Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4806 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Heat Magazine, January 12, 2008
"The Food Doctor Ultimate Diet is like treating yourself to a greatest hits package- except they're recipes, tips and plans. There's something for everyone, whether you want a quick seven-day body blitz, a 30-day plan to change your eating habits, or you think you've just got no food in the fridge."

Synopsis
The most comprehensive advice yet to help you eat well and lose weight for good from bestselling Food Doctor, Ian Marber. "All you need to be healthy for life" - Heat, on The Food Doctor Diet Club. Change the way you eat, blitz bad habits and lose weight for good with this guide to the best of The Food Doctor. Start with a seven-day diet programme (no calorie-counting) to kick-start your weight loss, then pick up new habits for life with 10 simple Food Doctor healthy eating principles and an easy-to-follow 30 day plan. Motivational case studies prove this plan really works. Packed with loads of delicious recipes, and flexible menu options - from lunch on the run to car journey snacks and family meals - this is the last diet book you'll ever need to read! Achieve real weight loss fast and change the way you eat for good. "I find I'm no longer leaving back-to-back meetings exhausted and starving." - Jo Wiley, Radio 1 DJ.

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended
Having followed lots of 'diets' and failed, I can say this is the best eating plan I've ever used or come across. Very balanced, sensible approach that help you to change the way you choose, prepare and eat food. I have never felt in the least bit hungry, even though I was suspicious of the portion sizes at first - on day 17 I had lost 11lbs in weight, my %fat had dropped a couple of % points too, so it wasn't just fluid loss either.
I feel more lively, have more energy and apparently look 'much better'.
I really can't recommend this book highly enough; at last I have found a sensible approach that really works, and that has changed my attitude to food for life.

Sack the editor
Although the book is good from the point of eating healthily, there are soooo many mistakes. You are given shopping lists for that weeks meals which misses items and over estimates! Descriptions are incorrect, eg one dinner of chunky veg soup (in the title) was actually instructed to use the tomato and rosemary from the previous day. You also make a stew which you have 2 tablespoons of, but you make enough to feed a family of four. If you buy this book, ignore the shopping list and go through the recipes and construct you own list with the correct amounts.

NOTE: it is stated on the back of the book that it is an amalgamation of the previous titles from the author.

Its a compilation
The good points about this book are that it is really good value if you haven't already bought any of his books and it is a great diet. It is basically four of his previous books in one. They are:

-The Food Doctor Diet (introduces "the rules" and includes an excellent 7 day kickstart diet)

-The Food Doctor Everyday Diet (I have so many favourite recipes from this book. Really tasty even if you're not on a diet)

-The Food Doctor Everyday Diet Cookbook (more new recipes)

-The Food Doctor Diet Club (a 30 day diet plan. Good if you like your meals planned out for you. I personally wasn't a fan of this one.)

All these books have really good reviews and I have bought them all - which is the problem...

The bad points: IT DOESN'T TELL YOU THAT IT IS BASICALLY A COMPILATION OF THE PREVIOUS FOUR BOOKS.
They really should have made that clear in the title (e.g Best of the Food Doctor Diet; Food Doctor Compilation) or on the cover so that fans of the author didn't feel like they'd been conned. It would easily have deserved 5 stars if this was done.

It is a good diet and they are lovely recipes for dieters or non-dieters, but it only gets 3 stars because the content wasn't clear.