‘Neris and India’s Idiot-Proof Diet’ - Two women share how they lost weight that made them feel ‘weeble-ish’

This is about the "other" Idiot-Proof Diet everyone in the United Kingdom has been talking about. Here's an excerpt from Neris and India’s book that appeared on MSNBC.com:

India Knight and Neris Thomas, co-authors of “Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet,” at one point weighed 434 pounds collectively, and they decided enough was enough. Their goal was to lose 140 of those pounds in under a year. As they say in their book, “if two unusually greedy, cocktail-loving moms can lose this amount of weight without much effort, so can anyone.” Here's an excerpt:

Introduction
So here we have it: yet another diet book.
And none of the usual qualifications for writing one, either — we’re not doctors, we’re not nutritionists, we’re not over-the-hill movie stars. We’re not unusually obsessed by other people’s poos, happily enough. We have no immediate plans for an exercise DVD.
Ho no. We can do better than that.
Between us, Neris and I have lost 140 pounds, give or take the odd pound. It took us a year, and we have maintained the weight loss. One hundred forty pounds is a lot of weight.
It’s as much as a whole other person (Lordy, what a thought). And we think it’s pretty damned impressive. Unusual, too. Show us a diet book written by someone who’s actually lost more than a few measly pounds and we’ll eat a whole bag of potatoes and a tub of lard for seconds. Other diet book writers talk the talk. We walk the walk. Well, we walk it now. We used to just waddle, thighs chafing attractively together.
That’s the problem with the usual diet books. We’re not going to say they don’t work, because many of them do — the majority, probably — why wouldn’t they? All kinds of diets work; the problem is sticking to them. That’s because diet books are not written by people with a lot of weight to lose. They don’t come from the minds of the formerly fat. So you get these grim, gloomy volumes of finger-wagging directions: boil a fish, steam a sprout, run for two hours. And those books are unbelievably depressing. They make you feel like you’ve been punished, excluded from normal life, and they make you want to give up before you’ve even begun.