Devin Alexander - The Biggest Loser Cookbook: More Than 125 Healthy, Delicious Recipes Adapted from Nbcs Hit Show

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the previous edition as follows:

Alexander, Devin.

The Biggest Loser cookbook : more than 125 healthy delicious recipes adapted from NBCs hit show / Chef Devin Alexander and The Biggest Loser experts and cast ; foreword by Bob Harper and Kim Lyons.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13 978-1-59486-575-6 paperback

ISBN-10 1-59486-575-2 paperback

1. Cookery. 2. Reducing dietsRecipes. 3. Biggest loser (Television program) I. Biggest loser (Television program). II. Title.

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Contents

Foreword

Dear Reader,

You are what you eatand I love to eat! I love to eat all kinds of food, and I definitely have a sweet tooth that will probably never go away. The contestants on The Biggest Loser also love to eat, and with our help, they learn to form a new and healthy relationship with food.

While working with the contestants on The Biggest Loser, one concern comes up over and over again: food. Contestants want to know what they are going to eat, and they wonder if they will ever enjoy eating healthy. When I talk to my team about food, their first thoughts are diet, restriction, and deprivation. My contestants think I am going to take away all the food that they enjoy and force them to live on salad and broccoli. It has been a very big struggle for me to ease their fears. When new contestants come to the ranch for the first time, their whole world has been turned upside down. They are away from their family and friends and their habitsand most of all they are away from their comfort food.

In the end, they learnas you willthat eating healthy can be quite delicious and enjoyable. Every single day, I work with food and recipes to help keep my people on track. It takes thought and structure to come up with healthy alternatives. But the good news is that Chef Devin Alexander and The Biggest Loser team have done all the work for you! Its all here in your two little hands.

Youll learn all the tricks and secrets we use on the ranch. Youll learn how to make these delicious and easy recipesand youll see that many of them take only a few minutes of prep time.

Eating healthy doesnt mean bland, tasteless food. People ask me all the time about what everyone is eating at the ranch. Many people, including the contestants at first, believe that there is some fantastic chef living with us, cooking our food, and taking care of our every need. I always laugh when I hear that. The ranch is definitely not a resort. It is a boot camp for life. The time that we spend in the gym is comparable to the time we spend in the kitchen.

I think youll be pleasantly surprised when you use this cookbook. We found ways of cutting out the calories but leaving in all of the taste in every dish. We found ways to satisfy our sweet tooth without expanding our waists. We found ways of eating burgers and pasta without getting off our plans. Have you watched our show and wondered, What were they eating that got them to lose so much weight? Well, you are holding the answer. This cookbook is a great tool to get you on track. When you start eating right, it will absolutely change your life. It will make you feel better. You will have more energy. You will feel good. When you incorporate these recipes into your eating plan, you will feel the change that our contestants have felt. You will be empoweredand I will have done my job. So what are you waiting for? Get to the grocery store, get your new tools for the kitchen, and start cooking. You are really going to love it, like we all do.