- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Kyle Cathie; Revised edition edition (28 Sep 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1856266753
- ISBN-13: 978-1856266758
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 18.5 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 158,559 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Sun, November 24, 2006
...ideal for anyone wishing they had started their diet earlier.
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We've all been there. There's a week or maybe only a day or two until the big event, which might be a date with the (very) nice bloke from accounts or a glitzy cocktail party, and yet that little black dress continues to hang belligerently in the wardrobe, deriding those few extra pounds and causing untold stress. Well, it need not any longer. Whether it's got to be done by the winter or by Saturday, Michael van Straten shows each of us the optimum way to lose the excess. Promising an end to revolting diet drinks, biscuits, pills, potions, laxatives and cling-film wraps and replacing them with good, delicious food in the right combinations and proportions, Michael's recipes guarantee you great results. It also includes information on how to assess your own personal dieting needs through calculating your BMI (Body Mass Index), height to weight ratio and skin-fold thickness as well as advice on how to get optimum amounts of the essential nutrients, avoid artery clogging and fluid-retaining cellulite. This book is a godsend for dieters everywhere; clear, concise, useful information means that you really won't need another diet book ever again.
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We've all been there-a hot date, dinner with the boss, a smart Christmas cocktail party-and you suddenly realise you're mysteriously a size larger than you were when you bought that expensive little black number. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
We've all been there-a hot date, dinner with the boss, a smart Christmas cocktail party-and you suddenly realise you're mysteriously a size larger than you were when you bought that expensive little black number. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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59 of 60 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I piled on weight after a foot injury, and having finally decided to take action, I bought this book on impulse.
I half expected to be bored during mealtimes and hungry afterwards, but in fact the opposite was the case. Well written and amusingly illustrated, this book makes for an entertaining and informative read even before you start the diet. The black dress diet mentioned in the title was the one I followed (although there are others, including detox plans and a 24-hour beat the bloat plan for those of us with fluid retention and *ahem* wind problems etc)
I got off to a great start but what with house renovations and house guests, I found it impossible to stick rigidly to the diet. Despite this I still managed to lose a few pounds and also gained some unexpected benefits. Firstly, my boating, fluid retention and digestion problems disappeared. Secondly, the headaches I had been plagued with vanished. Thirdly, I found I had a whole new list of recipes to add to my favourites. As a keen cook and daughter of two health-food nuts, I thought there was very little I had to learn about healthy and delicious food, but these recipes were a revelation. I never imagined - or more accurately, I had forgotten - that I could make a delicious meal from just vegetables without relying on meat or potatoes or bread to prop it up. The real proof of the success of this diet is not only my weight loss, but also the fact that after finishing the ten day diet, I still reach for the book when making out my weekly list of meals, and also that my boyfriend has started stealing forkfuls from my plate during dinner and has asked for several of the recipes to be cooked again, for both of us this time.
P.S. the weight is still coming off!
I half expected to be bored during mealtimes and hungry afterwards, but in fact the opposite was the case. Well written and amusingly illustrated, this book makes for an entertaining and informative read even before you start the diet. The black dress diet mentioned in the title was the one I followed (although there are others, including detox plans and a 24-hour beat the bloat plan for those of us with fluid retention and *ahem* wind problems etc)
I got off to a great start but what with house renovations and house guests, I found it impossible to stick rigidly to the diet. Despite this I still managed to lose a few pounds and also gained some unexpected benefits. Firstly, my boating, fluid retention and digestion problems disappeared. Secondly, the headaches I had been plagued with vanished. Thirdly, I found I had a whole new list of recipes to add to my favourites. As a keen cook and daughter of two health-food nuts, I thought there was very little I had to learn about healthy and delicious food, but these recipes were a revelation. I never imagined - or more accurately, I had forgotten - that I could make a delicious meal from just vegetables without relying on meat or potatoes or bread to prop it up. The real proof of the success of this diet is not only my weight loss, but also the fact that after finishing the ten day diet, I still reach for the book when making out my weekly list of meals, and also that my boyfriend has started stealing forkfuls from my plate during dinner and has asked for several of the recipes to be cooked again, for both of us this time.
P.S. the weight is still coming off!
38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book for my girlfriend and was not overly amused when I was told I could do with going on the black tie diet myself. However on closer examination this is a book that has something in it for the boys as well as the girls.
A diet that involves sausages, bacon and eggs, like that could work..., but after going on the black tie diet for 10 days with the aim of losing half a stone, I have already made sterling progress.
My girlfriend (who the book was actually for) has made great strides towards fitting into her little black dress and is finally convinced that after hundreds of diet and health books this is the one for her.
In short this book rocks. We all have the Christmas parties to look good for just over the horizon, and we all might well be just a couple of pounds overweight after the end of christmas festivities, I certainly intend to be. But with this little book by my side, I know that those few extra pounds will be gone a week or two later...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Well written and informative. Plenty of variety and easy to follow. No real complicated or very expensive ingredients. Its asgood as you make it. If you follow the Guidance correctly, it will work. I use one of the detox diets at least 3 times a year, and if I am totally consciencous then I get results.
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