Random House UK Slimming World Food Optimising

I've been using the slimming world range of meals for lunches at work for a while now as I need to lose weight and wanted to know a bit more about the philosophy behind it. This book talks you through this which seems fine. Then when you get to the suggested menus, some are simply inedible, others are a blatant copy of the fatfield diet which is around 25 years old and the only diet I've ever used that I actually lost weight on. I've come to the conclusion that diets are a mechanism of using food as a punishment for being fat which is why they all fail. I love good food but don't see why I should compromise on eating well. I'll use this as an up-to-date tool for some meals and will continue with their frozen meals for lunch.

Good introductory book to how to food optimise, especially after joining slimming world as a member. Good range of receipes to try out for various diets and mostly relatively healthy to aid weight loss. Only comment is that it would have been good for each recipe to show how many 'Syns' (if any) are included or the Healthy items A and B (dairy and fibre respectively) are included in each recipe to be able to track according to the slimming world method. Otherwise, happy with the purchase and responsive customer service from the book seller.

A useful aid for a weight loss programme with lots of hints and tips but I didn't find the recipes very interesting and had to adapt them according to my personal taste. I wouldn't recommend this particular edition to anyone. I bought it second hand and I believe there are more up to date editions of the same book which have been published. It's well to check.

Returned not fit for purpose it's at least three years out of date slimming world have altered their system there for this book will not do

Like the previous reviewer said this book is not suitable for following slimming world today. It might have been useful for recipe ideas if there were any syn values given, but there aren't. Sadly, a waste of money.