The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health

by Bob Greene

Bob Greene's bestselling Get With the Program! showed hundreds of thousands of people how to make a habit of healthy living and fitness. Now, in The Get With the Program! Guide to Good Eating, Greene presents a blueprint for a lifetime of healthful eating, with detailed, easy-to-follow guidelines and 85 delicious recipes.

Greene knows that you're not going to stick to an eating plan if you're bored or feeling deprived, so he's developed a program based on balance, moderation, flexibility, and variety. After you make the commitment to Get With the Program!, you'll discover the keys to boosting your metabolism. Next you'll take the four steps to healthy eating, making one change at a eating a nutritious breakfast, setting an eating cut-off time, redistributing your calories, and making healthful food choices. Greene shows you how to determine the perfect way to eat for your unique needs, how to stock a healthy kitchen, how to dine out enjoyably, and how to “cheat” without guilt.

Finally, there are eighty-five easy-to-prepare recipes that are as full of flavor as they are good for you. Try a Peaches and “Cream” Fresh Fruit Smoothie or some Buttermilk Blueberry Pancakes for breakfast. Salmon Burgers or Tomatoes Stuffed with Couscous, Cucumber, and Mint make a satisfying lunch, and how about Spinach Penne with Spicy Roasted Pepper Sauce or Baked Lemon Herb Halibut for dinner? Hungry for more? Satisfying soups, tasty side dishes (including luscious Mashed Potatoes), and tempting desserts, like airy Pavlova with Raspberry Sauce or Chocolate Almond Angel Food Cake, make healthful eating a pleasure.

The Get With the Program! Guide to Good Eating is an effective and enjoyable approach to good health, good eating, and weight loss that you can trust.

Genres: Health, Nutrition, Nonfiction

240 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2002

About the author

Bob Greene is a personal trainer who writes on health and weight loss. He works and writes with Oprah Winfrey.

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Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

No new weight-loss secrets revealed here. Instead, Bob Greene reminds us about some good eating habits. When we make healthy meal and snack choices, along with spreading the calories out throughout the day, we will feel more satisfied and shouldn't be starved at the end of the day.

You may have heard it is best to spot eating by a certain time, like 6 or 7pm. But, I didn't realize that by spreading calories evenly over the course of the day, I won't be famished by dinner time. Greene advocates keeping the meals equal in calories. For me, this means a bigger breakfast and lunch and lighter dinner than I am used to. In addition, he adds a mid-morning and mid afternoon snack. Then by dinner, we won't want to consume everything in sight.

This is a big deal for me. Some days I've made healthy choices for breakfast and lunch. But was always starved at dinner. Greene points out that when breakfast and lunch portions are smaller, we get starved by supper time. That's when we make unhealthy choices. That's when I grab the potato chips.

[Jennifer Blaine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Common sense ideas that of course make a lot of sense. I found the recipes to be unrealistic for every day life with little kids. My kids love all natural peanut butter, but I haven't tried the 12 dollar small jar of almond butter like the author suggests. My kids love fruits and veggies, so we are on the right track there. Anyway, an intersting read with good tips.

[KnoxnGnome · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoy Bob Greene's treatment of the plant-based diet sans all the "propaganda" which one gets with other books. I'm also weary of the low carb craze. This is a great book for people who want a no nonsense approach to weight control, a healthy diet, and an overall healthy lifestyle.

[Shell · Rating 3 out of 5]

There's really nothing new here if you've read many books on diet/nutrition but it's a good, common sense book if you need a refresher. No crazy fad diets, no promises of big weight loss with little effort, just smart basic information on eating healthy.

[Shelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is really good. It has 85 recipes in the back. His other books are really good to. I really like the one that Oprah Winfrey wrote a few chapters in about her struggle with weight.

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh... good ideas on good eating. Repeats a lot of information from his other books. His recipes as-is don't thrill me, so I add lots of my own spice! =)

[yengyeng · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ah well, not exactly foodporn but the recipes are useful.