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| The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great | 
 enlarge | Author: Pam Anderson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 23192
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0618835962
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9780618835966
ASIN: 0618835962
Publication Date: March 12, 2008
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Product Description
The best-selling author of The Perfect Recipe shares her secret for dumping pounds without dieting?and the 250 recipes for her new way of eating.
To millions of citizen cooks, Pam Anderson is a trusted friend who does all the work for them, testing and retesting until she arrives at the best version of classic favorites and simple dishes for company. But gradually, Pam found herself standing with the two thirds of Americans who are more than a few pounds overweight. Fed up with whipsaw cycles of losing and gaining, she vowed to change?but not if it involved dieting, hunger pangs, or saying no to the foods she loved. Complicated recipes were out. She streamlined, creating meals as satisfying as they are quick?pizzas that take just thirty minutes, big-bowl combos, and gratifying snacks to forestall cravings. She discovered a few simple habits that make all the difference. Four years later, she's still maintaining her forty-pound weight loss. The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great is a way to eat for life. It's filled with voice-of-experience tips for curbing appetite, no-nonsense shortcuts for getting food on the table pronto, and recipes that could only have been developed by this food-loving pro?no compromises, no wasted steps, just extraordinary results from ordinary ingredients.
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 Real food for real lives! February 24, 2008
169 out of 173 found this review helpful
I have been a huge fan of Pam Anderson's other "Perfect" cookbooks. Especially "Perfect Recipes for Having People Over," and "How to Cook Without a Book." She is just a great chef and writer. Her insight is always invaluable. However, it is not really practical for me (or anyone) to eat most of these foods on a daily basis because many of them are high in fat and calories.
In her new book, Pam shows you how you can eat really good food, but cook recipes that are not to caloric or fat laden. The recipes are really do-able for everyday cooking and eating, even if you have a busy schedule. And, in typical Pam fashion, she gives variations on almost every recipe to suit your tastebuds and the ingredients you have on hand. A calorie count is also given for every recipe.
Just as valuable as the recipes, is the information Pam gives you about how she lost almost 50 pounds. Her biggest tip is that she changed her lifestyle. She added exercise and created kind of a meal plan and guidelines that she feels (and I feel) are liveable. She has a nice breakfast, a nice lunch, teatime with a sweet, a before dinner "nibble" with a glass of wine and a reasonable dinner. And the truth is, if you eat like this day in-day out, you will slowly lose weight (or stay the same). What makes most of us gain weight is the over-indulgent stuff, eating too much on a daily basis, and constant yo-yo dieting.
I am not doing her writing justice, please get it and read it. I am so excited to implement her strategies and recipes in to my life. I love to cook, and I love to eat, but I hate being fat!
Edited to add: I have been cooking from this book all week and love, love, love it. Rare to find a cookbook that you can instantly cook so many recipes out of it right away. These are recipes for everyday living.
Pam looks fantastic! February 29, 2008
75 out of 96 found this review helpful
You might think it's strange that I'm writing a review for a book that I don't yet own (I just placed an order for it!), but I have been waiting for this book since I read somewhere last fall that Pam was writing a book about losing weight.
We have a great cooking school here in San Antonio and I've been to Pam's classes three times over the last few years. I nearly fell over when she walked into the classroom last year to teach from Perfect Recipes for Having People Over - she looked fantastic! I had seen her twice before and she was quite heavy. After that class I went home and looked at her picture on the flap of How to Cook Without a Book and could not believe the difference. She looks 20 years older in that photo.
I own all of her cookbooks and love each one so I feel comfortable giving this one five stars after "witnessing" the change in her. I can't wait to devour every word and piece of advice in this book!
 Disappointing as a weight loss plan April 13, 2008
39 out of 40 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I've been a fan of Pam Anderson's for a long time. Many of her recipes have become staples in my household. Ever since I found out that she'd lost a considerable amount of weight, I've been waiting for her to write a book about it. She has, and the recipes look so delicious that it's hard to believe they are weight-loss fare. Indeed some of the 500+ calorie pastas really are not, unless you plan the rest of the day accordingly.
And that is the main problem with the book: There is no plan to follow. Given that, I wish she'd included the standard nutritional info, such as protein, fat, carbs, and fiber, along with the calories to help readers create their own plan using the recipes.
The key to the book is in the title. The recipe for losing weight is exercise, and the actual food recipes are for eating great. The problem is, if you choose her breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes on the higher calorie end, you will not lose weight unless you engage in the hour or so of running every day that she prescribes. To maintain her weight loss, she says she's cut her runs down to 45 minutes a day.
I don't think this book will be useful to very many as a weight-loss book, unless you stick to the lower calorie recipes and don't go for all the extras and add-ins that are Anderson's trademarks. I think the recipes are probably most helpful for maintaining weight loss. And I'm sure it is very a delicious way to do so.
Realistic, User Friendly, and Delicious March 16, 2008
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
Organized beautifully, reads like you're chatting with your best friend. Today is Sunday, and I've just made the absolutely delicious Crustless Quiche with bacon, leeks and goat cheese, for lunch today and pre-portioned breakfast the rest of the week -- I can decide each morning whether to eat at home or at my desk at work! The recipes offer tons of flexibility, and the encouragement, sprinkled throughout, offers a real plan for real people in their very real and busy lives.
I have practicality issues with this one... April 11, 2008
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Most of the recipes look delicious, and it is very inspiring to read the author's success story. She has a lot of great insight into the "mental" work she had to do in order to lose weight, which I found very valuable.
But I hesitated on whether to give this book 3 or 4 stars. I give it 3 because I can't really use the recipes in my everyday life, although they seem like they would be delicious.
If you have picky eaters at your house, check this one out from the library before deciding whether or not to buy it. I also thought some of the ingredients she uses are a bit too gourmet, in other words, I don't usually have them in my kitchen. I hadn't read her other book, so I might have been prepared for that otherwise.
One thing she did in the book that I didn't care for, is she has 50 little tips on losing weight scattered throughout the book. But they aren't compiled in a list anywhere I could see, you have to read through the whole book to find them. So when you think, "what was it she said about such and such?" You have to search the whole book to find the particular tip.
Another thing that may be difficult for some people to do, is follow her suggestions for exercise. When she was losing weight, she would run two or three times a day, for shorter periods. That may just not be doable for someone with small children, or if you work.
I think this book would work best for someone who is in about the same stage of life as the author, older children or empty nester, with a husband who doesn't turn his nose up at unfamiliar foods.
Unfortunately, this one just didn't work for me.
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