The Diet Detective's All-American Diet: Take Control of Your Diet and Eat the Foods You Already Love and Want, The Alternative to Jenny Craig or ... Favorite Supermarket and Restaurant Foods - Couverture souple

Platkin, Charles, Ph.D.

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ISBN 10 : 160961156X ISBN 13 : 9781609611569

Editeur : Rodale Pr, 2011

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How and Why the Diet Detective's All-American Diet Works

Most diets ask you to alter who you are and how you live. Well, that's not easy to do, particularly when it comes to eating behaviors. Most people go right back to their "comfort zones" when they encounter even a little bit of stress (kids screaming, a bad day at work, a traffic jam, etc.). Diets that ask you to eat a French or Mediterranean diet or eat like the Japanese are bound to fail.

The fact is you are not French, Mediterranean, or Japanese; you are American-- that's your culture--and there's no reason to apologize or feel guilty about it. Americans eat foods that are easy, fast, and accessible.

Would it be healthier if you grew your own organic produce in your backyard garden? Of course. And doesn't going to the local farmers' market and buying foods to prepare for the evening's meal sound romantic and exciting? Certainly. But that way of life just isn't a reality for most Americans. Most Americans simply don't have the time to stand in the kitchen for 2 hours every day. Sure, we can learn from other cultures, but that's not who we are overall. Americans work hard, long hours; we're busy; and we don't generally have the time to behave like the French or any other culture.

Many public health professionals say our environment is responsible for our weight woes, believing that the abundance of fast-food restaurants, our addiction to eating out, and the proliferation of high-calorie convenience foods are all to blame. This may all be true, but with The Diet Detective's All-American Diet, you'll learn how to flip the switch and use your environment to your advantage. We all know that eating out on a regular basis makes us vulnerable to weight gain because the food is often loaded with hidden calories, fat, and sugar, and the portions are excessively large. The Diet Detective's All-American Diet provides calorie-controlled options that are available at fast-food and casual dining establishments and shows you how to fit your favorite choices into your diet. On this diet, you can hit the snack, ready-to-eat, canned, and frozen food aisles at the grocery store, pick up fast food, dine out at your favorite restaurants, and eat your breakfast on the run. You just have to make the right choices. And this book will show you exactly how.

DIET DETECTIVE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

EATING OUT

While there are foods from a variety of restaurants on the Build-a-Meal lists, restaurant foods are generally higher in calories, sodium, fat, and sugar than ready-to-eat items available at the grocery. Therefore, you will notice that most of the choices in the meal plans are not from restaurants. Try not to eat out more than three times per week. You can always take a frozen meal to work, keep it in the freezer, and microwave it. Or you can get a compact refrigerator with a small freezer to keep in your office for about $100 to $150.

This book is about using your cultural assets to your advantage and learning how to live, eat, and lose weight the American way. The Diet Detective's All-American Diet meal plans are made up of regular foods--not costly, hard-to-find specialty items. The Diet Detective's plan is easy to follow, often less expensive, certainly more accessible, and infinitely more practical than food-delivery programs or any other commercially available diet program.

The average American spends almost 9 1/2 hours a day getting ready for bed and sleeping, 8 hours working (4 hours actually doing work), 2 1/2 hours watching TV, 1 hour socializing, and only 1 1/2 hours eating and drinking-- not very much time, considering that eating is probably one of our most important activities. That means that most people don't have time for low- cal cooking. Rushing to get dinner on the table between work, soccer, ballet class, and bedtime is what often leads us to rely on takeout, fast food, and easy-to-fix convenience foods.

For years, I've been helping people simplify what they need to do to reach their weight-loss goals. Whether it's in my weekly column, the Diet Detective, which appears in more than 100 media outlets, or on my Web site, DietDetective.com (in partnership with Everdayhealth.com), I hunt out easy ways to avoid weight gain and calorie overload so you can continue to eat fast food, go to your favorite casual dining restaurants, eat takeout, have dessert--and still lose weight. I know you're tired and you want a simple formula that allows you to lose weight without radically altering your life- -and that's exactly what the Diet Detective's Build-a-Meal Plan provides. All you have to do is figure out your calorie level by using the formula on page 10, choose a meal plan based on that, walk at least 30 minutes per day, and begin losing weight. Once you reach your goal weight, you will start the more flexible Build-a-Meal maintenance program.

The packaged entrees and restaurant foods among the Build-a-Meal options provide a reasonable alternative to eating out. The packaged foods' preparation requires only a few minutes in a microwave oven, and the portions are controlled. This means you can scarf down the entire meal without any guilt.

Not only that, but portion-controlled meals help you to recognize appropriate serving sizes. Once you're familiar with the size of a 300- calorie entree, you'll have a better idea of how much you should be eating the next time you go out to dinner, or even when you're eating food you cooked at home. In fact, studies appearing in the journals Obesity Research and Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism found that convenient prepackaged meals provided an uncomplicated weight-loss method for study participants.

DIET DETECTIVE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

SEVERAL RESEARCH STUDIES SUPPORT THIS TYPE OF PROGRAM

You do not need to be a nutritionist, university professor, scientist, medical doctor, or diet guru to understand that if you eat portion- controlled meals created by the top food companies in the world, you will lose weight, but there are many scientific studies supporting this plan's efficacy.

. "Use of packaged entrees as part of a weight-loss diet in overweight men: an 8-week randomized clinical trial"

"Our data suggest that the meal replacement diet plan evaluated was an effective strategy for producing robust initial weight loss and for achieving improvements in a number of health-related parameters during weight maintenance, including inflammation and oxidative stress, two key factors more recently shown to underlie our most common chronic diseases."

--Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism

. "Use of portion-controlled entrees enhances weight loss in women"

"Consumption of portion-controlled entrees resulted in greater losses of weight and fat, thereby reducing cardiovascular disease risk. Accurate portion control is an important factor in weight-loss success, and use of packaged entrees is an effective method of achieving this."

--Obesity Research

. "Efficacy of meal replacements versus a standard food-based diet for weight loss in type 2 diabetes: a controlled clinical trial"

"A diet using portion-controlled meal replacements yielded significantly greater initial weight loss and less regain after 1 year of maintenance than a standard, self-selected, food-based diet."

--The Diabetes Educator

. "Do food provisions packaged in single-servings reduce energy intake at breakfast during a brief behavioral weight-loss intervention?"

Research shows that single-serving packages may help reduce energy intake at breakfast.

--Journal of the American Dietetic Association

. "Ready-to-eat cereal used as a meal replacement promotes weight loss in humans"

Research shows that easy, ready-to-eat cereals help you lose weight when consumed as a portion-controlled meal replacement.

--Journal of the American College of Nutrition

Présentation de l'éditeur

When it comes to diets, Americans want two things: ease of use and results. The Diet Detective's
All-American Diet gives readers exactly what they need to lose weight without recipes, cooking, or calorie counting. Diet Detective Charles Platkin has done all the complicated nutrition math in advance, so readers merely pick and choose their meal plan from thousands of photos of regular foods available at their local stores and favorite chain restaurants.
Significantly less expensive, more accessible, and infinitely more practical than convenience eating
programs like Jenny Craig or NutriSystem, The Diet Detective's All-American Diet operates according to the same proven principles of portion control, behavior change, and proper nutrition for effective weight loss. The book gives readers a mix-and-match, Build-a-Meal program that shows them how to pick their breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack from lists of thousands of popular brand-name foods available anywhere. It's that simple: Readers can simply go to the supermarket and start shedding pounds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rodale Pr
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 160961156X
• ISBN 13: 9781609611569
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 274
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible