A sports nutritionist for Hollywood clients explains why typical "health foods" do not necessarily promote weight loss, reveals foods that stabilize blood sugar for a variety of potential health benefits, and cites the importance of avoiding deprivation diets.

Packed with real-world advice for a real-life transformation, Skinny Chicks Don't Eat Salads shows that it's not only possible to shed weight while eating carbs, fats, and all your favorite foods—it's the ONLY way. On the Skinny Chicks plan you will: - Drop up to 7 pounds within the first 7 days - Eat every 4 hours to keep your fat-burning metabolism humming - Never feel deprived, with over 100 fabulous recipes designed to provide the perfect balance of protein, carbs, and fat Follow the Skinny Chicks program for 30 days and you'll find you're no longer a slave to the overpowering cravings that lead to endless cycles of starving, bingeing, and guilt. So toss the boring salads and start enjoying food again to achieve lasting, healthy weight loss!

Packed with real-world advice for a real-life transformation, Skinny Chicks Don't Eat Salads shows that it’s not only possible to shed weight while eating carbs, fats, and all your favorite foods—it’s the ONLY way. Every year millions of smart, sophisticated women embark on that great American ritual: dieting. For many, this means starving themselves throughout the day with the promise of only a lunchtime salad to sustain them. Come nighttime, though, the refrigerator starts calling, and eventually even the most resolute women find themselves bingeing uncontrollably on ice cream, cookies—anything loaded with the very carbs they avoided all day. The next day brings guilt, shame, vows to eat less, and ultimately more bingeing. What’s going on here? Nutritionist Christine Avanti, a former fitness model who struggled with weight issues for years, knows firsthand the emotional roller coaster of guilt, low self-esteem, and hopelessness that accompany these failed attempts at weight loss. Not until she became a nutritionist did she discover that eliminating carbs (or anything else for that matter) isn’t the answer—eating them more often and in the proper balance with other nutrients is the true secret to sustainable weight loss. The results? Transformational... for Christine and for thousands of her clients who’ve learned that when your blood sugar stays on a consistent, even level throughout the day, the urge to indulge in fatty, salty, sugary snacks magically vanishes along with the omnipresent feelings of failure all too familiar to dieters. So Skinny Chicks can eat four full meals a day, stay satisfied, and still lose up to 7 pounds in a single week! Nothing is off limits on the Skinny Chicks easy-to-follow meal plans, from steak to pasta to yummy desserts and real stick-to-your-ribs breakfasts. Best of all, Christine’s scientifically based program ends the cycle of starving, bingeing, and recrimination that plagues so many women, adding guilt and depression to their ongoing battles with weight control.

Skinny Chicks Don't Eat Salads author Christine Avanti explains how women and men can control their appetites and lose weight by avoiding the fake and processed foods that are actually making them fatter. Many women think that products labeled "fat-free," "sugar-free," or "lite" are the key to easy weight loss. The truth is that these so-called healthy packaged foods are filled with processed ingredients and chemicals that actually contribute to weight gain by causing us to overeat. In Skinny Chicks Eat Real Food, nutritionist Christine Avanti explains why a diet rich in all-natural produce, whole grains, and lean protein packed with the nutrients responsible for maintaining stable blood sugar levels and speeding up metabolism is by far the more effective option. Avanti draws on the latest research to provide guidelines for what and how often readers should eat to ensure that pounds are dropped—and offers specific meal plans, grocery lists, and a collection of flavorful recipes filled with fresh, seasonal ingredients. A guide to eating real food in a factory-food world, a weight loss plan, and a real-food cookbook in one, Skinny Chicks Eat Real Food will instruct and inspire readers to steer clear of fake food and eat the balanced, all-natural way we were designed to eat.

An easy-to-start, simple-to-maintain, scientifically sound, and eminently usable twelve-week program of small steps on the road to better health Small Changes, Big Results is not about cutting all the carbohydrates out of your diet. Or replacing every single gram of sugar with omega-3 fatty acids. It’s not about doing one hundred sit-ups a day, or getting on the treadmill whenever you have a free second. In fact, it’s not about any of the total lifestyle-replacement gimmicks—whether diet, exercise, or pop psychology—that have swept our culture in recent years, putting untold millions of Americans on the risky roller coaster of success and failure that defines fad diets and programs. Not here. Small Changes, Big Results is about reality—the reality of what you can do, the reality of what you want to do, and the reality of what works. It’s about introducing a series of small changes each week for three months in the three core areas of diet and nutrition; exercise and fitness; and emotional wellness. For each of the twelve weeks, nutritionist Ellie Krieger introduces a very finite, completely practical action plan for the week—and not only are these tasks incredibly doable, they’re in fact so accessible that it’s tough not to be inspired. For example, in Week 1 the nutrition task is merely to go shopping, buy some healthful pantry items, and start keeping track of what you eat; the exercise consists of taking three twenty-minute walks; and the wellness aspect is to do a five-minute breathing exercise. That’s it. And it doesn’t really get any harder. But these small changes do in fact lead to big results. At the end of twelve weeks, a totally unhealthy diet has been overhauled: armed with easy, delicious recipes and tips, you’ve removed unhelpful munchies and replaced them with healthful snacking, you’ve cut down on lethal trans fats while adding beneficial fat choices, you’ve replaced refined grains with whole grains, you’re eating more fish and less red meat, and so forth. Yet you’ve never been forbidden to eat a single thing: instead of prohibiting entire food groups, Ellie categorizes foods as Usually, Sometimes, and Rarely—and now you should be eating more from the Usually choices, less from the Rarely category. Furthermore, you’ve integrated physical activity into your life, and you’ve developed a set of tools to help you deal with stress—you’re not only eating better, but you’re also exercising better and feeling better. The beauty of this program is that none of these action steps is remotely intimidating, because they’re not a full immersion into a totally new lifestyle. Instead, it’s a series of incremental changes—removing bad habits one by one, while at the same time adding good ones. There’s nothing to scare you off—on the contrary, here’s a whole book full of small changes that produce big results.

For every Skinny Bitch, there's a kick-ass man just as eager to take control of his weight and health. The New York Times bestselling authors now share their tips for turning Dad bods into Skinny Bastards. What's good for the bitch is good for the bastard. Hundreds of thousands of women have been inspired to "use their head" and get real about the food they eat after reading the best-selling manifesto Skinny Bitch. But it turns out some men have been reading over their girlfriends' shoulders. Professional athletes such as Milwaukee Brewers' Prince Fielder and the Dallas Mavericks' Jerry Stackhouse have adopted a whole new eating plan because of the book. Now authors Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin think it's time for the guys to have a book of their own. In Skinny Bastard, they'll explain why the macho "meat and potatoes" diet is total crap, why having a gut is un-cool (and a turn-off), and how to get buff on the right foods. Eating well shouldn't be a "girlie" thing-and the Bitches will whip any man into shape with their straight-talk, sound guidance, and locker room language.

Five hungry kids, a husband in the NFL, and staying in shape—popular blogger Christy Denney has her work cut out for her in the kitchen. Her solution? Simple, quick, and mouthwatering recipes. The Girl Who Ate Everything compiles all of Christy’s favorite tried and true recipes, as well as brand new and equally tasty ones created just for this book. From Chicken Pot Pie Crumble to Cinnamon Roll Sheet Cake, these recipes will have your family begging you for more!