Meal prep doesn’t come naturally to everyone. To meal plan and lose weight, you have to come up with three meals a day for an entire week—plus snacks—and monitor your calorie intake. It can be daunting. But the Cooking Light Diet can help! Our site gives you the ability to customize meal plans, edit and receive shopping lists for those plans, and … Read More
Ohio Couple Lose Over 103 Pounds With Easy Diet Plan
*UPDATE 8/9/18: Liz has now lost 80 pounds, while Nate is 62 pounds down with this easy diet plan! Liz Striegl did the whole yo-yo diet routine for years, but she always gave up. It made cooking too hard. She loved cooking, but counting calories while cooking was more trouble than it was worth. “You have to hand calculate each … Read More
Sugar Macros Available For All Recipes!
Every recipe found on the Cooking Light Diet now contains updated macro nutritional information on sugar content! So whether you’re utilizing Weight Watchers or needing to be more meticulous about what you’re eating, you should be able to easily track sugar intake while incorporating our menus into your healthy eating habits. We’re extremely excited about this announcement, as it’s the culmination … Read More
How-To: Use the SHOP Page
This article references how to use our SHOP page on a laptop, desktop, or tablet. One thing we pride ourselves on here at the Cooking Light Diet is how we’ve always relied almost exclusively on community member feedback when it comes to making changes or updates to our site. After months of hard work, we recently launched an all-new site … Read More
Ask A Dietitian: What Are Your Best Tips for Sustained Healthy Eating?
One of the many advantages to joining the Cooking Light Diet is having access to our staff of professionals. In particular, members can tap into the expertise of our James Beard award-winning lead dietitian, Carolyn Williams, PhD, RD, who’s been an instrumental part of the team since we launched our service in 2014. As part of an effort to provide … Read More
Mom Credits Cooking Light Diet with “Helping Find Myself Again”
Elena Harris used to live an extremely active lifestyle. The California mom exercised constantly—dancing, racing 5Ks, and biking. Despite all that energy, Elena was quietly waging a battle with anorexia. After what felt like a seemingly endless struggle with being underweight, she then found herself on the opposite end of the spectrum post-marriage: Elena could not stop eating. “I would … Read More
How-To: Use the PLAN Page
This article references how to use our PLAN page on a laptop, desktop, or tablet. One thing we pride ourselves on here at the Cooking Light Diet is how we’ve always relied almost exclusively on community member feedback when it comes to making changes or updates to our site. After months of hard work, we recently launched an all-new site … Read More
Ask A Dietitian: What Is Your SmartCarb Plan?
One of the many advantages to joining the Cooking Light Diet is having access to our staff of professionals. In particular, members can tap into the expertise of our James Beard award-winning lead dietitian, Carolyn Williams, PhD, RD, who’s been an instrumental part of the team since we launched our service in 2014. As part of an effort to provide … Read More
Results You Can Measure: Learn More About The Cooking Light Diet
The Cooking Light Diet Facebook Community is a great source of information for people interested in learning more about the service. Members there share tips and techniques, favorite recipes, success stories about their results, and more. In a world where online activity seems to have a negative tilt, the Community is a paragon for positivity. Thousands of people, uplifting, supporting, and … Read More
Healthy Living: How You Can Make It Work for You
You know what’s hard about changing your dietary habits? Life. Life has a tendency to constantly get in the way of healthy living habits, especially if you work full-time. Or raise a family. Or do both. How could you possibly join the Cooking Light Diet and cook all sorts of meals that you probably don’t even have time to make? Or … Read More