How I Gave Up My Low-Fat Diet and Lost 40 Pounds...and How You Can Too! » (Revised and Expanded)

Dana Carpender is a nationally syndicated columnist and is the founder of Hold the Toast Press, which publishes the biweekly online newsletter Lowcarbezine! She is the author of seven books on low-carb cooking including the bestseller 500 Low-Carb Recipes.

How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost Forty Pounds! is a breezy, chatty, non-technical, fun-to-read explanation of low carbohydrate dieting -- why it works, the surprising health benefits, and most importantly, how to "do" the diet. Or, rather, diets,since the book details three very different main approaches to controlling carbohydrates (including the Basic Low Carb Diet, similar to Atkins or Protein Power, and the Mini-Binge Diet, popularized as The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet), plus several variations, finally summing up the basic principles which tie them all together. The point is to give the reader the tools necessary to construct a new way of eating that will fit his or her body, psyche, and lifestyle, thus allowing them to stay slim, energetic, and healthy for life.

Dana Carpender is the author of 500 Low-Carb Recipes (Fair Winds, 2002) and several other books by Fair Winds Press. She writes a weekly internet newsletter called Lowcarbezine! that goes out to over 20,000 subscribers. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.