Family Circle Eat What You Love & Lose: Quick and Easy Diet Recipes from Our Test Kitchen - Softcover

Katalinich, Peggy; McQuillan, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060597224 ISBN 13: 9780060597221

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2004

Synopsis

What happens when six dedicated foodies who are paid to eat need to lose weight? After years of cooking and tasting as many as ten different dishes a day, the staff of the test kitchen joined that majority of Americans who want to lose anywhere from 10 to 30 pounds. So the test-kitchen team went on a 15-week diet and the results were amazing: Every single team member met or exceeded her or his weight-loss goal. Now, on the Eat What You Love & Lose plan, you'll benefit from their experience and wisdom with a sensible 14-day program and more than 250 fast and fabulous recipes that get the best flavor out of every calorie.

Because the plan is so flexible, it's easy to follow. And because the recipes are so delicious, you'll never feel deprived. All of the main dishes weigh in with fewer than 350 calories -- most with substantially less -- and all of the desserts contain fewer than 200 calories. Enjoy these and many other tasty dishes and watch the pounds melt away!

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Review

When the test-kitchen crew at Family Circle decided to lose weight, they needed a plan that let them keep their jobs--eight hours a day testing and tasting recipes--and continue to enjoy food. "It's all about the calories," nutritionist Susan McQuillan told them. She designed the "Eat What You Love & Lose" plan: a sensible, healthy way to limit portions and average 1 to 2 pounds of weight loss a week.

The key: eat about 1500 calories a day through moderate--rather than supersize--portions, and substitute lower-calorie foods that satisfy the same taste requirement as high-calorie food cravings. If you're eating less, each food has to be tasty, so the 225 recipes are designed to be flavorful and satisfying: Orange Chicken and Peanut Salad, Pasta with Spicy Red-Pepper Cream Sauce, Shrimp-Gazpacho Soup, Fish Burgers with Caper Mayonnaise, and Caribbean Chicken Curry, for example. A selection of 100- to 200-calorie sweets include Berry Shortcake, One-Crust Fresh Peach Pie, Choco-Mocha Angel Food Cake, and Cinnamon Coffee Custard. All recipes include nutrient values.

Eat What You Love and Lose gets back to sensible dieting--the kind that helps you lose weight steadily and keep it off because you have no need to return to your earlier way of eating. --Joan Price

About the Author

Peggy Katalinich, food director of Family Circle, began covering food and nutrition issues in 1974, first as the food editor of the Minneapolis Star and later as food editor of Long Island’s Newsday. In 1994, she was appointed food editor of Family Circle, the world’s largest-selling women’s magazine with a circulation of 4.6 million, overseeing the staff that creates and triple-tests hundreds of recipes each year in the magazine’s kitchens. She has edited three cookbooks for Family Circle: All-time Favorite Recipes, Quick & Easy Recipes, and Best-Ever Cakes & Cookies. Her column, “Cooking Know-How,” advises cooks on contemporary topics from meals in minutes to vegetarianism and suggests the best from new products, gadgets, and food. She also wrote Foods of Long Island (Abrams), a collection of regional recipes that was named “Best Regional Cookbook” in 1986 by the IACP. In 1997, she was named food editor of year by the James Beard Foundation.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060597224
• ISBN 13: 9780060597221
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272