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Customers find the book informative and easy to follow, particularly for menopausal women, and appreciate its educational content about nutrition. The book receives positive feedback for its focus on reducing inflammation through diet, improved energy levels, and holistic approach to weight loss. Customers like the 16:8 intermittent fasting recommendation, and one customer notes that the meal plans take all the guesswork out of meal prep. The recipes receive mixed reviews, with some finding them simple to follow while others find them unsatisfactory.
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WALL STREET JOURNAL AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER • A patient-proven eating and lifestyle program to balance nutrition, help manage middle age weight “creep,” and reduce uncomfortable symptoms during menopause and perimenopause—including more than 40 delicious recipes and 6 weeks of meal plans—tailored to women in midlife.
“The validation of common hormonal symptoms and commiseration with weight gain challenges, especially from a physician with similar struggles, is likely a rare and comforting experience for many women.”—Forbes Health
Why is the scale moving in the wrong direction even though I haven’t changed my diet or exercise habits? Time and again, this is the question Dr. Mary Claire Haver’s patients asked. At first, a practicing OB/GYN, she’d dutifully advise what she’d been taught in medical school: eat less and work out more. But that standard advice didn’t solve the problems caused by perimenopause and menopause because back then she—and so many other doctors—hadn’t taken into account the physiological factors affecting women. They tend to store fat, they can have a hard time accessing that stored fat as active fuel, and their hormonal fluctuations in midlife exacerbate the situation.
Then, Dr. Haver found herself in this exact predicament with the added issues of low energy, hot flashes, and brain fog. So she set out to develop a nutrition program that would meet her own and her patients’ needs once and for all. Now, more than 100,000 women have found success in Dr. Haver’s unique plan for losing dangerous belly fat and reducing menopausal symptoms by following her three interconnected strategies:
• Fuel Refocus: Starting in their thirties, women need a specific ratio of healthy fats, lean protein, and quality carbohydrates to optimize their overall health and efficiently burn fat as fuel.
• Intermittent Fasting: 16 hours of fasting with a flexible 8-hour eating window coaxes the body to draw energy from stored fat and decreases inflammation.
• Anti-inflammatory Nutrition: Limit added sugars, processed carbs, chemical additives and preservatives and layer in anti-inflammatory foods like leafy greens, olive oil, berries, nuts, and tomatoes.
With these three principles working together, women can lose the weight they tend to gain in middle age as well as enjoy newfound energy, better sleep, less brain fog, and fewer hot flashes. Featuring forty delicious recipes, six weeks of easy-to-follow meal plans, shopping lists, and success stories of women who have changed their lives on this lifestyle plan, The Galveston Diet—named for Dr. Haver’s hometown—will revolutionize the conversation around health and empowerment during menopause and perimenopause, with health benefits that last a lifetime.
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Reviewer: lavamom
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent! Not a weight loss diet (but I am), a get my life back diet! What I did & 1wk, 4 wk update
Review: So much makes so much sense! Easy to read, thorough, and researched based! Read it cover to cover. Includes first 30 days meal plan (including one for vegetarian) and a plan to continue for life.One week update:I’m following the nutrition plan (including IF) but have yet to get enough exercise in. One step at a time I guess. First few days were headachy and I really wanted pasta lol but I got through it.Here’s my resultsLost 4.5 lbslost 1 inch off my waistlost .5 inch off my hipsmuch more energy, less brain fog, mood has stabilized, need less sleep, much less irritable – generally feel more like myselfHere’s what I’ve done:1) I typed up a list of all the recipes and just pick one a day to menu plan the week and grocery shop based on the recipes that so it’s planned and ready to go for dinner. I did the same for snacks. Picking 1-2 a day. My breakfast is huge so I can’t get 2 snacks in always.2) I eat the same breakfast everyday (1/3c – before cooked – whole oatmeal , with 2 T hemp hearts, 1 T flax seed, 1 T chia seeds, strawberries and 3 eggwhites with a cup of spinach – i do egg whites because I get plenty of fat the rest of the day. Also a probiotic and 1 tsp psyllium husk in a glass of water3) I use My Net Diary to track macros – I plan out the whole day in the morning or the night before. I paid for the full thing – it was worth the extra money.4) I ignore calories,I’m eating 300 more calories a day than when I was unsuccessfully dieting and killing myself with cardio and the weight is coming off now (calories is around 1700 a day so still reasonable but I’m not starving)5) I drink 60oz of water a day (20 from bfast to lunch, 20 from lunch to dinner, 20 after dinner)6) I intermittent fast – don’t eat after 6pm and I have breakfast at 9 (so not quite 16/8 but maybe I’ll get there)4 week updateI’m losing about .5 lb a week and I’m ecstatic to finally see the weight (even if it’s slow) going in the right direction! I absolutely feel better and more like myself than I have in years. I will never go back to eating the way I was – I got ME back!1) The nutrition plan has gotten much easier now that I’m used to it. I’ve also figured out that just keeping the diet low glycemic gives me more freedom. I downloaded an app for free that helps me figure out what low gl foods are (not low glycemic index, low glycemic load) and got a diabetic cookbook to give me more options. I’m also not afraid to have a spoonful of peanut butter at breakfast – so yummy.2) Had a few very hungry nights now that I’m exercising a bit so I just ate a protein snack – I keep high quality turkey sandwich meat around and had a couple slices. No worries, I mostly don’t snack so it’s direction not perfection.Hope this helps you get started. Good luck everybody!
Reviewer: Sandy Sandmeyer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Someone finally cares about women’s menopause concerns!
Review: I began following Doctor Mary Claire Haver on TikTok when I found that I could relate to the information that she was sharing about weight gain, difficulty losing said weight and all of the side effects that come from menopause. What I really appreciated was that this book came from the author’s personal experience with PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) and perimenopause, her own inability to get a doctor to listen to her and offer solutions, AND that she’s a gynecologist herself.I don’t think that I’ve ever purchased a book that I’m reviewing for my own personal copy. Most of these books are in a digitally-protected format that causes them to disappear from my e-book library after a certain period of time. But, I purchased this one before I had finished the first chapter because I feel like I’ve finally found something that offers solutions to the issues that I’ve been dealing with.Doctors worldwide continue to feed women a lie: calories in – calories out. This is not a valid, nor a scientifically-backed statement. Science proves that it’s imbalances in our hormones that cause women to be unable to lose weight and to suffer from a long list of complaints that were previously blamed on menopause and with no solutions because “that’s just the life of a menopausal woman”.The Galveston Diet is not just a fly-by-night diet book. Mary Claire used her three step approach of intermittent fasting, anti-inflammatory nutrition, and fuel refocus on herself and many other women with a great deal of success before she decided to share her knowledge with the rest of us. She uses scholarly evidence to support her use of intermittent fasting, which is something that I didn’t really understand before I read this book. I found it shocking at how the food industry has been using manufactured foods and chemical additives that increase the inflammation in our bodies and how that inflammation has been causing generations of fat, diabetic, unhealthy and sick people. Even more shocking is that the government allows this!I found The Galveston Diet to be a very easy book to read and to understand. Mary Claire lays out everything the reader needs to know, step-by-step, leaving very few questions on how to begin and how to succeed with this new eating pattern. She specifically explains each type of food or nutritional item, like vitamins and minerals, and how they are important or not helpful to a women’s body. She gives list of foods that help women overcome inflammation and will support their healing.There are four weeks of menus (with included recipes) and shopping lists and two weeks of vegetarian menus and shopping lists as well as a maintenance plan and seven maintenance recipes that focus on anti-inflammatory nutrition with the right balance of macronutrients and micronutrients along with intermittent fasting to help reduce inflammation, increase weight loss, and ultimately improve health.Mary Claire included an extensive bibliography listing where she got her research as well as numerous resources for further information on how to help the reader move forward toward self-improvement.As a postmenopausal women with over 13 years post-hysterectomy, reading the first chapter of this book grabbed me and made me eager to get started in this lifestyle change and for the first time feel as if I can actually succeed in that change. So, yes, I highly recommend reading The Galveston Diet and I suggest you get a hard copy of the book instead of an e-book so you have it at hand to write in and highlight.
Reviewer: Desert Lily
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If you’re vegetarian, the meal plan recipes stink. Otherwise good book.
Review: I was already following Dr. Haver on Instagram and knew a lot of this info from her and other sources, so I mostly bought the book to read a few more details and get the meal plans for the eating reset. The complaint I have is that the recipes are all over the place. Some are 2 servings, some are 4.So I found myself buying way more food and spending triple my normal food budget for one person, and cooking way more hours than usual in order to follow the recommended weekly meal plans.There are no pictures, which I find helpful references for how a meal will turn out. The spices focus oddly a lot on paprika.Plus, the vegetarian recipes are VERY hit or miss. Mostly miss.I started with the regular meat based recipes for the first month. But it was so much meat!When I switched to the vegetarian recipes, I was very disappointed.I’ve had to find fixes for a number of them (i.e. sauces are too thick, too thin, too salty – when following the exact instructions), wasting a lot of time and expensive ingredients in the process – and eating dinner way too late trying to salvage an hour’s worth of work just to make it edible.Tonight I made the peanut tofu recipe. It seemed simple enough, but yet again, horrendous results (I had to rinse off almost the entire sauce because it was just inedible). That didn’t happen with the meat based recipes, which all turned out great.It’s like the chef who made these recipes hates vegetarians – and no one on the book team bothered to make them before printing either.
Reviewer: Irlanda
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Maravilloso libro para comprender y contrarrestar los cambios de la menopausia
Reviewer: Esther
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I’ve never been a “dieter” but when I hit perimenopause I began gaining excess weight around my middle that was chipping away at my self confidence.I’ve been following this diet for almost 2 months now. I feel great. I don’t have hot flashes anymore. I sleep better. I’ve lost 1 1/5 inches around my waist and 7 pounds.It’s a sustainable diet that doesn’t leave you feeling hungry and miraculously I don’t feel deprived or have cravings for anything. I actually enjoy the foods and recipes suggested in this diet.I’d highly recommend trying it, if your struggling with perimenopausal weight gain and symptoms.
Reviewer: Veep23
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Für jede Frau ab 35 eine Pflichtlektüre! Nur durch Aufklärung und Information kann man eine mündige Entscheidung über den eigenen Lebensstil und nötige Veränderungen treffen. Ich freue mich achon auf das neue Buch von Dr. Haver – The New Menopause. Endlich eine Frau, die sich diesem Thema allumfassend annimmt und Frauen ernst nimmt!
Reviewer: maryam raji
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Very interesting 👌
Reviewer: Julie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This book has taught me how to eat Whole Foods, avoid processed foods and eliminate sugar. The recipes are full of flavor. I feel great and I have lost weight. I have learned to avoid foods that cause inflammation and I am no longer struggling with joint pain.
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