Cook Yourself Thin on Lifetime is the HOTTEST new way to get thin and stay that way...while still enjoying life and FOOD!
The show started with the first participant, Rachel, the "takeout queen", who says she developed bad eating habits as a child. She wanted to get pregnant, but wanted to lose weight first. The shows hosts cut down her typical daily intake of 2,500 calories to less than 1,000. Simple suggestions like keeping the skins on Yukon potatoes when you mash them instead of heaping on butter gives you that buttery flavor without the butter! You can also add half a cauliflower, scallions, and buttermilk to make tasty mashed potatoes you cut your calories from 1,042 to only 389 per serving while getting a similarly satisfying dish. The show teaches ways to add secret ingredients to cupcakes; like ground almonds to provide natural fat and shredded zucchini to add moisture instead of butter.
The second episode offered some simple suggestions like "confetti-ing" ham and poaching eggs in vinegar water for a healthful version of a traditional breakfast sandwich. This method can bring the calories down from 700 to 300. French fries were replaced with baked sweet potato fries with chili powder, garlic powder, and olive oil and burgers were modified to turkey burgers, with green chilies for flavor. The experts also suggested a cooking tip to add flavor to burgers: pressing the patty. It preserves air pockets to catch juices. These VERY simple and tasty suggestions can cut the average burger meal from 2,500 calories down to only 600!!
Cook Yourself Thin also has an interactive website where you can find things like recipes, food suggestions, exercise tracking and the caloric modification to your diet that it can give you, goals, diary writing, and a community. See below for an overview of the site, but it costs $ (just $18 a month), but still, I really just want the recipes, so the book is perfect for me (and a one-time cost).
Food Diary and Food Database
* Track calories and see how many you have used up in each meal and how many you have left for the day
* See the proportion of fat, protein and carbs in your food, and how many grams of fiber - giving you the control to balance your diet
* Keep notes about food and drink for the day, how you felt and what affected what you ate and drank
Exercise Diary and Exercise Database
* Find out how many calories you burn during workouts and ordinary daily activity
* Add your earned exercise calories to your diary and see how many extra calories this gives you
* Track your total calories for the day including those earned through exercise to see how many you've used up and how many you have left
Recipes
* Search for recipes by calorie content or your favorite ingredients, or browse through the recipe categories for inspiration
* Create and calorie-count your own recipes, and see what difference it makes to the calories when you change quantities or swap ingredients, helping you drop the pounds without dropping your favorite dishes
* Add recipes to your Diary, from the database or from the list of recipes you have created
Goals and Results
* Set a weight loss goal; see how many calories you need to get there and the date you can expect to reach your goal
* Speed up or slow down your rate of loss depending on what suits you at the time. You can even go onto 'maintenance calories' for times when you need to relax but don't want to put weight on. Great for holidays and Christmas
* Track your measurements and view your weight graph - there's nothing more motivating than a nice downward line!
Community
* Get support - whatever you're going through, the chances are that other members can relate to it. They understand exactly what you mean because they've been there themselves
* Get ideas and inspiration - real life practical answers to situations you face from "What shall I have for lunch?" to "How do I cope with evening munchies?"
* Add the IDs of your buddies to your friends list and you can see when they're online
Monthly Membership: $17.95 a month
Check out the book and order it now!
Cook Yourself Thin: Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes
