The 5 Factor Diet
Lose the weight with 5 ingredients, 5 minutes, and 5 meals a day: Give this diet 5 stars!Celebrity trainer and diet expert Harley Pasternak, author of 5-Factor Fitness, shares his secret to easy weight loss in this delicious plan: 5 small meals a day for 5 weeks, plus 100-plus recipes with 5 or fewer ingredients and just 5 minutes of prep time. Meal plans are included, and preparation is a snap. It works for Pasternak’s clients, and it can work for you! As Eva Mendes says, “Harley has changed my life. Not only do I feel better than ever, but now I can have guilt-free pizza anytime, and that has made me a happy girl.” You’ll even find a bonus chapter of 5-Factor Fitness workouts and sample 5-minute workout moves to help you maximize diet results in just 25 minutes per day over 5 weeks…. More >>
book arrived when I was on vacation and did not really read it today as I just got home, but will in a day or so
This is essentialy a non-fat diet. I was unable to find a grocery or health food store that carried non-fat diary products. Check out the availability of these products before you buy this book.
I was very disspointed with this book. The author is very high on his scientific background and spends most of the book simply defining the aspects of foods and telling you why other diets don’t work. When it comes to his actual recipies, there is no shopping list to go with them and I didn’t even make it past the first few listed as they sounded disgusting! Asparagus Crepes? Gross! Seriously, that’s the first recipie in the book, and you have to go through 110 pages of mostly nonsense to get to that point. Also most (if not all) of the recipies are for 2 servings – why would a diet book encourage you to make too much food? Very strange.
Definitely not recommended if what you are looking for is a book to help you shop and eat better immediately. I don’t know if the diet actually works because it doesn’t give you enough information to get started. If you want to read about how great the author thinks he is then this your book, but you must have to actually meet him in person if you want to understand this diet.
As a non-cooking, tiny kitchen, over-stressed and underemployed New Yorker, I took a look at this diet and wondered how I would ever find the time and/or inclination to:
a) Learn to cook properly;
b) Afford all of the ingredients;
c) Be able to exercise without annoying the neighbors under me(there’s already been complaints when I tried, ‘cos the floors are not good!). lol
To me, all of this looks great on paper. I love the sound of all of it, but to be honest, given my current circumstances, I can see all of this taking up way too much of my time and money, I would probably quit within a week. I can’t afford a gym membership either and all of my time is taken up just trying to pay my mortgage and find steady work.
I would, if there had been an option, have given it 3.5 stars. It looks like a very good and healthy plan. Who knows, maybe things will change and I’ll give it a shot once my lifestyle changes. Right now, it’s just not practical for me.
If you know nothing about food values and nutrition, this might be helpful. This author apparently is “diet guru” to the Hollywood chic. The book has about as much substance as Jessica Simpson, one of his promoters. It’s an inexpensive book, but useless, in my opinion.