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Volumetrics The Volumetrics Eating Plan is a very gentle book, written by a nice middle-age professor, Barbara Rolls, at Penn State. This is as big a contrast to Skinny Bitch as celery sticks to pigs trotters. Volumetrics is about achieving sensible weight loss, to improve your health and enjoyment of life. It tells you how to make small changes you can stay with for ever. Barbara Rolls understands that staying on a diet is the most difficult feat on earth. Walking the length of the Appalachian Trail is easier. Volumetrics is written from the head. Barbara Rolls writes on the basis of years of in-depth research. She knows that across all Americans, staying on a diet is the most difficult thing. Changing eating habits dramatically is like skiing uphill - not going to keep this up for too long. Barbara's approach is to make minimal changes to America's eating habits but just enough to make a difference. |
In total contrast to Skinny Bitch which is for being hungry and resisting any urge to eat, Volumetrics tries its best to stop you feeling hunger by increasing the volume and weight of food you eat without increasing the calories. This is where the Volumetrics title comes from - more food volume is you feel satisfied but less calories. Volumetrics has one really good idea: use the nutrition label to compare the weight of a portion (shown in grams) with the number of calories from that portion. To follow the Volumetrics idea you look for food where the weight per portion is equal to or larger than the number of calories. |
Barbara Rolls - Professor at Penn State |