The New Beverly Hills Diet

I am a student of Holistic Medicine specializing in Nutrition. I am researching the concepts of food combining and tried The New Beverly Hills Diet. As a professional dieter and with obesity in my background, I am most impressed with the conscious food- combining program that Judy Mazel teaches. I lost 30 pounds in two months, feel healthy, look great and know that I found the way to remain thin for a lifetime. I have been recommending this program to clients, friends and family. Thank you my friend Judy Mazel. Amy Person-Pullen

If anyone has ever told you to look to your,'roots' to find who you are and what works best for you? I remember this diet as a teenager, my mother still has the book she bought in 1981. This was the year I graduated from high school and it was a time when I too was watching my, 'girly' figure. It helped me alot to just get off the extra 5 pounds or so from eating too many sweets. I was so happy to hear that she had revised the book, because I knew how succussful my mother and I had both been while on it. I am very happy to say that after only being on the diet 6 days, I have already lost 6 pounds and am on my way to the ,'New Skinny Me'. Tonight I get to have steak and believe me, it is going to taste wonderful. I plan on savouring every single bite. For all of you who are contemplating using Judy Mazels wonderful book, I do encourage you to do just that. I took a biology class in college and even did a paper on how enzymes work, I do believe this diet is a synergistic one with your body's way of metabolizing food. Just the fact that she tells you in the book to stop eating fruit the rest of the day once you are finished because fruit does digest much faster than other foods and when they are combined inproperly, this produces a sort of fermentation effect in your stomach. This is where good old indigestion occurs. I have had no stomach pains except for prune day, and that was only because the old pipes needed cleaning if you know what I mean. Please, I exhort all of you to buy this book. It is a great summer diet too because the fruit is so refreshing on a hot day. I wish you all the best.

I usually do not buy books on dieting, but for some reason this book attracted my attention. The key here, I believe, is INCORPORATE Judy's diet to our life gradually and sensibly. For one thing: this program requires maturity and reasoning. I did not care about loosing so much weight. I cared about conditioning my body in a way that I didn't crave for sweets, especially chocolate, conditioning my mind to eat without guilt, conditioning my soul to feel good about eating. This is, within limits, a very good program for what Judy calls very appropriately "eaters". I love to eat, and after years losing and maintaining my weight with heavy duty medication, spending thousands of dollars on pills that were altering my brain to make believe I was not hungry or didn't want to eat, I think this diet is the solution for my life. For three weeks now I don't crave for chocolate or sweets at all. When I do feel like, I eat one small candy bar and I am fully satisfied, as opposed to before adopting Judy's system, when I could eat two pounds of chocolate without blinking! This alone is worth the book! I also noticed that my body responded very quickly to what Judy calls "miscombinations". If I do too much of miscombinations I gain wwight. If I keep it within limits, I don't. The scale is not really my guide: my clothes are. Even though I only lost 4 pounds in 3 weeks, my clothes are all getting looser. I am not doing the diet so strictly because I don't want to and because my goal is to condition my body and mind, not to loose a bunch of pounds. But the days I followed the book exactly, I lost an average of 1,5 to 2,0 pounds per day. Because of the separation of Food Groups, I got a hold of what really makes me gain pounds, in other words, by keeping track of the foods I eat, I now know for sure what foods are more likely to make me fat. This alone is also worth the book! Fruit only in the morning is being great to keep my energy levels up! I don't miss big breakfasts at all! The down side of this diet is that we loose a lot of water, and of course that accounts for most of the fast weight loss. There are also some gaps in the book that should be attended to when possible (Hello there, Judy!): what should we drink during the program? What about hypersensitivity to prunes and other dry fruits? Although there are some adjustments that need to be made, I believe the book is an excellent guideline for food lovers. Eliminates guilt and prevent dropping out of the program in the middle of the way. If I may suggest to prospective buyers of the book, just follow your body's response. Listening to our bodies is a key part of this program. I love it, and intend to keep on it for life, no matter how many pounds I loose!

I started the diet with scepticism, but quickly was encouraged by the results. I followed the book religiously and lost 16 pounds in 35 days! I feel great as for the first time a diet worked for me with no pain. Thank you Judy! PS: I checked the diet with my doctor. His comment was that the diet is drastic but healthy.

I found this book easy to read, easy to understand and easy to follow. It enlightened me on which food groups to eat and when. Although it is a 35 day diet, and I only made it through the first 17 days, I still lost a whopping 14 pounds!!! This book also shows, how to eat right without being on the designated diet. So, at anytime you may deviate from it, choose supplemental foods, or go on your own. I did find the recipes in this book a little expensive and that you would benefit greatly if you lived near a store which sold fresh fruit, so you can buy it daily. The concept of the diet can be used day to day even if you're not dieting. This book is a great start to eating right. It has a daily motivational reading, that keeps you interested and helps you keep shedding those pounds. You can eat steak, baked potatos, butter, corn on the cob, and much more!!