Okay but over-hyped. Veggies stay clear!
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This is an ok diet book, packed with good advice that makes sense, helps you understand how food affects you and educates you to make sensible food choices. It's also very motivational and upbeat. I can very easily see how this book can help people to lose a lot of weight. However...
...it's another low-carb diet, which is very difficult to follow if you're a vegetarian. There's no advice on adapting the diet if you don't eat meat, so essentially ths is a good book for meat eaters, but veggies would do better with the Rose Elliott low carb-diet.
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Is there any other diet...
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I have been doing diets on and off for the past 15 years. Then I came across this one - it so easily slipped into my lifestyle - I didn't have to weigh anything - could eat supper with the family without feeling deprived. This book is a pink bible of hope - it is not written by supermodels or starved actresses - it is written by real people who have the same cravings that you do - people who fall down but get right on up again - just like normal human beings - and once you have read it you realise "if they can do it - so can I"!
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Changing my life for the better every day.
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This has been written by two people who realised that too many carbohydrates were bad for them. They read many other books and tried other diets and then came up with a very workable realistic way of eating.
Both writers speak honestly of their issues with food which I'm sure many of us can relate to. They are real women with real issues and managed to make it work for them - you can make it work for you.
If you're used to low fat, low flavour diets this is quite hard to get used to, BUT it works. It doesn't have to be expensive, although it does seem that way to start with. However, you are no longer spending your money on processed, refined rubbish with little or no nutritional value.
Another reviewer commented that all meals have to be prepared from scratch and that the diet seemed to be aimed at stay at home middle class mothers. Has it occured to this person that the high consumption of nutritionally poor packaged meals and take aways, both often containing hidden sugar, may be the reason why the world is getting fatter?
Do yourself and your body a favour - buy the book, read it thoroughly and then follow it. It does work and it really isn't that hard.
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A nice read, not sure about the diet
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I love the writing style, unlike most diet books it's actually a fun read, but this diet made me very ill. Stomach cramps, throwing up the works. This obviously isn't the case for everyone but you need to listen to your body. The diet advises you pig out before starting I had a very high carb diet and did just that and I would say that might be too big a shock to your system and where i went wrong.
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Atkins with glitter on! Nothing new here! Move along!
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I bought this book after reading the reviews as it sounded great. I have to say, it's the only diet book I have laughed out loud to, and some of it could have been written by me. Talk about slapping you in the face with the truth. Brilliant, I loved it. My days of namby pamby Dr's books, or stick thin women writing about how to lose wieght when they are strangers to stretch marks or emotional overeating, are over.
Sadly, that is all I enjoyed about the book.
I admire these women for losing weight and keeping it off, that in itself is hard to do, but the book is really only a rehash of Atkins, South Beach etc and the only credit that should go to these ladies is that they managed to keep of the weight not that they have managed to come up with anything new or orgininal.
The book gives you menus etc, but it doesn't properly deal with the reasons we overeat and it certainly doesn't give us a solution. When you've managed to follow the diet and lost the weight, what will you do then? The addiction to food will still be there, you won't have cured that. You will just be going through a limited diet to lose x amount of weight, only to have to battle your demons again after. It is high in fat and I doubt is is very good for you, it mentions having smelly breath and feeling awful after a few days of following it. I don't understand that mentality. I want food to be something I can take or leave without investing so much of my time and emotion in, I don't want to have a diet plan which is punishing, boring and at best makes your breath smell and gives you a nightmare headache.
By all means read it, but like I said, you have an issue with food, this book doesn't deal with it, this is only a quick fix as far as I'm concerned. If you want a great, practical and life changing book, read 'You can be thin' by Marisa Peer.
(See my review)
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