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The Volumetrics Eating Plan: Techniques and Recipes for Feeling Full on Fewer Calories
Barbara J. Rolls

Harper Paperbacks, 2007 - 336 pages

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Eat All You Want and Still Lose Weight!

I don't know about anyone else but I am sick and tired of restrictive diets. In my 40 years I have heard all about the dangers of sugar and white flour, the dangers of fats, and the dangers of carbohydrates. I have read books that limited my food intake to grapefruit, to cabbage soup, and even worse to the infamous lemonade with cayenne pepper. I have been educated about the dangers of eating foods bad for my blood type (does Rh value come into play?) and the dangers of mixing foods (the evil sandwich!). And in the end I ate whatever I wanted.

Dr. Barbara Rolls teaches and does nutrition research at Penn State University, where she holds the endowed Guthrie Chair of Nutritional Sciences. Her first book, The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan, was published in 2000 in the middle of the great no carb boom and just didn't compete with Atkins and South Beach. We should all be grateful that she stuck it out and gave us The Volumetrics Eating Plan.

You may wonder what kind of groundbreaking new food Rolls is bringing to the forefront, or what kinds of restrictions she presents. Guess what? The answer is NONE! Rolls' research shows that people generally eat the same volume of food each day. We seem to have an innate sense of what quantity we need to feel full and we automatically eat that much. If we eat significantly less than that amount we feel extremely deprived and hungry, significantly more and we feel like piggies.

Since weight loss only happens when you take in fewer calories than you expend, the book tells us that to lose weight we must exercise daily and reduce caloric intake. This should not be news to anyone. No magic bullets, no special foods, no restrictions--cut calories going in and increase calories going out. What is different is Rolls' approach. Since we need to eat the same volume of food to feel satisfied, we must choose our foods so that we can eat the most amount for the least calories. We need to get the most bang for our caloric buck in order to successfully lose weight and keep it off.

Volumetrics categorizes foods by Energy Density (calories divided by grams). The foods with the highest ED are full of fats, alcohol, and carbs; the lowest ED foods are full of water, fiber, and protein. For example, 1/4 cup raisins has the same ED as 2 full cups of grapes. Our diet should be based on mostly low ED foods such soups, fruits and vegetables, oatmeals, and lowfat dairy, with enough of the high ED food to meet our basic nutritional needs.

To assist the dieter Rolls provides all the formulas to calculate daily caloric needs and the menus and recipes necessary to decide what to eat to lose weight. I tried several of the recipes, each of which was also tried by my husband the Chef (really, he is a Cordon Bleu trained Executive Chef with 25 years experience and tends to hate food that does not involve butter). We both were impressed. The House Dressing is a lovely creamy rich lightly spiced buttermilk yogurt dressing that is as good as a dip as it is on a salad, and the Veggie Stuffed Macaroni and Cheese was a warm, rich, and creamy blend of whole wheat pasta, low fat cheddar, Parmesan, and veggies AND I was able to eat almost 2 cups of it for same caloric bang as only 3/4 cup of standard recipe macaroni and cheese. Add a salad and light dessert and I was stuffed and satisfied.

Consumer Reports rated Volumetrics as the number one diet in terms of sustainable weight loss and now I understand why. There's nothing crazy or intensely scientific or new. Just exercise more and eat lots of filling low Energy Density foods so that you can cut calories while still eating a lot and you will lose weight. Now what am I going to do with all those Atkins bars?


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At last - an eating plan that makes sense

I've been watching my weight for years - watching it go up, and up, and up. Until I found this book and it's companion, The Volumetrics Weight Control Plan, I was bogged down by a sense of helplessness and hopelessness. Now - not so much. It didn't turn me into a food saint overnight, but it made me look at what I was eating and choose better ways to pack everything I really liked in 1800 calories a day. I started doing that, and I started losing weight immediately. This eating plan (hate saying the word "die-it") really works, and kids, if it works for me - the self-pitying fat lady - it'll work for you. It's got great recipes and sound medical research to back up the premise. It's not flashy or glitzy. She's not trying to sell supplements or miracle cures. She just tells you how to feel full on fewer calories. There's nothing revolutionary about the science, just the presentation. If you want to lose weight permanently - this is the books, kids. You'll feel full, eat all those things you love, and lose weight. Honest!


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Item was shipped immediately and came in great condition. I have not read it all yet, but seems to be a very informative book. Cost was not bad either






It's just me.

This is a good book but obviously you need to be serious about a diet plan or no book will help.


Kindle-specific review

After downloading and reading the Kindle book sample, I was eager to buy the book and read more. Before the positives, let me say that I was very disappointed to find that the graphics of the Eating Plan and Modular Lists are unreadable and therefore worthless. The ample recipes are quite readable, but I'm not a "recipe" kind of gal. I need to get a sense of the gestalt and trust the reference material in order to dive in and actually do it. That said, the Table of Contents, at least, is great, with all the recipes listed with links to the text so I don't have to go through highlighting everything. If the book had included links to those critical Eating Plan and Modular Lists online so at least I could read them on my computer, this would have been a five-star review.

I'm tempted to return the book, but this is really a Kindle publishing problem. I hope all Kindle publishers will start providing links to online versions of charts and tables that do not lend themselves well to Kindle presentation; that, or figure out another way to present the information that does.

Some reviewers have criticized the fact that the author repeats herself too much and that the whole thing could be summed up in a few sentences, but I disagree. First of all, I am in my fifties, in poor health, and (like so many of us) obese--largely from following all those lose-weight-quick diets that kept telling me I didn't have to exercise to stay healthy. I'm also more forgetful now than I used to be, so I like the way the author reasons with me. Sure, it could have been edited down a little more tightly, but at least the repetitive info is of substance. This is not a book filled up with a lot of boosterism and chatty non-information, for which I am grateful. And I learned something I did not know: research has shown that people habitually dish out, and are satisfied with, portions of a certain size no matter what the nutrient or caloric density of those portions. I can see that, by following Volumetrics principles along with those of the Reality Diet, I'm going to be able to get my health back.


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From Dr. Barbara Rolls, one of America's leading authorities on weight management, comes a much-anticipated lifestyle guide and cookbook that empowers and encourages her readers to quit "dieting" for good, to feel full on fewer calories, and to lose weight and keep it off while eating satisfying portions of delicious, nutritious foods.

The Volumetrics Eating Plan doesn't eliminate food groups or overload you with rules. It's a commonsense approach to eating based on Dr. Rolls's hugely popular Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan and her respected research on satiety that shows you how to choose foods that control hunger while losing weight. Along with menu planners, charts, and sidebars on healthy food choices, the 125 recipes put her revolutionary research into real and tangible instructions for every meal. The full-color photographs make these delicious recipes irresistible.

With this important new guide to healthy eating and living, everyone can enjoy tasty and satisfying meals that will help them maintain their weight or lose those extra pounds while learning the pleasures of cooking the Volumetrics way.

Volumetrics, Dr. Rolls's rigorously tested and proven system for weight management, incorporates sound research findings from around the world into a nutritious plan and shows you how to personalize it to suit your preferences and goals. It's all about choices, and The Volumetrics Eating Plan helps you choose the right foods for every meal and every lifestyle, without giving up flavor or diversity in your diet. No more "forbidden foods" or monotonous meals -- The Volumetrics Eating Plan will revolutionize the way you think about managing your weight and will guide you to a lifetime of healthy food choices.


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