Dr. Billy told me to buy this book. It's around $30 bucks but I got lucky and paid $6.31 from E-bay, which included postage!

So far I'm not extremely impressed since most of the information is stuff we all know (high calorie, dense food is more fattening than lighter choices) and there aren't as many pictures as I anticipated, but I was impressed with certain pictures.

For example, there's a picture of a corn muff on the left page. On the right page it shows what you could eat for the same caloric price, which includes an entire pineapple plus an entire melon plus 1/2 kiwi, some grapes and 2 small wheat muffins.

I wish there were more pictures of the slabs of butter. A couple pages show how many pats of butter are in certain foods. For example, it shows a small wedge of cheese (about 2 bites) but next to it is about 7 pats of butter. That's where the book gave me at least one meal of success so far. I brought a very small piece of calzone for lunch today. But when I saw the cheese oozing out, all I could think of were all those pats of butter, so I gave the calzone to a co-worker and ate a pile of raw veggies and a yogurt.

I was also impressed that I could eat 4 ears of corn instead of medium french fries. So last night Chris asked if I'd like 4 ears of corn, so tonight I'm having a burger and 4 ears of corn... well, maybe just 2 ears.

If you want the book, there's tons on e-bay for just a couple bucks.

I have that book. I got it from Donali, isn't it a neat book? It makes you realize the trash you are putting in your body. It is all about sacrifices!

Not sacrifices - informed choices.

You have permission to eat anything you want, so it really comes down to educated choices. If you choose to eat something less healthy, don't feel guilty!! But know the kind of choice you're making. That's what the book is about...

Sounds exactly like my Volumetrics book (which I love).

I have to call them sacrifices though, because you may as well stab a knife through my heart than to take away my ice cream. And it can't be light, sorbet, sugar free. It's gotta be the richest heart damaging kind. So take my spleen, take my liver, don't take my ice cream with a sacrificial ritual!

Delarla,

You sound so much like me. These books are all the same in a sense that they all teach us portions, whats healthy, etc. The thing we have to remember is that we CAN have our favorite full fat ice cream but not every day. And in reality ice cream should be a treat, not a staple. Just like my chips (sigh), chocolate cake, Cookies...yeah, all the goodies I LOVE !!! ((favorite is Pnut M&Ms)).

I'll be the first to admit it, I AM A food ADDICT !!! I always wanted to be a chef, I love to cook, experiment, and mostly eat. I can make really healthy foods for 2 weeks and then I loose it and eat like crap for a month, undoing all the good that I have done. And it kills me when we go out and DH eats what ever he wants and doesn't gain, and there I sit with a salad... ((((boring lolol)))).

I call them safrifices too !!!

... you may as well stab a knife through my heart than to take away my ice cream. And it can't be light, sorbet, sugar free. It's gotta be the richest heart damaging kind.

You have got to come to the Midwest, DeLarla! Specifically, Wisconsin, home of frozen custard. No, it's not a dish of gooey puddingy stuff thrown in the freezer, it is super-rich ice cream and it is wonderfully evil. It probably doesn't appear in the book you mentioned because it's a regional thing. . . and pictures would just give people ideas about having to get some, pronto.