Don't eat fast food, fats or sugar. Control your portion size. Drink water. Sleep. Don't skip a meal. Exercise a few times a week. Write a food dairy. Set reasonable weight loss goals.
52 basic advices we should all follow but mainly don't. You will find nothing new in this book nor will have scientific nutritional knowledge that will somehow transform your diet from unhealthy to healthy. You will not get a program to follow, a list of foods to eat or avoid, nor recipes.
You do get the advice, quotes, ideas, questions you might want to ask and sensible answers. As a motivational tool, it might work. It will also keep you from fad diets, fasting, diet-pills and get-thin-quickly schemes. Not too shabby for a freebie.
Written in the UK, it uses references that sound quite medieval. I don't know how much a stone weights but I'm pretty sure I could stand to loose a few ! I'll be sure to give the author good advice a try...