Customer Reviews

The Ultimate Calorie Counter

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I am very disappointed with this book. I wanted a book to help me keep track of my daily intake of calories. Not pages and pages full of the author's opinions and tips on weight loss. A lot of the items listed are commercial food that by law have to carry nutrition info anyway. I am prefectly capable of reading a nutrition lable for calories, I don't need the added step of finding it in this book, which doesn't have a very good order of listing items in my opinion. Instead I recommend "The Doctors Pocket Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter: 2002 Edition, Plus 101 Fast Food Chains and Restaurants" and "The Complete and Up-to-Date Fat Book: A Guide to the Fat, Calories and Fat Percentages in Your Food" - both of which are available from amazon.

This book is a BIG disappointment and not at all user friendly. The first 90 pages are the author's observations and opinions on weight loss. The calorie count portion is difficult, if not impossible to use.....instead of being individually alphabetically listed, items are classified and then alphabetized and the classification is not noted at the top of the page. "Ultimate"....I don't think so.

This is just another ole calorie book with the first half devoted to talk about diets exercise and general nutrition. The second half is food items (90%) that I can find the calorie count on the package it came in. It does not have foods I was looking for. . .like, WHOLE GRAINS, 1 oz millet, or buckwheat did not have fresh ground almond butter. . . those are the kinds of things I would say is ULTIMATE as those items are hard to find a calorie amount on. . . .this book spent too much time in the front half on general info and NOT calorie counter and then the section with the counter, it was very hard to follow. . . .

I would not recommend this book. I found this book a real disappointment. I do not wish to spend an hour figuring out what the calories in every meal are. There is a lot of information, but it is spread at random all over the book and the index is almost completely useless. It also recommended calorie intake levels that I believe would be appropriate for a roofer or a dockworker, but for most people with sedentary jobs, she was very far off.

The good info is all there, but the format is a little odd...sometimes awkward to figure out what category a food is in, but once you memorize the order the book is put in, not such an issue. Most thorough list I've seen in a while, and fits nicely into a purse.

Yikes - this book is terrible. The organization is bizarre, making most of the listings difficult to find. (You can find them eventually, but this is the kind of book that you want to flip open quickly and find what you are looking for.)

What is worse, is that most of the listings are for commercially available items (frozen dinners, packaged goods) that already have nutritional information on the boxes. Thanks Ms. Buff, I didn't need THAT, I wanted to look up foods that DON'T come with labels. I wish I had read some of these reviews before buying this book.

This easy to use reference is essential in providing nutritional data on food products rthat do not come with a label.

My doctor put me on a calorie counting diet of no more than 1600 calories per day.
When I got this book and read how many calories are in an 8 ounce item, I couldn't believe it! In one month, I've already lost 11 pounds, and I can eat whatever I want. All you have to do is count calories and keep within your allowed caloric intake per day. It's so easy! If I had know it was this easy, I would have done it sooner! The book is very helpful. It has everything you need to know in order to count calories and stay within your limits! I love it!

This book is a lot of help . It has the list of Restaraunts and fast food places to make a good decision on eating.

I had hoped this book had more specific calorie/carb/fat details rather than the generic food products. It had many purchased items, such as lean cuisine, health choice, etc., but little on non-ready food products. It did not serve my purpose.