The Flavor Point Diet: The Delicious, Breakthrough Plan to Turn Off Your Hunger and Lose the Weight for Good

As a public health professional discouraged by the popularity of weight loss books peddling potentially health compromising diet plans, I find this book to be a breath of fresh air. Sensory-specific satiety is not a new concept, yet to my knowledge Dr. Katz is the first to consider how the average person can understand it and use it to their advantage. His plan makes it easy to control the appetite simply by eating a variety of lusciously satisfying, healthy balanced meals and snacks while following a "theme". Does it take effort? Some, but most anything worth doing does! Besides, this plan is as easy to follow as all the others. The difference is: you need not sacrifice your health nor your taste buds to get the results you've been wishing for!

I have only been on this diet for two weeks and have lost four pounds! As a health care professional, I know quite a bit about nutrition...yet always managed to fall for the diets that greatly limit carbs. This diet is different. While it took a little bit of getting used to cooking again, now that I am into the swing of things a little preplanning the night before allows me to stick with it! I am finding that I want to stick with it for several reasons...first and foremost - the food is delicious! I am feeling like I'm on a gourmet adventure every day! Foods that I would never have thought I would like are great! I have yet to try a single dessert - there is simply no room for more after dinner. I'm finding that cravings are gone, and I am never hungry! I can see myself changing my eating habits for the long haul!

My husband and I are both committed to eating healthy (and in teaching our kids to eat healthy). We also wanted to lose some weight. However, because we both work full-time jobs, teach college courses part-time, and have two children (ages 3 and 9) to keep up with, eating healthy and losing weight was a challenge. We saw the Flavor Point diet featured on 20/20 and thought we'd give it a try. The meal plans are easy to follow and offer a lot of variety. My husband and I, who have gotten sick of the same-old PBJ or turkey sandwiches for lunch, are really enjoying the lunch recipes. Our favorites were the spinach salad with lentils, raisins, and walnuts and the black bean and tomato salad. We made them the night before, put the salad in one Tupperware and the dressing in another and brought them to work - they were delicious. Our one challenge was figuring out how to have smoothies in the office. We tried a couple of different things but what I found that worked was to make them the night before, freeze them and then put them in our lunch in the morning. This worked like a charm -- they were the perfect consistency by 2 or 3 in the afternoon. My favorite dinner recipe was the roasted chicken with currant wine glaze - I made an 8 lb chicken and we had enough leftovers for two more meals! That is a real plus given our busy schedules. My oldest daughter is a picky eater who absolutely HATES EVERYTHING but chicken -- even SHE LIKED the Baked Tilapia with tomatoes, capers, and black olives. Her favorite Flavor Point dinner was the Mexican stuffed bell peppers which is easy to make and very kid- friendly. We love the food and we've started to lose weight! We love the Flavor-Point diet and so do our kids! We will definitely stick with it

Diet book...not really, life changing tool...absolutely! I was one of Dr. Katz's test subjects. My cholesterol went from 234 to 162 after 12 weeks. My Doctor was going to put me on medication for my consistently high cholesterol (everyone in the family is on this kind of medication). I tried to diet and exercise and I couldn't budge that number until Dr. Katz's book. I am beyond thankful for how this book has impacted my life. I lost 22lbs using Dr. Katz's book and I couldn't be happier. David and Catherine Katz are a fabulous team. This book is now my cookbook and inspirational guide. Are the first 2 weeks tough? Yes. Does it get easier? Of course. Is it worth it? Absolutely. Would I recommend this book? To every single person I know.

This book is fantastic! The ideas, the rationale, the program, the recipes - down to the smallest detail (what grocery aisle contains what item)are so clear, so concise, and so compelling. The tone is friendly but authoritative. There is the "one-on-one" sense that draws you in to a personal relationship with the authors (love the comments that go along with the recipes) and a feeling that you are interacting with someone who's done the research, put in the time and knows what it's all about. There is wit and wisdom - science and culinary artistry - what a scrumptious stew of possibilities - all beautifully served up and easily digested. And best of all - this feast is for the ENTIRE FAMILY!!! (As a mother and grandmother - that really matters.) Congratulations to the authors - you did it - and I love it! Tonight - stuffed peppers - pecan encrusted tilapia - or shrimp in basil pesto? Who can decide? I look forward to a lifetime of healthy/delicious eating and each time I get my cholesterol checked or notice my weight on the scale - I will drink a silent toast to Katz & Katz and their Flavor Point Diet. Thankyou - you have just given us the last diet book we will ever need.