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Cook Yourself Thin: Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes (Paperback)
by Lifetime Television (Author)
Book Details
* Paperback: 240 pages
* Publisher: Voice; 1 edition (April 28, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1401341136
* ISBN-13: 978-1401341138
* Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches
* Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Book Description
Cook Yourself Thin is a healthy, delicious way to drop a dress size without all the gimmicks.
For some of us, losing weight has always been a struggle. The challenge: figuring out how to cook healthy, low-fat foods that won’t leave you hungry, bored, or running for a gallon of ice cream! Cook Yourself Thin shows how to cut calories, change diets, and improve health without sacrificing the foods we love.
Cook Yourself Thin is not a fad diet. It gives skinny alternatives to your cravings. You can’t live without your chocolate cake or mac ‘n’ cheese? You don’t have to! (See Very Chocolate Cake, page 200.) There’s never enough time to cook? Cook Yourself Thin keeps it simple–with easy instructions and fun recipes you’ll want to make again and again.
What are you waiting for? Cook Yourself Thin!
Cook Yourself Thin Review
As soon as I got this book in the mail I started flipping through the recipes to find what to make for dinner. All of the recipes looked great but I stopped on the Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas. Not only was it fast and easy to make, it was delicious…I mean really good. To top that of the portion sizes are more than generous, no starving yourself to stay thin. I have both this book and the Hungry Girl book, and while the books are indeed similar, this book offers several different recipes.
I have recently lost 40 lbs. It took a lot of work, discipline, effort, patience, perseverance, desire, stubbornness, water, walking, (did I say discipline?) and smaller portions — with no chocolate milkshakes, no ice cream, no Hershey bars, no Snikers, no KitKats, no Reeses, no Baily’s, and no DIET SODA! But I’m -40#. Yes, I am.
This book is a ripoff of HungryGirl and even some of the Weight Watchers books. Pumpkin? Breakfast cereal as a coating? Puh-leze. Lifetime needs to stick to sappy tearjerker movies. Leave the cook books to Hungry Girl and Weight Watchers. Everyone can smell this ripoff a mile away. Even the suggested tags here say “hungry girl” come on, guys!
The recipes are very nice, but is it a diet book? No. With only a whiff of portion control, a generous dollop of “no denial or guilt,” and a heaping tablespoon of “…make your calories vanish into thin air,” the authors are setting unrealistic expectations for their readers and viewers. The quick and easy part is also a bit of a dodge. In the Better for You Breakfast Sandwich, you’ll use a skillet, a baking sheet, a biscuit cutter, a saute pan, a small bowl, and a plate…before you get it onto a breakfast plate at the table. That’ll take you 15 minutes alone to clean up. Eating consciously is a wonderful thing, but don’t expect this book to help you shed pounds.
The book also features a calorie guide: this will show you which foods to avoid…and which foods to replace them with. It has a “how to” guide…this gives you practical cooking tips. There is also a food personality quiz…this will help you with goals and results. By following the guide you really can cook yourself thin. Follow the simple instructions and learn how to remove those high calorie ingredients from your favorite foods, and replace them with tasty healthy alternatives. The recipes have a step-by-step guide that shows you the differences in the foods you are substituting. Simply put…the book advises you on the ingredients, tools and tips necessary to make healthy changes to your life.
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