Big fat Greek Miracle! And WONDERFULLY BLESSED!!!

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	• My Big Fat Greek Diet: How a 467-Pound Physician Hit His Ideal Weight and How You Can Too Nick Yphantides Thomas Nelson, 2004 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 67 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This book is a heavy weight

I loved this book. I believe that I would have liked it even if I were not fighting weight problems. It is entertaining and educational in ways that few books are. Frankly, I generally do not believe that a book can be educational if it is not also entertaining. This is a difficult standard to meet, but Dr. Nick has done it.
Unfortunately, it will be hard to duplicate his method because few of us can take a year or so away from employment--even for life saving therapy.
I see that used copies are selling very cheap here at Amazon making the ultimate combination--education, entertainment, and value. Order several copies of this book to use as gifts.

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Dr. Nick's amazing story of weight loss

Having heard the author speak on a local radio station, I wanted to read this book. What a delightful surprise! It is very well written, exciting to read, and along the way you learn not only about the author's 250-pound loss in 8 months on a liquid 800 calorie-a-day diet, but his philosophy. You also learn about the shame that goes with being grossly overweight and the food addiction that so many suffer. Dr. Nick is a doctor in a health clinic in San Diego who after suffering testicular cancer and being cured, decides his weight problem requires taking a sabatical. After giving due notice, he takes a year away from his medical practice, and as a diversion attends baseball games all over the United States including the 2001 World Series. The book has plenty of documentation and photographs and when finished, I felt like I was a personal friend of his. I highly recommend this book whether you need to lose 10 pounds or 200 pounds. You will be inspired!

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What an amazing and inspirational book!!!

It was the Christmas season of 2005 and I was desperate to loose weight. At my heaviest I was somewhere around 361lbs. During the previous year I had blown out both my knees while trying to work out so I was very depressed and didn't if I could ever loose the weight I needed to. Then a dear friend gave me a copy of Dr. Nick's book. I told her that I didn't really feel like reading it because it would be like all the other "diet" books out there. She assured me that I would love the book and to "please just read it". Folks, let me tell you, without a doubt, this has been one of the best books I have ever read. Here's a guy I could totally relate to. I didn't care that he was a huge baseball fan ... what hit me was how real this guy is from chapter to chapter. Dr. Nick opens his heart up and shares from the depth of his soul. Dr. Nick is a man who is deeply in love with Jesus and know's where his strength comes from and his mission is to share that hope with millions of people around the world suffering with obesity. Read the book ... then read it again. You will be so blessed. Dr. Nick also has a web site support group that you can join. All the information is found at the back of the book. I pray you will be as blessed as I was after reading this treasure!

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Big fat Greek Miracle! And WONDERFULLY BLESSED!!!

DO NOT think that I simply stumbled onto this. Well, OK, I did when I least expected it, but this wasn't the first I'd heard of Nick Yphantides (pronounced Eee-fahn-tee-dees) or as people call him, Dr. Nick. I'd heard his testimony on "Focus on the Family". So did that set me up? I don't know. I really don't care either! What I DID know was that when I found, "My Big Fat Greek Diet", it was MINE!!! Yeah, I'm overweight. But I loved Nick's story, and I really, REALLY love baseball! He experiences this journey with an awesome God!

I just wondered if Dr. Dobson overhyped the book, or was this going to be something good. I kept wondering if this would be something good. Nah, it wasn't good, it was GREAT! Small illustration: A lot of people enjoy Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. There is a lot that can be said about Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, right? But only Tony the Tiger sums it up perfectly. Tony says, "They're GGGGRRRREEEAAATTTT!!!" That's how I sum up this book. I flipped through the pages from the Last Supper (that's classic!) at Ruth's Chris Steak House with his dad and brothers, to his pilgrimage to all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums to see baseball games. The baseball games started with the L.A. Dodgers. Wow! He talks about the hunger pains. He makes you laugh. But he RIPS himself wide open, to let us see what was really going on. Amazing! You feel the humiliation when he relives stepping on the scales naked, and discovering that he weighed 467 pounds. He vividly tells of the temptation to get Garlic Fries Qualcomm in San Diego, or the carnal desire to tie up the Dodger Dog vendor in Dodger Stadium and take all his food! I laughed my tail off. But I also realized that he was making this drastic change. There was a point to drinking protein shakes, and it was a lifetime change! OH, and you know how everybody has a fish story at some point or another? Wait to hear this fish story! Real fish, true story. It just goes to show you how God's hand was in on this THE WHOLE WAY!

Nick encourages us. For example, eat to live, don't just live to eat. When he was obese, he lived to eat, now he eats to live, by eating the right foods, at the right time, and for the correct reasons! I believe his seven pillars of weight loss and maintenance are vital, and it starts with pillar #1: Change the way you see before you change the way you look. What a statement! What a true statement. Beyond the pillars, he also gets very real. He explains the pros and cons (and they are mostly cons, people) of so-called Gastric bypass surgery. Nick sees Gastric Bypass as a last resort. The bottom line is simple. You have to want to lose weight, and keep it off, and make a LIFETIME CHANGE!

So hey! You might not want to read this. So don't read it, and live a dull, boring life with nothing else to lose. Either that, or like myself, you see TREASURE in this man's life, and you want a piece of it!! If that's you, then grab that sucker, and don't let go. Nick had the help of his family and friends, but most importantly, he had his Heavenly Father on his side. So do we, and if we ask, we just might recieve. You ready to ask? Dr. Nick Yphantides is a Big Fat Greek Miracle. He's also wonderfully blessed! I am wonderfully blessed to have been led to such a testimony. Thank you, Dr. Nick!

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My Big Fat Greek Diet

Interesting in how he lost weight. We all do not have the money to do as he did. But it had to be hard for him to hold to what he had started. same as any diet. The change first has to be in your mind and heart before it will become part of your outsides. Believe first see results later.

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