The Juan-Carlos Cruz Calorie Countdown Cookbook: A 5-Week Eating Strategy for Sustainable Weight Loss

May 18th, 2008 Posted in Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1592402585
Manufacturer: Gotham
Average Customer Review: (From 13 total reviews)
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Editorial Reviews

Product Description:
The Food Network?s Calorie Commando shares his five-week weight-loss program, including 150 low-fat, healthy, and delicious recipes that follow his mantra to ?keep the taste while you trim your waist.?

As a pastry chef at Los Angeles?s glamorous Hotel Bel Air, Juan-Carlos Cruz created dazzling desserts. Surrounded by the best ingredients and the most tempting dishes, he began to gain weight, eventually topping 280 pounds. Finding little relief in fad diets, he developed his own weight-loss strategies and re-created many of his favorite dishes reducing both calories and fat content.

Today, he?s a buff television star who reinvents recipes on the air, slashing wasted calories and making flavors sizzle. The Juan-Carlos Cruz Calorie Countdown Cookbook reveals the tricks of his trade, delivering a five-week plan to get menus on track and establish a weight-loss plan you can savor for life.

After telling his own story of success and weight loss in the ?Confessions of a Recovering Pastry Chef? chapter, Cruz eases readers into a gradual calorie-reduction plan. He provides five weeks of daily menus that incorporate his own recipes as well as popular commercial foods. By the end of five weeks, readers will have omitted five hundred calories from their daily intake. Tips, such as his ?Chocolate-Chip Cookie Theory,? help readers identify how one deleted menu item can result in big annual calorie savings and sustained weight loss.

Recipes spanning breakfast, snacks, appetizers, sandwiches, main dishes, and even desserts put the spotlight on Cruz?s world-class cuisine. Chicken parmesan, macaroni and cheese, tortilla casserole, calzones, and even chocolate cake and cheese fries prove that with the right ingredients there is room for indulgence in a healthy diet. Sixteen pages of tempting color photography complete this savory, surefire package.

Customer Reviews

Juan Carlos Calorie Countdown by K Gabaldon
The book is well written with precise menus and recipes. Good weight reducing suggestions. Format and pictures in the book are also well done.

Best for SW flair; great recipes by Meceal C. Laberge
AS I had expected this one is best for those on a diet and craving some good Southwestern recipes. Great flavors and few exotics, most foods are easy to find and no long lists of ingredients. Best of all, there is a plan and menus to follow with calorie counts….

Juan Carlos Cruz by Fanning Y. Garcia
The recipes are easy and taste very good. I enjoyed watching his TV show because his food looked delicious and seemed easy. I enjoyed reading his diet suggestions and his food menus work.

Great food, & BTW - it’s *healthy* too! by Bruce Brodnax
I knew the author when he was a pastry chef working at the Hotel Bel Air and weighed more than I do now [which is over 225#.] You’d figure a pastry chef would know about making food that tastes delectably enticing, & Mr. Cruz makes good on that guess: there’s not a recipe in this book that doesn’t satisfy, while providing a low-calorie alternative to the heavy cooking I grew up with. Thanks sooo, much, Mr. Cruz for showing me a way to enjoy life without shortening it or adding to my time crunch by requiring more hours in the gym!

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