“[T]here is comfort in better grasping what has gone wrong, and enlightenment for those around you when they grasp it too. None of us needs sympathy; what we do need is a helping hand and understanding. Someone like Taylor provides that, helping a terrible blow become far less so.”

Although I attribute my losing 15lbs to this book, I have to disagree with many of the statements it claims as fact. Although it makes some great points, it grossly exaggerates in some areas. I also don't like how the authors cuss at you and uses foul language but I'm sure this tactic is a good wake up call for the extremely unhealthy. I also think they should have had a doctor cowrite with them (not just a model and "natural medicine expert"), it helped me to become lighter and healthier. I won't give up meat and drinking like the authors demand you to but I am eating less meat and all organic foods. I didn't believe it when it said I wouldn't crave the unhealthy foods I used to enjoy eating before such as cheetos but it was right. It teaches you to listen to your body and do what it needs and how it feels. I definitely recommend just trying their diet for a few weeks and after you feel so good you don't want to eat unhealthy.

"It's hard not to be enlivened by a [weight-control] book that celebrates both chocolate and bread, and espouses such wisdom as 'Life without pasta? Perish the thought.'"