Product Description

Ever wanted a diet book by and for real people – you know, people who actually have a life? Congratulations! You’ve just picked it up. We lost ten stone in a year – and if we can do it, then just by following our tips you can do it too. There’s never been a diet book like it – for women, by women with simple advice that is not hard to follow (plus jokes).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9279 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
The down-to-earth duo are brutally honest, not just about their own eeating habits, but also their recognition that food is often closely linked with emotional problems…will certainly put you on track for better eating habits (She )

A compulsive read with good advice, whether you want to lose five pounds or five stone. It addresses the emotional issues of eating. Completely delicious and simple to make recipes (Mail on Sunday )

Crammed with real dieters' hilarious motivation-boosting tips and anecdotes (Cosmopolitan )

Amazingly frank…the honesty of their confessions exceed anything previously published (Evening Standard )

From the Author
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. Basically, my friend Neris and I got fat. Reallyfat, 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 user-friendy version of a high-protein, low-carb diet, away we went.

It worked: we lost five stone each in a year. That was just under three years ago, 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.

Oh - one last thing. Low carb diets have, post Atkins, got a slightly sinister reputation: there are an awful lot of otherwise intelligent people who think that eating low-carb means having red meat three times a day, with a side of butter and another of cream. But all low-carb means is dumping the stodge: it is completely possible to follow our way of eating and shun red meat altogether, eating chicken, fish, tons of vegetables and good fat in the form of olive oil. What this basically gives you is a Mediterranean diet, widely acknowledged to be the healthiest in the world. So if you're thinking hmm, I like the sound of this but I'm worried about clogging my arteries, please bear the above in mind. No one's clogging any arteries, or sitting down to devour packets of lard. I'll leave you with that attractive visual.

From the Back Cover
`Amazingly frank...the honesty of their confessions exceed
anything previously published' Evening Standard

'A compulsive read with good advice, whether you want to lose five pounds
or five stone. It addresses the emotional issues of eating. Completely
delicious and simple to make recipes' Mail on Sunday

`You'll laugh out loud. Reading this book is like talking to a clued-up
friend who also makes you feel great about yourself' Eve

`The down-to-earth duo are brutally honest, not just about their own eating
habits, but also their recognition that food is often closely linked with
emotional problems...will certainly put you on track for better eating
habits' She

Customer Reviews

From Pig to Twig.
Admittedly, I got this book because of the cute title. Well, so glad I did. Inside I found a great plan that really does work--if you follow it diligently. It's not hard to do but it will entail some willpower, which is the hardest part of doing anything. The authors really know what they're talking about as they, themselves, have gone through the whole many diet disasters familar to most of us. Overall, it's a fantastic plan and also a good read. Don't pass it up. Another that I found most useful, also, was Goodbye, Fatty! Hello, Skinny! How I Lost Weight And Still Ate The Foods I Loved-Without Dieting.

It Really Works
I have read through the paperback version which, as the previous reviewer says, has been edited. When it came out in hardcover I and two friends bought it and followed it faithfully. One of us lost the stone she had planned to lose, I lost two and half stone and the other lost two stone. Two of us, including me, haven't slipped up in a year. I found it very entertaining and an excellent prop when my willpower needed strengthening. It isn't easy but there is so much sense about why we eat and general psychology that it's comparable to having a friend with you. I believe I have finally accepted that I cannot continue to stuff food at will without damaging my health. My blood pressure has dropped from 148/92 to 120/78 and the threat of medication has been avoided. I have tried other ways of losing weight, included Atkins, and this is the first time in 50 odd years I have found a sensible, sustainable eating regime - for life.

A revelation - AND IT WORKS!!
Having been overweight for a number of years and tried several diets I am truly delighted to have discovered the I.P.D

It works!!!

And it is not very hard to stick to!!

And you don't feel 'hungry' or 'deprived' at all!!

Being a 'foodie' (or just darn greedy) one of things I am amazed at is how full I feel, I am never hungry, and the book is full of yummy recipes that don't require 500 ingredients and 6 hours to make!

This book is ideal if you're a busy person, as most of us tend to be, or aren't a Domestic Goddess in the kitchen. There is a cookbook which accompanies the I.P.D. book (or Pink Bible as I now call it) and it has oodles more things to make.

Since following this way of eating I have lost weight and inches and for the 1st time in years have bags of energy, clear skin, and am feeling optimistic that I can lose the excess weight I carry. I have also lowered my cholesterol level and lowered my quite high blood pressure... So all in all I like it, my body likes it and is letting me know it is getting healthy again. I would recommend this way of eating to anybody who has more than a stone to lose.