A friend of mine read the book and now won't eat chicken, etc. She says it works for her.
I think it's absolute bunk.

It's funny that you should post this, because the past couple of days I have been doing a google search on this type of diet. I went to an information session for SureSlim. They take your blood, then tell you what you can and can't eat. You must eat every 5 hours, no snacking inbetween and also must take a tablespoon of sunflower, pumpkin, seasame, and flax seeds everyday. The cost is $900.00. So I thought well, I know my blood type so I'll check out what I can eat. It just so happens that I should avoid pumpkin and seasame seeds. I'll try eating for my blood type before I dish out $900.00. Good luck with it.

Here's a Dr's opinion. It's suggested you talk to a registered dietician before you make radical changes to your diet.

Here is a link that might be useful: opinion

I think it's ridiculous. Sorry, but the only way to lose weight is to either eat fewer calories and/or exercise.

Ditto Kathsgrdn.

Lydia,

I also need a lifestyle change and I need to lose weight.
I guess we could compare "excuse" lists...but I warn you, mine is very long! We know what we need to do, don't we?
:-)

I think this one is probably like a lot of diets...bunk and good marketers. But I look at it like sugar pills. If a person thinks it works and it produces results, that's all that matters!

I heard about this several years ago but I don't know my blood type and I don't know how to find out.

I had to have transfusions at one time but was never told what type it was. I had lost so much blood at that time, they had a hard time getting enough to learn the type. That Dr. has since died. I wonder if I went to the blood clinic if they would check it for me. I can't donate blood because of prexisting condition.
ivamae

DH's cousin's husband is on this. Apparenty for several years now. He has lost weight from what I rememeber him looking like in 1996, we saw him in May. Don't know if that's what caused the weight loss or not. He says he feels better, and several health problems no longer exist. His wife doesn't follow it, but does do some of the things he suggests, and it has helped her rumetoid arthritis, about as much as it can be helped with out replacing her knees.

I am an O blood type.

Tami

My husband and I got the book and have followed this for some time, though we are not as careful now as we were at first. We didn't do this for weight loss, just for good health, and it seems to help.

I am type A and he is type O. I made a list of foods good for both of us, plus separate lists of foods each should avoid, and posted them in the kitchen.

When I first read about which foods to avoid for my blood type, I was surprised to see several that I already avoided because they did not agree with me, so I imagine there is some validity to it.

I read the first one (Eat Right . . . ), and I can tell you that the diet they recommended for my blood type was the same one I'd arrived at through trial and error years ago. I know for a fact that it's the best way for me to eat.

Liira, I could not survive eating every five hours with nothing in between. Of course, that's a moot issue because the $900 fee would have put me off immediately. :-)

Lydia, the BEST life change you can do is limit your portion size.

That is also the cheapest "diet".

A good friend of mine, and I have lost weight with it, and kept it off.

Of course, when I go out on biking journeys all goes out the window... as I can eat anything I want, cause of the daily workout.

Moni

I don't believe it based on the blood type. I think as soon as you start avoiding certain foods anyone of any blood type is going to lose weight. I went on a one month milk avoidance diet one time to see if I was allergic to milk. I had to avoid so many of my regular foods that I lost weight. I suspect it's that change in calories from what one normally eats that affects the weight loss.

I also think genetics would have an affect. Our genes are both dominant and recessive. We get so many different variations from our ancestors. My parents are A+ and O+ blood types. I am A+ and my husband is B+. My children are B+, O+, and B-. I'll base this off of my children's blood types since I know three generations of blood type for them. None of my children are A+ like I am, but I would think that they had some of my characteristics.

I firmly believe I have to give something up. If I could eat better or control amounts, I wouldn't have been overweight. I had to give up carbs. Lately I have been eating some carbs and I get sleepy and then hungry.

My weight is acceptable and my bloodwork is great. I told myself this morning I need to get back on track and quit giving myself permission to cheat.