The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health [Hardcover]

Bob Greene (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2002

Bob Greene's bestselling Get With the Program! showed hundreds of thousands of people how to make a habit of healthy living and fitness. Now, in The Get With the Program! Guide to Good Eating, Greene presents a blueprint for a lifetime of healthful eating, with detailed, easy-to-follow guidelines and 85 delicious recipes.

Greene knows that you're not going to stick to an eating plan if you're bored or feeling deprived, so he's developed a program based on balance, moderation, flexibility, and variety. After you make the commitment to Get With the Program!, you'll discover the keys to boosting your metabolism. Next you'll take the four steps to healthy eating, making one change at a time: eating a nutritious breakfast, setting an eating cut-off time, redistributing your calories, and making healthful food choices. Greene shows you how to determine the perfect way to eat for your unique needs, how to stock a healthy kitchen, how to dine out enjoyably, and how to "cheat" without guilt.

Finally, there are 85 easy-to-prepare recipes that are as full of flavor as they are good for you. Try a Peaches and "Cream" Fresh Fruit Smoothie or some Buttermilk Blueberry Pancakes for breakfast. Salmon Burgers or Tomatoes Stuffed with Couscous, Cucumber, and Mint make a satisfying lunch, and how about Spinach Penne with Spicy Roasted Pepper Sauce or Baked Lemon Herb Halibut for dinner? Hungry for more? Satisfying soups, tasty side dishes (including luscious Mashed Potatoes), and tempting desserts, like airy Pavlova with Raspberry Sauce or Chocolate Almond Angel Food Cake, make healthful eating a pleasure.

The Get With the Program! Guide to Good Eating is an effective and enjoyable approach to good health, good eating, and weight loss that you can trust.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

"Eat sensibly and exercise," is Bob Greene's message, and in a friendly and personal style, he shows you how. Greene, an exercise physiologist and Oprah Winfrey's trainer, focuses on diet with a wealth of sound information and helpful strategies. Greene starts with a cutting overview of destructive diets, including those popular today. Then, after reviewing exercise essentials, he presents a refreshingly sensible plan for nutritious, healthy eating, with tools for keeping intake moderate. One key is eating breakfast, which boosts metabolism and helps you eat less all day. Another is distributing your calories over the course of the day rather than eating a lot at any one meal.

You won't get bored with Greene's 85 enticing recipes, including Scrambled Egg Whites with Spinach and Orange, Breakfast Fried Rice, Gingered Butternut Squash Soup, Fish Chowder, Portabella Mushroom Burgers, Pan-Seared Fillet of Tilapia with Mango Tomato Salsa and Lentil Pancake, and Chocolate Almond Angel Food Cake. Greene's other books in the Make the Connection (with Winfrey) and Get with the Program series helped millions start a fitness program. This one will help people concerned with weight loss and health take their next steps towards a nutritious, moderate-calorie, lifetime eating plan. --Joan Price

From Publishers Weekly

Oprah's longtime personal trainer expands his "Get with the Program" product line with this calm, supportive guide to healthy eating. Greene reaffirms the tenets of last year's Get With the Program!: Getting Real About Your Weight, Health, and Emotional Well-Being-stay hydrated, exercise aerobically, strength-train and eliminate "emotional eating"-before turning his attention to good food habits. Eating breakfast is essential, he says, as is establishing a cutoff time at night (try not to eat 3 hours before sleep); numerous small meals and smart food choices round out his four main steps to healthy eating. Greene's recipes, which take up the latter half of the book, are easy and pleasing: Broccoli and Swiss Chard Cannelloni is full of the beta carotene he espouses in an earlier chapter, and Buttermilk Blueberry Pancakes provide "a healthy shot of antioxidants." He also presents deceptively healthy recipes for Paella, Wild Mushroom Grits and a delicious Eggplant and Zucchini Poor Boy Sandwich. Greene's tone remains encouraging throughout, and his cool dismissal of fad diets and quick fixes should soothe those who have hyperventilated for diet revolutions in the past: "Powerful change occurs...by taking small steps...each day of your life."
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; First Printing edition (December 31, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743243102
• ISBN-13: 978-0743243100
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #985,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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45 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Gives the same weight loss tips as seen on "Oprah", January 21, 2003

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"slmfunk" (Duvall, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health (Hardcover)

Although I enjoy hearing and reading Bob Greene's books, there was nothing new in this one. Most of the pertinent information has already been heard on "Oprah" or in his previous material.
Though the recipes sounded delightful, they were not practical or convenient. Several ingredients would require many stops at specialty stores.

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just the Mushroom Soup Recipe is Worth the Price!, January 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health (Hardcover)

However if what motivates you to lose weight is sitting down before a table of gourmet food that is easy to prepare with no-nonsense ingredients, this book will keep you on track. Friends and family alike will NOT have the feeling that they are being served "diet food" In fact, the author points out how and why most diets are failures.
There are 80 recipes in this book, I've tried 17 of them and all have been quite impressive!

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This works!, April 10, 2003

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Eternally 29 (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health (Hardcover)

This book is in plain english and easy to follow. He makes it so easy to understand and to do. The recipes are not only healthy but very flavorful. I have changed my entire way of looking at food and am slimming down by the week.