Product Description

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 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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18819 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."

About the Author
Ian Marber Dip ION is the UK's leading nutritionist and founder of The Food Doctor brand. Ian is a regular contributor to The Sunday Times and has regularly appeared on Richard and Judy and GMTV. Ian's large range of foods is available at health food shops and supermarkets nationwide. He lives in London.

Customer Reviews

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.

So disappointing!
I am sooooo disappointed. I am a fan of the food doctor but wanted a new 30 day diet.. with new ideas and new recipes to get my 2008 diet kick-started! This book simply replicates exactly the same diet as in the Food Doctor Diet Club. It even has the same pictures. Don't buy this if you have any of the previous books!

THE ESSENTIAL Guide to Weight Loss and Healthy Eating
For me this really is the Ultimate diet book that I, or anyone could ever want or need. It's got everything you need to help you lose weight, keep the weight off and eating a healthier diet for life. It has the right nutritional adive to help keep my digestive system, skin and nails healthy too, the definitive diet book! It's a compilation of the previous Food Doctor diet books by incorporating all the key elements from them, making it the Food Doctor Ultimate 'manual'.

For me the '10 principles' are now my invaluable guide. I've developed a much more positive and balanced approach to eating, (the '10 principles' are explained in detail at the beginning of the book). What is important in any weight loss and healthy eating plan is that is has to be a practical long term way of eating which for me this plan is the one.

The Ultimate diet book takes the inital 7-day diet with no calorie counting, just nutritionally sound advice from cover to cover.This then leads on to the 30-day plan to help ease you into the '10 principles' which will form your eating guide for the future. This book also combines with some of delicious recipes from previous diet books and the recipe book. These include lots of flexible meal options and a great choice of snacks to eat at home or on the go. I've been really grateful fpr having such a wide choice of ideas for meals and snacks.

The Ultimate diet book is packed with Ian Marber's excellent advice and he really does understand the ups and downs of weight loss and eating better for life. He is a gifted writer who makes you feel like you have all the support that you could ever want from a diet book. It is realistic advice too, the 80/20 principle means it is truely balanced, sensible approach to eating for life. My family and I find the prnciples so easy and have become second nature now. We lost the weight we needed to achieve, keep it off and really enjoy our food too! The Food Doctor advice has for the first time enabled me to understand blood sugar control, and eating the correct portion size for me as an individual, I also enjoy my food again too!

It is well put together as a compilation of the previous books, the layout is very clear and user friendly as always. The Ultimate diet book really is the only diet book you will ever need!