DiSpirito - Now Eat This! 100 Quick Calorie Solutions

Neither this diet nor any other diet program should be followed without first consulting a health care professional. If you have any special conditions requiring attention, you should consult with your health care professional regularly regarding possible modification of the program contained in this book.

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Illustrations by Wendy Chan

ISBN: 978-1-4555-0531-9

H ave you been promising yourself that youre going to get in shape? For many of us, its an ongoing promise that never seems to be kept. We all have our reasons, and one of them is often that four-letter word diet. Diets seem so rigorous, so restrictive, so boring. But they dont have to beas long as you make some simple changes in how you eat at home and on the go.

The first part provides 50 tips that show you how to save calories when eating at home. Theyre really no-brainer calorie savers that result in steady, automatic weight losssimple changes anyone can make without a lot of effort.

The good newsno, the great newsis that even though youre trying to shed pounds, you can still eat out. In fact, I encourage you to eat out when youre not cooking at homeand to have fun doing it. My 50 on-the-go tips show you how.

In the middle of the book, I offer four weeks of brand-new, delicious menus that will keep your weight loss on track. There are convenient shopping lists for each week, too.

You can use this book entirely on its own to revamp your eating habits, or use it in conjunction with my two previous books, Now Eat This! and Now Eat This! Diet. Both books feature delicious dishes you thought you could never eat againlike fried chicken, pizza, lasagna, waffles, cookies, brownies, and moreall downsized in calories but not in flavor.

However you use this book, these 100 tips can lead to improved health, a fitter body, and greater happiness. I urge you to try any and all 100 tipsand make these life-changing and life-saving discoveries for yourself!

W ere getting fatter and fatter as a population, and no one seems to know why. Every week we hear results of some study that speaks to something that might be causing our waistlines to bulge.

Several years ago, researchers discovered that obesity might be caused, not by overeating, but by a virus. And they think it might even be contagious. I remember a particular cold I got ten years ago that might have caused me to gain some pounds.

Another culprit in weight gain: hanging out with people who are overweight. I guess that means I should pick skinny friends. The thing is, my pals vary in size, so Ill need to weigh them so I can spend more time with the thinnest ones.

Then theres the ancestor theory of obesity. Mothers gave us added fat cells when they overfed us as babies. Grandparents initiated us into the clean-plate club. Our relatives bequeathed us genes that mean we will never slither into smaller sizes. And we all know its harder to lose weight as we get older, since almost everything is harder when we get older.

If those things dont explain why you gain weight, not to worry; scientists have discovered obesity-causing compounds in plastic bottles, pizza boxes, vinyl floors, and shower curtains.

The ways we try to explain weight gain are getting boring. Most of us realize that we should weigh less than our refrigerators, and weve struggled to lose the same 10 or 20 pounds ten or twenty times. Even in desperation, drastic treatments with pills and gastric bypasses are just plain scary, and Id prefer not having parts of my stomach removed. And of course, we doggedly try all the diet clichs, like low-carb, low-fat, and high-protein.

Losing weight can be such hard work, requiring you to eat nothing and do vast amounts of exercising. Isnt there a better way? Yes, and its all about making small sacrificescut a few calories here, a few there, and youll be sliding into your skinny jeans in no time. Thats what this book is all about.

After I published my previous book, Now Eat This! Diet, people were constantly asking me for more quick tips and advice to help them maximize their weight-loss effortswhich, by the way, were pretty darn impressive. Through Facebook and Twitter, I learned that tons of people were losing tons of weight on my diet. So naturally I want to help prop up that success with more information, more menus, more tips, to help everyone live the Now Eat This! lifestyle.

This book makes it even easier. Its full of tips, quick calorie cuts100 in allthat show you how to make simple changes every day to help you win your weight-loss battle. Youll lose weight without even tryingthats not a gimmick; its a promise. And youll still be able to drink out of plastic bottles, take a shower, eat pizza, and walk on your vinyl floor.

Let me give you a preview of how this book works:

Would you like to lose 10 (or more) pounds a year without even thinking about it? Cut out only 50 to 100 calories a day, and youll do it, effortlessly. There are a bunch of really simple, fun, and delicious changes in habit that will help you do this.

How about 20 (or more) pounds in a year? Ive got some ways you can save 200 to 300 calories a dayand then watch the pounds melt off.

Need to lose more, say, 40 or 50 pounds? Youll have no trouble reaching an even bigger weight-loss goal in twelve months with the calorie-cutting strategies Ive got for you, whether youre cooking at home or eating on the go.

The first part of the book focuses on the 50 best tips to use when cooking at home. As I mentioned earlier, flip the book over, begin reading from the back to the front, and youll find the 50 most effective tips for eating on the go.

Also included in this book are four weeks of brand-new menus and shopping lists to help you continue with the tremendous weight loss youve experienced already on the Now Eat This! diet.

There you have it: delicious new menus, no-brainer shopping lists, and 100 easy-to-live-by tips you can automatically slip into your lifestyle and enjoy.

Its time for you to regain control of your weight and your health. With these tips, you can do it. You dont have to learn to like food that tastes like cardboard. And you dont have to force-feed yourself tasteless crap. You just have to employ the tips that work for you. Then see the results on the scale and in how your clothes fitand in important health numbers like blood pressure and cholesterol, as well as in the energetic way you feel.