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Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes

Cook Yourself Thin is for normal women, just like you. We know that you love to eat but we are realistic enough to know that you cant eat anything and everything and expect to look hot in a bikini. It was created for busy people, people like you, who are not prepared to give up social lives or favorite treats to become slaves to a strict diet. The CYT philosophy figures out the solutions, so you dont have to.

You may have tried most of the diets out thereand failed. And youre not the only one. One major weight-loss study has found that up to two-thirds of dieters put all the weight they lost back on within five yearsand most end up even heavier! No matter what the diet, the study found, its unlikely to lead to lasting weight loss.

Sure, you will lose weight if you follow a diet to the letter. But how many of us stay on a dietis that any way to enjoy life? Most diet food tastes awful and the portions are tiny, which means you fall off the wagon in spectacular style. Then follows the guilt, shame, feeling bad about yourself, and the almost inevitable overeating. Its a bad cycle. Its no good for your mind, body, or soul.

Youve probably gone to all sorts of lengths to feel thinner. Weve all subjected ourselves to the grapefruit diets, Weight Watchers-style clubs, and years of yo-yo dieting. Some even flit from feast to famine, never quite finding a happy balance. And yet denial is the fastest way to find yourself up to your eyeballs in chocolate.

Quick fixes wont work and theres only one simple way to lose weight and keep it off without losing your mind: cook yourself thin.

Step Away from the Scales

The fact is, most of us dont need to change our eating habits completely. We just need to make smart but simple changes. Dieticians and nutri-tionists agree that low-fat, low-calorie cooking skills, along with a basic knowledge of food labels and portion sizes, are the key to keeping slim. It has been suggested that consuming just 100 fewer calories a day (about one cookies worth) will prevent the average yearly weight gain of 2 pounds. Thats not exactly starving yourself.

Another study showed that most of us are used to eating just that little bit too much. It found that women who consumed 800 fewer calories a day than normal felt just as full and satisfied. They did it by making small changesfor example, skim milk instead of whole, eating half as much cheese, more vegetables, and less fat overall. Small changes like these are easier to stick to and harder to go back on. But they add up to a significant drop in caloriesand dress size.

The CYT approach takes a positive attitude toward food. No denial or guiltjust the promise of mouthwatering delights instead of dull food. In this book, youll be able to quickly and easily figure out how and why youre consuming a few too many calories, and learn the secret to cutting down without losing out. CYT takes up the challenge and does all the homework to make it easy for you. You dont have to become a culinary queen, you just need to cook more and cook smarter.

Here are tried, tested, and tasted favorite recipes with all the cheats, tips, tricks, and swaps worked out to make your calories vanish into thin air. At Cook Yourself Thin we have really high standards, so you wont find any recipe or suggestion that were not convinced is better than the calorie-laden original. We all love a challenge, and weve created recipes that use flavors and ingredients that will leave you speechless. All it takes is a little effort and you can learn to re-create your beloved takeout food, comfort meals, snacks and desserts. And thats all there is to it: no weird foods or diet supplements, no denial, no sweaty exercise regimejust flavor, satisfaction, and no more clothes that just fit; they flaunt your better body.

> So get ready to Cook Yourself Thin!

Harry has lived in Qatar, France, and London, as well as Sydney for a spell, and has been exposed to a colorful mix of cuisines and cultures. She loves making food from scratch and inventing new dishes. For the past seven years, shes worked as both a food stylist and writer, with a flair for sourcing the most beautiful ingredients around and interpreting every recipe under the sun. She is also a co-host of the original, British hit version of Cook Yourself Thin .

Just to prove that appearances can be deceiving, Harry is into pink, sparkly earrings, all things pretty, and oh, butchery. Thats right, she loves to prepare meat from field to plate so she knows exactly where her dishes have come from and whats gone into them. And forget fashion labels, Harrys into food labelsthe higher quality the ingredients, the better. But censoring her ingredients is as far as food restrictions go. Her philosophy is that if you crave something, it usually means your body (and soul) deserves it. She genuinely considers chocolate to be good for the soul and feels that it completes a meal the way a period completes a sentence.

Itll come as no surprise, then, that Harry most definitely does not believe in restrictive diets. Food, she says, has been the joyful background to her life and learning to cook is the best weight-loss tool there is.

Candice is from San Diego and grew up living the life of a true California girlsurfing, sunshine, hanging at the beach, and having fun. As a teen, she became a fashion model and spent eight years traveling the nation and the world on assignments. But despite the glamour of modeling, she always felt deep down that her true calling in life was cooking.

Her mother, a graduate of Tokyo Gakugei University, was born in southern Japan and her father is a Naval veteran of Polish-American descent. She learned the essentials of those culinary traditions from her mother and grandmothers. After earning a bachelors degree she decided to pursue cooking professionally and did so at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu California School of Culinary Arts Program, where she won honors as Top of the Class, Presidents List, and Deans List.

Candice has since cooked at several well-respected restaurants in Los Angeles and Orange County, such as the Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel, and she worked for Chef Wolfgang Puck. She has appeared on Bravos Top Chef , where her upbeat personality, charm, and cooking talents won her many fans. Her dream is to follow in the footsteps of her idols Julia Child and Martha Stewart and become the food/lifestyle guru of her generation. She brings as much passion and flair to cooking as she does to everything in lifeher ideal is to bring together all of the things she loves: fashion, friends, and great food.