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When the test-kitchen crew at Family Circle decided to lose weight, they needed a plan that let them keep their jobs--eight hours a day testing and tasting recipes--and continue to enjoy food. "It's all about the calories," nutritionist Susan McQuillan told them. She designed the "Eat What You Love & Lose" plan: a sensible, healthy way to limit portions and average 1 to 2 pounds of weight loss a week. The key: eat about 1500 calories a day through moderate--rather than supersize--portions, and substitute lower-calorie foods that satisfy the same taste requirement as high-calorie food cravings. If you're eating less, each food has to be tasty, so the 225 recipes are designed to be flavorful and satisfying: Orange Chicken and Peanut Salad, Pasta with Spicy Red-Pepper Cream Sauce, Shrimp-Gazpacho Soup, Fish Burgers with Caper Mayonnaise, and Caribbean Chicken Curry, for example. A selection of 100- to 200-calorie sweets include Berry Shortcake, One-Crust Fresh Peach Pie, Choco-Mocha Angel Food Cake, and Cinnamon Coffee Custard. All recipes include nutrient values. Eat What You Love and Lose gets back to sensible dieting--the kind that helps you lose weight steadily and keep it off because you have no need to return to your earlier way of eating. --Joan Price
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