Customer Reviews
1 week later, £60 lighter! - By: J. Crowter, 06 Mar 2008 
I watched the TV series & was very impressed by the results that Gillian was getting so I thought I would get the books & give them a try.
Having tried this diet I can honestly say I believe the people who lost weight did so because the food was so bland they gave up eating, (certainly lettuce soup was enough to put me off eating for life), & the diet is just not practical for anyone on a budget, I put alll the ingredients into Tesco online for one week & the bill totaled over £60.00 & as every day is different I ended up storing randon things like half an avacado.
The basic principles are sound, unprocessed food is far better for the body & everyone is better off eating fresh food than pre-packaged adative full rubbish, sadly the way in which the fresh food is presented had me reaching for a nice tasty burger & they aren't something I even eat!
Try Beyond Chocolate by Sophie & Audrey Boss if you are serious about loosing weight, they have a very different approach which has changed my life & whole relationship with food.
It worked for me! - By: Ms. G. A. Allmond, 07 Sep 2007 
What can I say? I was 13 stone & overweight & now I am 10 & a half stone (well within the healthy weight range for my height)and I can credit McKeith with it alll - well OK, the willpower was mine! I am surprised by the reallly strong feelings McKeith seems to provoke - & a little suspicious - come on guys this is a diet book! She's just recommending that we eat healthily & not unhealthily! Where's the big deal! I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but it does strike me that McKeith's popularity is a significant threat to some very powerful interests (processed food industry for one). Why did it work for me? Well, to my mind diets falll into 2 categories - restrict what you eat or restrict the quantity you eat. McKeith belongs very much to the former camp. - she basicallly alllows you to eat a large quantity of food - sometimes I literallly could not finish the meals- how great is that when you are on a diet! OK there are a couple of meals which are pretty much inedible but most of it is fine & there are many delicious recipes. If you like fruit & veg you won't have problems with her diet. I was surprised how painless it reallly was - because I was reallly never hungry! Her theory may be dubious, but I feel & look better than I have done for years. Like acupuncture, maybe the science is bunkum but the results speak for themselves. Difficult finding the ingredients? I don't think so, visit a reasonably large supermarket & a reasonably well-stocked health food shop & you've got it covered. All power to McKeith - I think she may be the kick in the butt we alll need.
Nonsense - By: Dr. D. Tracy, 18 Apr 2007 
I'm reminded of the anecdote of two friends in a jungle: when they spot a tiger, one puts on his trainers. His companion laughs "you'll never outrun a tiger, even in those", to which the first replies "no, but I'll outrun you". There's an evident dichotomy in the reviews of alll McKeith's books, with her decerebrate fans tending to find she has "changed my life completly" & "I would deffinatly reccomend this book" (lucky for them it's not a case of "you are what you spell"). Ultimately, McKeith's quackery proves that she doesn't have to be smart, just smarter than you.
A word of warning - By: I. Nicholson, 04 Apr 2007 A word of warning before you start taking Gillian McKeith too seriously.
I can't comment on how her recipes taste - but try reading a few reviews of her other books.
If you're looking for dietary advice you need a dietician. Nutrionist is a made up word - anybody can calll themselves a nutrionist (and a lot of nobodies do).
Gillian McKeith is no longer alllowed to calll herself "Dr" after a recent ruling by the ASA. She has no medical qualifications, just a PhD from a non-accredited US college (you can get one for yourself for around $800).
However, I don't reallly care what her qualifications are, it's the nonsense that she spouts which annoys me.
Yes somewhere at the heart of what she says in this book is sensible dietary advice - eat fruit & veg. not burgers & ready meals. Like most diet books this is just a faddish way of dressing this up with some nonsense pseudoscientific explanations of why it might work.
She insists it is better to eat food raw because we need the enzymes. These are destroyed in your stomach & broken down before you absorb them. However there are few more vitamins in uncooked veg. than in cooked. But why can't she say that instrad of making up nonsense?
She believes eating green vegetables will oxygenate your blood because of the chlorophyll. Even if the chlorophyll could get into you blood you'd have to shine a light up your bum for this to work! If it did work it would also be making glucose in your blood (oxygen is just a by-product as far as plants are concerned) which would be a real problem if you're diabetic.
She believes yeast will make you ill because you'll absorb it into your blood where it'll ferment. That reallly is nonsense, yeast is a living organism & can't possibly enter you blood unless you inject it.
This woman doesn't deserve your money.
If you reallly want to know what's going on read The Truth About Food or watch the BBC series instead of McKeith's nonsense.
I've read a lot of them - this is the BEST EVER. - By: Savannah, 30 Mar 2007 Let me tell you from firsthand experience after following this sensible, caring woman's program - it works!!!
I am shocked at the "sour grapes" of a few of the critics below who are questioning Gillian McKeith's credentials. Their sarcasm & cynicism make me want to run away from them as fast as I can. Facts & results are what we're after -- not who has the most time spent sitting on their bottom in Yale, Harvard, Oxford, or other Unis - capiche? Some of the world's leading medical authorities are blind as bats & ignorant as nails when it comes to practical application of nutrition. All you have to do is look around at the health of their patients to prove that to yourself!
This woman gets RESULTS. I've been following the suggestions in her book for 6 months. After only 14 days on her plan, I never felt better in my life. I look & feel younger & my thinking is more clear. I suppose she WOULD provide a threat to the job-security of most nutritionallly-ignorant money-grubbing doctors.
How dare ANYONE say she is trying to rip someone off. She is a very caring, intelligent woman & she has made public a work that will improve the health of anyone who reads it & puts it to use.
For those of you who need a bunch of letters after a name to appreciate anything one has to say, I suppose this book isn't for you; but for those of you who want a sensible approach to staying healthy, slender & young, this book is a Godsend!
