Rosemary Conley's Amazing Inch Loss Plan: Lose a Stone in a Month

Very easy to follow this book with a good variety of 3 meals for every day plus snacks in between so you never feel hungry but still lose weight. I particularly like the online daily exercise which is only 10 mins. Meaning it's easy to fit into a busy day. In the first 2 weeks I lost 9lb. Then I went on holiday! However, I was so eager to get back to the plan I have started following it again where I left off and continue to lose weight. There is so much motivational stuff in this book I would recommend it to anyone who really wants to change the way they look for the better and as Rosemary is a committed Christian you can be sure it's all good stuff!

This book is the first i have bought and has worked brilliantly than any of the other diets i have tried. This book takes you through a day by day step of what to eat the calories and a daily 5 minute exercise routine that i have greatly felt the benefits from. It is though only worth buying if you are serious about losing weight as it does take time and effort and will to stick to but once in the frame of mind of wanting to lose weight you can see and feel the difference. I you don't like some of the foods then i have found you can swap it for something you do like as long as it is the same amount as what rosemary says and within the amount of calories allowed for that meal time which it tells you in the book. A great diet plan.

We bought this on the basis of having bought and derived benefit from Conley's previous books - "Ultimate GI Jeans Diet" and "Complete Hip and Thigh Diet", and a few of her DVDs. One could ask why, if Conley's methods are so great, anyone would need more than one book about them, as most seem to be re-hashes of previous material. I suppose there are two reasons for this: (1) The novelty factor - exercise, healthy eating and dieting can become boring; and (2) diets are, by their nature, transient events. In this book, Conley updates it all, and simplifies it somewhat, making a plan that is no bother to follow. The diet is divided into 28 days, with each day setting out a full menu (with recipes) and an exercise. You can follow this regime if you like, but Conley points out that you can swap any similar meal for any other (for example, one breakfast for another breakfast within the same category). In other words, you don't need to bother with following the exact plan day by day - just use the menu summaries on pages 196-209. The menus are pretty good though, with a variety of food types on offer. Some of the meals seem to be aimed at people who formely lived on take-aways and treats, as there seem to be lots of spicy eastern flavours going on, and endless snacks (if you can call 12 grapes a snack). Many of the meals rely on ready-made diet foods, or ready-made sauces. Presumably some readers are not very good with a cooker. Why Conley prefers a diet tomato/basil sauce over the homemade variety is beyond me. Basic pasta sauce is naturally fat-free, made with onion, tomato and herbs. The recipes won't win any awards, but they are generally tasty and easy to make, and they will help you lose weight, of course! Some of the recipe ingredients are hardly worth the bother. For example, one recipe calls for "80g of new potatoes". Erm, that's ONE new potato. Hardly worth the bother, I'd say. Many of the lunchtime reacipes are cooked. This is likely to be impossible for anyone who goes out to work. In most office kitchens, you have a kettle and a microwave to cook with, that's all. You have to quickly forget all the omlettes, stir-fries and grills that are described in the lunch menus. So what's the key to the diet? I am no doctor, but having had a good look through the menus, and used many of them, it boils down to small portions and VERY low fat. If you do EXACTLY what Conley advises, day by day, then I have no doubt that almost anyone will lose weight on this diet. Conley is no fake, her diets do work. You just have to give yourself over to them. So far, it is working wonders for us! If you intend to follow the diet, you'll need to do some serious fruit-and-veg shopping first. For example, smoothies make an expensive breakfast. I also wonder where she imagines one buys seasonal foods like chicory in January? Yes, buying choices are a matter for common sense, but my point is that giving such prominence to seasonal ingredients makes it almost impossible to follow the diet exactly. The exercises occupy far too much space. This kind of material is much better suited to a DVD. In fact the whole thing is a tie-in with Conley's new "Real Results Workout" DVD, which I must say is a really good one to use with this diet, as most of the book's exercises are featured in the DVD. The book design is colourful and pretty. The pages are very nicely arranged. Roger Walker, its designer, deserves a mention for this. His page designs are right on the money! If you cut out pages and pages of exercise photos, what you're left with is a ready-made menu and plenty of good positive motivational stuff. On balance though, the menus are generally very good. Conley manages to inject adverts for her wares in a surprising number of places. It looks like her marketing people got hold of the final draft before it went to press. The ads can be a bit tiresome. I think I've heard all I ever want to hear about "Rosemary Conley Portion Pots" and "Solo Slim" for this lifetime. To sum up then, it's a mixed bag. It has many good points and a few bad, but it does try hard to make you pick it up and use it. Conley keeps it fun and interesting throughout. If you want to lose the titular stone, then go for it. This book will almost certainly get you there if you do exactly what Conley advises. 26 March 2010 update: Well, we've been following the plan for almost a month now, and it is working very well for us. Once you get into it, and just do what Conley says, then it is very easy to follow and succeed with. For all my misgivings about The portion pots, they are actually very handy things to have around. They make the portions in the menus easy to judge, without fetching the scales out all the time.

... And went on to lose another after another 6 weeks. I was heading towards my 60th birthday and decided I wasn't going to be an overweight 60 year old! I stuck to the diet religiously with regards to portion sizes and reduced/no fat, plus did Rosemary's dvds regularly (still do!) and it worked. There are no secrets, just a case of having self-control, which feels amazing when it works. The book is easy to read and the advice simple to follow. I have always eaten healthily, but I now find I have changed my lifestyle in small ways mainly in controlling the portions I eat and being aware more of what I eat and drink. The dvds played a big part as I wasn't really doing much exercise apart from walking. 18 months on and I haven't put any of the weight back on. I still refer to this book for inspiration.

I ummed and erred about buying this book, I wish I hadn't. Ms Conley is an extremely wealthy lady, and I'm a bit peeved that in some tiny way I've added to her wealth and made myself a little poorer! If you know nothing about Rosemary Conley's diets then it I guess this book might be ok. Despite the thickness the majority of the pages are testimonials from the trial dieters. There are very few recipes. There are 28 pages of set meal plans, so assuming you like being told what to eat, when to eat it and you don't have any food types you dislike eating, then that should work for you. There's also 28 days of lists of what to eat on the Solo Slim - that's pre-packaged products, so basically a big chunk of the book is geared up to telling you which packet to open on which day and at what time of the day. So, would I recommend it? No. There is no doubt the diet works. However, I already have a copy of the Ultimate GI Jeans Diet. I would not recommend the Amazing Inch Loss Plan but I would recommend anyone to buy the Ultimate GI Jeans - it has many more recipes. The diet is exactly the same in that it's low fat and low GI, the only difference is in weeks 3 and 4. On both the GI Jeans and the Amazing Inch Loss you do weeks 1 and 2 on 1,200 calories per day. The difference between the 2 books is, the Jeans in weeks 3 and 4 prescribes 1,500 calories per day, the Amazing Inch Loss prescribes 1,400. Weeks 5 onwards, on both plans, you refer to the Basal Metabolic Rate tables at the back of the book to determine your weight and therefore the amount of calories you go to. Both books have the BMRs and both are exactly the same tables. So I can't help feeling a little duped. There is so little of use in the Amazing Inch Loss book, for me, and I really would recommend ditching this and buying the Ultimate GI Jeans and just changing the weeks 3 and 4 to the 1,400 calories of the other plan. It does work, I am now at the end of 3 weeks of the diet (using the amounts on Amazing Inch Loss) and have lost 12.5lb. Apart from the first day when I was well aware I was on a diet, I haven't felt hungry. In fact, the last 3 weeks I've eaten better than I usually do (hence the weight gain). Week 1 I lost a very good 8.5lb, this last week just 1.75lb ... but it's still going. I'm half way to my target weight. The set plans are totally lost on me, I like to get up in the morning to the same breakfast & I don't eat fish and very little meat, so I do count my calories and I have used a number of the recipes in the Ultimate GI Jeans book. I wish I'd saved my money and bought one of the low-fat cook books instead, and anyone with the GI Jeans diet book already, I'd recommend you just alter the calorie intake during weeks 3 and 4 to fit in with this diet plan and spend the money on a cookbook instead! There are exercises shown in both books. The addition in the AILP is the references to [...] - where you can find recipes and fitness videos - all to view free of charge. I've tried to make this as informative as I can, but I cannot recommend this particular book, although I do thoroughly recommend the other one and obviously the diet!

Excellent book...the diet does exactly what it claims. An enjoyable read and worth the money, packed full of helpful advice, plenty of encouragement, and inspirational stories and lots of food choices that are workable and very tasty!

I bought this book to use alongside the information I received at my weekly Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness class. It is very easy to follow and has all the menus, exercises and helpful hints set out for each day for the month. The menus are easy to shop for, cook, they use readily available ingredients so your shopping budget doesn't increase and my whole family eat the same meals as me. Overall a great way to eat healthily, lose weight and get fit for the whole family

Very disappointed with this book it feels very dated, the first quarter of the book seemed to talk about the people that had succeeded on this diet which I found very boring as it was repetitive then Rosemary talked about the foods you will be eating, this is where the first problem arises as you need to buy the meal and snack bars (power snacks) that Rosemary recommends but I have never seen them in the shops, the meals that you have to cook work out very expensive and you need the special measuring spoons, there are no pictures in this book so you don't really know what the meal is meant to look like , The exercises that is in this book are just blurrrr no excitement in them but she does recommend going on her website for help or additional exercises which you have subscribe to and pay extra for, the whole book seems like a long advert for Rosemary Conley.com, This is not the Rosemary Conley high standard that you normally get and I would not recommend this book ( returned book for a refund)

I used to live in England and was part of a Rosemary Conley Club, but then decided to spend a few years in America "back to school" and on a new career path. My move was tricky and I during my first year in the USA (with all the new foods, not to mention stresses) I put on weight again. I heard about RC's new book and decided I had to get it and try it out, I'd brought my RC Portion Cups, RC Toning Band and a couple RC DVDs with me. A few of my colleagues are on various (and rather extreme) diets and I attempted two weeks so far of this book. Whilst they're eating rabbit food and doing extreme workouts (not to mention energy drinks & cold showers) --I'm eating scrumptious salads, baked potatoes, delicious meals and snacks and doing 3 or 4 20min exercises each day. My weight loss is on par with all of them and I feel SO energized! I'm about to take a vacation and know that healthy eating will be tough, but RC's okay with that - she's got some suggestions and recommendations and generally says: Go have fun, don't pig out, but don't feel guilty about having an ice cream or a special dinner with friends - and come back to work when you're back from vacation (my words not hers!). She even makes fun suggestions for how to keep burning calories whilst on vacation (like going hiking with friends, or walking to the beach rather than driving), and has recipes that are great for dining with friends on vacation but are actually very healthy! It's important to read the whole introduction, so if you're planning to start this diet, you probably want to spend 2-3 days preparing (there's some mental preparation exercises to do as well as some shopping etc). The book itself is pretty easy, but required dedication. You have to really want to do this! It's TOTALLY worth it and has some great online videos & resources too. There's plenty of motivation and Rosemary has something each day that takes 5 minutes that involves sitting down and reflecting on attitudes, life experiences and positivity. It's a great book and makes me feel like I've got a personal coach that I meet with each morning - every day she has something new to say, some workouts to do together and some ideas to teach. Really enjoying this Inch Loss Plan (and the results!!)

Bought this book for a friend visiting to take home to New Zealand.

After looking at a lot of other things I decided to give this a go and I can't thank you enough.. not only that is was a good book in excellent condition and excellent service!! WEll Done and Thanks

I bought this book because I wanted to work on my weight loss at home. All was well til DAY 1 of the program when the link to the daily exercise on the Rosemary Conley web site doesnt exisit! In order to do the exercises you have to have a PAID subscription to the website in order to access the daily exercises! What a complete waste of money!

One of the best plans to follow that actually works.