Taste of Home - Taste of Home Best of Comfort Food Diet Cookbook: Lose weight with 760 amazing foods

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Some other weight-loss plans expect you to spend lots of time in the kitchen orsqueeze group meetings into your already busy schedule. The Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet,however, is simple, offering commonsense tools that keep your weight-loss goals ontrackwithout serious commitments of your time. In this best-of edition of Comfort Food Diet Cookbook, weve included prep and cook times with every recipe, so you can quickly match up your calorie needs with the amount of time you have available to spend in the kitchen.

Youll also see that each chapter is arranged by calories so you can quickly find the recipes that meet your goals. In addition, a special bonus chapter loaded with slow cooker favorites promises to have healthy dinners ready without much work on your part! The basics behind the Comfort Food Diet are simple: watch your portion sizes, record your calories and get moving every day. But its the idea that you can easily enjoy the foods you and your family love and still lose weight that makes this program a winner. Lets get started!

Do the words comfort food and diet go together? Yes! With a little planning, the right recipes and reasonable portions, youll drop pounds and serve your familys favorite meals. Read on to discover how the Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet works and how readers like you have succeeded in their goals. If youre a woman, shoot for a total calorie consumption of 1,400 calories per day.

Men should consume 1,500 calories per day. Check with your doctor before you begin this plan to see if this calorie guideline is appropriate for you. Then consider the . There youll find detailed menus that total roughly 1,400 calories per day. Use the following guide to distribute calories through the day: 350 calories for breakfast 450 calories for lunch 500 calories for dinner Two 50-calorie or two 100-calorie snacks, depending on the total calories youre aiming for per day.

Keeping a food diary is a key to success on the Comfort Food Diet. Keeping a food diary is a key to success on the Comfort Food Diet.

By writing down everything you eat, you can easily identify eating habits you hadnt noticed previously. Youre also less likely to cheat if you know youll have to jot down that sundae you had at lunch or the extra cookie you snuck in after dinner. Use your food journal to help you plan menus in advance as well. Browse through this cookbook and decide which of the hearty dishes you plan to make. Map out menus and snacks for an entire day in advance, then go back and record what you actually ate. Always remember to watch portion sizes, and review the Nutrition Facts at the end of each recipe to learn what a serving size is.

If you increase the serving size, the amount of calories (and nutrients) will obviously increase as well. Its also important to understand that you can mix and match foods however youd like as long as you stay within the 1,400 or 1,500 daily calorie limit. For instance, lets say you prepare for lunch. Note that the recipe makes six servings, but the Nutrition Factsare based on one serving of 1 cups. As such, you can enjoy one serving and serve the rest tofamily members or refrigerate the leftovers for a handy lunch or dinner tomorrow. The guideline for lunch is 450 calories, and one serving of pasta weighs in at 320 calories.

This means you can also enjoy cup of 1% chocolate milk (85 calories) and carrots (free food) for a lunch that totals only 405 calories. You can add another food that is about 45 calories, or you can spend those calories later in the day. Its up to youas long as your daily caloric intake meets the 1,400 or 1,500 goal.

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