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'If a fat slob like me, who for decades has resisted everything except temptation, who has no known willpower, who has failed every diet I've ever tried, can lose three and a half stone and keep it off - then there's hope for everyone!'Michael Winner, archetypal eater and restaurant critic, is an inspiration to us all. 'I've had jackets taken in four or five times each as I became the incredible shrinking man. What's more I've not only lost three and a half stone, I've kept it off!'In the "Fat Pig Diet", Michael shares the secret of his success with the all the good humour of a bon viveur and lover of life.'On my diet, I eat ice cream, cakes, sugar, potatoes and everything else that is supposedly fattening. I give you a daily note of my food intake in great detail and my weight each morning and evening. Not for a few weeks, as most diet books do, but for months and months! This is the easiest diet ever. And the most pleasant. If a fat pig like me can do it, a man who miserably failed every other diet I tried for twentyfive years, then believe me, you can do it!' Film Director, author, critic and gourmet, Michael Winner is famous for the many films he has directed featuring major Hollywood stars, but also for his acerbic and outspoken "Winner's Dinners" column in "The Sunday Times" - and for his witty esure TV commercials. His books include his highly-acclaimed autobiography "Winner Takes All".
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Michael Winner decided to write a book after successfully shedding over three stones (42 lbs)in a relatively short period. Well, the whole book can be summed up by "eat less and you'll lose weight". That's really it. About three quarters of the book is Michael's diary of what he ate each day - which is just much smaller versions of the rather large amounts he used to eat. Michael is only saying what we all know to be the only real way of losing weight: cut the calories, up your activity, and you'll lose weight. If you want to keep the weight off then limit your calorie intake each and every day of your life. It takes willpower and self-discipline, but it's the only way.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I thought it a good book, quite funny, and although the food he eats is way above us mere mortals who do not fequent restaraunts or live a jet set life, the principles he uses in the diet are available to us all, in fact he does not really know how he has lose the weight!, the simple reason is that unknowingly he has been on a so called new diet called the calorie shifting diet whereby you trick the body into not knowing what amount calories are coming from day today, or what type of food source either protein,Carbs etc, the body mintains it metabolisum and burns fat,a simular thing happend to stone age man and they did'nt know what was happening either.
If you study what he eats its all mixed up Carbs, protein, calories diffent each day, to use this diet with normal food, you simply shop for differnt types of heathy food you love and eat smaller portions,I've been doing it for a while and have lost loads but I eat realy well, swap what Michael eats for thing of simular type, but not of course costing as much!
Give it a go, at least you will be happy and well fed giving it a go.
If you study what he eats its all mixed up Carbs, protein, calories diffent each day, to use this diet with normal food, you simply shop for differnt types of heathy food you love and eat smaller portions,I've been doing it for a while and have lost loads but I eat realy well, swap what Michael eats for thing of simular type, but not of course costing as much!
Give it a go, at least you will be happy and well fed giving it a go.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Thirty five years ago, when I was struggling for a start in cinematography, I wrote over two hundred letters to film people asking for advice on how to get a start. Michael was the only person to send a kind and supportive reply. I have since considered him a decent proper gent. of the old school and I will not hear a word against him. So those that say that 'Come the revolution, decadant overprivileged playboys like Michael will be put up against a wall and summarily shot for their bloated and overindulged lifestyle' will not be receiving Christmas cards from Yours Truly.
You only have to listen to Michael's light, relaxed common sense whenever he pops up on Question Time to know that you will just be getting good old home-grown advice from this guy - which is what you get in the book, together with a day by day peek into the foppish and indefensible lifestyle of the rich and famous. What a chocholate - coated, lotus - eating, sun-kissed, gilded existence! Good Luck.
You only have to listen to Michael's light, relaxed common sense whenever he pops up on Question Time to know that you will just be getting good old home-grown advice from this guy - which is what you get in the book, together with a day by day peek into the foppish and indefensible lifestyle of the rich and famous. What a chocholate - coated, lotus - eating, sun-kissed, gilded existence! Good Luck.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Hilarious!
I had to write this, as some people seem to have missed the point of this book entirely. The sense of irony upheld throughout should have been obvious in the title. Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2010 by S. Barnes
Previous reviews of Michael Winnner's Fat Pig Diet book
Previous reviews have summarised the contents of this book as obvious because all it says is eat less and exercise. Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2009 by K. Jones
Fat fraud diet more like
Having seen Winner on TV recently I was rather shocked to see the results of his weight loss. I thought the poor sod had cancer or something. Read more
Published on 4 Mar 2008 by Neville K. Ayrton
A bad diet book but a great read, one for the fans!
Do not buy this book if you are interested in dieting like some of the previous reviews, this book is for fans of Winner's brilliant observational writing and for that it hits the... Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2008 by Tom Hughes
good title shame about the rest of the book
to be honest i was captivated by the title, but i was really disappointed. the book is rubbish all he talks about are the stars that he knows and tell you hope he lost 1 stone in 7... Read more
Published on 3 Dec 2007 by Maureen Ikwueme
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