What to read, what to eat?

I went to the library the other night because I had not been in so long. Going to the library just seemed like a nostalgic thing to do. At work we promote reading and taking your children to the library so much to parents that I figured I should practice what I preach. I was not sure what I was looking for because for the past 10 years every time I went to a library I had a educational purpose. My purpose on this trip was myself so I headed to the self-help, weight loss, and food books. I got 4 books on eating better: Eat this not that, Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss, another Dr. Shapiro book, and 100 top diet secrets. So if anyone wants to know the exact titles of these books let me know and I will get them for you.

So far I really like Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss, this book is so interesting. It basically shows an unhealthy choice that you might eat on the left hand page and then then a healthy choice on the right hand page. Both choices calculate to be the same amount of calories. Needless to say most of my menu choices are on the left side right now. Let me give you one example; 1 bagel and cream cheese is 650 calories, uhhh what??  The thing that is ironic about bagels is that when I eat them I think or feel that I am being healthy when in fact I am not, it's quite the opposite. All these years I thought I was doing something great by eating bagels..hmmm.

For the same amount of calories according to this book you can have 4 light pancakes 280 cal, 4 vegetarian links 130 cal, 2 TBLS light syrup 50 cal, and sliced starfruit and persimmon 190 cal. WOW! The book is filled with many more amazing changes or replacements that can be made. It is also great if you don't like to read because it is mostly pictures of the food and the calorie count next to the picture. I will be blogging about this book some more later and the 100 things book.