- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Fig Tree (4 Jan 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 9780670916481
- ISBN-13: 978-0670916481
- ASIN: 067091648X
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (251 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 55,890 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ever hankered for a diet book by and for real people - people who, you know, actually have a life? Congratulations: you've just picked it up. Before we began our diet, Neris and I weighed 31 stone between us. Our goal was to lose 10 stone between us in under a year, to go from size 22 to size 14. And we did it. If two unusually greedy, cocktail-loving mums can lose this amount of weight without much effort, so can anyone. This book tells you how two friends did it, and how you can do it too. It's not a diet devised by some bossy string bean who has never been more than 7lbs overweight, nor by a fat middle-aged doctor, but a real, long-term, workable diet for real people. A modified and therefore bearable low-carb, high-protein way of eating, the diet really works and includes meal plans, recipes, advice on clothes, make-up and hair at every stage from fat to thin. It doesn't include impossible exercise routines or disgusting things to eat. Above all, it gets to the bottom of why we overeat - and shows you how to stop. There's never been a diet book like it - for women, by women, with jokes and useful tips, and advice that is truly simple to follow. What other diet book tells you to pour yourself a large drink at the end of the day, because you've earned it?
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I thought it might be an idea to pop up on here and explain a
bit about the book, since it's an unusual one - a diet book that tells you
jokes, gives you genuinely delicious recipes, and lets you into our heads
as well as our stomachs.
bit about the book, since it's an unusual one - a diet book that tells you
jokes, gives you genuinely delicious recipes, and lets you into our heads
as well as our stomachs.
Basically, my friend Neris and I got fat. Really fat, like size 22. And one
day we finally decided to do something about it.
So we went and found out about diets, about what worked and what didn't; we
cherry-picked, we fiddled about - we wanted, for instance, to eventually be
able to drink and to have the odd piece of chocolate - and, armed with our
own version of a high-protein, low-carb diet, away we went.
It worked: we lost five stone each in a year, and we haven't put any of it
back on. So we thought we'd write about how we'd done it, in blow-by-blow
detail, charting the emotional ups and downs, providing recipes, and all
sorts of other stuff we found useful, like trying to unravel the reasons
behind our overeating. I'll bet you a roast potato they're the reasons you
overeat, too. We think unravelling them is crucial if you're going to keep
the weight off.
We also thought - completely insanely, in retrospect - that we should be
photographed wearing leotards and tights at every stage of the diet, and
leave the pictures absolutely un-retouched, so readers could see for
themselves that it really works. The pictures - they're really quite grim -
are all in there. So that's something to look forward to.
The other thing we really wanted to do was to write a diet book for real
people - people like us, with kids, jobs, dogs and the rest, who didn't
have the time or the energy to cook themselves separate meals, or to sit
miserably in the corner with a lettuce leaf. People who actually had a
life, liked going out, went to the pub - and who wanted to carry on with
all of these things while dieting.
Above all, we wanted to write a diet book that started off from a place of
love. We are so sick of women being made to feel terrible about the way
they look. During our research, we came across a pile of diet books - many,
though not all, written by middle-aged blokes - whose basic premise was
'You're a fat freak and you're killing yourself'. That approach - see also
'your insides are like sewers,' naming no names - is appalling. We start
off with the premise that you're pretty fabulous, and that you're going to
be even MORE fabulous when you slip into that tiny little dress you thought
you'd never in a million years fit into. It's not about body fascism: we're
not interested in dropping from a size 12 to a size 2. But from a 22 to a
14? Yes please.
We're really, really pleased with the way the book has turned out. If
you're at that stage where you think, 'You know what? Sod it. I'll just
stay this size and avoid full-length mirrors,' then please buy it. We've so
been there. Plus we're busy, greedy and undisciplined. We did it none the
less. You can too.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A gem of a book!,
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This review is from: Neris and India's Idiot-proof Diet Cookbook (Hardcover)
I've been doing this way of eating for over a year and having lost nearly three stone. I have been maintaining for some months, but had fallen into a bit of a rut foodwise and was looking for some inspiration.
Boy did I find it! I'm one of those weird people who love reading cookbooks in bed, but rarely actually cook from them. This book is an exception. It's beautifully produced and bound and very well presented. The best thing about it are the fabulous, easy and tasty recipes. It has inspired me back into the kitchen. My favourites so far have been the chili bake, onion bhajis, celeriac bravas, and the aubergine and feta pie. The 'take five' section is genious. All the recipes I've tried have worked and they have all been lovely. I've fed them to my hubby and the kids, and even used them with guests. I have several low-carb cookbooks and this is by far my favourite.
64 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I'm Loving It!,
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This review is from: Neris and India's Idiot-proof Diet (Hardcover)
I bought this having read the Sunday Times review, read it cover to cover and decided to give it a go, despite having promised myself never to diet EVER again. I am morbidly obese, I have failed at every diet I have tried in the last 10 years. So far this one is working well, I am not hungry (hooray), I am not bored thanks to the additional purchase of the Low Carb Gourmet and I have lost 12lbs in 2.5 weeks with no pain at all. I had a cracking headache on day 3 but apart from that I've felt brilliant. I think I am probably wheat and sugar intolerant anyway so this is a better move for me than trying to exclude those things and do low-far as well which has me climbing the walls with hunger within days. If you've tried Slimming World before, its like red days but with lashings of butter and cream. Yum!
As others have said its probably not the one for you if you are a veggie or don't like red meat but being a total carnivore it works well for me. As you go into the final phase, when you only have a stone or so to lose it puts back certain carbs (including chocolate!) slowly into your diet so you are not on this regime for ever although I probably won't ever go back to croissants and pizza and that's fine because I'd rather be at the right weight. If you like steak and cheese and eggs and double cream and leafy green veg and olives and deli meats then you will be in seventh heaven with this one. I found the style really encouraging, unlike any diet book I've ever read before and India's humour mixed with Nerys' honesty about how she felt were really helpful.
56 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Inspiring but unnnecessarily restrictive,
By NaomiP (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Neris and India's Idiot-proof Diet (Hardcover)
I agree with other reviewers who say that the great thing about this book is the personal experiences of the authors and the motivational sections. Even though I am not dramatically overweight, I really felt this was a diet book that understood how I felt. I was inspired to start and stick to the diet and lose weight yet again. However, although they admit that the diet advice is really a re-hash of other low-carb diets, and it is right that the right diet is the one that works for you, which basically is the one you can stick to, they are very out of date on their specifc advice as to what to eat and what to avoid in the latter stages. The GI concept has now been refined, so that what matters is the GL, which is a more subtle analysis, which means that many more fruits and vegetables are acceptable in moderation after phase 1, yoghurt is allowed etc. I think this is important, because having followed a low carb diet before, I think the really hard part is not phase 1 or 2 but sticking to something like it for the rest of your life. Also I don't think it is healthy to omit a whole food group from your diet. Read it for motivation, but for an actual diet plan, try the Greek Doctor's Diet instead.
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