In this Oct. 11, 2012 photo, "Hungry Girl" Lisa Lillien poses in her office in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles. She never set out to become a controverisal food maven, telling people how to eat their cake and keep their weight down too. Lillien was just another LA "Hungry Girl," a 30-something woman who would diet off that extra 20 pounds and then put the weight back on. That was until the former studio publicist started coming up with low-cal recipes for some of those favored foods and emailing them around to friends. Ten years later, Lillien sits atop a Hungry Girl empire. ( AP Photo/Nick Ut)
How Hungry Girl shed the pounds without guilt
In this Oct. 11, 2012 photo, "Hungry Girl" Lisa Lillien poses in her office in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles. She never set out to become a controverisal food maven, telling people how to eat their cake and keep their weight down too. Lillien was just another LA "Hungry Girl," a 30-something woman who would diet off that extra 20 pounds and then put the weight back on. That was until the former studio publicist started coming up with low-cal recipes for some of those favored foods and emailing them around to friends. Ten years later, Lillien sits atop a Hungry Girl empire. ( AP Photo/Nick Ut)
By JOHN ROGERS
Associated Press /
November 17, 2012
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Even Blatner says she’s sampled some of Lillien’s recipes, although she stays away from ones that use processed food products, preferring fresh fruit and vegetables.
‘‘The spaghetti squash and butternut squash, the fun things she does with apples, I get most excited about those,’’ she said.
Lillien believes her lack of credentials as a dietitian or a nutritionist actually gives her more credibility with her audience, which realizes she’s one of them, just another foodie who doesn’t want to sacrifice taste for trimness.
‘‘If I'm helping people turn boxes around and turn cans around and read labels and understand what it means and learn how to maintain a healthier weight, then I'm doing good work,’’ she says.
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