Choose to Lose: A Food Lover's Guide to Permanent Weight Loss [Paperback]

Ronald S. Goor Dr. (Author), Nancy Goor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 19, 1999

Take charge of your life with the only weight loss book that lets you choose what you eat, when you eat, and how much you eat. Here is the fully revised and updated version of the book that has helped hundreds of thousands of readers lose weight by making them the boss. By using the Goors’ unique “Fat Budget” system, anyone can create a personal plan for permanent weight loss. It’s not a fad diet, it's a whole new way of life—one that’s easy, even enjoyable, to follow. This completely revised edition of Choose to Lose features: The real truth about the unreported dangers of the new high-protein fad diets; Why diet pills won’t work for you; How the fat substitute olestra can be dangerous; Updated food tables that reveal the calorie and fat contents of more than 6,000 foods, including brand-name convenience foods and items from fast-food chains.

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About the Author

Nancy Goor is the writer of the team. Using humor and a light style, Nancy has created an understandable and encouraging text for both the books and the program. She also developed the more than 320 recipes in the books. These are recipes which the Goors, their family, and guests enjoy all the time. Her recipes, such as Cajun Chicken, Chili Non Carne, and Onion Flat Bread, prove resoundingly that low-fat cooking can be delicious, healthy, and can keep you lean forever. Nancy Goor received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.F.A. from Boston University.

Dr. Goor, an expert on diet, cholesterol, and heart disease, served the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, as the National Coordinator of the Coronary Primary Prevention Trial, the landmark study that proved that lowering cholesterol reduces the incidence of heart attack. He subsequently became the first coordinator of the National Cholesterol Education Program in the Office of the Director of the NHLBI. His personal as well as professional involvement with cholesterol led him and his wife Nancy to write the best-selling book Eater's Choice. He and Nancy developed The Eater's Choice® Cholesterol Lowering Program, a small-group counseling program based on the book and offered in many hospital and worksite wellness programs and cardiac rehab centers around the country. Because so many people lost weight following Eater's Choice, the Goors wrote a book on weight loss, Choose to Lose, and subsequently developed the Choose to Lose Weight Loss/H

Product Details

• Paperback: 616 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Third Edition edition (May 19, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395970970
• ISBN-13: 978-0395970973
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #94 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Diet > Low Fat

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48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY- A way to eat lots of food for life!, June 11, 1999

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This review is from: Choose to Lose: A Food Lover's Guide to Permanent Weight Loss (Paperback)

DIETS DON'T WORK! I have been searching for some way to change my way of thinking about food. I woke up every day planning where and what I would eat. Food was my life. Now I really think about food differently! I actually see it as the FUEL needed to maintain my body. I always thought I ate "healthy". I loved meats, potatoes, veggies. Never ate desserts and couldn't figure out why I was fat. It never dawned on me that what I was putting on these foods mattered a lot!! I have learned to eat everything I did before, but in a healthier way. Some days I can barely get down all the food that is required! All I did was begin to become aware of FAT CALORIES. This is a life change plan. Thanks for changing my life.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healthy eating for a lifetime!, November 19, 2001

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Kaye Anderson (Poolesville, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Choose to Lose: A Food Lover's Guide to Permanent Weight Loss (Paperback)

I lost 84 pounds in 13 months using this diet along with exercise. I have kept it off for more than 4 years without feeling deprived. Food is no longer the constant focus of my life but something I use to fuel my body. It's great advice and uses real food not bars and powders!

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT WORKS!, March 28, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Choose to Lose: Revised Edition (Paperback)

IT WORKS! It's so readable and makes so much sense. In the last 10 months I've lost 48 lbs. and am still going! Thank you Dr. Goor!