Product Description

A science-based plan that brings together cutting-edge, university-tested weight-loss strategies with delicious, quick and easy recipes and an arsenal of self-help tools.

Funded by the National Institute of Health, the ground-breaking VTrim behavioral weight-management program is at the heart of The EatingWell® Diet by providing dieters with the steps that are clinically proven to work, including:

• How to become your own weight coach
• Learn to eat and shop for food mindfully
• A simple formula for working better exercise and eating habits into your busy life
• How to recover from inevitable trip-ups
• Long-term maintenance strategies to keep the weight off
• ...and a 28-day fast-track program to get you started toward a new, thinner life.

More than 100 recipes from EatingWell Magazine's enormously popular "Healthy in a Hurry" column provide real-life eating options and menus that will leave your taste buds delighted and your stomach full, including delicious choices for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, guilt-free desserts, snacks, and even entertaining. In addition, an impressive collection of self-help tools and charts allow you to keep track of weight measurement, calculate your BMI, waist measurement, portion sizes, calorie counts, and more! Full-color throughout, appendices, index.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #420450 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

About the Author
Jean Harvey-Berino, Ph.D., R.D., is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Vermont, one of the world's leading centers of behavioral weight-management research. An accomplished obesity treatment researcher, she has appeared on the Today Show, National Public Radio, and in numerous newspapers and magazines as an expert on the subjects of weight loss, obesity and nutrition. Harvey-Berino lives in Hinesburg, VT. Joyce Hendley, M.S., is the Nutrition Editor for EatingWell Magazine, and, since 1994, a contributing editor to Weight Watchers magazine. A frequent contributor to Weight Watchers cookbooks, she was also the writer for Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York's best-selling Win the Weight Game (2000) and The EatingWell Diabetes Cookbook (Countryman, 2005) which was nominated for a 2006 James Beard Award. She lives in South Burlington, VT. EatingWell, Where Good Taste Meets Good Health, is recognized by consumers, journalists, nutritionists and health-policy makers as the most reliable and sensible source for current nutrition and healthy eating information. The publication was named the winner of the James Beard Award for Food Journalism in 2003 and again in 2004 and the winner of the Folio Silver Eddie Award for Epicurean Magazines in 2004. The Essential EatingWell Cookbook was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2004. The magazine's headquarters are in Charlotte, VT.

Customer Reviews

This works!
My wife and I have lost weight every week we have tried this diet. It is very easy to understand and implement. The recipes are fantastic and very filling. We are amazed that we can lose weight and still eat most of the foods we love. We are eating better and feeling better than we have for years. The concept behind this book does not rely on gimmicks or unproven theories. The basic idea is that your body is like a calculator. What is added is calorie intake (weight you gain) what is subtracted is energy burned (weight you lose). The book explains how to easily calculate and eventually balance this equation. After trying a host of diets that were embarrassingly unscientific and unworkable it is nice to find one that is logical and practical.

Doesn't taste "diet"
I've always found healthy cookbooks to be hit-or-miss. Either the recipes are excellent or they really, really, really stink - as in, you can't wait to toss the offending dish into the trash.

Not so with this EatingWell cookbook. My fiance and I have been blown away by the amount of excellent recipes contained within. He's 100 percent Italian, and normally there's no pleasing his palate with anything except his mom's pasta. So his satisfaction is a major compliment to EatingWell! Did we love every recipe? No. But at the worst, a recipe might have been so-so.

Now, neither of us needs to really lose weight, so we look at this book more as more of a means to healthier eating. But guess what? Just by eating mainly EatingWell entrees, I did slim down. Can't say I mind that, especially since it was so easy!

While we still have plenty more we want to try, so far these recipes have made the cut: Greens with Parmesan Vinaigrette, Roasted Red Pepper Subs (a particular favorite; try it with some Boar's Head lean, low-sodium roast beef), Oven-Fried Chicken (not quite the same as the real thing, but still delicious), Mushroom-Sausage-Spinach Lasagna (best the day you make it; for some reason it doesn't reheat well), Spicy Beef with Shrimp and Bok Choy, and Oven Fries.

Some people might be surprised to see a good chunk of the book is dedicated to how to eat well, with the actual recipes starting around page 100. Don't skip over that how-to section. It contains a lot of useful information. But if you have a hankering for more recipes - as I did - you can go to www.eatingwell.com. Sign up with the site for free - they won't harass you with e-mails - and you can browse their recipe archive. There's hundreds of great recipes there, as well as diet-related articles. A bonus is that most of the recipes have pictures, even if the cookbook version of the recipe didn't. Plus, the recipes are rated by users!

Some great online recipes that we've sampled: Crustless Crab Quiche, Tortellini & Zucchini Soup, Oven Barbecued Pork Chops, Hamburger and Sour Cream Casserole, Gnocchi with Tomatoes, Pancetta & Wilted Watercress (one of our favorites), Tandoori Chicken and Inside Out Cheeseburgers (yummy cheese on the inside of the burger).

Sound good? They are. My deepest gratitude to EatingWell for making a healthy diet so darn tasty!

Fantastic weight loss advice; good food
The EatingWell Diet: 7 Steps to a Healthy, Trimmer You is not a book for those who aren't yet ready to make a serious commitment to losing weight. This isn't a book full of empty cheerleading and excited promises. As such, many people who want to lose weight won't be able to make full use of its suggestions. Those who are ready to make the serious commitment needed, however, may find this book to offer one of the more promising roads to healthy, long-term weight loss, and even those who aren't will find useful suggestions to get them started and improve their diet.

Dr. Jean Harvey-Berino is the Professor and Chair of the department of nutrition and food science at the University of Vermont, and she developed the "VTrim Weight Management Program" upon which this book is based. Her background as a researcher shows--you'll learn plenty in the pages of this book about what long-term studies have shown to be truly effective when it comes to health, nutrition, and long-term weight management. It's a very readable book, however, with fascinating tidbits of information and nifty quotes.

The EatingWell Diet doesn't just try to walk you through losing weight. Despite the name of the book, the nutritionist who came up with the program firmly believes that it isn't about `dieting'--it's about adopting a healthy lifestyle. As such, there are plenty of tips for facing and handling everyday temptations and slip-ups. There's also an entire chapter on maintaining your weight loss once you've lost it, and that's after it delves into tracking weight, calories, and exercise.

More than half of this book is actually a set of calorie-calculated menus and accompanying recipes. Some of the recipes are full-sized recipes, while some are quick little things often listed 5 or so to a page. The full-sized recipes I tended to enjoy, such as a "loaded spinach salad" with egg, carrot, toasted nuts, and blue cheese dressing in it. However, I was disappointed with all of the little mini-recipes I tried. Each one seemed to start with a basically good idea, such as sweet potato oven fries, or brown rice with Asian flavors, but they all came out tasting very bland and uninteresting. Diet food just doesn't have to be bland, and it's my own opinion that the fact that so much of it is designed this way is what makes folks think diet food is torture.

Mind you, I'm aware that there are plenty of people who like bland food, so you folks can ignore that particular complaint of mine and consider that you will likely enjoy the cookbook side of this book more than I did.

All in all, I think this is a solidly practical guide to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. Just be mindful that there are no easy answers, there's a lot of hard work involved here, and you're going to need a serious commitment to your health to make full use of this book.