TV star Nadia has lost - and kept off - three and a half stone. Her method involves no calorie counting - instead it involved eating the same dishes that all the family love but with a bit less oil, brown rice rather than white, lots of herbs and spices, and a daily portion of a low-fat, low-sugar homemade dessert. Nadia's latest cookbook features all her best healthy recipes for favourites like burgers, cheesecake, curry, and fish and chips.
Greedy Girl's Diet by Nadia Sawalha (£14.99, Kyle), www.thebookpeople.co.uk
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This cookbook explains the rules of the famous low-carb Dukan diet, and offers a vast selection of recipes for all stages of the eating plan. We love the sauces - you learn here to make traditional French creamy treats like béchamel or mayonnaise the Dukan way. The puddings are terribly clever, too.
The Complete Dukan Cookbook by Dr Pierre Dukan (£20, Hodder), www.thebookpeople.co.uk
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This best-selling diet cookbook comes into its own with its recipes for old-fashioned chicken stew, beef and ale casserole, beef and potato pies, cheese, leek and onion pasties - there's even a good old jam roly poly. You'll find double cream, sugar and butter among the ingredients - but the book shows you how to cut down on junk and eat hearty, wholesome proper food. It's certainly worked for the hairy dieters, who've lost almost six stone between them.
The Hairy Dieters by Dave Myers and Si King (£14.99, Weidenfeld & Nicolson), www.amazon.co.uk
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The Hairy Bikers' miso baked fish recipe
Cooking without any sugar, butter or wheat sounds miserable, but this mouth-watering book shows you how to make scrumptious virtuous food. Take your pick from roast quail with quince and figs; soba noodles (made from buckwheat) with sesame seed sauce sweetened with agave syrup; lasagna with wheat-free pasta; cashew nut pesto; and orange zest and pecan brownies.
The Guilt-Free Gourmet by Jordan and Jessica Bourke (£16.99, Ryland, Peters & Small), www.amazon.co.uk
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A great big cookbook filled with Gordon's macho classical recipes, carefully adapted to make them a bit lighter. From breakfasts to barbeques to weekend dinners, there's a wide selection to choose from, with especially good traditional ideas like honey-glazed partridge with neeps and cabbage, or rump of lamb with puy lentils and green beans.
Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite (£14.99, Quadrille), www.amazon.co.uk
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All of the recipes in this wonderful cookbook are endorsed by the British Heart Foundation - there are healthy recipe versions of Yorkshire pudding, cheese and herb bread, lemon-blueberry pancakes and raspberry oatmeal crumble. Fats, sugars, salt and calories are all counted for you.
Everyday British by The British Heart Foundation (£9.99, Simon & Schuster), www.amazon.co.uk
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This cookbook is full of hearty recipes like balsamic roasted chicken and gourmet beef burgers. Other WeightWatchers cookbooks in this mini series include Midweek Meals, Satisfying Suppers; For One and Two; Family Favourites; Easy Fish; Simply Spicy; One Pot Wonders and Fresh and Fabulous. You don't need to be following the WeightWatchers diet to use them, and the recipes are truly inspiring.
WeightWatchers Weekends (£4.99, Simon & Schuster), www.amazon.co.uk
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This cookbook is a best-seller in America. Dietician Ellie Krieger provides quick solutions for packed lunches for work (like Asian chicken wraps) and simple midweek dinners like burgers with creamy broccoli slaw, and sirloin steak with mustard sauce and healthy French fries. Every recipe is calorie, carb and fat counted and tells you what minerals and nutrients the dishes contain.
So Easy by Ellie Krieger (£19.99, Wiley), www.amazon.co.uk
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Calling all health foodies. This cookbook has a fantastically informative introduction that tells you what to eat to help relieve all sorts of ailments, plus it gives a run-down of the healthiest foods around. Well-presented and ultra-virtuous there are plenty of recipes for fish, vegetables, wholemeal beans, flaxseeds, quinoa and more. There's even a chocolate cake made with avocado!
The Medicinal Chef by Dale Pinnock (£18.99, Quadrille), www.amazon.co.uk
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This is a great all-round guide to making slimming choices without missing out on tasty food. Nutritionist Sarah Flower's recipes substitute alternatives to sugar, white flour and fat. You'll learn to bake a moist carrot cake with xylitol instead of sugar, olive oil instead of butter and wholemeal flour instead of white flour. From breakfasts to soups to fish, there are family-friendly recipes here for all occasions.
The Healthy Lifestyle Diet Cookbook by Sarah Flower (£14.99, How To Books), www.amazon.co.uk
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