The Easy Way to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway, 1) Paperback – August 15, 2014

Carr does emphasize eating foods that are healthier for you and not eating (or eating less of) foods which are not good for you such as meat, dairy and refined sugars / carbohydrates. Those who are dismissing or simplifying the book down to "become a vegan" are missing the greater point that there are certain foods our bodies are designed to digest, and we should eat more of those foods, and less of foods that we are not designed to handle. I read the book in a few hours over this past weekend, and listened to the audio CD at the end. For the past week, I have been eating much better, and every time I see (or smell) some food which in the past would have been trouble (for me it was primarily sugar / candy) I come to the decision that I don't want it. Reading the book has helped me want to eat better, and after a week I have, and I also feel tremendous.Of course, with any type of weight loss system, or program long term results are most important, and time will tell if this continues to work for me. Still, I'd recommend the book and say it's worth a shot if you can go into it with an open mind.Coming back one month later to post an update. It's still working, and I'm down about 35 lbs so far. My meat consumption has gone down significantly but I haven't cut it out completely (now I eat 2-3 small portions per week.) . My non-fruit sugar consumption is also way down, almost completely cut out. And the best part is, I don't really feel like I'm missing these things, I'm happy to eat fruit, vegetables and nuts, and feeling hungry before dinner has become a good thing!Three Month Update - I am down almost 60 lbs, fairly close to my target weight. I just ran my first 5k, and started running regularly, not to lose weight, but because I am enjoying it. Try this book!

I think I rated this already so I apologize but…It’s not surprising this book has low reviews, except it is not for the reasons you might think. Truth is, the world isn’t ready for this incredible book. We are so used to our addictions and brainwashing that a book like this is almost too much responsibility for the already grossly irresponsible -it doesn’t make this book any less true or the author any less credible. This book is going to save my life.So for those that have an ounce of responsibility within them and who can keep an open mind, this book might save your life too. It’s not a “nice” book -nice is what got you in the state you’re in. But it is effective. I wish you the best.

Few will follow, though. Big Food is very good at convincing you what to buy. If you’re ready to go all in, this method could change your life.

I used Allan Carr's Easy Way to quit drinking and it changed my life forever! I opened this book with the same optimism and open mind. Some of the psychological suggestions make a lot of sense. It is written a bit strong, suggesting that you ultimately need to become a Vegan to be happy and lose the weight you want. I have started eating more fruits and vegetables and reduced red meats and really do feel much better. I have lost more than 50 pounds in 4 months. I enjoy the hypnosis that comes with the book.

This book is different from Allen Carr's other motivational books, in both interesting and confusing ways. The goal of it is to get you to eat what you want, as much as you want, when you want, without any diets, and still lose weight. By following Nature's Guide - a psuedo-vegan diet. Other reviewers point out the contradiction between those two sentences, but that is the clever way Allen Carr is trying to modify our eating choices. Eat what you want - but do you really want sugar and meat? As much as you want - but do you really need to eat that much?While that is clever and interesting, overall this book is by far the most conventional in its advice of all the Carr books I have read. I have heard many of these same arguments from nutritionist and other diet experts. And that is also why I can't write that I liked this book. It is way too scattershot and doesn't linger on any particular aspect of diet for long enough for any of it to sink in. If he had just focused on stopping sugar consumption, that would have been a far better book, because he does have a lot of interesting things to say about that particular topic, and that would go along way to getting weight under control for many. Instead it leaps off into arguments targeting meat eating, the dangers of dairy products... and for a book that is supposed to be about losing weight, meat and dairy products can be consumed quite easily and safely while maintaining a healthy weight. So the overall effect is that it emulates the "sweeping change" strategy that makes so many people fail at dieting, while also condemning the idea of diets itself throughout the book. And he does allow for a "junk margin" that makes it so you can still eat all of these things he just made arguments against, so that also further muddles the focus.Allen Carr often gets dinged in reviews for the repetition of his arguments, but I always thought that was a good counter-brainwashing tactic to emphasize how faulty the reader's thinking is a topic and burn it into the brain that the answer is not an addiction. It worked, too - his quit smoking book has me without a cigarette for three years now. But in contrast, this book casts such a wide net in its stated goal that it doesn't ever gain any steam on any one track, and ended up overwhelming me.In short, I don't think the Allen Carr method works to get you to change something, as much as it does to get you to stop something. Stopping something dangerous and stupid is very easy to do, but no one can stop eating. It might have worked in a more targeted and focused book against sugar, but as an all-encompassing diet change, it doesn't work at all. I am three weeks in on his "Quit Drinking" book (which is great) and I am hoping that by quitting alcohol I will have solved most of my weight problems. This book, I gave it a try, but it just isn't doing it for me.

This book was a very easy read, in fact I've read it now 4 times! It's amazing to believe that this method, while not in your face in anyway, gives you fantastic results provided you follow the "instructions". The data somehow gets into your head and you just want to follow what the book provides. I do not feel deprived, like I'm on a diet or anything else. I feel like I'm following a healthy lifestyle and way of eating. This book has totally blown me away and it will do the same for you provided you follow the "instructions". If you're serious about getting your health under control and getting to the weight where you will look and feel comfortable, buy this book TODAY!