Fill Your Plate Lose the Weight: 70+ Delicious Meals that Keep You Full! - Create a Healthy Lifestyle with this Perfect Recipe Guide for Super-Easy, Tasty, and Lean Filling Meals.

The book has good photos and I love that it is spiral which makes it easier to use while cooking. The recipes are simple, but some use ingredients that aren't available in my small town grocery (a few I had to google). This plan is heavily vegetarian (not totally), and for those of us who aren't, it's a little off-putting. When it's not completely vegetarian, it's usually either poultry or fish. In 21 days there was only 1 beef meal. Not saying that like it's a bad thing, just personally, fish makes me gag. Some of the recipes, however, fish and chicken (or turkey) are interchangeable. So there's that. Take a vitamin.The major drawback is that the weekly shopping lists provided have errors. I realize that you can't buy just 2 lettuce leaves, but if you follow the daily menu exactly your shopping list is short in some areas and too wasteful in others. I ended up putting all the ingredients one by one in a spreadsheet and entering them in my recipe app that combines amounts before I could get a accurate list. If the authors go to the trouble of creating a shopping list it ought to be correct. For those who don't mind hanging out in the grocery store every day, then nevermind.In the daily menus where it asks you to create a meal from a recipe elsewhere in the book, it often says to double the recipe to use later. But all of the recipes are written for 2 or more servings, some as many as 6, while the daily menu is written for 1 serving. Before you trust the instructions, you should count up the times a serving is needed.All that said, this plan is infinitely better than the no-refrigeration-needed-because it's-mostly-preservatives-meal-in-a-pouch plan that costs an arm and a leg.

It is well-conceived and laid out. I am looking forward to trying out the recipes.

I was excited to see a book with an actual meal plan mapped out. It was simple to use. Although seemed very high on dairy intake. So I followed the plan regiously for 21 days.I weighed out each portion via a scale. I ended up gaining weight at a rate of 2lbs per week rather than losing as I had hoped. I know many others have positive reviews but it didn't help me as I had hoped.

Great tips for losing weight! Recipes are practical and super-easy and DELISH!! So much better than the oodles of diet books out there. I just returned the new book from Giada DeLaurentis EAT BETTER FEEL BETTER. It's terrible and I usually love Giada's stuff! I was so disappointed! But this book is terrific! This is very doable and real. Easy to follow menu plans, simple shopping lists for each week and sound advice. The only thing the book doesn't delve into is the fitness element; the author simply states not to "overdo it" with exercising and intense cardio workouts (which most people think they need to do to lose weight -not so.) What I would suggest is a walking program (Jessica Smith and Leslie Sansone are both superb trainers). Make sure that you work out 6 days per week for at least 30 minutes and make sure you have a good mix of cardio, strength training, and stretching/meditation. Do that along with this program and you'll be ready for Spring/Summer in a few weeks! I highly recommend this book!!!QUICK UPDATE: I have only been following this 21 day plan for 5 days and ALREADY, I am dropping weight. I can barely finish all the food in a day. I really wish I had gotten this book sooner! It would have saved me a lot of time and money. If you're on the fence about getting another "diet book"...do yourself a favor and get this one. You will not regret it. I saw that in some of the reviews, people said that the recipes were boring or bland. I completely disagree. The recipes are meant to be easy and doable and super-quick to put together. This is EXACTLY what I want. Healthy meals should not be difficult. Also, a big bonus is that I already had most of the ingredients so I saved a ton of money at the grocery store and didn't have to go hunting around for hard-to-find ingredients. Just a great way to lose weight easily and effectively!!!!!

This book has great recipes in it that are easy to make with ingredients that are healthy and that you would normally have. No need to buy odd items. My husband and I used these recipes after trying a keto diet (which was horrible and made us feel horrible) and it was a wonderful change. You are full after you eat, which is important to me when dieting. You do not have to count calories, and we did lose about 15 lbs. without starving ourselves. The only downside is that I wish there were more recipes in this book so that we could have continued on this diet for a longer period of time. After a while, it got boring and monotonous, and hard to keep eating the same things. I looked on the internet and there is not another book like this that I could find. Bummer! I would definitely recommend this instead of a keto diet!Also, I wanted to mention that having it spiral bound is wonderful! Easy to set down on the counter and use without needing a paperweight to hold it open and having it flip closed.

Pretty good expected better recipes

started in February and stuck to it to the letter. Lost 16 pounds so far. Never hungry due to eating 6 times a day. Good plan and it works.