Posts by Gui Alinat
Use Moderation and Common Sense in your Cooking
My Maman is a great cook and knows how to keep her French figure. But before I get into this, I need to confess that I sometimes get in trouble with my readers. You hold me accountable for things I say (or don’t say!) and that’s the way it should be. My job is to…
Read MoreA Fat-Burning Farewell to Winter Comfort Food (Recipe Included!)
Spring is here and this is — at least in Florida where I reside — one of the last cold fronts of the season. It’s been horrible wearing socks with our flip-flops down here. Glad it’s almost over. Although along with winter came casseroles and stews, hearty soups for the soul, and yummy foods that…
Read MoreChocolate Dessert (Paleo-Friendly!)
If you’re trying to lose weight, your sweet tooth might be feeling deprived with a lack of dessert options. And if you’re following a Paleo diet, you might have resigned yourself that desserts are off limits altogether. That couldn’t be further from the truth. You don’t have to deprive yourself of sweet, delicious desserts in…
Read MoreDon’t Eat Beige Foods
Carissa, the kids, and I are just back from a trip to visit family. We spent a few days in Spring Hill Florida with my wife’s grandparents, as well as Aunt Kathy and Uncle Brian. These two are funny. They’ve been married for 34 years, and you can tell they are still really fond of…
Read More7 Foods You Should Stop Eating Now
Chef Gui here and I’m going to show you, specifically, the 7 foods you should stop eating right now, if you’re interested in your good health and getting the flat belly of your dreams. Grocery stores are sneaking these nightmare ingredients into our diet, and unless you really pay attention, you wouldn’t even know what’s…
Read MoreMy #1 Fat-Burning Dressing
Since the international launch of Eat More, Burn More, there have been hundreds of people contacting me for fat loss cooking advice. I’m always glad to help. The following question came to me from a reader who read my article on homemade salad dressings. QUESTION: “Your recipe doesn’t follow your 1 part acid + 3…
Read MoreTotchos to Die For (Recipe inside!)
I’m always being be challenged to hack unhealthy recipes to make them more healthy and fat-burning. So it was only a matter of time before someone challenged me to attempt a healthier version of “totchos.” Totchos (I love to say it!) are a fairly new phenomenon featuring tater tots and nachos all in the same dish. They’ve been showing up…
Read MoreTry Huevos Rancheros for a Fat-Burning Breakfast
Last Friday I wrote an entire article (Gorgeous photos and videos inside!) that helps you lose weight while overeating one of the best tasting vegetables out there: avocado. And this morning just before the alarm went off, I was dreaming of… avocado. Not really the actual avocado per se. More like the bright green, tropical,…
Read More5 Reasons to Eat More Avocados
Supermarkets make your life so hard. Grab an avocado; it’s either rock hard or too mushy, often bruised and unusable. Then we either get stuck with them, or we leave them at the store. Of course you’re supposed to choose the hard ones, bring them home, keep them in a paper bag at room temperature…
Read MoreHow To Make Healthy Fried Chicken (It’s Gluten-Free!)
Nobody wants to cook fried chicken anymore. It’s just a fat bomb! When you deep-fry foods, the breading raises your blood sugar in no time (which leads to weight gain). Calories go through the roof. And in an actual experiment in my kitchen, the breading soaked up 10% of its unhealthy deep-frying oil! Healthy fried chicken…
Read MoreUsing Peppers to Burn More Fat
You always hear me say: Eat More, Burn More. That’s because you and I know that restrictive diets just don’t work. We believe in eating and even overeating great comfort foods that also help us with the sexy body we want. You and I love all kinds of foods. I don’t know about you, but…
Read MoreMeat is OVERRATED
I’m not a vegetarian. And Washington DC’s famed chef Jose Andres isn’t either. But he had something drastic and stunning to say about the flavor of vegetables: “Meat is overrated and slightly boring… Vegetables are so much more sexier than a piece of chicken that you put in your mouth, you chew for 5 seconds,…
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