I like cooking, especially Italian food (that is my specialty, wink, wink), but if you don’t live in Italy or make really smart choices you could end up with an easy extra five pounds on the wrong knight. I found the Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook to be helpful in getting off a few extra pounds without starving or revving up your workout by an extra half hour. However, maybe that style of cooking is not me because if the recipes did not turn out just edible they would be reasonably tolerable as far as my taste buds were concerned. I would only really recommend Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook if you need to lose weight and only want to change your diet a little and do not mind sacrificing your tongue. Nevertheless, as I said it may have just been my cooking abilities showing themselves outside the realm of Italian style meals.