I lost about 7-8 lbs., but I can usually to lose 5 - 10 pretty easily - it's more than 10 where it gets more difficult for me.

It was pretty, and had an interesting concept. One thing I really liked about it was that it showed "real-world" examples of how to eat 400 calorie meals.. like, at Wendy's or when you don't feel like chaining yourself to a stove. It also gave a ton of ideas about foods that you could combine into 400 calorie meals.

However, the main issue I had with it was that it felt rather high-handed and preachy. it's one thing to have a general plan about how to eat in this 400 calorie meal way, but this felt... very restrictive, and the feeling you get is that the author has no room for deviation from her 400 calorie meal plan. Real-life is not always set up to feed you four 400 calorie meals per day. Sometimes you'd rather have a large dinner and a small breakfast. This book didn't really allow room for that. I also had a hard time wrapping my brain about the 2-week fix diet for practical reasons. One day, you ate blueberries. The next you ate a cup of sliced strawberries. The next you ate 1/2 cup or so of cantaloupe. Great! Where does the rest of the fruit go? Because in this quest for variety, you are going to be throwing an awful lot of food away. I mean, there are other people in the house who might eat some of it, but it felt like it would have been less wasteful to put these recipes together in a more efficient way.

Great book with do-able recipes, 400-calorie meals and helpful combinations of salads, entrees and desserts, all adding up to 400 calories. There's even a great section of fast food restaurants and prepared foods recipes.

Appetizing recipes and pictures. I've already marked several recipes for later...