This book goes excellent with the Fat Flush Diet book. If you read the Fat Flush Diet book then the cookbook will make more sense and you'll understand the whys to the methods given. This book is similar to the cabbage diet because a large portion is primarily soup recipes all of which are good for detoxing your body. I can't say it flushed any fat from my body but I felt better eating healthier. I recommend this book to those striving to lose weight and those trying to maintain healthy weight as well.

First off, don't buy this book unless you've already read the Fat Flush diet. You'll catch on, but everything will make a lot more sense a lot more quickly if you go in at the beginning knowing the specific food Ann Gittleman suggests and rejects in the diet she proposes. That said, even if you do go in knowing the specifics of the diet, you may not enjoy this cookbook very much.

Gittleman advocates getting rid of what most of us would consider 'staple' processed foods- no white flour, sugar, etc, etc. Nothing wrong with that, and in the right hands, with the right approach, you could have a really great cookbook based on all the possibilities available in whole foods such as fruits and vegetables and the like. Unfortunately, these may not be the right hands. The recipes are uninspired for the most part. It's like Gittleman gets the basics- use lots of fresh produce and herbs- but none of the subtleties involved in cookery. Food is either bland or overpowered by herbs that aren't exactly complementary. I mean, I like garlic as much as the next person, but I'd like to be able to taste the food I'm eating under it.

On the plus side, she does do her best to be veggie-friendly, which I appreciated, and if you want to go on a brief 'cleansing' period, this diet will leave you feeling refreshingly detoxed. I just don't think it seems like a viable eating plan for the long term.

This book definitely has some really tasty recipes. There's a significant amount of soup recipes so it's not something that I use daily. You follow along on a program based flushing fat from your body, basically it's a lot of vegetables. In one way and out the other. lol I'm sure everyone remembers the cabbage soup diet, it's in here too.
Some of the ingredients can be hard to find, I just left them out all together and the dishes turned out fine. I bought this book because I have been trying to find different alternatives to my usual cooking style. If you follow the program that's recommended you will lose weight on this diet. I lost 6 pounds in 2 weeks which I thought was pretty amazing.