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Elizabeth Cohen: Change One Diet simple
(CNN) -- Diet books and advice abound, but what is right for you? CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen talked with anchor Daryn Kagan about one plan, called the Change One Diet, and explained its concepts of healthy eating habits and weight loss. COHEN: When I was at Barnes & Noble, (there were) 500 diet books. How are you supposed to choose? What makes the Change One Diet book stand out is that it is very straightforward. Let's go over the basic tenets of the Change One Diet. First of all, they say, don't make radical changes. You can't keep it up. Make one weekly change at a time, slowly but surely, and eat smaller portions. For example, a typical breakfast would be four silver dollar pancakes, a little bit of maple syrup, half a cup of strawberries and a glass of skim or low-fat milk. A typical lunch would be a veggie wrap, a green salad with some fat-free dressing, and half a cup of melon. A typical dinner would be a one-inch thick slice of meatloaf, and -- they're very particular about the portion sizes -- two-thirds of a cup of egg noodles, and unlimited amounts of zucchini. You get to eat unlimited amount of veggies. When they talk about the weekly changes, this is a very important part of this book. For example, if you are used to having for breakfast a three-egg omelet with ham and cheese, spend the week trying to get into a smaller breakfast. Spend the next week trying to do smaller lunches. So take it very, very slowly. KAGAN: I know you didn't have a chance to look through all 500 books. But the ones you have looked through, what stands out about this particular diet to you?
COHEN: What stands out about it is that there's no gimmick. A lot of diets say only eat protein, or only eat carbs or only eat tuna fish every other Wednesday while standing on your head. I mean, this book does not have any of these tricks. What it tries to do is ... get you to do portion controls, tries to teach you how to just say no to big portions. The book has a couple of tricks, and that's what makes this a big standout. For example, they say if you are going to eat a piece of chicken, make it the size of a checkbook cover. ... If you are going to eat pasta, the size of the pasta portion should be the size of a baseball, ... and two golf balls for something like oatmeal. They try to give you all these visual clues to help you control your portions. KAGAN: For oatmeal? Two golf balls? COHEN: For oatmeal, I know. I eat like five, yes, I know. KAGAN: And again, it might seem obvious, but also check with your doctor before you do any kind of (diet change). COHEN: Of course. And this diet, in and of itself, is pretty obvious. When I first picked up this book, the word that came to my mind was, "duh," -- eat less, you're going to lose weight. So the key to this book is do the cute little tricks like eat a baseball-sized portion of pasta. Does that work? And if it works, it's a fabulous book. If it doesn't work, it's all pretty obvious.
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