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The Portion Teller Plan: The No Diet Reality Guide to Eating, Cheating, and Losing Weight Permanently
by Lisa R. Young
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Broadway (2006-12-26)
ISBN: 0767920791
EAN: 9780767920797
Dewy Decimal #: 613
Paperback: 336 pages
Release Date: 2006-12-26
SKU: 08080255
Condition: Like New As issued n
Comments: Paperback. Like new condition with no markings and no creases to spine or cover. Very slight wear to cover. Near fine copy.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The Portion Teller Plan is a sensible eating guide and the end of diet deprivation. No forbidden foods, no calorie counting. Welcome to diet liberation.
Would you ever consider going to the kitchen in the morning and grabbing five slices of bread for breakfast? No? Just one bagel is more like it, right? Well, your morning bagel is equivalent to eating five slices of bread. Your steak at dinner is equal to the protein in eighteen eggs. And that huge bowl of pasta you had at lunch is anybody’s guess. Nobody likes to cut back but the cold hard facts are in: Portion sizes have steadily increased over the past thirty years and our collective waistlines are ballooning right along with them.
You may need to eat a little less if you want to lose weight, but with The Portion Teller Plan you can eat all of your favorite foods. Nutrition and portion size expert Dr. Lisa Young presents an individualized guide to eating according to your portion personality and food preferences. You’ll learn a simple system of visuals–a deck of cards, a baseball, your own hand–to help gauge portion size. You’ll be able to eat out, eat in, cheat, and eat on the road without ever being a portion victim again.
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Customer Reviews
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The Portion Teller Plan
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-02-09
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Found the information to be helpful and easy to read and understand. Gives a more practical way to judge portion size.
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It works
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-02-05
17 out of 18 customers found this reveiw helpful
It works. You can lose weight!
This book is THE solution to weight loss: becoming aware of your portions. It works. I suggest you try it. My co-worker lost weight using this book, so I decided to try it for myself. Don't worry--you will not have to eat tiny portions or count calories, and be hungry, and it does not even feel like a diet. Young provides tips, tricks, and solutions for every situation you may be faced with and for every eating style around. The 30 day diary helps alot.
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*Excellent job discussing portion sizes*
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-27
17 out of 17 customers found this reveiw helpful
The book does an excellent job of explaining how those super-size portions
we buy relate to what a normal size meal should look like. Young will help
anyone trying to drop a few pounds without feeling like they are a rigid
diet. And they won't be hungry!! Great guidelines to follow both for adults
and children. I love the sample meal plans, snacks and visuals. And the
timelines tracking how portions have crept up is an amazing eye opener.
Great book!
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A great guide for nutrition/diet novices!
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-01-15
26 out of 43 customers found this reveiw helpful
What was good about this book:
The visual cues (a baseball, golf ball, deck of cards or walnut) are great ways to guestimate how much you are eating and help you prevent overeating, especially if you eat at restaurants often.
The book was very easy to read and, for the most part, entertaining and engaging. I really felt compelled to read the entire thing.
It's also chock full of interesting little facts about portions in America, especially regarding how much they've grown over recent years. Some of it was pretty eye-opening, even for me, and I've read a lot on nutrition.
The back of the book has a nice little appendix you can use as a food journal, and it specially helps you track how many portions you've had.
What I did not like:
Young emphasizes the importance of eating dairy every day. The fact is, research on the nutritional benefits of dairy is all over the place.
A vast number of human beings are lactose intolerant. The reason? Humans are not meant to consume dairy products after infancy. Genetically, we're all supposed to lose the enzyme that helps us process lactose (the sugar in milk) after we're weaned (which used to be ages 2-3, but now is much more likely to be 8 mos-1 year). It's just not meant to be part of our diets, which makes sense--humans evolved on a hunter/gatherer diet. They didn't keep herds and, therefore, had nothing to milk. And they certainly didn't have the time (or place) to sit around making cheese or yogurt or butter. So once you were weaned off mom, you never had milk again.
Ok, so we're not supposed to eat it. It makes some people sick if they cannot process it. And studies have shown that dairy can occasionally interact with other foods we eat in a negative fashion. (For example, a recent study showed that the proteins in milk may destroy the helpful antioxidants found in tea, so if you drink tea with milk, you don't get any of the usual benefits).
However, there are also numerous studies that show that dairy has many benefits. For example, dairy has been shown to raise levels of calcitriol in the blood stream, which can help with calcium absorption, the regulation of blood sugar, as well as other benefits (like weight loss!). And this benefit is only seen in consuming dairy--not supplements or other sources of calcium.
With that said, I would hesitate to ever blankly recommend someone eat dairy every single day without providing them with both the positives and negatives associated. Plus, uh, a lot of people can't eat dairy (even with Lactaid), and she never says what they should do to get an adequate amount of calcium and vitamin D.
Second, while the book does say that "extremely active" people should stick with the higher range of the portions she lays out (while older or sedentary people should go with the lower range), Young never goes into detail about what "extremely active" means, nor does she delve at all into if you should up your protein if you're actively trying to build muscle.
I know the book is supposed to be for the general population, and not for body builders, but considering she repeats herself quite often throughout the book, and considering it's not overly long right now in page-length, I felt she could have spent a little more depth on planning portions around an exercise program. Like, if you're burning 600-700 calories at the gym each morning, go with 8 grain servings, 5 veggies, 4 fruits, 3 dairy, 4 protein, etc.
Overall I'd say this is a great book for people who only exercise a little and are generally looking to lose weight. Especially anyone who currently has a difficult time estimating how many calories he/she consumes every day (like people who eat out a lot) and anyone who thinks he/she isn't eating a balanced diet.
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same as the first
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-11
15 out of 16 customers found this reveiw helpful
Same as the first except in the back there is a 30day portion tracker. But either way the information is great. The first book has helped me to lose 30 pounds so far. I'll keep this book at work and leave the other at home.
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