I found this diet in First magazine and loved the idea of it.  It is a great diet and I followed it faithfully for a little over a week using the guidelines set out in the magazine. 

 Then we went camping and I went back to my old eating habits, which really aren't that bad, but nevertheless, most of the food items weren't in the original UltraSimple diet.   Big Mistake!  I wound up in my doctor's office with severe upper left abdomen, colon, intestine (?) pain.  The pain has persisted for over two weeks now, though it is gradually diminishing as I went back on the UltraSimple diet as soon as our two-week camping trip ended. (By this time, I had ordered the actual book and discovered the ERROR OF MY WAYS!!  I think it was a huge error on the part of FIRST magazine not to alert its readers to the dangers of what happens when one goes OFF this diet in a haphazard way.  I will not make that mistake again.)

 But, I may wind up having to get multiple tests run because the pain is persisting, and in fact, woke me up again last night in the middle of the night and I was up for 3 hours with it before it diminished enough to allow me to go back to sleep.

 However, I am a firm believer that this diet is great.  I have lost ten pounds on it and have kept them off.  Again, I can't stress enough to be careful when you do go off the diet.  Of course, in the book, the doctor mentions it several times.  I think it should be in bold print and capital letters!!