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"Young offers a practical, long-term solution for losing weight while eating healthfully, likely to appeal to readers fed up with diet crazes." Publishers Weekly
Morgan Road Books
May 2005
205 pages ISBN: 0767920686 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Would you ever consider going to the kitchen in the morning
and grabbing five slices of bread for breakfast? No? Just
one bagel or perhaps a bran muffin is more like it, right?
Well, think again. Your morning bagel or muffin is probably
equivalent to eating five slices of bread, maybe more.
That’s most of your grain servings for the day. And, that steak you ate last night? For all the calories
and protein you consumed, you might as well have eaten 18
eggs. More than double the amount of protein you need in a
day. Surprised at just how much you are eating? Dr. Lisa Young
isn’t. She has been studying how Americans eat for more
than a decade, and what she found is astonishing. Portion
sizes have subtly and steadily increased over the past
thirty years and are now two to five times larger than they
were in the past. Even the average dinner plate has grown
several inches to accommodate more food. The portions we’re
served are getting bigger and we keep eating. The end
result? That’s right. Americans are getting fatter. So what should you do about it? You may think that counting
calories, fat grams, or even eliminating entire food groups
such as grains is the way to keep this trend toward
colossal cuisine from making you fat. The problem is, you
don’t know how many calories, fat, and carbs are in your
favorite foods. No one does, not even the experts. When
nutritionists were shown several restaurant meals in a
survey, not one person was able to accurately guess the
calorie or fat content of the meals. In The Portion Teller, you’ll develop portion-size
awareness and learn how to lose weight without weighing
food or counting calories. Using simple visuals such as a
deck of cards, a yo-yo, a baseball, and even your own hand,
you’ll find out what a serving size is supposed to look
like and how many servings you can eat per day from each
food group. The visuals are easy to use: If your piece of
salmon at dinner is about the size of three decks of cards,
you’ve eaten all your meat and fish servings for the day. The plan is easy. You’ll keep a food diary for a short time
to get you started. Once you learn how to size-up your
favorite foods with the visuals, Lisa’s Portion
Personalities show you how stumbling blocks can be easily
overcome. Are you a See Food Eater who can’t stop yourself
at the sight of food or a Special Occasion Victim who can’t
resist that cake at an office party or a Volume Eater who
always wants her plate to be full? As a long-time nutrition
counselor, Young gives real-world solutions for tackling
your bad habits. There’s a cheater’s guide, for those who
must satisfy that late-night chocolate craving, as well as
a survival guide for eating out and daily meal plans. No forbidden foods, no calorie counting, no food weighing.
The Portion Teller isn’t a diet—it’s a sensible eating plan
and the end of diet deprivation. Welcome to diet liberation.
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