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You don’t need to go hungry just because you are watching your weight!  You can feed those cravings without the calories or fat.  These are easy to follow and fun recipes.

Lisa Lillian is neither a nutritionist or a doctor but she has over 400,000 subscribers to her newletter for healthy eating tips and recipes.   In this new book Lisa gives readers a breakfast to dinner approach to eating lighter with easy to prepare recipes.  Lillien’s recipes enlist low-cal substitutes for traditional ingredients; diet lemon-lime soda and sugar-free powdered lemonade drink mix, for example, go into her Magical Low Calorie Margarita. In some cases, such as her Rockin’ Restaurant Spinach Dip, Cheesy Chicken Quesadilla and Dan Good Chili, she approximates high-calorie dishes without sacrificing too much in terms of flavor or texture. Unfortunately, those are the exceptions-the Ice Creamless Banana Split and Cheery Chocolate Cheesecake Nuggets (which calls for diet hot cocoa mix, Splenda, fat free cream cheese and sugar free chocolate syrup) taste more like punishment than dessert. Salads are well represented, though few are served with any kind of dressing, and meat dishes can run sky high in sodium. Tips for smart eating at the office, holiday parties, trips and the movies are appreciated, but the book would have benefited from the input of a licensed nutritionist or dietician.

The recipes in this book are not for everyone’s taste, but I have found that if I use my own short cuts and low cal ingredients, they make a great starting point for losing weight.

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