Weekend Reading: The Sonoma Diet

What's not to like about The Sonoma Diet?

Dr. Connie Gutterson has created a Mediterranean-style diet that balances nutrition-rich "power foods" like almonds, red peppers, blueberries, olive oil, tomatoes and whole grains with moderate amounts of wine and a focus on enjoying your meals. She replaces calorie tracking with a simple way of measuring your food (dividing your plate into quadrants and filling them with the appropriate amount of vegetables, lean meat and grains). And she teaches you how to prepare foods in ways that give you maximum flavor and nutritional bang for minimum calorie buck.

We've tried Weight Watchers (online, of course) and struggled to continue tracking points, especially after that initial thrill of early weight loss wears off. And we all know someone who had initial success with Atkins or South Beach, only to get grumpy from carb deprivation, and then gain the weight back and develop high cholesterol.

What we like about The Sonoma Diet approach is that it's focused on teaching healthy eating habits, and emphasizes flavor and nutritional balance. It's about foods you should eat more of, and how to combine them for better nutrition instead of a list of foods you have to do without.

And the sample menus (e.g. scrambled eggs and wheat toast for breakfast, salad Nicoise for lunch and Tandoori chicken with roasted eggplant salad for lunch) sound not only do-able, but downright yummy.

Sign us up, and pour us another glass of Zinfandel.

Buy The Sonoma Diet and its companion volume, The Sonoma Diet Cookbook.

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