| Health: Diet Deliveries
(CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA In health, one of the hottest diet trends is easy; there's no cooking, no calorie counting, and no meetings. Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl says it helped one celebrity with a major transformation.Ricki Lake is showing off her new figure in Us Weekly, going from 250 pounds to 123.After years of yo-yo dieting, she says she finally found the solution -- an L.A. home delivery diet plan called Fresh Dining.Every morning, meals for the day, about 1,200 calories are dropped off.There are dozens of similar plans, sales reaching $800 million.Ronna Hall gets the zone diet delivered to her home in Penn Valley."It's a salmon salad sandwich, everything is very fresh and has a lot of flavor," Ronna said.The zone diet balances portions of protein and carbohydrates. Jennifer Aniston reportedly lost 30 pounds on the zone diet.Ronna lost eight pounds the first two weeks."I think it makes it a lot easier because it's quick, you know what you're going to have for that day, and you don't have to think I have to go to the market, get this and plan," Ronna said."In general, I think home delivery meals are underused," Dr.
Simple Plans for Social Eating and Travel
It's one thing to stick with your diet regimen when you're at home, in control of the contents of your refrigerator and your portion sizes. But what about going out to dinner with friends? Worse, how do you stay on track when your dream vacation has you seated by the dessert cart at every meal? Eating right when you're out of your comfort zone can actually be easier than when you are at home, so long as you think smart and plan ahead. Focus on these simple tips to help you enjoy your dinners out on the town without compromising your weight loss goals. Simple Plans Incorporate meals out like any others. Don't skip meals beforehand. Plan. Don't be afraid to call ahead and find out what the specials are going to be and figure out a couple of choices. If that's not an option, ask someone with whom you're comfortable sharing your dietary concerns to help you.
Tofu: It's what's for dinner
When I was a child, one of the cooking oil companies had a commercial in which they deep-fried cubes of bread to show something or other superior about its brand of oil. I never noticed what because I was too distracted by the cubes of bread. They were golden, crunchy, and beautiful – and I was sure they had to taste better than anything else I'd ever eaten. When I got old enough, I actually tried frying bread cubes the way they did in the commercial. Then I forked them open and bit into them to find that they tasted, alas, like greasy bread. Fast-forward to today. Our family tries to eat a few vegan meals per week – meatless, milkless, and eggless. This means I have had to move outside my comfort zone in finding foods that six people with differing taste buds can agree on.
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