Extra Lean Family: Get Lean and Achieve Your Family's Best Health Ever [Hardcover]

Mario Lopez (Author), Jimmy Pena (Author)

Book Description

Release date: May 3, 2011

"Living Extra Lean has allowed me to enjoy food more than ever, while maintaining my best health, and I want nothing less for my family or yours!"—Mario Lopez

Understanding that a long and healthy life starts at home, actor and host Mario Lopez carefully developed the Extra Lean plan with one simple understanding: what you eat affects those closest to you. As a proud new father himself, Mario is committed to helping his family start on the right foot when it comes to what they eat by applying the principles of Extra Lean to the household. And the first place to start is in the kitchen.

In Extra Lean Family, Mario shows readers how to use the vital resources from Extra Lean to broaden the spectrum of foods your family eats and how to enjoy food and maintain your best health by cooking healthy, quick, and delicious meals. You and your family will take charge of what you eat, control the quality and preparation of meals, and consistently achieve lean results with the guidance of Extra Lean Family. Includes:

• Detailed food planning tools-including weekly grocery lists-to ensure efficient food prep to jumpstart the week and keep your health on track

• More than 40 appetizing and exciting recipes that can all be prepared in 20 minutes or less

• Dozens of simple and satiating snack options that can combat hunger between meals and keep your metabolism moving fast

This fool-proof plan also offers a food journal and nutritional guidelines for different builds and ages. Extra Lean Family will transform the way your family eats, achieve short and long-term health goals, and allow everyone to enjoy delicious food, without the guilt, for life.

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About the Author

Mario Lopez is currently the host of the long-running entertainment program Extra, and Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew. In 2008, People named him “Sexiest Bachelor,” and he competed as one of America’s favorite contestants in Dancing with the Stars and debuted on Broadway in A Chorus Line.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Celebra Hardcover; 1 edition (May 3, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 045123412X
• ISBN-13: 978-0451234124
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.9 x 9.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #779,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read and follow well organized plan for a lifetime of healthy eating for you and your children. June 20, 2011

By Autumn Blues Reviews

Format:Hardcover

I wanted to review Extra Lean Family because being Mexican Mario has many issues I have when it comes to family tradition and eating. I myself am Hispanic and was born in Puerto Rico although my ancestors came from Spain. I have found this book to work for my family and me when it comes to nutrition, meals and our total health. In the introduction Mario points out how he struggled with eating right as a young adolescent and into his teens. He points out the main goal of his books are is to help others find the right balance when it comes to nutrition. Now that he is married and has a family of his own he has decided to extend that information with this Extra Lean Family book. Chapter 1 of the book is quick and focused on the metabolism, calories, servings good and bad fats and other information, including child size portions. Just a refresher if you already know some things and great insight for others who do not, especially when it comes to child portions. The second chapter moves on to what kinds of foods you should and should not have in the house, shopping for the right foods and food labels. Chapter 3 helps you maintain the Extra Lean habits. While chapter 4 is "the five week meal plan." which includes a grocery list for each week, simple family recipes and nutrition information. In chapter 5 the focus goes to the nutrition of the child, including healthy snacks, options for the picky eater and really good points on how to help your child eat better without being overbearing. Even if we can't get our kids to eat right we can at least show them how to by example, which later can be a great benefit once they get older and realise the importance of it, a great point in the book. Chapter 6 leads into other helpful tips like how to fool your appetite, fast food rules and some pointers on physical fitness.

Overall what I liked most about this book is that it is a condensed 250 pages with tons of great information. So it is not over whelming parents to read and begin to use this nutrition plan, a plan that regular hard working people can implement into their lives. It can be so hard for parents to stick to a family meal plan when they spend all day at work and come home to parenting. Extra Lean Family is not a book for those who are looking to have their fa, in our fast paced society. This book is not a weight loss book for a family to lose weight on a special diet. It is not a get thin quick scheme and yes some of these concepts in the book you probably have already even heard of or read before. However it is a well organized book, a book on how to lead a happy healthy lifestyle with food, to help us parents implement daily healthy habits into our lives and the lives of our children, so they can continue to eat healthy into their adulthood and later pass it on to their own children someday.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent daily meal planner June 18, 2011

By ronlehman909

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I tried Extra Lean Family Meals from my local library and have really enjoyed the meals. Next week I have to return the book so I'm ordering it today from Amazon. I did the same with Mario's first diet book and still use it today (it has it's pages torn, food stains and the binding is coming off due to using it so much). I will probably end up ordering his first book again as soon as the old one becomes unusable. Would highly recommend both books. Liked the way he's incorporated a grocery list into his second book as it really helps. Thanks Mario!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars What's not to like? July 9, 2012

By MandaK

Format:Hardcover

This is a great cookbook! One of the best that I've found in recent years. The recipes are super simple, very quick and best of all, delicious. The instructions are easy to follow and even if you're new to home-cooking, you'll have no trouble making the meals taste great! In addition to the recipes themselves, Mario has added a shopping list for each week so you know exactly what to buy every time you go to the store (which cuts back on impulse purchases, my weakness). He also gives some great tips on eating healthy as a lifestyle, not just when you're cooking dinner each night. This book isn't just a cookbook, it's a meal planning guide that teaches you HOW to eat, not just WHAT to eat. And most of all, I love that he includes children in the meal planning and gives you tips on how to feed picky eaters. Overall, I say this cookbook is a must for every family that is trying to live a healthier lifestyle while still eating yummy!