{"id":8874,"date":"2010-10-18T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=8874"},"modified":"2010-10-13T14:12:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T20:12:54","slug":"hungry-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/hungry-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>I’ve always struggled with trying to lose weight while still eating the delicious (and often fattening) foods that I love.\u00a0 It got a little easier when I discovered the Hungry Girl cookbooks, written by “Hungry Girl” Lisa Lillien.\u00a0 Her books Hungry Girl:\u00a0 Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and Hungry Girl 200 Under 200:\u00a0 200 Recipes Under\u00a0200\u00a0Calories<\/a><\/em><\/strong> contain recipes for the foods we already love, but made in a more healthy way.\u00a0 They’re also pretty easy to make; Hungry Girl’s recipes don’t contain a ton of ingredients or steps, so they’re not too difficult for someone like me whose preferred cooking steps are 1) Preheat oven 2) Insert frozen pizza.\u00a0 I’ve tried out a few of her recipes so far, including the Krispymallow Treats and\u00a0the Cheesy Chicken Quesadilla, and they were great!\u00a0 I even made\u00a0her recipe for a cupcake baked inside an ice cream cone\u00a0for my family and they didn’t realize it was a “diet recipe”.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Hungry Girl books contain more than just recipes.\u00a0 Lilien has also made lists of\u00a0products to use to make your cooking lighter and a series of “Survival Guides” for how to eat out at restaurants without gaining 10 pounds per meal.\u00a0 Now that I’ve tried a few recipes and trust Hungry Girl’s directions, I might even try some of her more ambitious recipes, like the Kickin’ Chicken Tortilla Soup and Fiber-ific Fried Chicken Strips.\u00a0 If you want to lose weight but don’t want to give up your favorite foods, I suggest checking out the Hungry Girl books to see if she has a solution.\u00a0 I’ll bet she does!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always struggled with trying to lose weight while still eating the delicious (and often fattening) foods that I love.\u00a0 It got a little easier when I discovered the Hungry Girl cookbooks, written by “Hungry Girl” Lisa Lillien.\u00a0 Her books Hungry Girl:\u00a0 Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[548,289,1377,1378],"class_list":["post-8874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-cookery","tag-cooking","tag-dieting","tag-eating-healthy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2j8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8874"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8942,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions\/8942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}