Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World by Lisa Lillien (2008, Paperback, Illustrated)

I love this book! I am on Weight Watchers, and a big downfall of mine is sweets. This book gives lots of secrets on easy ways to make sweets low fat and high fiber. My personal favorite is the brownies. The author recommends using Devil's Food Cake mix and a 15 oz jar of pumpkin (nothing else). I tried these tonight, and I honestly can't say for sure rather I like these better or the regular version. My husband even liked them, and he doesn't normally like low fat anything!

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Another great source of recipes and tips is the Hungry Girl website. (You can find it by doing a search on google for "Hungry Girl"). They have many great recipes and you can sign up for a daily newsletter that provides all kinds of information. Also, Amazon has an exclusive PDF version of a 3 day menu from the author. This has wonderful recipes you can try before you buy.

In short, this book provides many healthy recipes for any person or family. Thank you for reading my review. If you found this helpful, please take a second to say so below.

This is an excellent book for anyone trying to eat well, lose weight, and still enjoy many old favorites as well as try new recipes. Lisa Lillien is obviously serious about health and weight loss. I especially like that it is very Weight Watcher friendly. She developed some of the recipes in conjunction with WW, and provides all the WW points values for each recipe on her book website. I highly recommend this book, even if you have other diet cookbooks. There are many unique recipes, hints, and also ways of substituting ingredients to make lower fat/calorie versions of popular foods.

I bought Lisa Lillien's 2nd book first ("200 Under 200") and it helped me a lot with my weight loss. So this is why I just had to get the first book too - to get even more recipes. The recipes are easy to follow, mostly low-calorie and nutritious. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves to eat just about anything but don't want to gain weight doing so.

Trying to lose a lot of weight is extremely hard but Lisa Lillien has made it so much easier. My husband and I have lost 30pds each so far this year and we owe a lot of that to Hungry Girl. We use her recipes and ideas a lot. You can eat more food and still get a lot fewer calories. Her use of fiber one cereal has caused us to have family and friends over for dinner so that they too can learn helpful ways to control their calorie intake. The only con for this book is that the next one is not due out for two more weeks(April 14th). Couldn't wait to find it on ebay so its already pre-ordered. Thank you Lisa Lillien for sharing with us.

I really like this book. It has interesting recipes in all catagories, all with low fat and good health in mind. Works well with Weight Watchers or any other healthy eating plan. I highly recommend both the book and the Hungry Girl website.