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Contains charts for: --calories --fats --protein --carbohydrates --cholesterol --sugar grams for over 2,500 common foods! LOSE WEIGHT AND EAT ANY FOODS YOU WANT? YES. THE SECRET IS CALORIE COUNTINGSheila Buff tells you how to eat your favorite foods while you stay under your maximum daily calorie intake. Using her fantastic calorie-cutting tips, food substitutions, and calorie-burning exercises along with her complete calorie counter, you can lose weight steadily, every day, and then keep it off forever. DO YOU KNOW...Which has fewer calories: a bottle of Bud or a glass of white wine? Beer contains 147 calories for 12 fl oz.. White wine has 70 calories for 3.5 fl. oz. You will probably drink less wine, but ounce for ounce it has more calories (238 calories for 12 fl. oz). Go ahead and have your beer (110 calories for 12 fl. oz.)!Where's your chalupa...when it comes to calories? It's going to be on your hips! One chalupa averages about 400 calories. If you have a Mexican food craving, switch to tacos, which average around 200 calories and cut your intake in half! Should you get pepperoni on that pizza? It adds about 50 calories per slice. You be the judge. Baking a potato? Which has more calories, white or sweet? Surprise! A white potato baked with the skin, no toppings, equals 220 calories. A baked sweet potato is just 117 calories. But watch out what you add!Butter is 36 calories per pat, and worse, a baked potato with broccoli and cheese is 470! Say goodbye to crash diets, hunger pangs, cravings, and diet drugs! Health writer Sheila buff tells you everything you need to know to lose weight safely and easily and keep it off in THE ULTIMATE CALORIE COUNTER.THE ULTIMATE CALORIE COUNTER makes counting easy with:* At-a-glance calorie counts on the foods and beverages Americans commonly eat including brand names and fast food restaurants * Charts to pinpoint your optimal calorie intake * Expert tips for cutting calories without eating less * Great calorie-saving food substitutions * Fastest fat-burning exercises * How to enjoy dining out while counting caloriesCHOOSE AND LOSE with THE ULTIMATE CALORIE COUNTERAUTHORBIO: SHEILA BUFF is a health writer with a special interest in nutrition. She is the author of many books on diet and health, including The Good Fat, Bad Fat Counter, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vitamins and Minerals, and was co-author of the bestselling book Dr. Atkins' Age-Defying Diet.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #187899 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 256 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780312981822
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
SHEILA BUFF is a health writer with a special interest in nutrition. She is the author of many books on diet and health, including The Good Fat, Bad Fat Counter, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vitamins and Minerals, and was co-author of the bestselling book Dr. Atkins' Age-Defying Diet.

Customer Reviews

A big let down in the calorie counting department
I am very disappointed with this book. I wanted a book to help me keep track of my daily intake of calories. Not pages and pages full of the author's opinions and tips on weight loss. A lot of the items listed are commercial food that by law have to carry nutrition info anyway. I am prefectly capable of reading a nutrition lable for calories, I don't need the added step of finding it in this book, which doesn't have a very good order of listing items in my opinion. Instead I recommend "The Doctors Pocket Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter: 2002 Edition, Plus 101 Fast Food Chains and Restaurants" and "The Complete and Up-to-Date Fat Book: A Guide to the Fat, Calories and Fat Percentages in Your Food" - both of which are available from amazon.

What a disappointment!
This book is a BIG disappointment and not at all user friendly. The first 90 pages are the author's observations and opinions on weight loss. The calorie count portion is difficult, if not impossible to use.....instead of being individually alphabetically listed, items are classified and then alphabetized and the classification is not noted at the top of the page. "Ultimate"....I don't think so.

Not the Ultimate for sure
This is just another ole calorie book with the first half devoted to talk about diets exercise and general nutrition. The second half is food items (90%) that I can find the calorie count on the package it came in. It does not have foods I was looking for. . .like, WHOLE GRAINS, 1 oz millet, or buckwheat did not have fresh ground almond butter. . . those are the kinds of things I would say is ULTIMATE as those items are hard to find a calorie amount on. . . .this book spent too much time in the front half on general info and NOT calorie counter and then the section with the counter, it was very hard to follow. . . .