The Fastdiet Cookbook: 150 Delicious, Calorie-Controlled Meals to Make Your Fasting Days Easy

The recipes are easy to follow and great.

Having just received the bad news that my blood pressure is high, I set about doing something about it. My Nutritional Healing book from 1990 recommends fasting 3 days a month but is not specific about what that entails. As luck would have it, I found THE FAST DIET COOKBOOK at the library and liked it so much that I just bought it.It gives variety and takes the work out of figuring out calories. It was taking me hours to look up every little thing to fit two healthy meals into 500 calories before I found this book. The yumminess of these tiny meals and the fact that I only have to stick to 500 cal for one day is very motivating for me - a lifelong diet skeptic with low self-control when it comes to food. Yes, some of the ingredients may be hard to find. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and know where I could find fresh Kaffir lime leaves but I'm not willing to drive an hour to get them. So I leave them out. Or use some other herb.My one complaint about this book: it doesn't mention what kind of doctors Dr.Schenker and Dr. Mosley are. They may be medical doctors but it says that she is a nutritionist and he is "medically trained" whatever that means. They may have PhDs but to use Dr. in one's name when writing a book about health falls somewhere between ostentatious and fraudulent unless you specify what sort of doctorate you have.

It's the easiest diet I've ever tried. Lost 7 pounds in the first 2 weeks, and going strong. I have no problems with the "fast" day, just knowing I can eat the following day. I would recommend this diet to anyone who's basically healthy but overweight.

Appears to have many tasty dishes. Looking forward to trying some

This informative, inspiring cookbook chronicles how to incorporate this diet into your daily routine, how to prevent the risk of heart disease and other diseases, showing us how easy it is to cut-down on caloric intake. There are 150 simple, easy-to-prepare recipes on a friendly budget, designed for our busy lives. This cookbook is a follow-up of the Fast-Diet, offering several helpful tips on recipes and a more healthy life-style. I have followed the Fast-Diet, and found it very useful, and easy to follow. The recipes include breakfast, lunch, and dinners. There are salads, soup, fish and several recipes to choose from. All recipes are low-calorie, and nutritious. Information is provided on the impact of high-caloric intake in relation to disease as the author highlights the crucial importance of a low-calorie diet on the road to better health in maintaining discipline, and in preventive medicine. As we try new recipes, I will leave updates. We are going to select different salads and soups for starters as many of these recipes are inviting. Interesting, educational,and extremely useful. Highly recommended!