Cooking is my hobby and I have had this book for over a year now and have used it many times. The recipes are very tasty, I've used many of them over and over. The low fat chocolate cheesecake is wonderful, as is the potato-cheese soup. In addition, the book starts off with a chapter on nutrition and a chapter on kitchen utensils and spices - I think both chapters would be very helpful to the novice and the experienced cook (consider myself experienced). I am now ordering this book for a friend of mine, in the past have given it to my mother, brother and mother-in- law. If I could have only one low-fat cookbook, this one would be it. I strongly recommend it to anyone who is interested in really yummy low-fat cooking

I'm glad I bought this book. The well-designed menu really made me feel healthier & more energetic--even on 600 or 900 calories. I think everyone should consider eating a maintenance version of this diet for a couple of weeks just to see the difference that a good, well-balanced diet can make. I also liked his maintenance tips on exercise. UNFORTUNATELY, I lost three or four pounds the first week, then quit losing. And I wasn't cheating, I promise! It's a pretty tough diet to stay on if your not seeing the scale change, and I think some of us (you know who you are!) really have a hard time losing weight. Still, I learned some things that I will apply to my future weight-loss attempts and my long-term maintenance program.

If you are looking for a sane way to lose weight and eat like a normal person at the same time, this is for you. I have used this program several times over the years and it always pays off - not only in safe, healthy and consistent weight loss, but also (and more importantly) in retraining my eating habits.

You eat normal, healthy meals - without bizzare restrictions like no-carbs or no-fat. Bottom line, what you end up eating are reasonable, balanced meals on a regular schedule. The key is the healthy eating combined with an ever-changing calorie count per day. Basically, you trick your metabolism into remaining at a normal level while you eat fewer calories.

The other strong result of this diet is that it retrains you into a habit of healthy eating, which goes a long way toward keeping the weight off. Every few years, I end up backsliding into donuts and pizza three times a week and use this program to dump the pounds and get me back on track.

They insist you do a three-weeks-on, one-week-off schedule, so it is easy to stay on it for a long time. My first time on the program, I stayed with it for 5 months and lost a LOT - without feeling like I was dieting or anything.

Guys do particularly well on this program. I can generally count on dropping about 12-16 pounts per three-week cycle, more if I exercise regularly.

This diet worked for me 5 years ago (I lost 20 pounds!). You are only hungry the first three or four days when the calorie intake is lowest. After that, your calories are not as restricted and you won't feel much hunger if you remember to have the three snacks a day. I use fruit or one cheese stick as a snack. If you follow the book's advice, you will be eating 6 times a day, spaced out every few hours so you never feel too hungry. I am doing this diet again and I am already, after three weeks, at a weight I have not seen on the scale in two years. I am also eating much healthier than I usually do - and enjoying it! I am very happy with my results. This diet is nutritionally sound, satisfying (except for those first few days), and easy to follow. This is really the sanest way to diet! I feel healthier, my skin is clearer, and I am very encouraged at losing some weight that I was not too proud of!

This book is the best thing that ever happened to me. I eat at Mcdonald's two times a day. I enjoy McNuggets for breakfast, a Big Mac Value Meal for Lunch, and a sensible dinner. Then I have four sensible snacks right before I go to bed. I get up in the middle of the night to take a #2 (which consists of my #2 value meal). This book is a must buy!

and you will be able to pick up everything worthwhile in two minutes. If I had done that instead of [buying it], I would be a few dollars richer.

I ordered this book after reading the hype in Men's Fitness or whatever magazine employs these folks. A diet that helped maximize testosterone without supplements, etc. sounded like a good thing--and it may be, except that the whole diet is in two pages. First, you figure out your maintenance calorie level then you add or subtract depending on whether you want to gain or lose weight. Then you subtract the amount of calories that 2 gm of protein per kg of bodyweight provides and split the rest with fat and carbs. That's it. Does it work? I'll see. It will be exactly the same amount of protein I have been eating with slightly higher total calories and quite a bit more fat.

Another thing I learned is that cardio is dangerous. If you don't run, you won't have a heart attack while running or get hit by a car. Good points. Should one do a little postworkout cardio or some on off days? The book is silent, but says that lifting is all that is necessary. The lifting in the book is essentially cardio--especially for the first two weeks when it is three circuits of about ten exercises with 20 reps. That will get the lactic acid building up as well as running hills and keeping good form for that many reps is about as boring as a treadmill.

Will it work? Who knows (even the authors don't seem to know--they admit that their wonder testosterone diet is based on a test with no control group in which they didn't even measure testosterone levels)but the results of the people in the book don't seem too impressive. All the guys they showed droped some weight and look better but are by no means huge or cut. They improved their chin up ability slightly for what that is worth, but no news on body fat percentage, etc. In fairness, the authors did not use the Body For Life trick of taking very muscular but fat guys and showing them all ripped, oiled and shaved after 12 weeks of dropping fat.

All that said, I'm going to give the diet and workout a fair shot for a little variety, if nothing else. It could turn out to be the best program ever. The book certainly isn't, however.

The book was recommended to me by my doctor to lower cholesterol in 1990. I stuck to the routine for a full year, lost twenty pounds and lowered my cholesterol from 250 to 160. Felt great the entire time. I still have the book and still use many of the recipes and menus. The menus make it easy. The recipes are easy and great tasting. It really just sets up a common sense approach to eating.

I was able to lose 20 pounds on this diet. The book is very helpful in learning the correct way to eat and how to monitor your calorie intake to maintain your weight. I have kept the weight off and Iam enjoy my new look. Should you like more information on how I was able to do it, pls E-mail me at: lewis3K@cs.com

If you're looking for something new and different, you won't find it here. It's more of the same -- too much detail to read, and the menus are repetious. The "rotation" diet is also too low in calories.

I found the T-Factor 2000 book to be very informative. I have read many health facts and tidbits from numerous sources, but this book actually gives you the scientific reasoning and breakdowns behind each. Sometimes it can get tedious. The reviewer who commented that this book does not give anything "new and informative" needs to realize that most of the "new and informative" books are filled with garbage and unhealthy eating plans. T-Factor 2000 gives sensible, pratical and healthy advice that works drastically to anyone who continues to fight the battle of the bulge.

It doesn't promise any magic solutions, or strange new combinations to make fat disappear. I enjoyed the detail and logical reasoning of the book which agrees with several other health experts. They have been telling us to cut down on fat for years. The recipes consist of foods that anyone would enjoy eating...not strange or extreme. Eating natural whole foods and getting enough excercise is just plain common sense. The family size recipes can be overwhelming for a single person...but thank God for freezers! You just cook and freeze leftovers. I like having the menus planned for me. One less thing for me to do and that leaves more time for living!

This book doesn't quite live up to its title. The skimpy info on the special problems smokers run into with regard to weight management (which most people already know if they've read anything about it in newspapers or in the smoking-related Newsgroups) is heavily padded out with pages and pages of standard fat-content charts and blank charts to fill out as part of the author's "7+7" weight program. This gimmicky program essentially states: Eat less fat and exercise.

The information on smoking cessation programs is also very dated; Zyban/Wellbutrin are not mentioned, and the nicotine patch seems to have been almost an experimental technique when this book was written. This little book seems like it was cranked out as a quick money-maker--a standard, formulaic diet book with a few cliched statements about smoking thrown in.

This book prepared me for what to expect -- what stages my cravings would go through and why, and for how long. It let me know why I might or might not gain weight and what I needed to do to counteract that. The book provided the tools for understanding the physical repercussions of quitting. I guess forewarned is forearmed.

This book I have had the pleasure of reading. It seems practical, if you live a practical life. Its very nutritional an suggest guidelines for reaching and maintaining an active life. It gives you real hope if your not an active person and had been wondering about how to get started. The recipes are very simple to follow (if you like to cook which I dont). Even though I'm not going on this particular diet because of my hectic lifestyle, (and I don't have time to think about preparing meals) I would recommend this book because it will really work. I've been on a plan like this one in the past, its just now there are so many fads out that you can't find good weight reduction books like this anymore.

I've only used this book a few times and find it hardly useful. There are quite a few brands and products that I use that aren't listed in this book. This book is small and difficult to use. There also seems to be a stong bias to certain brands only. You'll get just as much use reading the back of packages yourself or reading the plastic bags in the produce department. Don't waste you money.

Obviously there is a typo is the price listed!