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Food Optimising [Hardcover]

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Ebury Press; 1st Edition edition (1 Jun 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0091872545
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091872540
  • Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 1.9 x 26 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 7,488 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The unique low-fat healthy eating plan devised by the leading slimming brand in the UK.

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Having plenty to eat and no forbidden food is every slimmer's dream. It sounds too good to be true, but it's the approach that has enabled thousands of Slimming World members to reach their target weight - the weight they have chosen to be. No foods are banned at Slimming World. There's no calorie counting and there are hundreds of 'Free Foods' which can be eaten in unlimited amounts. THE SLIMMING WORLD DIET designed to make slimming easier and more enjoyable. Now for the first time, THE SLIMMING WORLD DIET and RECIPE BOOk makes Slimming World's eating plan available to everyone. Packed with nutritional lifestyle and diet information, as well as over 150 wonderfully healthy recipes, simply follow the eating plan and see the weight fall off - and keep off - by adopting and devloping healthy eating habits for life. (19990914)

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140 of 144 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
Chips. Fish and chips to be precise: As many chips as you want. Sound like a diet book to you? Food Optimising has inspired a change in my house. It has encouraged a rise in the amount of fruit and vegetables my family eat and lots of low/no-fat alternatives in our diets - yet without subjecting taste or leaving us hungry. This is an excellent book for any slimmer or food-lover: Based on Slimming World's eating plan which allows you to choose between 'green or 'original' days depending on whether you prefer vegetables to meat, it is a unique and fun addition to any kitchen. A green day allows you *unlimited* amounts of pasta, potatoes (chips), baked beans, eggs, yogurt etc... as well as the normal fruit and veg. While red days mean you can have as much meat and fish as you like. Some quantities are limited, but the cod we had with our fish was ample, and amounts range from about 85g for some smoked salmon on a green day to about 145g for a fish portion so they're not stingy, and there are always suggestions for added fruit and veg with every meal in the suggested menu section. But this is not food combining, and so is much more convenient, and much more likely to improve your eating habits for good. You are encouraged to cut fat from your diet and still eat as much as you like of these foods, which a lot of diets ban - so you will mean you will still lose weight. On the plan you are also given at least 10 'sins' a day which you can use on one of the delicious puddings, recipes include some with an alcohol-kick to them too, like Pimms jelly, and any diet cookbook that includes Tiramisu must is worth the price of a cd. Try it! What have you got to lose but a few pounds.
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106 of 109 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
This is the best way to lose weight I have found. The book encourages you to eat healthy food and more of it! All you have to do is choose whether to have a green or original day and eat the correct types of foods accordingly. You dont feel like you're depriving yourself of anything. As you can have 10 sins a day you dont feel like you're on any kind of diet. Since using this book I have been losing weight steadily and feeling much healthier. I definitely recommend it.
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134 of 139 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is a good introduction to Slimming World's food optimising diet but doesn't provide enough information to stay on the diet long term. To use your own recipes or eat pre-prepared food you will need the full lists of free foods and sin values. You can only get these if you join a class or pay another £10 to get the books direct from Slimming World.

Having said that, the provided menus do look tasty - but how many people eat starters and desserts or have time to prepare Greek Fish Wrapped in Vine Leaves at lunch time? Some ideas for packed lunches would have been good.

As a last minor quibble, the sin values for all the recipes are listed in a separate table at the back of the book so you are constantly flicking backward and forward when choosing something.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Amazingly simple!
Best purchase yet!! So simple to follow and allows me to still eat! Would recommend to anyone wanting to get rid of a few pounds!
Published 5 days ago by Jamie
excellent delivery time
item arrived very quick and in an excellent condition. the food directory is the best book to buy with it if your looking for a list of the syn values
Published 2 months ago by Joanne Powell
not enough information
The book is of average use as there isn't enough information given to sustain this weight loss method. Read more
Published 9 months ago by crystal
Diet 2011
Fully satisfied. Excellent recipes, innovative and plenty to eat for a normal appitite. Lost 2.5kgs in 3 weeks.
Published 16 months ago by higgyr
Only a 'taster'
It is a nice book, very informative but you need to join Slimming World for proper information and if you want to use the diet long term. Not gaining very much by buying this book.
Published 16 months ago by paprika
food optimising
this book is very good but not in the best condition.
pages & cover are quite faded
Published 21 months ago by mother1918
Not enough information in this book to carry on successfully with...
This book provides the very basic information on the slimming world diet. I expected much more information on the diet itself but 3/4 of the book includes recipes and not... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Ditta
only one critisism
This book is very nicely illustrated, and the food optimising concept is very easy to follow. the recipes are varied, and include vegetarian choices. Read more
Published on 19 Jan 2010 by S. A. Burgess
Not enough information
I bought this book recommended by a friend who has followed the group sessions. When I received this book I found that there is just enough information to have an idea of what this... Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2009 by Jose Sarrio
Lose weight - and not the will to live
Food optimising has proven to be the best way of loosing weight for me and this book has become my bible for what i eat with what. Simple, clear and easy to read recipes. Read more
Published on 30 May 2003 by S. L. Rhodes
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