Dr. Phil’s Ultimate Weight Solution
Cookbook: A Review, by Dr. Allison Conner
Dr. Phil is on a serious mission to help fight the war on obesity. Over
the past four decades, despite the fervent emphasis on weight loss and
fitness, Americans have been getting fatter and fatter. All the complicated
diets, fancy pharmaceuticals and expensive machinery have led to one disappointment
after another. People in search of the quick fix are beginning to get
it: there is no magic bullet.
Enter Dr. Phil, with his straight-talking, no-nonsense advice. Dr. Phil
is an expert at telling it like it is, and now he’s serving up the
basic facts that people have been reluctant to embrace. Sure, you can
go on a crash diet and lose a bunch of weight in a fairly short amount
of time, but will you keep it off? Over 90% of people who have been struggling
with their weight have found that diets ultimately make them fat because
after they lose a number of pounds, they go off the diet and put it all
back on. When it comes to weight loss, the true goal is weight maintenance,
and that requires a person to adopt specific lifestyle changes. Dr. Phil
has been telling his audience, “Next year, you’ll either weigh
more or less than you do right now…either you’re gonna get
real about fat or you’re gonna get real fat.”
The latest offering in Dr. Phil’s arsenal of tools for achieving
weight control is his new book, The
Ultimate Weight Solution Cookbook. Like Dr. Phil, the recipes in his
book are down-home, practical and all-American. More than 100 recipes
-- each designed by culinary and nutrition experts, and taste-tested by
Dr. Phil and Robin McGraw -- are included in the book. These recipes were
created to help you eat the “high-response cost, high-yield”
food that is Key #5 of the 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom. The selections
are high in flavor as well as nutrition, and this new healthy way of eating
can be enjoyable and satisfying for the whole family. We all know that
to maintain lifestyle changes, it has to feel good, and as the book acknowledges
“great taste is one of the secrets to losing weight and keeping
it off.”
In addition to the dozens of healthy recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner,
desserts and snacks, The Ultimate Weight Solution Cookbook contains important
tips on setting up a “no-fail” kitchen (Key #3), as well as
Dr. Phil’s Rapid Start Plan. The 14 days of planned menus and the
corresponding recipes are designed to jump-start your way to the healthy
and slimmer you.
by Dr. Allison Conner, Clinical Director, Cognitive
Therapy Associates.
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