[Aliantha]

Lots of the recipes in the book are great. Some are not so good. I did the stuffed baked whole apple with the nut cream for a dinner party a couple of weeks ago. Everyone ate it all and said they liked it, but I wasn't too keen. I actually did the whole meal based on the liver cleansing diet and it went down well.

It's pretty simple to follow. Much easier than I thought it would be although I noticed in about my 4th week I started having real cravings for chocolate and fats. This could have been due to the fact that I was sick with a nasty cold and also my period was due. I lapsed and had a couple of slices of pizza and a cadbury cream egg, but it doesn't seem to have done me too much harm. It's actually ok to have good quality dark chocolate on the diet though.

Anyway, I'll keep posting here and let you know how I'm going. I'm about to start my fifth week now, so I'm just over half way through the 8 week program. Once I'm done I think I'll probably stick to the basic principals of the diet though. It seems to be a fairly healthy way to go.