Alton Brown’s Plan of 4 Lists
Tuesday, January 05th, 2010 | Author: Jami Leigh
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Alton Brown’s Weight Loss. How’d he do it? Here’s his plan of 4 lists because I know you’re looking for it 
Taken from Good Eats Episode “Live and Let Diet” Where “AB explains how eating from 4 basic food groups helped him lose 50 lbs without going on a diet.”
Daily
Fruits
Leafy Greens
Nuts
Carrots
Green Tea
Whole Grains
3X Weekly
Oily Fish
Yogurt
Broccoli
Sweet Potato
Avocado
1X Weekly
Red Meat
Pasta
Dessert
Alcohol
0X Weekly
Fast Food
Soda
Processed Meals
Canned Soups
“Diet” Anything
And last but not least eat BREAKFAST (Alton likes his “purple”)
Two questions for your readers:
(1) It looked like the episode was supposed to be a full hour, but they cut it off in the middle of a salmon skit. This might have been the “oily fish” entry in the 3X list. …anyone know?
(2) It looks like the “Daily” list and the fifth (breakfast) list are the minimum that you should eat, but the 1X and 0X lists are the maximum. Is the 3X a minimum or a maximum list? (I hate sweet potatoes.)
I think the 3X list is a minimum. How have you tried sweet potatoes. How bout trying it in a Smokey Sweet Potato Stoup?
Oh, and I thought the oily fish were the sardines…
You forgot Whole Grains under Daily!
Thanks so much for posting this! I looked all over the place for it and your site was the first one that actually delivered the lists.
Thanks Cait, I added the whole grains
Somer, I looked all over for it too and couldn’t find it so I went back and watched the show again. I decided to post it here, I knew if I was looking someone else was too