Healthy Hollywood: Wellness Wednesday – Eat Fast Food & Get Skinny!

Eat your favorite fast food without sabotaging your diet! It sounds too good to be true.

According to food guru David Zinczenko’s new book, “The Eat This, Not That! No-Diet Diet,” people can have their burger and eat it too.

“The No-Diet Diet isn’t about restricting calories, eliminating the things you love or going hungry. Instead, it’s about creating balanced meals using all your favorite fast foods, supermarket products, and restaurant fare. Simply put, it’s the world’s easiest weight-loss plan,” states David. Sounds like a winning recipe to me!

Does this plan really shed the pounds? David stopped by our morning show, “Access Hollywood Live” and explained to Billy Bush & Kit Hoover how one woman lost 60 pounds in 11 months following this diet. It’s all about making smart food choices, which can save dieters hundreds of calories.

Smart Meal Swaps From “Eat This, Not That! No-Diet Diet”:

BREAKFAST: IHOP

NOT THAT
Spinach & Mushroom Omelette with Hash Browns
1,230 calories
91 g fat (29.5 g saturated)
2,170 mg sodium

EAT THIS INSTEAD
SIMPLE & FIT Spinach, Mushroom & Tomato Omelette w/ Fresh Fruit
330 calories
12 g fat (5 g saturated)
690 mg sodium

The vegetables in this omelette are just there to distract you from the mountains of butter and cheese. The omelette alone—before you add the hash browns—delivers 910 calories and 26 grams of saturated fat. That’s more saturated fat than you’d get in 3 full Personal Pan Pizzas from Pizza Hut (Ham and Pineapple has 8 grams sat fat). Switch over to the Simple & Fit Spinach, Mushroom & Tomato Omelette, which comes with fruit, and you’ll save 900 calories and cut your total fat intake by more than 85 percent.

COFFEE: Starbucks

NOT THAT
White Chocolate Mocha (venti, 2% milk, whipped cream)
580 calories
22 g fat (15 g saturated)
75 g sugars

DRINK THIS INSTEAD
Nonfat Caramel Macchiato (grande)
190 calories
1 g fat (0.5 g saturated)
32 g sugars

If you need this much sugar to get your caffeine to go down, you might want to re-think your commitment to caffeine. Adding one of these to your daily routine will add more than a pound and half to your body every week. This single cup has as much sugar as 3.5 Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bars. In general, regular, unflavored cappuccinos are among the best espresso-and-milk drinks at any coffee shop, and a Caramel Macchiato is basically an indulgent version of a cappuccino. It’s made with steamed milk, vanilla syrup, and caramel sauce. It’s the most indulgent coffee-shop drink you can buy with fewer than 200 calories.

LUNCH: Carl’s Jr.

NOT THAT
The Original Six Dollar Burger
900 calories
54 g fat (21 g saturated)
2,000 mg sodium

EAT THIS INSTEAD
Big Hamburger
470 calories
17 g fat (8 g saturated)
1,010 mg sodium

The Six Dollar Burger could work if you only ate 3 dollars worth of it. Here’s why: The burger has 900 calories without any sides. You tack on the medium fries and suddenly you’re at 1,330 calories. Plus it has more than a day’s worth of saturated fat. Save yourself some money and calories by switching to the Big Hamburger.

DINNER: Olive Garden

NOT THAT
Pork Milanese
1,510 calories
87 g fat (37 g saturated)
3,100 mg sodium

EAT THIS INSTEAD
Steak Toscano
590 calories
35 g fat (8 g saturated)
1,690 mg sodium

Milan has a nice hold on the fashion world, and in order to establish a monopoly on all the skinny models, they’ve fired this breaded- and butter-fried fritter across the ocean to make us fat. Don’t take the bait. The Steak Toscano is 12 ounces of center strip steak brushed with heart healthy olive oil instead of butter, and it’s served with Italian potatoes and peppers. That’s a hearty indulgence, yet it still saves you 920 calories over the Pork Milanese.

Check out “The Eat This, Not That! No-Diet Diet” for yourself, head to www.eatthis.com.