I approach this cookbook as someone who is on a low carb diet and can confirm that you can indeed lose weight on a high fat low carb diet. No other diet ever worked for me. It also led to some health benefits such as stable blood sugar levels. No more metformin!

I find many of the recipes very interesting. I especially like the international flavors such as the Slow-cooked Chicken with Thai flavors recipe and the Grilled Chicken breasts with Sambal (yay Malaysian!)

Some of the recipes are too high carb and I feel that these can easily halt some people's weight loss. A dish with over 100g carbs is no longer considered low-carb.

Whatever the case, anything lower carb is still better than the carby junk that is making everybody fat.

Thank you Netgalley and Little, Brown for the ecopy. This is my honest opinion, and I'm sorry it took so long!

I follow Dr Mark Hyman faithfully. I read his books, follow him on social media, and watch his many online videos. I purchased his book Eat Fat Get Thin and was prepared to fall in love with his cookbook of the same name. I trusted the recipes to fall perfectly in sync with the philosophies he discussed in his earlier book. I hope the book I reviewed is an early edition followed by many updates. I'm hoping the nutritional analysis of many of the recipes is way off. Many of the recipes listed sodium content >1,000 mg. I can't imagine any recipe with that much sodium being at all flavorful or healthy. The recipe for Savory Coconut Pancakes listed the size of each pancake as 1". While I agree that serving sizes often get out of hand, a 1" pancake seems a little small to balance ANY kind of savory topping.

If I find the cookbook on a bookstore shelf I may pick it up and scan it for corrections. But after this read, I wont be feverishly hunting down a copy or joyfully recommending it to patients.

For those that want easily digested information along with recipes to help you plan meals, then this is a great book. For those who want more information and less recipes, then the accompanying book Eat Fat, Get Thin is beneficial.

That being said, I still have a hard time fully jumping on board as the eating is so different from what my family does. The struggle is there when you have growing boys who could eat carbs all day long and thrive. Bread smells and tastes awesome, so it is hard to bake for them and not eat some myself.

That being said, I need to just plan to follow the program for a while and see if health issues improve. I remember Weight Watchers using the phrase "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels." Maybe the same can be said for eating with health in mind.

I was a bit skeptical about the premise of Eat Fat Get Thin cookbook but I have been seeing that eating so many carbs, little fat or protein was expanding my waist line.. Even though I knew that it was important to change my diet I didn't until I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic. I slowly made changes in my eating and then found Eat Thin, Get Fat. This cookbook has to be one of the easiest, tastiest cookbooks.I have found on my journey to eat differently.

I am not the best of cooks but each recipe I made was delicious. I first cooked the Tamari and Orange-Marinated Cod with Bok Choy. Its ingredients are simple. You don’t have to go to specialty stores to find them. In such a short time I made a dish that everyone in my family loved. It plated beautifully. I will be making it again and again.

I wanted to try a dish that had more challenge to it. I cooked Slow-Cooked Chicken with Thai flavor. I had never cooked a whole chicken or used coconut milk. Again, tasty, a little dry in places, (which I have found in other dished where I use the slow cooker and white meat) but overall it’s Thai flavors infused the throughout the chicken and my family enjoyed it.

One downside is that there are too few pictures in the book and also though I am able to find most of the ingredients (live in a big city) I cannot imagine how someone who lives in a small, city, or in a rural area would have access to many of the ingredients needed. Overall, it is a keeper for me and I plan on using it quite often.

Thank you to Netgalley for allowing me to review this book for an honest review.

After hearing Mark Hyman talk about this new cookbook on the Dr. Oz show, I was excited that I had the opportunity to look at a preview copy from Netgalley. (Thank you Netgalley and Little, Brown and Company). Dr. Hyman took me through all the latest information about the health benefits of fat. At times, keeping up with what is considered good these days almost seems like a full-time job, so it’s nice when someone pulls everything together. He gives recommendations for what should definitely be tossed from the fridge and pantry, and what we can keep. Then he adds in new products, some I have not heard of, and lets the us know how to put it all together.

The plan is for 21 days. After that, some things can be added back in. This part seems to me like a typical jump-start to most diets. And if you have given up things like butter in the past—let me tell you—you will be drooling when you see some of the recipes. There are sections for smoothies, eggs and breakfasts, salads, soups, vegetables, seafood, poultry, beef and lamb, bread and deserts, condiments, sauces and seasonings.

Here is a small sampling of recipes. I’m sure many of them will be familiar to you: mixed berry coconut smoothie; omega-3 green smoothie; peachy green smoothie; chocolate raspberry smoothie; slow fried eggs with onions and basil; poached eggs with hollandaise; Italian breakfast scramble; spicy egg scramble with tomato and avocado; garlicky beef and spinach frittata; Southwestern tofu scramble walnut pancakes with blueberries; guacamole; deviled eggs; herb-roasted almonds; veggie bone broth; summer bounty vegetable stew; hearty lentil and mushroom soup; braised collard greens; garlic steamed broccoli rabe; cauliflower rice with scallions; lemon-baked sole with stewed summer squash; shrimp scampi; shredded chicken; chicken cacciatore; turkey burgers with peppers and onions; spaghetti and meatballs with tomato sauce; meatloaf with Italian seasonings; pot roast; shepherds pie; Caribbean lamb stew; spiced sweet potato quick bead; chocolate-pistachio fudge; chocolate truffles; ghee; mayonnaise; green olive tapenade and chimichurri.

When I saw this book was written by Mark Hyman, I was interested in it immediately. Fat has got a lot of unfounded bad press over the last decade or so. I think a lot of people just don't understand good fat vs. bad fat and that your body NEEDS fat to be it's ultimate best. This is a companion cookbook that goes with Hyman's Eat Fat, Get Thin book, but without having read that book I think you will still get the overall point of it summarized here at the beginning of the cookbook. The book has a detailed chart about what fats you should eat which I think anyone who reads the book will find extremely helpful. There is also some great information on what kind of vitamins you might consider taking to take your health to the next level. I like that there are so many recipes in the book that there will be at least a few things everyone would enjoy. It gives many options for great recipes and I think that is the main goal of a good cookbook, that there are so many great things in the book, no one will feel like it isn't for them. My favorite section is the breakfast section because there are tons of savory options and too often there is a focus on sweetness for our first meal of the day. I could easily eat any of the things from the breakfast section for any meal. I think anyone who wants to eat well and cares about their health will enjoy The Eat Fat, Get Thin Cookbook so I recommend this book to anyone wanting to eat well.

ARC generously provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I have read several of Mark Hyman's "diet" books so I was excited to pick up his newest one.

However I have to say that I don't think this is a diet I will be following. I have no doubt it is extremely healthy and you would absolutely lose weight following it but knowing myself as I do it is just much to restricting for me to follow. I have to have something that is more of a lifestyle and even though this plan is def. a lifestyle choice it is not one I could follow without feeling deprived.

However if you have more willpower then I do I suggest you give it a read, to me it is very similar in principle to a whole 30 type of living.

An excellent compliment to the Eat Fat, Get Thin book. Mark Hyman MD. comes through with another winner.