The Biggest Loser Cookbook: More Than 125 Healthy, Delicious Recipes Adapted from NBC's Hit Show [Paperback]

Devin Alexander (Author), Karen Kaplan (Author), The Biggest Loser Experts and Cast (Author), Bob Harper (Foreword), Kim Lyons (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 3, 2006

More Than 125 Healthy, Delicious Recipes From The Biggest Loser Experts and Cast--As Seen On NBC's Hit Show!

By The Biggest Loser experts and cast

Building on the groundbreaking success of The Biggest Loser brand, this sequel to last year's best-selling book is sure to be a hit!

The Biggest Loser Cookbook offers:

• 125 recipes from The Biggest Loser cast, trainers, and fans

• motivational before-and-after photographs of the cast

• 50 beautiful 4-color food shots

• dozens of trainer tips from The Biggest Loser trainers

• inspiring stories of how the cast members did it

• at-a-glance guides to The Biggest Loser Diet and The Biggest Loser Exercise plan

Armed with this arsenal of nutritional information and training tips, readers will be inspired to achieve the dramatic weight loss transformations that have amazed TV fans around the country.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books; 1 edition (October 3, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594865752
• ISBN-13: 978-1594865756
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (189 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

New York Times Bestselling Author, Devin Alexander, is a veteran in the fight against obesity and she's winning the war with her unique approach to healthy cooking . Having maintained a 55 pound weight loss for over 15 years, she lives and eats her message: you don't have to deprive yourself to be fit and healthy.

Devin has shared her secrets for unbelievably decadent, yet healthy foods through frequent appearances on Good Morning America, The View, The Biggest Loser, Discovery Health, HGTV, USA, Style Network and others, and through over 100 magazine features including Prevention, Women's Health, Shape, and Healthy Cooking, to name a few. She has served as Culinary Advisor to Men's Fitness Magazine and is currently The Cooking Expert to Women's Health Magazine.

Her recently released cookbook, Fast Food Fix (April 2006) was featured as an editor's top pick in USA Today. And she just released The Biggest Loser Cookbook (October 2006), which accompanies the hit NBC show.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

315 of 325 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The only thing you have to lose is your weight., September 22, 2007

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This review is from: The Biggest Loser Cookbook: More Than 125 Healthy, Delicious Recipes Adapted from NBC's Hit Show (Paperback)

Based on the NBC hit show "The Biggest Loser," this colorful cookbook is a plus to anybody's library that is trying to lose weight or even just eat healthy. The promise of the book is that eating healthy can be quick and delicious AND it doesn't have to mean bland, tasteless food- and the book delivers.

Readers will find a short review of the Biggest Loser's way to lose weight- which is sensible- you eat right and exercise. Then comes the heart of the book- over 100 recipes for the various meals like breakfast, snacks, etc. And unlike a lot of cookbooks, each recipe shows you exactly how many calories, fat grams, protein grams, carb grams, fiber grams, sodium, and cholesterol it contains- which is nice for a wide variety of other populations such as those with diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease.

A sensible and practical cookbook, a lot of people will probably get their money's worth. Also recommend Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff if a shoulder problem keeps you from getting all the benefits of lifting weights.

207 of 218 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy , Delicious, Healthy Meals! I Highly Recommend!, October 13, 2006

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John Baker (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Biggest Loser Cookbook: More Than 125 Healthy, Delicious Recipes Adapted from NBC's Hit Show (Paperback)

Last year I weighed 530 pounds. After being inspired by the TV show The Biggest Loser, I have lost 140 pounds so far. I still have about 200 more pounds to go. I KNOW that with recipes and meals like the ones featured in this book, that I will be able to reach my weight loss goals. The thing that I appreciate most about this cookbook is that the recipes are simple and easy to follow. I am a bachelor and am not an experienced cook but this book makes me look like a pro. I have been asked by so many people how I've lost the amount of weight that I have. The answer is simple...eat less (make healthier food choices and portion control), move more (daily exercise) and drink lots of water. The Biggest Loser has shown me how to lose my weight - The Biggest Loser Cookbook is helping to keep me going!! PS The Blueberry Pancakes are out of this world! Yumm!!

78 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Cookbook so far, November 13, 2006

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Twylia Westling "skidroadrider" (Tacoma, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Biggest Loser Cookbook: More Than 125 Healthy, Delicious Recipes Adapted from NBC's Hit Show (Paperback)

I've recently taken up the hobby of buying cookbooks which, it was believed, would help me eat properly and lose weight. I've spent a LOT of time and money researching ways to lose weight healthily and tastily. I'm not a big cook and most of the cookbooks I have bought recently left my mouth-watering but not satisfied.

Not so with this cookbook! The recipes are the simplest things I've ever made. I made the Not Really Fried Rice this last weekend, and it was so simple and tasty! Tonight, we are eating the Jerk Salmon. My favorite things to snack on to satisfy my sweet tooth are the graham-wiches. They are so tasty and so low in calories I don't have to worry about it!

I've never counted calories before so the first week was a little hard for me to get used to - that and being careful about what I eat. But now, I feel like a pro and have total confidence on what I put into my body! Plus, the recipes have really added some 'spice' to our otherwise boring and mundane meal-plan.

I have both the Biggest Loser Weight Loss Program and now the cookbook. I have lost four pounds in the last two weeks. I highly recommend this cookbook for anyone wanting to lose weight and do it healthily! This is a great investment in your health!