Eat Drink and Weigh Less

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You may not want to admit it but weight loss is simple science. If you expand more calories than you consume, you will loose weight. If you exercise regularly and eat plenty of fresh, whole foods you will feel good. If you eat enough of the good stuff you will eat fewer highly processed foods. Fad diets may work at first but will not last. Restriction and deprivation does not work in the long run. You need to add more food into your diet- not take away.

The basic science can be found in the book Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less: A Flexible and Delicious Way to Shrink Your Waist without Going Hungry (Hyperion, 2006). This new book was written by Walter Willett, M.D. who is a professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He spent his career researching the connections between foods we eat and the bodies we end up with. In this book he teams up with author Mollie Katzen a cookbook author. The book had his conclusions about diet and nutrition as well as recipes that can help make simple changes to your eating habits.

The point of the book is that this way of eating can easily be moved to and stayed with forever. It is about adding more food to your diet not taking away. Adding vegetables to your diet is far more important to long term health benefits than eating diet cookies instead of regular ones. This book provides suggestions on how to eat more healthily when you are eating out and basic recipes that will work with simple local market ingredients.

Many of the recipes are simple and can be made by anyone. They include Sparkling Sweet Potatoes (roasted and jazzed up with fresh lime juice) and Apple-Glazed Acorn Squash Rings (just-baked squash rings finished with a glass of apple juice). Healthy eating can be delicious and fun. If you eat more vegetables, you will have less room in your diet for junk foods and slowly you will have a better diet. The key is to keep adding good things. It does not always have to be an either-or situation.

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