Are You Ready To Be Transformed? Fully updated, featured re-release! Includes new information, personal stories, and delicious recipes. Beauty is not about hard work after all -- if you have the right tools. This revolutionary guide peels away the layers of conventional body and beauty wisdom to uncover the crucial missing information needed for real transformation. nationally renowned beauty and holistic health expert kat James reveals the life-altering secrets she discovered after more than a decade of self-destructive living, and an eating disorder that almost took her life. Based on breaking science and her own remarkable metamorphosis, The Truth About Beauty represents the most comprehensively researched, inside-out beauty guide to date. In this book you will discover the real power tools for dramatic, healthy self-transformation without drugs, surgery, harsh regimens, or deprivation. In this fully updated and expanded fifth-anniversary edition, you will find more than one hundred new pages of information and hard-to-find resources, including book-wide chart updates, incredible new success stories, and -- by demand -- Kat's Six-Day Jumpstart menu and Recipe Collection from her acclaimed Total Transformation® programs! Transform yourself by upgrading selfsabotaging choices into "pro-beauty" choices. Shut off weight gain, inflammation, and food addiction by correcting your chemistry (not by counting calories). Get back your "virgin skin" by getting off the merry-go-round of problemcausing product regimens and taking a smarter, inside-out approach to chronic issues. Discover the most exciting, proven natural antiaging nutrients and strategies. Access a powerful arsenal of standout foods, supplements, and cosmeceuticals that Marie Claire calls "worth their weight in gold." |
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| Review Date: April 6, 2010 |
| Reviewer: BJ Allen, |
This is my first review, I apologize if I'm long-winded.
I've read both editions of this book. Although I do not follow her eating plan to the letter, I've lost 14 lbs. so far (over a 4 year period) by incorporating more and more of her suggestions each year. As I am now weaning off of sugar and white flour; I feel lighter, happier and more clear-headed.
Some of the suggestions that I have already began are as follows:
-I no longer eat at fast food restaurants and eat at more natural food cafés
-Make more decadent meal salads
-Eat more organic whole foods (dairy and eggs; frozen fruits and vegetables, because they're more affordable to me than buying all fresh organic fruits and veggies)
-Bring my own toasted pumpkin seeds into movie theaters and share them with my love ones.
-Eliminating sodas and fruit juice with drink upgrades. This has transformed me into a tea enthusiast.
-Taking a food-based multivitamin. Since I began taking them, I no longer crave sugar-sweetened processed foods, just organic fruit!
-Bring my own homemade low-impact snacks with me on road trips with my family
-Use a shower filter and water filter pitcher. I drink more water and I have fewer acne breakouts
-Eating natural nut butters. So far MaraNatha Macadamia Butter is my personal favorite.
-Use affordable natural body and skincare products. Although she has several expensive body & hair care products in her resource guide, I researched the ones that cost under $20 bucks and bought those. The olive oil soap by Kiss My Face has helped my skin the most. Even when I broke out with a horrible case of eczema (I ate a cake made with commercially produce red dye and sugar! I know, know. Not a good decision on my part), that soap and drinking plenty of tulsi tea has diminished my rashes greatly.
-Eating hemp bread from French Meadow Bakery. Their Woman's Bread is my favorite bread thus far.
Anyone can gradually began to eat like this. At first my husband and I could only afford to buy organic eggs and dairy. Thankfully, with many organic companies offering coupons, we are able to buy more organic frozen and canned wholes foods. Every now and again, we are able to buy fresh organic whole foods, too. So to those who say they can't afford to eat this way, just start gradually like we did. Believe me, if family like ours that makes currently only $30,000 a year can afford to buy more organic whole foods, so can you! |
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| Review Date: March 5, 2010 |
| Reviewer: MM, Owings Mills, MD |
| I just finished reading this book and I feel it's a must read for anybody interested in their health and what they're putting in and on their body. It is plain common sense, so I'm going to implement what I learned and see what happens. |
Fantastic!
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| Review Date: October 21, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Amanda, New Hampshire |
| This book is eye opening and informative. It challenges how we've been taught to eat, but backs up the ideas presented, giving you practical steps you can take in your own life to immediately feel better. |
Give this an honest effort...
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| Review Date: October 12, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Rhonda L. Foshee, Raleigh NC USA |
I first met Kat James at a Body Mind Spirit Expo in Raleigh NC. She was the headline speaker there, and I was just trying to waste some time. Her story surprised me... She had a clue what it meant to have out of control cravings... How could she? She was beautiful, real, compassionate, and probably a size 2. I connected with her story.. I had lived it. I purchased her book, took it home, and read it cover to cover immediately. Her words rang true with me. Although there are many low carb recipes, Kat makes it VERY clear that this is NOT about counting carbs... The main focus of any of her recipes are about eating well while avoiding blood sugar spikes. If you like rice, try the hemp seed substitute. She even has recipes for ice cream. For anyone who doesn't think this is groundbreaking, then I challenge them to find anything that is more comprehensive. Rosedale does an excellent job explaining blood sugar and the need for low glycemic diets... but I had read his book, and didn't really get the health aspect that I got from reading and living the words in Kat's book. She walks you through the steps to get sugar spikes out of your life... and to get on track with getting healthy.
Here's what I took away from Kat's book. This is NOT about weight. This is about getting healthy.. It's the first time I've ever gotten that from any book... and I've read a ton of them. And, for the first time in my life, I realized that my previous inability to stop the cravings was simply a chemical reaction to what I had previously subjected my body to... No one can compare my cravings to those who haven't beaten up their adrenal glands or mistreated their body as I had. Sure, for those of you who haven't done this.. you may not need a book such as this. If your adrenals are in perfect order, don't work or live around toxins, have little inflamation, and sleep well... Then hey... you may do very well without this. I completely disagree with the previous review that implies that this book blames you.. In fact, it's one of the few that don't. Seriously.. I finally let myself off the "blame hook"... and put my focus not on blame.. but on taking care of myself... from the inside out.. just as the book requests...
There are many things in the negative reviews that I completely disagree with.. but I'm not going to get into a he said/she said battle... Choose to believe what you wish.. Find me.. and talk to me.. if you want a real life story.. But most of all, I urge everyone to read it for yourself. If you took nothing more out of it.. then to get off of liquid sugar.. then it's worth the price of the book.. And, the glory of it is that she offers so much more than this. By the way, if you are a soda-holic.. She gives you so many other choices... If you are addicted to coffee... buy her book and read why you might care. Are you serious about getting healthy, aging well, taking care of yourself? If so... make up your own mind about this book.
I also have both revisions of the book.. and I highly recommend the second. Here's why... not everyone can just get off sugar without some substitute. Kat gives you choices.. You don't have to choose them, but they are there for those who want them. The resource guide in the back of this book, alone, are worth the cost of this updated edition. And finally, the stories in the book are real. I went to one of Kat's retreats.. and I met one of the women she highlighted in her book. She's real. The stories are real. And I've seen people transform their lives because they choose to really live her principles. I've also seen Kat without her make-up.. and I have to say, her beauty is on the inside and the outside.. and it has NOTHING to do with makeup.
For those who say that the supplements are too expensive....start with the things that are the most helpful to you. She never asks you to take them all.. She simply gives the information, and assumes that you'll make the choices that are right for you. I for one am honored to have met her.. thankful to her for giving me the information to make informed changes in my life. I am finally on the right path... I might slip from time to time.. but I wouldn't even be on track without her book.
FYI, Kat also has a very informative radio program, a newsletter, and offers a retreat where she helps each person individually. She's a wealth of information, and I sincerely hope that anyone interested in getting off of the diet wheel will give this an honest effort. Kat helped me with things that I thought were just part of my life... such as carpel tunnel syndrome, numb feet, rosacea, occasional dizziness, waking up at night. I thought these things were just part of getting older. But, after just weeks on her plan, these things were part of my past.. and no longer just part of life. I owe my health to Kat James, and I am quite grateful.
Sincerely,
Rhonda Foshee
Raleigh, NC |
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| Review Date: October 11, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Verlene Morrison, |
| THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK ON WHAT SUPPLEMENT TO TAKE FOR A HEATHIER BODY. AND A RESOURCE GUIDE BACK OF BOOK OUT OF THIS WORLD FOR SUPPLEMENTS, AND TOP OF THE LINE COMPANIES TO ORDER FROM. KAT JAMES WILL GET YOU ON TRACK WITH HOW TO UP GRADE YOUR FOOD SUPPLEMENTS AND YOUR DIET WITH RECIPES TO ASSIST. I LOVE THIS BOOK AND HAPPY TO BE INTRODUCED TO KAT JAMES THROUGH HER WELL WRITTEN BOOK. |
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