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rachelcabbit's review
2.0
It was a wonderfully informal books which started off really well, addressing emotional eating and other topics that other diet books skim over. Then it revealed itself to be an atkins/south beach style diet with very expensive eating options. A normal Brit living on minimum wage cannot afford that amount of organic produce, that much meat and all those supplements.
Then there is the dubious nature of the results.
India and Neris, for all their amazing chatty open writing and brutal honesty, don't really seem to be telling the truth. Their picture in the book for example - I couldn't really tell which were the before and which were the after. The 'after' photos show them in figure hugging dresses which could easily be hiding various types of fat pants designed to suck you in. Their photographs were taken at weird angles which seemed to make their faces slimmer but without direct side by side comparisions of before and after, it was so difficult to see more than a tiny bit of difference between the two - and as I said, fat pants make that much difference. Another thing - they tired their hair back in the fat photos but had their hair styled around their faces in the 'after' shots. Again, clever photo trickery to give the illusion of weightloss.
I enjoyed reading it, but don't think I will be following their plan. Too expensive and not enough evidence of the results.
Even those readers before and after shots on their website (frompigtotwig.com) don't seem that different.
Then there is the dubious nature of the results.
India and Neris, for all their amazing chatty open writing and brutal honesty, don't really seem to be telling the truth. Their picture in the book for example - I couldn't really tell which were the before and which were the after. The 'after' photos show them in figure hugging dresses which could easily be hiding various types of fat pants designed to suck you in. Their photographs were taken at weird angles which seemed to make their faces slimmer but without direct side by side comparisions of before and after, it was so difficult to see more than a tiny bit of difference between the two - and as I said, fat pants make that much difference. Another thing - they tired their hair back in the fat photos but had their hair styled around their faces in the 'after' shots. Again, clever photo trickery to give the illusion of weightloss.
I enjoyed reading it, but don't think I will be following their plan. Too expensive and not enough evidence of the results.
Even those readers before and after shots on their website (frompigtotwig.com) don't seem that different.
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