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Books : The Little Black Dress Diet
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Rating: 
- I'd forgotten how good food can taste!
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!
Rating: - The best fun diet advice ever
What a delightful common sense approach to trimming up for christmas- no faddy diets, no cottage cheese and lettuce leaves.
I love the simple and delicious recipes and because its real food it suits everyone - without moans.
I am saving for a new little black number to celebrate shedding weight in time for the Mistletoe.
The cover is appealing and fun to leave lieing around a definite stocking filler for my girlfriends this christmas.
Rating: - Healthy eating and great dieting - a winning combination
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...
- I'd forgotten how good food can taste!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!
Rating:
- The best fun diet advice everWhat a delightful common sense approach to trimming up for christmas- no faddy diets, no cottage cheese and lettuce leaves.
I love the simple and delicious recipes and because its real food it suits everyone - without moans.
I am saving for a new little black number to celebrate shedding weight in time for the Mistletoe.
The cover is appealing and fun to leave lieing around a definite stocking filler for my girlfriends this christmas.
Rating:
- Healthy eating and great dieting - a winning combinationI 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...
