Cook Yourself Thin

... but not if you are on LighterLife! Ha ha

Since moving to the B&B, I tend to live in the bedroom (we have an annexe ie the garage!). There's a TV (something we don't have at home ie in the bedroom) and I have it on for Big Brother and then leave it on. A trailer for a new programme starting on Channel Four next week caught my attention...Cook Yourself Thin.

Lisa McGarry of Unreality TV http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/ writes:

"The average woman spends 30 years of her life dieting but 60% are still overweight. Clearly, diets don’t work, so forget them. Most of us are not obese, we don’t need to overhaul our diets, we just want to drop a dress size.

Cook Yourself Thin TV show is hosted by Harry, Gizzi, Sal and Sophie - 4 cool cooks who regularly have their cake, eat it and still look gorgeous.

Armed with their skinny secrets and a ballistic bomb calorie counter, they will prove that you can drop a dress size in six weeks and still enjoy your favourite foods.

The fabulous four are serious foodies, who won’t make any compromises when it comes to flavour - their dishes first and foremost must taste great. They will show you their tricks - how to double the taste whilst halving the calories. These girls don’t do denial. Burgers, curries, and chocolate cake are all on the menu and won’t pile on the pounds if you cook it their way.

So if you want to streamline those curves, get yourself back into the kitchen and Cook Yourself Thin."

I'm intrigued because I am going to have to learn how to "double the taste whilst halving the calories". Will it help me to enjoy cooking? Or will I be like a reformed alchoholic, entering a bar, fully intending to have a water but...

Well, you know what I am saying!

Comments

[Sandra]

That programme looks good. I bought the Best magazine yesterday (and woman's own) because someone said there was a LL success story in ti and I need a bit of external motivation at the mo. In one of those, there are a few recipes from teh series as a teaser. One of the ideas is beetroot chocolate cake. The chocolate cake in the pic looks delish and grated raw beetroot is an ingredient - so I presume it's ideas like that - to substitute something high sugar/high fat/ high cal with low alternatives.

I'm looking forward to the show!

[Christine]

I'm watching Richard & Judy as I type this and the girls have just been on the show. It looks interesting and they showed a clip of a size 16 woman who followed their way of cooking for 6 weeks and lost 9lbs and went down 2 dress sizes to a size 12. I shall be watching!!!

Chris x