Cook Your Butt Off!: Lose Up to a Pound a Day with Fat-Burning Foods and Gluten-Free Recipes Audio CD – Unabridged, March 31, 2015

OMG!!! All pictures are pink!!! In a cookbook!!! Is this a mistake?! Is Rocco aware or was this a cheap way to push out a book! Furious! Check out "green smoothie"

I wanted this to work - I was eager to try it. Unfortunately though, the 14 day plan would be nearly impossible to adapt for a vegetarian or vegan. As much lip service as is given to the benefits of reducing meat consumption, there are precious few meatless options included. I'm not saying there are none -- but it's a small percentage. If that hadn't been a huge obstacle for me, another thing I find slightly off-putting were the number of oddball ingredients that can only be found online (which is saying something coming from me, as someone who already has odd stuff like psyllium husk powder and juniper berries in her pantry.) Lastly, although I grasp Rocco's point about the physical activity benefit of cooking, I am not a person with the time capacity to prepare every meal fresh. I make ahead as much as humanly possible because time is crazy tight. This book isn't really built for that. He recognizes that time gets tight, and suggests store-bought replacements, but I'm pretty sure I can select a Lean Cuisine all by myself. I love the idea of this book and I hope it works for others, but it's just not going to work for me, sadly.Added note: Occurred to me belatedly to add this ... the one thing I truly adored about this book was its Fitbit barcodes -- I wish all cookbooks and recipe sites would do that. I spend an insane amount of time entering recipes into Sparkpeople (which is linked to my Fitbit) so that I can track my meals. The barcode thing would be a game changer, and I hope other cookbook authors/publishers catch on.

Thoroughly disappointed with the recipe pictures in this book. Why you ask??? Because they are all pink/red...like grayscale but red. You can't even tell what food you are looking at. I have never seen any cookbook/recipe book with completely useless pictures like this. I can't understand why the author would do something like this. Even black/white pictures would have been better than the awful red/pink color. Can anyone guess what this is a picture of??? It's actually a apple breakfast muffin...

After reading about Rocco DiSpirito's book in last week's New York Times, I decided to treat myself to his book and thanks to Amazon's Prime, received the book in time to make one of his featured recipes: chicken with glazed eggplant and cauliflower rice. The fact is this recipe was featured in the Times review, but I thought that since that sounded great, it would make sense to have the book to draw on for inspiration and hopefully lose a few pounds in the process! I have to agree with some of the other reviewers that the photos in the book are terrible and hard to understand the choice of red washed out pictures of the food , since it doesn't help to make it appetizing. While my wife and I worked at making the chicken with the eggplant, I couldn't quite understand how I might have lost weight while chopping the cloves of garlic! The dinner was unique and tasty so I think there will be some recipes worth making but I wouldn't rush out and buy the book for any of my friends!

Very unhappy with this purchase. I bought the book to try and get some new ideas for healthy eating. I didn't get any. The pictures are better than the recipes!! Yes they are all red, white and blurry and if it is food - please let me know.I will give him credit for the chili-rubbed chicken on page 154. I followed the recipe exactly and found out shirataki rice is like jellified alien eggs. Nothing you want in your mouth!! The chicken itself - without the other components is excellent!! I've made it several times. Use real rice and you have a winner here.For the rest of the book - - I would never order it again. I honestly give it an "F".

I live in a small town 65 miles away from any large grocery stores so it is impossible for me to make these recipes. I used to teach food classes in a high school and have never heard of many of the ingredients required for the recipes. I was very disappointed and this book is going into the garbage. The weight watchers recipes are much easier to make and are very good. I will stick with them.

I hate that all the pictures are in red! Half of the reason to get a cookbook is to see the beautifully cooked items BEFORE you attempt to recreate them yourself. It's hard to even get hungry looking through this book; nothing looks like something I want to cook for a meal/snack because it's all in a dark pink shade that resembles pepto-bismol. I honestly thought it was a printing mistake, and almost sent the book back before I read the rest of the reviews. Very disappointed!

First let me say, I love Rocco! I have several of his books and love them all!. That being said, his new book is a total miss! I just don't really care for it. All the suggestions about how many calories you can burn just by cooking seems a little disjointed and quite frankly quite hokey. I also found that most of recipes just do not seem all that appealing.

The book is full of great ideas however all the pictures are pink. I can't understand the meals and is not appetising.

Not what I was expecting...I was hoping the recipe items were easier to find in this neck of the woods......eastern Canada.

This is just the thing I needed to get me started on a whole new live style in the kitchen area in my life.

Horrible photos. Not sure why they were all in red ink.

Other than the PINK recipes this book is pretty good. Not sure if the PINK food pictures was the direction of the author or not but I'm not a big fan of it,