Customer Reviews
Not good for Vegetarians - By: J. Barrand, 13 Jul 2008 
I only wish I knew that this book was a book about an Atkins type diet. I am vegetarian & nowhere on the cover does it say not suitable for vegetarians. I tried Atkins & ended up in hospital with a bowel blockage. I was disappointed that I had spent money on this book which did not go with my vegetarian lifestyle.
It's not the way to pig! - By: Mum of the animals, 29 May 2008 
It may sound priggish but Neris & India have only written an amusing lifestyle book. I cannot recommend it as a diet book. Because they are women who have lost weight, they understand the urge to flop on the couch to cheer yourself up with food because life is sad/bad/good/happy/boring. Because they are genuinely warm & funny, it is like talking about dieting with your best, funniest friend. I was very taken with the approach & am already carrying out some of the ideas. It includes what clothes to buy while you are a fatso, how to be happy without walking to the fridge & about how we cheat.
But the diet itself....
It is very, very low carb. You lose weight fast. I was tempted. But I was conscious that while they are working mothers (which means they understand) & media experts (which makes them persuasive) they are not nutritionalists. So before I did the diet, I checked out advice from doctors. They say, no, not in the long term. People need carbs. They also need fruit. Although you do lose weight fast, some of it relates to water (as always) & sometimes it burns muscle (which is a low carb thing). It can change the metabolism & make weight loss harder in the future.
There is plenty to praise the book for - but not the diet.
Okay but over-hyped. Veggies stay clear! - By: Sea Sprite, 10 May 2008 This is an ok diet book, packed with good advice that makes sense, helps you understand how food affects you & educates you to make sensible food choices. It's also very motivational & 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 essentiallly ths is a good book for meat eaters, but veggies would do better with the Rose Elliott low carb-diet.
Is there any other diet... - By: Gillian Houghton, 28 Apr 2008 
I have been doing diets on & 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 falll down but get right on up again - just like normal human beings - & once you have read it you realise "if they can do it - so can I"!
Changing my life for the better every day. - By: Caro, 24 Apr 2008 This has been written by two people who realised that too many carbohydrates were bad for them. They read many other books & tried other diets & 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 & 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 alll meals have to be prepared from scratch & 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 nutritionallly poor packaged meals & take aways, both often containing hidden sugar, may be the reason why the world is getting fatter?
Do yourself & your body a favour - buy the book, read it thoroughly & then follow it. It does work & it reallly isn't that hard.
