when consuming foods. What I like most about it is the breakdown that you get in the beginning to help understand why you even need to use this modified cooking style. Within this one book you get a guide to help you shop as well as a meal plan to start you out on the right track. On top of all that greatness, you get the recipes for the meals that are easy to use! This is so important in making a lifestyle change because most people are not used to cooking their own food. They like grab and go type things. This book is so amazing. As a health and nutrition major, I would highly recommend this book to those who need this lifestyle change. I received this product for free in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

I am much inspired by the cookbook no doubt as I am currently sipping the fennel-chard smoothie!I would say you have to add your own flare to some of the recipes or substitue with something else if you dont have every ingredient on hand. I have so far followed the week 1 meal plan but I am not like literally buying each item and cooking each thing because all the suggested ingredients are not in season and that would be expensive! Some of the recipes such as muscles are not a dish I would choose. My purchase of this book was to add inspiration to my already eating clean weekly meal plans and manage pcos symptoms, so far so good but definetly may want to change a few things. I would not reccomend this book for a strict meal plan depending on your prefrences... I am a chicken, beef and fish person not muscles, lamb and curry....

I went on a search recently for cook books that could help me reverse a few lingering bad food habits. Of the books I surveyed, this is the most immediately useful that I found, in creating a fresh start. The author’s approach is practical, empathetic, informative, and refreshingly brief. She explains without belabouring her points, which makes it easier for the reader to get onto the action plan, with less guilt, than is often found in a “put down the pastry and pick up that carrot” eating plan/cookbook. Such a relief. I love that she has shopping lists broken into weeks, along with recipes. The organization is mostly very thorough.A few notes for future editions: don’t forget to include zucchinis in the shopping list when the recipe is served over zucchini noodles; maybe use a better paper stock, because the pages don’t like to get wet, at all; author, please address the issue of allergies and substitutions for commonly used items like almonds. (I know, it’s a slippery slope, and you trust us to use our noggin.)In general, if you’re trying to lose weight, or address an insulin issue, this book warrants a glance, in my opinion. I’m just getting started, but I’m encouraged. Ms. Spencer’s book is a great contribution and tool, and I appreciate it.

The Good: This book is what it claims to be a diet plan and cookbook. The holistic diet plan includes research background, suggested exercises, motivation tips, weekly diet plans, shopping lists and kitchen essentials (Yes, really.)The Bad: Detailed information about food (what to eat, avoid, timing, combos...) is minimal, boiled down to a short guidelines. I found myself googling in search of more information. Most interesting food facts are hidden in the blurbs above the recipes.The Time Consuming: Included recipes are incredibly time-consuming and designed for four. Breakfast recipes, for example, includes a baked egg and vegetable frittata which takes 30 minutes to serve. Dinner includes recipes that take 1 hour and 30 minutes. Recipes also include many expense or seasonal ingredients (like pears, asparagus, pistachios, and fennel) and likely would not appeal to a family, when only one person is working on the diet plan.

Good health book, it is complete from facts about the insulin resistance, info how to heal from the sickness by having the right food, so menu and shopping list is included.

This book is just what I was looking for. It starts with a good explanation of insulin resistance and how to use food to combat it. It ends with several tables of information that is useful for creating my own recipes. In between there are lots of yummy recipes. Yes they are a bit labor intensive, lots of chopping... but that’s how it is when cooking with fresh ingredients. If you are looking for an easy fix for your insulin, go to a doctor and get meds. But if you want to let your body work as it should on it’s own, it’s well worth the effort. My husband and I, both on our late 60s are feeling healthier after just a few weeks of eating like this.