Saraga

The Amazon Diet is a fictional novel about a group of curvy women who decide to take an adventure vacation in Suriname to have some fun and lose some weight. This simple plan is complicated by the millionaire ex-husband who wants to eliminate paying his former wife's alimony by murdering her. Complications accumulate when he hires a young alcoholic, first time hit man. The expedition becomes stranded in the jungle, is joined by a monkey called Elvis and helped by a tribe of not too primitive natives.

The journey back to civilization sees the women confronting an unforgiving environment and men who want to destroy them. They find confidence, some find romance, Elvis finds a home and they all agree that anaconda tastes just like chicken.