The Volumetrics Eating Plan: Techniques and Recipes for Feeling Full on Fewer Calories

March 29, 2008 | By Doug In Uncategorized |

The Volumetrics Eating Plan: Techniques and Recipes for Feeling Full on Fewer Calories

From Dr. Barbara Rolls, one of America’s leading authorities on weight management, comes a much-anticipated lifestyle guide and cookbook that empowers and encourages her readers to quit “dieting” for good, to feel full on fewer calories, and to lose weight and keep it off while eating satisfying portions of delicious, nutritious foods.

The Volumetrics Eating Plan doesn’t eliminate food groups or overload you with rules. It’s a commonsense approach to eating based on Dr. Rolls’s hugely popular Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan and her respected research on satiety that shows you how to choose foods that control hunger while losing weight. Along with menu planners, charts, and sidebars on healthy food choices, the 125 recipes put her revolutionary research into real and tangible instructions for every meal. The full-color photographs make these delicious recipes irresistible.

With this important new guide to healthy eating and living, everyone can enjoy tasty and satisfying meals that will help them maintain their weight or lose those extra pounds while learning the pleasures of cooking the Volumetrics way.

Volumetrics, Dr. Rolls’s rigorously tested and proven system for weight management, incorporates sound research findings from around the world into a nutritious plan and shows you how to personalize it to suit your preferences and goals. It’s all about choices, and The Volumetrics Eating Plan helps you choose the right foods for every meal and every lifestyle, without giving up flavor or diversity in your diet. No more “forbidden foods” or monotonous meals — The Volumetrics Eating Plan will revolutionize the way you think about managing your weight and will guide you to a lifetime of healthy food choices.

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The Volumetrics Eating Plan is not a short-term diet book, but provides recipes and ideas on how to eat for the long term. It gives readers a method to eat fewer calories by making what you eat less calorie dense. It does this by focusing on foods with high water and fiber content. Basically, the Volumetrics approach emphasizes foods with a low “energy density,” (calories) that are high in water content such as fruits, vegetables, and soups. The idea is that low-calorie, high-water, high-fiber foods generally make you feel full faster so you consume fewer calories overall. The author’s research shows that by emphasizing these high-water content, low-calorie dense foods, a person feels satisfied on many fewer calories per day.

Professor Rolls divides foods into 4 categories based on whether a food has less, equal, or more calories per serving than its weight in grams. Category 1 foods should be emphasized and eaten first. Category 4 foods should be eaten in small quantities. Examples of the foods in each category are as follows: Category 1 - non-starchy fruits and veggies, nonfat milk, broth-based soups; Category 2 - starchy fruits and veggies, grains, cereal with low-fat milk, beans and legumes, low-fat meats, and mixed dishes such as chili; Category 3 - meats, cheeses, pizza, French fries, bread, cake, and ice cream; and finally Category 4- crackers, chips, chocolate candies, cookies, butter, nuts, and oils.

The diet is balanced in terms of carbs, protein, and fat, and does not eliminate food groups. The Volumetrics eating plan also allows you to eat your favorite foods occasionally so that you don’t feel too deprived and go off the program. Included in the book are menu planners and 125 recipes with color photographs. The book also provides worksheets for tracking your food intake and weight. Examples of recipes include: Baked Berry French Toast, Vegetable Party Platter, Sesame Mushroom Kebobs, Corn and Tomato Chowder, Minestrone Soup, Almond Chicken Salad Sandwich, Buffalo Chicken Wraps, Charlie’s Greek Salad, Tangy Cole Slaw, Tabbouleh, Balsamic Dressing, Minted Broccoli, Ratatouille, Tofu Pad Thai, Nouveau Lamb Stew, Shrimp Creole, Chicken Parmesan, Risotto Primavera, The Aristotle Pizza, and Maple Cr?me Caramel.

The content of the book includes:

1. Welcome to Volumetrics

2. Your Personal Weight Management Plan

3. Breakfast

4. Appetizers, Starters, and Snacks

5. Soups

6. Sandwiches and Wraps

7. Salads and Salad Dressings

8. Vegetables and Vegetarian Dishes

9. Meats

10. Fish and Shellfish

11. Poultry

12. Beans, Rice, and Grains

13. Pasta and Pizza

14. Desserts and Fruit

15. Your Personal Eating Plan

Resources, References, Index, Conversion Chart

Barbara Rolls is a professor and nutritionist who worked with the National Institutes of Health, and is well qualified to write this book. The menu is elaborate and time-consuming, yet this should be a good plan for slow and steady weight reduction if you have the time to put into planning, buying, and preparing the complex recipes and are able to follow the plan for life. It is based on the common sense that emphasizing low calorie dense, high-fiber, high-water content foods will slowly reduce your caloric intake and allow you to lose weight and keep it off. Please also check out THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams

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Once you learn the principles of this type of cooking, you can adapt almost any recipe. It is such a healthy way of eating while still leaving you with a feeling of fullness and satisfaction.

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