I've read Rapid Fat Loss, Flexible Dieting, and The Ketogenic Diet book. And I've done the RFL diet and I currently incorporate a lot of what I've learned in Flexible Dieting into my regular way of life.
Rapid Fat Loss is exactly as Citruskiss outlined, a great crash diet.
Flexible Dieting is a good look at dieting, but not coming so much from "what to eat" but more about "how to diet" if that makes sense. He talks about research data that shows that people that incorporate flexiblility (that is not needing to be perfect) into their dieting have better success with long term compliance. He also talks more about the hormones (leptin, ghrelin and others) involved in dieting, how dieting affects them. He puts that together and explains how to use planned diet breaks, refeeds and free meals to structure a better diet.
The Ketogenic Diet book is exceptionally informative explaining in lots of sciency nerdness how ketogenic diets work, why they work and how to adapt them for your own needs.
He's got other books, the two I can think of is the Protein Book and Stubborn Fat Loss. The Protein book is all about protein, how much you need, how your body uses it, etc, etc. I haven't read it, but if you want to learn about protein & the body, I'm sure it's great.
Stubborn Fat Loss sounds good, but it's not about regular fat loss, it's about losing the *last* of the fat. Not the last 20 lbs, but the last 3-4 lbs, when you are about to enter a fitness or body building competition and are looking to lose those stubborn pockets of fat on the thighs or love handles. He says it's not suitable unless you are already at a very low body fat percentage.
Oh, yes, there is UD 2.0, Ultimate Diet 2.0. Again, for people already fairly lean, certainly already in the low-normal BMI range. This book is about body recomposition, changing your body from soft to hard & muscular. It may involve some weight loss, but it's more about losing fat and building muscle within a fairly narrow range of bodyweight.
From what I understand from his forums, everyone buys the RFL book looking for fast weight loss. The better book is Flexible Dieting, it will help you design a diet you can live with, will take the weight off, and you'll learn how to stay sane while dieting.
For what it's worth, I've done the RFL diet, and yes, I lost weight, but it's very restrictive and hard, very low-calorie and the refeeds are tough to manage especially if you have a hard time controlling your carb intake (refeeds are high carb). I'm dieting now, counting calories, incorporating some of what he suggests in Flexible Dieting like free meals and I'm actually losing weight almost as quickly as I was with RFL because I could never get the refeeds & free meals controlled with RFL.
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