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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Tarow and iHeartRadio. Actor Anson Williams is living proof
that sixty is the new sexy, and now he shares
his own philosophy on fitness in the Perfect Portion Cookbook,
which was recently selected and scheduled by QBC to be
launched on Super Bowl Sunday. Anson Williams is best known
for his character on Happy Days POTSI, but this man
has hooked up with something that truly is going to
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reshape your life in a very positive way, a one
hundred calorie idea based on his own need to stay
fit and still be able to eat the foods that
you'll love. We are unplugged and totally uncut with actor
Anson Williams. Good morning, Anson, how are you doing today?
I'm good Errow, how are you doing very well? This
book comes out at a very good time because just
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this morning on the major news networks they said that
restaurants are overfeeding us and here is your book.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh I heard that on the radio and I thought,
what timing is this? No, And seriously, if restaurants should fall,
the restaurant should buy our cookbook.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They'd solve every problem.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And right away into this book, you begin educating us
because we really don't know what the right portion is
because I grew up in Montana. Fill your plate up
and have something to eat because you're not getting any more.
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But here's the thing.
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But with our cookbook, you can fill your plate with
smart portions. And here's the whole process of this came
from my It was a problem I had. I was
directing seecret life to the American teenager. And as we
all know, there's craft service on sets, which is an
area on the set where they serve delicious, fatty foods
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all day long, and every time you go buy there,
you're taking a little bit, well twenty four pounds of
a little bits. Later, I was in pretty bad shape
and I'm thinking, what can I do? I said, diets
don't work. I can't figure these calorie counts are like
being a physicist. Can I eat what I love and
not overreat? How can this work? And I went to
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my business partner because we do other products too, and
she thought on a canal. She thought it was a
great idea too, if we could figure out how to
make it work. We didn't know anything about food, so
we kind of put it in the back of our minds,
and it hit me In one moment at the grocery store,
I saw all the hundred calorie portion snacks, thousands of them,
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and I thought, everybody understands under calorie everybody.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
What if we can do a cookbook with all.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Your favorite comfort foods, French toast, lasagna, chicken pop pie,
key lime pie, chili, you know, chicken picada, meatloaf. What
if we can do all these amazing comfort foods, create
the recipes a little healthier and a little larger, so
and and and we're each exact portions and one hundred calories.
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Say you want a chicken pop pie? Okay, we recommend
through under calories for an entree, easy one, two three.
There it is on set and it's huge. So you get,
you get your you get your chicken pot pie, you
get your Waldar salads, one hundred calories, and oh what
am I going to have a dessert? I think I'll
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take ten chocolate covered pretzels for dessert. All of that
you can't even finish. It is five hundred calories. Can
you imagine how much food you get in an eighteen
hundred calorie day? You can't finish it all. And every
recipe is yummy foods you love and never over eat.
So Joanna thought it was a great idea. We met
with Robert Warden, who's the food guru at QVC, who
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everyone who watches QBC knows Bob and he publishes cookbooks.
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He loved it.
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He brought in Mona Dolgov, a huge nutrition expert.
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We spent two years.
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And now we have the perfect portion cookbook, using the
perfect one hundred calorie count, one hundred and fifty of
the most yummy, yummy yummy foods known to humankind, all
in perfect one hundred calorie portions, most under seven ingredients.
Now I'm a guinea pig. It took two Yeah, it
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took two years to create this book, and I am
Now I have a body of a thirty year old.
Now my food light is better than it's ever been.
I'm eating foods I never thought I'd be able to eat.
I've denied myself nothing. I've gained so many recipes and
so much better tasting food and so much, so much
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better experience. And I have just dropped my weight like crazy,
not denying myself anything.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Without auisine, energy and without going through the blues and
all that kind of stuff. I mean, you've kept going
really well, Yeah.
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I denied myself nothing. Nothing.
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And I don't know if you've seen the cookbook, but
we have examples in there.
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Like we have a plate of two beautiful pieces.
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Of this yummy, yummy, yummy meatloaf recipe with a nice
side a mac and cheese, a yummy recipe, and then
in order and the green beans. That whole plate, which
you can hardly finish, is five hundred calories. So our
whole goal was we're going to stop obesity by giving
people what they love, not denying people, not denying taste,
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only giving them the best tasting food in the world,
with the easiest portion control known to humankind, and being
incredibly satisfied with the.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Portions you're getting.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
There's got to be a side of you that's thinking,
I can market this even in a restaurant or to
be able to open up a specialty store, because this
book really does take you into an area where people go,
I really want to do this. This is a lifestyle
but it's a positive lifestyle change.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It's a lifestyle change because taste is everything. Yes, I
mean it's an important part of our life.
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Food, breaking bread with people. It's important. You don't want
to deny that experience. You want them, you want, but
you want them to be able to have a full
meal but.
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With perfect calorie count.
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So you're not you know, you don't even think about
overreading because you're never you never will overread again. And
for restaurants, honestly, if they picked up our book, it
would change the dynamic of the entire food in the
entire restaurant fast food industry in this country.
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It would stop the problem.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You know, where this book needs to be at a
home depot or lows up there in the front where
they have all those construction books because people walking by,
and you can you can market it as rebuilding your life.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Absolutely with and and and and again. Our big, you know,
our big you know statement is eat what you love
and never overread.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You know this, this is I'm a kindle person. And
so this book, all the recipes, I mean, they're not
like long stories. You you have made it so in
detail but not but it's not over detail. I can
go shopping and cook without even losing my smartphone.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
No, exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We wanted to make sure ninety percent of the recipes
are under seven We're under seven ingredients, under seven ingredients,
and I'm one of I'm one of everybody out there.
I didn't know how to cook. I didn't know I
had this idea, but I knew nothing about it. Joanna
knew nothing about it. Bob Ward, Mona Dogov.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They taught us everything. I can cook every recipe in
that book.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Now you know I. You know I, and most of
the ingredients you have already in your refrigerator. There's nothing
you have to go to some specialty store for, you know.
So it's not only yummy and tasty, it's so much
fun and it's so much fun for me to be able.
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To cook for people. So who's really cool?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Whose idea was it?
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Though?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
That when when it comes to your meal plan, dude,
we get three snacks in that meal plan.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
That that's unheard of.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I know, that's all.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Bob and Mona and their team and their team had
nothing to do with me, because I mean I didn't
know how to do that.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
They figured it out. I mean, look at that French toasty.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You can have two delicious slices of French toast. I mean,
wait to try the recipe with fruit on it, and
it's two hundred calories. It's two hundred calories. I'm like,
how cool is that?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Southern style had bread, crispy baked potatoes, glazed carrots. Dude,
this is pure Southern food. But it's very good for you.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Southern food, yes, and it's all real ingredients.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
We have a flat bed pizza oh three and perfect
one hundred calory portions you can have. You cannot finish
the three hundred calory portion of pizza. You can't finish it.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And my father used to tell me all the time
that my eyes were bigger than my stomach. But you
give me the opportunity here to where I don't have
to sacrifice what what I truly love.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Then you don't have to sacrifice anything. If anything, you're
going to be able to eat things you didn't think
it can eat.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
What's to that book?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I mean, we have we have these little cheesecakes. There
are one hundred calories each with the topping and everything.
But they're dense. They're very dense, and one of them
is really feeling. But oh, you know, maybe you want
to take two. You can do it. It's in your
it's in your it's in your calorie count.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Well, this book has come out at the right time.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Ants.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And because of what they said today about restaurants and
I and people in your right restaurants need to be
marketing this and using it inside their kitchens.
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Everybody should be using it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
We can literally change We can literally change the obesity problem.
Following following following this book absolutely can, and and and
it's gonna and the reason it's gonna work it's not
a diet. And it's foods people love. They're not going
to feel that they're missing anything, and and and and
your way will just drop and you'll stay there. You will,
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you will, you will stay consistently looking good, feeling good,
being healthy, and and not denying yourself. You know the
wonderful you know the wonderful importance of eating a nice meal.
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