Choose It to Lose It: Save Calories, Lose Weight and Love Every Bite!

by Cooking Light, Amy Brightfield

Choose It to Lose It covers all the everyday situations where food choices can derail your weight-loss efforts-the supermarket, coffee shop, fast food, restaurants, the vending machine, and even your own kitchen.

As simple as making a small change to your afternoon beverage routine or trying out a different topping on your morning pancakes, these easy-to-incorporate swaps a delicious photographs show you that losing weight doesn't mean you have to overhaul your whole diet.


Cooking Light Choose It to Lose It stands out from the competition because each swap shows you not only the calories saved but also the payoff in pounds
The fun, graphic look and quirky tone of this book makes the sometimes-dry subject matter engaging and entertaining.
Covers a wide range of topics, including particularly problematic areas such as eating out and beverages to grocery shopping and snacks. (Snacks account for one-fourth of the calories consumed in this country.)
Bonus nutrition information sprinkled gives reader extra nutrition information about the swaps they are making: fiber boosts, lower sodium, more fruits & veggie servings, etc.
A visually stunning design and more than 400 images makes this book easy to use.
The size and easy-to-use format make it easy to use and easy to store in your car or bag for on-the-go reference

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 24, 2013

About the author

Cooking Light is an American food and lifestyle magazine founded in 1987. Each month, the magazine includes approximately 100 original recipes as well as editorial content covering food trends, fitness tips, and other culinary and health-related news.

Reviews

[Ann Keller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent resource, filled with references for fast food restaurants, too. So, you can pick and choose. It was a real eye opener for me.

[Jenny Matzke · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked how it showed substitutions for popular items at restaurants. I think it will make me much more aware of calories when I'm ordering food. The only bad thing was the pictures of the food looked so good that it made me really hungry and I ended up eating chocolate ice cream while reading it! That was on the bad list! But I didn't have a fudge popsicle to substitute it with. In any case, I'm looking at that experience as a positive because as soon as I rid my fridge of the bad things, I can restock it with the lower calorie stuff.

[Ashley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Th fast-food guides will be of more use than the everyday meals because I think a lot of their 'healthier' options could be improved upon by almost anyone.

[Elyse McCulloch · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is great for people who dine out. Unfortunately, I only eat at a few of the restaurants listed in the book.