Stuart A. Seale

The Full Plate Diet by Stuart Seale, Teresa Sherard, and Diana Fleming. This is a simple diet which might be effective. It requires minimal changes in your lifestyle, and has no fancy complex recipes. The hard part of the diet as with any diet plans is self control. Can you train yourself to stop eating when you are full? Can you chose not to eat when you not hungry?The premise of the Full Plate Diet is that in order to lose weight you must reduce the number of calories you eat which will make you feel full. The solution they propose, their big idea is to eat more fiber, drink more fluids 6 glasses of water, which will make you feel full and avoid in between meal snacks which add unnecessary calories. They believe diet fails because they ask you to eat smaller portions and weights of food instead of changing the kinds of foods you are eating. Feeling more full will encourage you to eat less. They ask you to set a goal of gradually eating 40 grams of fiber everyday. The authors ask you to eat the fiber rich foods 1st then eat the rest of your meal. The idea being the fuller you feel the less of the meal you will eat. The books goes into great detail about which foods contain the most fiber. The book also gives suggestions on how to enhance your existing diet with fiber. The diet seems based on a simple idea that may have a chance of being doable for the average person. This is a book I have bought.… (more)

THE FULL PLATE DIET basically states that if you eat more fiber (as in A LOT more fiber) you'll lose weight. The information given is solid, medically researched information. No real surprises here!

The book is full of gorgeous photos-too full for my taste sometimes. I'd have liked more content and less photos. There were many, many pages that were simply full page photos with no content on them at all.

The book is a good start for a person to read when embarking on a diet fuller in fiber. It does not give enough info, however, for someone to do it. The book gives the top 5 fiber filled fruits, veggies, legumes, grains, a few recipes and a few pages of fiber content in restaurant food. You'd definitely need a more comprehensive book if you decided to embark on a more fiber filled diet.

THE FULL PLATE DIET is a good start for fiber filled eating but is not a comprehensive book, in my opinion, that includes enough information to completely change your eating.… (more)