Eat Fat, Stay Thin
Actress Suzanne Somers has a new cookbook based on her strategy for dieting. Entitled Suzanne Somers' Get Skinny on Fabulous Food, it dispels the notion of fat as the enemy and instead points to sugar and foods that convert to sugar as the culprits. She shared pointers and recipes with CBS This Morning.
Somers says she wants to show that by eliminating foods such as potatoes and white rice, in addition to alcohol and caffeine, anyone can lose weight. She worked with endocrinologist Dr. Diana Schwarzbein to help demonstrate that sugar is the cause of weight gain, not fat.
The new cookbook includes 130 new recipes from soups to main courses to desserts. She says it is a cookbook for those who want to "Somerize," that is, lose weight while eating cheese, meat, butter, dressings and dessert.
Somers suggests that by changing your eating habits you can improve your metabolism, lower your cholesterol and blood pressure and eliminate digestive problems. She advises limiting sugars, starches, caffeine and alcohol.
For instance, she suggests that if you're hungry and crave fruit, then eat only fruit. Don't combine it with any other food because it will ferment and cause bloating. Eat proteins and fats with vegetables; eat carbohydrates with vegetables but skip the fat.
Somers explains, "Around 40 years old, I realized that I had reached that magic age where metabolism slows down and now, instead of using food as fuel and churning it out, I was eating a lot of the things that I grew up with and I was combining the wrong foods. This required a shift in thinking. I could have carbs and protein but not together, because protein digests at a different rate of speed than carbs."
Somers' Suggestions
MAYTAG BLUE CHEESE AND ROASTED VEGETABLE SALAD WITH HERB VINAIGRETTE:
"Go ahead and put the dressing on the salad. I want you to. It tastes good and you need it for healthy cell production. You don't have to skip the dressing."
PAN FRIED NEW YORK STEAK WITH FRIED ELEPHANT GARLIC:
"I like to get a good porterhouse steak and have the butcher pound it thin. Fry it in a hot pan with red chilli pepper, garlic, olive oil and rosemary and fry it up fast and hot on each side so all of the juice stays in and you serve it with a vegetable and it is great. The vegetable in this case is celery root puree with olive oil and crispy fried onions."
GINGER CREME BRULEE:
"I would only recommend creme brulee for those who have already lost weight because then you can afford to cheat. Cut out the sugar until you lose weight. Then you are looking good and feeling good and can enjoy it. When I drink wine, I know that that is creating a slight imbalance and that I have to go back to level one for three days. I would choose the creme brulee over cake because cake has fat, sugar and carbs. reme brulee is eggs and creme, then sugar on top and it is easier to metabolize."
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