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Dining Lean - how to eat healthy when you're not at home |  | Authors: Joanne, V Lichten, Dr. Jo
Publisher: Nutrifit Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1042143
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 300
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1880347504
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9781880347508
ASIN: 1880347504
Publication Date: August 1, 2007
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Dining Lean to the rescue. Although restaurant calorie counting books have been around for a long time, that s not what this book is about. Dr. Jo s book takes a more useful, more intelligent, and more insightful approach. Dining Lean provides the basics about restaurant food including ethnic cuisine, lots of rules-of-thumb about how to estimate sizes and calories, and what (and how) to order so you have the great meal you want but not all the calories. Dining Lean is fun to read, well organized, and graphically clever.
- Brian Wanski, Ph.D. - Author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
Dining Lean includes full nutritional information: Calories, Fat, Saturated Fat, Trans Fat, Cholesterol, Sodium, Carbohydrates, & Fiber for thousands of generic menu items found at restaurants, bars, amusement parks, movie theatres... plus more than 5000 menu items at nearly 70 of the largest chain restaurants.
You'll learn chef-recommended suggestions on how to special order your favorite foods that are less fattening. Actual size drawings help you estimate food portions. -
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 Dining Lean March 29, 2008
Mrs. G
Dining Lean was extremely useful on my recent trip to AZ. I'm sure glad I bought it!
 Buyer Beware - No New Info Here January 11, 2008
Barbara J. Squelch (Elma, New York, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am very disappointed in this book. It was hyped in our local newspaper and I immediately ordered it from the author's website. According to our paper and the website you can find out the fat content and fiber content of foods from many restaurants and it said it included Outback, Cheesecake Factory and Olive Garden to name a few. I got the book today and immediately turned to Outback to see how my favorite menu items fared as I am following Weight Watchers. I was sorely disappointed to find out that "No nutritional information is available." It suggests grilled shrimp, omit the butter, steamed vegetables; all of which I already knew. It lists "Limited nutritional info available" for Olive Garden and only lists a few lunch time items. As for Cheesecake Factory it states they offer "Weight Management Salads" each under 590 calories. That is already listed on the menu in the restaurant. Again, nothing new to learn here. It goes into detail for places like McDonalds and Burger King. Anyone who is a member of Weight Watchers has access to the fat and fiber content of their prepared foods already from materials available from Weight Watchers. This book was a waste of my hard earned money. It is definitely a case of "let the BUYER BEWARE"!
Must-have tool for anyone who eats out January 1, 2008
Marjorie Geiser (Running Springs, CA. USA)
This is a must-have for anyone who eats out! Whether you are watching your weight, carbohydrate intake, sodium or fat, this book will help you learn how to walk into any restaurant with confidence.
Dr. Jo starts with the basics, then moves onto general guidelines for what the reader should pay attention to when dining out. The most memorable tip is advising readers to just cut 10 calories a day if they want to lose a pound in a year! Granted, this isn't a lot of weight loss, but just the knowledge that if you ADD a simple 10 calories a day to your diet, you will have GAINED a pound in the next year might help you see how simple it is to cut out 10, 50, maybe even 100 calories and lose TEN pounds in a year!
Dr Jo then moves onto tips for meals, giving suggestions on how to order a healthy breakfast, then offers points to consider when eating American style dinners, and finally breaks down various ethnic cuisines, showing what to watch out for, what to order, and how to stick with your goals while eating at Middle Eastern, Asian, or Mexican restaurants, to name a few.
The final section of the book is a listing of about 5,000 specific menu items for nearly 70 different facilities.
What I like most about the book: Readers can actually see the size of ½ cup of pasta, or what the difference is between a one ounce and a four once bagel. I also like the `calorimeters', charts that show choices from lowest fat and calories to highest choices. Finally, the details for the ethnic restaurants are much better than I have ever seen in other books offering similar information. A great resource!
I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!! July 31, 2007
L. Nichols (Houston, TX USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Everyone needs to own Dining Lean!!! It is the best Dining Guide on the planet!!! Being over-weight most of my life and on every diet known to man I have struggled with knowing how to eat out, know what true portions look like and how to properly track what I'm eating. This is a must have! This book teaches you so much! I now have confidence in knowing how to order my food in a restaurant and be confident of not blowing my weight-loss plan. I also love the fact that this book shows the calories, fats, saturated fats, trans fats, cholesterol, sodium, carbs and fiber! You really know what you are getting when eating out! Every one watching their weight needs this book! Get it! Thank you Dr. Jo!
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