Good advice and recipes but Holy expensive diet!

This plan works. Like another reviewer I was able to do it for a week and lost 2 lbs. Then I went back to work and it became impossible to keep up with. Here's why:

The plan is split up into three phases, the first phase is supposedly "super easy" to prepare foods. Every day you make foods, and while easy to prepare they still require cooking and preparing multiple recipes per day. Not all of these foods are things that you can eat throughout the day if you're working either, unless you have a stove and blender at the office. Eventually you are preparing an average of 4 recipes per day plus all the other non-recipe foods you have to assemble and eat.

The other main complaint I have is that this is super expensive if you follow it exactly as the author recommends. Every day you have totally new foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner and three snacks. This will require you to purchase every known dried fruit separately and assorted dried fruits. You will purchase every whole grain product ever made, including whole grain pretzels and peanut butter filled whole grain pretzels.

The nutrition recommendations are great, she suggests lots of healthy snacks that you can work into a daily habit, and there are tons of nutritious recipes. Overall the plan is not practical if you plan to do anything other than cook recipes for your diet during the course of a day. However, I would still buy the book for its nutritional tips and philosophy.

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Not realistic

The recipes are all fine and good but they require a gigantic shopping list and cooking for 4. Not realistic. I have a 5 month old and have lost the weight but not with the help of this book. Eat less exercise more but don't deprive yourself of anything.

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Wasn't for me.

A great plan for a new mom with a nanny AND a chef. I hardly have the time to prepare one meal, much less six!

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