01/02/2013
Photo by: Jeff Lipsky
Pizza! Pasta! Nachos! Yes, you can eat the food you love and still be healthy. Let Food Network star Lisa Lillien, a.k.a. Hungry Girl, show you how.
Lisa Lillien began dieting when she was 9. "The doctor told my mother, 'No chips, no salty snacks.’ It made me feel terrible."
But after years of battling her weight, Lillien decided she was done. "I wanted to eat cake at my wedding," says Lillien, who is married to TV producer Dan Schneider, creator of Nickelodeon's hit shows iCarly and Victorious. "I needed to make it a lifestyle."
She began by researching the ingredients and calorie counts of her favorite supermarket and restaurant foods, then in 2004 launched an online "Hungry Girl"; newsletter, which has attracted more than a million subscribers.
Today, Lillien's food empire also includes a Food Network show and seven best-selling cookbooks, including the latest, Hungry Girl to the Max!
"I love," Lillien says, "giving people options to satisfy their cravings."
3 Tips From the Hungry Girl:
1. When eating out, "always look up the menu online first," Lillien says. "That way, you can make better choices."
2. Fight cravings by keeping snacks handy, Lillien says, like protein bars or 100-calorie packs of pistachios.
3. "You're not going to eat perfectly all the time," says Lillien. Instead, aim for 80 percent healthy, 20 percent fun.
Click here for recipes from Hungry Girl to the Max! and click here to learn how you can enter to win a signed copy of her book!.
Also See:
4 'Hungry Girl' Recipes for the New Year
Tasty Ways to Eat Oatmeal at Breakfast
What stumps you? Send your cooking and shopping questions to dashboard@dashrecipes.com. We may answer your question in an upcoming issue of dash!
Shoot us your kitchen queries, share your opinions, or just come and say "Hi!" on Facebook and on Twitter @dashrecipes
Lisa Lillien began dieting when she was 9. "The doctor told my mother, 'No chips, no salty snacks.’ It made me feel terrible."
But after years of battling her weight, Lillien decided she was done. "I wanted to eat cake at my wedding," says Lillien, who is married to TV producer Dan Schneider, creator of Nickelodeon's hit shows iCarly and Victorious. "I needed to make it a lifestyle."
She began by researching the ingredients and calorie counts of her favorite supermarket and restaurant foods, then in 2004 launched an online "Hungry Girl"; newsletter, which has attracted more than a million subscribers.
Today, Lillien's food empire also includes a Food Network show and seven best-selling cookbooks, including the latest, Hungry Girl to the Max!
"I love," Lillien says, "giving people options to satisfy their cravings."
3 Tips From the Hungry Girl:
1. When eating out, "always look up the menu online first," Lillien says. "That way, you can make better choices."
2. Fight cravings by keeping snacks handy, Lillien says, like protein bars or 100-calorie packs of pistachios.
3. "You're not going to eat perfectly all the time," says Lillien. Instead, aim for 80 percent healthy, 20 percent fun.
Click here for recipes from Hungry Girl to the Max! and click here to learn how you can enter to win a signed copy of her book!.
Also See:
4 'Hungry Girl' Recipes for the New Year
Tasty Ways to Eat Oatmeal at Breakfast
What stumps you? Send your cooking and shopping questions to dashboard@dashrecipes.com. We may answer your question in an upcoming issue of dash!
Shoot us your kitchen queries, share your opinions, or just come and say "Hi!" on Facebook and on Twitter @dashrecipes
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