Flat Belly Diet! Pocket Guide: Introducing the EASIEST, BUDGET-MAXIMIZING Eating Plan Yet

I read many reviews of this book. First I want to say I have tried every diet known to man. I workout at Curves Smart 4-5 days a week. My weight goes up and down. It has been a year of working out until I got fed up and started eating Mediterranean style. I was still eating too much for years. I bought the pocket guide and did the first four days as it is in the book. Then I did the diet for one week. I found that I was losing weight, but there were things I did not like. I sat down and listed all the breakfasts, lunches, snacks and dinners I liked in a spiral notebook. I use it everyday and follow it like a Bible. When I have time, I will create my own combinations. I have lost 8.5 pounds in two weeks and it is still going down. I am losing inches, too. I can see in my body the changes I like. I highly recommend this book. I also bought Eating Clean and their cookbook. I went online to [...] for more recipes. It is not just the book, it is a commitment you must make to changing your eating habits. I decided I like eating good and look forward to the day when all my weight is off. I take it 10 pounds at a time and no more. I reward myself for every 10 I reach. I also try to make one really good meal that follows healthy eating guidelines to prove to myself you can eat good and still lose weight. Don't look at any book and listen to what people say. You have to try everything out there and see what works for you. I thought this was a good start because it really steers you to eating things that are good for you. The right fats help you lose weight. So many recommendations out there are nothing but bad advice. I don't know why dissatified lady stays on my label. I am very satisfied with this book. Three weeks and going strong.

I work in Washington DC. I confess to being a blackberry junky because of job demands. I'd order food to go back to my desk. I was picking the wrong foods to eat. I never really planned to eat, I just ate when I was starving grabbing something quick. I did not have time in my day to eat and did not want to think about what I should eat. When I had to go to the WOMAN's side of the department store to find a suit to wear - I knew I had to do something. I wanted it to be a long term solution to eating right. I don't like canned tuna or turkey and I can do this diet using the substituion. I did the jump start and stuck more or less to the 28 day plan concentrating on the restaurant guide to selecting 400 calorie meals and sticking to the rule to not go 4 hours without eating. This diet worked for me, so well folks would stop me in the hall tell me how great I was looking and what did I do?Well, I got a pedometer, loaded my MP3 player with some Audible books and music and this book. I walk 10,000 steps a day, I try to work in a bicycle ride on one of our beautiful trails in DC or a Zumba class which, even here can be found for $5 a class and I use a 75 cm balance ball to do some admominal exercises for 10 minutes twice a day at home. I have given my book to 3 people and I am now buying my 4th copy. MUFAs and the better eating help me have energy to live life after working long hard days. Once my exercise was my commute which is still good for a few thousand steps and then walking from one meeting to another. I now fit in one walk around the Capitol Mall or downtown during the week. The size I am now is not yet my target size, Still I look in good in spandex for my size and that is a great start. Definitely consider this eating guide. I highly recommend it.

I actually bought the full sized book, this pocket guide and the journal. I could have skipped the full sized book, and gone with just the pocket guide.The four day anti bloat diet was hard on day three, but I lost 5 pounds and it was do-able. The 28 day plan is in the pocket guide, and at the end of the 1st week I was down a total of 8 pounds. The best part is, there is nothing difficult about this diet. You can swap the meals around in the same day to accommodate your work schedule. You can substitute breakfasts for breakfasts, lunch for lunch, and so on. I wasn't fond of some of the meals, so I put in one that I liked.I also found the journal to be useful. It was easy to keep track of what I ate when I ate it. Usually I depend on my memory, and miss things.The standard book had success stories and recipes that I wasn't really interested in. I wanted a plan that told me what to eat..when...and was easy to do. The Pocket Guide does that.I did not find it expensive to buy the items on the plan, as there were substitutes which more affordable. Since I already used many of the items, I didn't need to buy olive oil, walnuts or pine nuts, for example. I did not buy organic deli meat, I went with low sodium, roasted products.So far, so good. I'm on week 2 of the 28 day plan and I'm gradually losing weight and feeling satisfied. It's making me re-evaluate my relationship with food. I can eat healthy, lose weight, and enjoy what I'm eating. Hopefully, when I'm done with the 28 days, I can be wiser about my choices, and keep going. Time will tell.Anyway, I'd highly recommend this. Too many diets are difficult to do, and this is not. If you're looking for a basic plan with good food, this works.

This book was made for people living in the USA. Many of the items on the grocery list are impossible to find at a regular grocery store here in Europe. I tried making "sassy water"- you're supposed to drink it every day. Ok when you first make it, terrible when you let it settle all night. Wasting a half a cucumber per day to make it, just bothered me. So I am vey disappointed. Also not advisable for people who can't eat milk products evey day. Well hopefully somebody will like the book, but I definitely regret purchasing it.

Handy guide that fits neatly into your handbag, so you have always got it with you for when temptation rears it ugly head.

An excellent little book.If one follows the food advice it does work.I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to reduce their waistline!

Nutritionally unsound. American so most of the ingredients used not available in UK except perhaps in London.

Fabulous book, if I could keep reading it , I might have a very flat tum!! Makes excellent reading thank you,