Customer Reviews
A few flaws - By: Cara, 18 Sep 2008 
I can see how this might work for some people, but it definitely wont work for me. I have IBS which is triggered by dairy amongst other things, & a lot of these recipes have things that I cant eat suxh as butter & cream, although they do sound tasty.
However, my main concern with this book is the misleading information. Reference to good fatsin butter & double cream,in my opinion, is complete nonsense. The fats found here are saturated fats, the bad kind. The 'good fats', or fatty acids, that are an essential part of our diet are foundin foods such as nuts, avocados, olive oil & oily fish, NOT butter & cream. I think Neris & India should have put a bit more research into this before misleading their readers.
That said, there are some good pointsin the book, their overall mission i agree with, exercise more, eat better, lose weight.
Last 'diet' book I ever buy! - By: LeHarve, 14 Sep 2008 
Like most women on the diet merry-go-round, I rush to embrace any new ideas for weight loss that appear easy & fad-free. Having ploughed through the introductory chapters where the authors describein graphic detail their own battles with flab, I eventually got to the part where they divulge their weight-loss secrets. Unfortunately, there was nothing new here; it is basically yet another 'starve yourself for a while then start eating again' regime, extended into a book which could quite easily have encompassed a leaflet. Needless to say,I didn't follow it, but joined an exercise class, starting eating sensibly & have lost almost 2 stonesin weight.
Jumping on the bandwagon - By: Angel of Nine, 28 Aug 2008 
I am another one of those people whose life has changed completely due to this book. I look at food & health very differently than I did before. Granted, it could have been any low-carb diet because it's the low-carb lifestylein general that has won me over. But if it wasn't for the witty true-to-life writing style of this book, I would probably still be yoyo-ing on low calorie diets! Thank you India & Neris, I lost tons of weight, I am happier & healthier & I have learned so much about food & on top of all that, I've become a cook! Always thought I hated cooking but now I enjoy it!
If you have already unsuccessfully tried every other diet, please give this a chance. It may seem drastic at first but you get used to it really fast. And it is absolutely one hundred percent healthy, do your research & you will find this out for yourself.
It worked for me ! - By: Wizzie, 27 Aug 2008 I am not a diet-book person or one for "faddy diets". I saw this quite by chance at the top of the bestsellers list on Amazon at the end of Jan 08. I bought it on impulse as the time was right for me to do something about being overweight.
Once I committed myself to it (with the company of a friend - which was invaluable), it took me 6 months to lose 5 stone. I have remained stable at the weight I want to be now for a month. It's early days but I feel confident that I can keep to it, & all I can say is that it worked for me !
The basis of the initial diet is very low-carb - i.e. no potatoes, rice, pasta, bread, fruit whilst the majority of the weight is lost. You can eat any meat or fish, eggs, green veg & supplement it with "good fats" on the side - olive oil, butter, cheese, double cream etc. Once you have shifted all but about a stone you then gradually re-introduce low-carb foods to adjust back. It is a sociable diet & easy to adapt to eating out & around friends' houses - think roast dinner without potatoes but butter on veg / caesar salad with dressing but no croutons / cheese (and pate !) for dessert instead of puds !
A few of my friends have done the Lighter Life diet. It was never one for me because i knew that being off food completely for a quick weight loss would then make me panic when I was supposed to re-introduce them. I believe this is sustainable & has made a fantastic difference for me.
I would recommend buying the cookbook for some simple but effective recipes that both my husband & children ate quite happily.
Good luck !
This book needs to come with a health warning! - By: Stylo, 18 Aug 2008 While I have to admire this book for attempting to address the issues that underlay a person's overeating, there's not much else to like about it. The "diet" has been put together by two amatuers with no experiencein diets or nutrition other than having been on lots of dietsin the past. Not a great place to start from...
It's interesting to read that the author claims this book presents a mediterranean diet when that clearly isn't the case. What they actually advocate is cutting out an entire foodgroup (carbohydrates). For the rest of your life. Which frankly, is just plain stupid.
Carbohydrates have received a bad rapin recent years but there's many different types & the authors show their naiveity by excluding the entire group. Put very simply, highly processed, simple carbohydrates are something we should exclude from our diet as much as possible. Complex carbs (whole grains) provide much-needed energy.
The diet advocated by these two woman is quite dangerous. Losing weight safely is easy - you need to burn more calories than you consume. Eat healthily (and most of us know what that means by now) & do regular exercise. It's the only sustainable way to lose weight & keep it off long-term.
Add this book to the enormous pile of faddy, dangerous diet books.
