Customer Reviews
Iron diet for iron chancellor - By: Mum of the animals, 06 Mar 2008 
Nigel Lawson, `the iron chancellor' of Great Britain in the 1980s, has devised a diet book well suited to his character. It is basicallly a set of rules he rigidly sticks to, firstly, to lose weight & later to maintain weight.
The rules work but you can't help feeling, much like his economic politics, it would still work without such a high degree of deprivation - a bit more flexibility would be more fun.
Rules include: no alcohol; no sugar, no dairy products. He takes a `if it isn't hurting, it isn't working' approach. It worked. He lost 12 inches off his waist-line & five stones in under a year.
But the fast (too fast?) weight-loss took its toll. His skin hung loose on his body. Some of the recipies are Englsh country squire & that has an appeal. Try pheasant & apple casserole, duck & pigeon slices in coulis sauce & light cheese souffle. I can visualise the formal dining room, wax-polish on antique tables & the silver cutlery.
The joy of the book is not the diet itself but I would recommend anyone read it.He is an ex-journalist so he can WRITE. He loves gourmet food & some of the recipes are first-class as well as slimming. His success story in slimming is frank, witty & inspiring & it's a lighter side of political history.
