The 2-Day Diet: Diet two days a week. Eat the Mediterranean way for five. - Softcover

Harvie, Dr. Michelle; Howell, Tony

 
9780804138406: The 2-Day Diet: Diet two days a week. Eat the Mediterranean way for five.
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0804138400 ISBN 13: 9780804138406
Verlag: Harmony/Rodale/Convergent, 2013

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Lose weight fast with the international diet sensation. Diet two days a week. Eat a Mediterranean diet for five.

The 2-Day Diet is easy to follow, easy to stick to, and clinically tested. Simply eat a low carb, high protein diet two days a week, and follow the classic Mediterranean Diet (now recognized as the gold standard in warding off heart disease) for the other five. 

The 2-Day Diet is designed to maximize weight loss, minimize muscle loss and keep you feeling full. It  can have dramatic anti-aging and anti-cancer benefits. With this diet you can finally be slim, fit and healthy. With meal plans and 100 delicious and filling recipes.
 
“A far more effective way to lose weight.” —Daily Mail

“Put an end to 24/7 calorie counting.” —The Sun

 “Revolutionary and clinically proven.” —Good Housekeeping

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

DR. MICHELLE HARVIE is an award-winning research dietitian at Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention. PROFESSOR TONY HOWELL is Professor of Medical Oncology and Research Director of Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention.

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why The 2-Day Diet works

If you are someone who has tried, and failed, to lose weight, or you’ve shed the extra pounds only to pile them back on again—this is the book for you. The 2-Day Diet is a brand new, research-based approach to weight loss that can work for you whether you’ve been struggling with your weight for years or have only just made the decision to lose weight. The 2-Day Diet is simple: you diet for just two consecutive days a week and eat normally for the other five days.

I have never dieted and successfully kept the weight off —before I tried The 2-Day Diet. In fact, I have always regained the weight and then usually extra, too.  The 2-Day Diet is different—it’s a lifestyle change that I can actually live with. —Marie, 33

We have become used to diet experts telling us that if we want to lose weight, there are strict rules that we must follow every day. The 2-Day Diet approach turns all of that theory on its head. It’s flexible, it’s easy to follow, and it will make you rethink your approach to dieting and find a different way to lose your unwanted pounds.

The idea of escaping the day-in, day-out restriction of a seven- day diet regime—dieting for just two days a week and eating normally for the other five days and still losing weight—prob- ably sounds too good to be true. But it’s not: our weight-loss research over the last 17 years with dieters, many of them serial dieters, shows that this new approach really can work, even when everything else has failed. The 2-Day Diet has been designed by research dietitian Dr. Michelle Harvie, and, as well as delivering healthy, sustainable weight loss, The 2-Day Diet is nutritionally balanced to meet all your body’s needs.

Dieting on the two days was much easier than I had expected. I also found that I was much more mindful of my eating over the five normal eating days—I didn’t want to undo all that good work! —Lizzie, 24

Warning

You should not attempt The 2-Day Diet if you are a child, a teenager, pregnant, breast-feeding, suffering from depression, or have an eating disorder. The moderately high levels of protein in this diet may pose problems for anyone with kidney disease or anyone at risk of kidney disease. If you have diabetes or any other medical condition, or if you are taking medication, seek advice from your doctor before embarking on any diet and exercise program.





If you are overweight, your main motivation for dieting may be to improve your self-esteem by regaining your true figure. You will lose weight on The 2-Day Diet, but you will also improve your health, protect yourself against disease, and boost your energy levels. Research shows that losing even a small amount of excess weight (5 to 10 percent of your body weight) can help reduce your risk of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers. What’s more, there’s evidence to show that losing weight with The 2-Day Diet has the potential to have even greater health benefits than those gained by using a daily dieting weight-loss plan, as we will explain later.

The diet trap

In theory, losing weight should be easy. Eat less, move around more, and the pounds should simply melt away. In practice, losing weight can be anything but easy. You might be able to lose a few pounds in the short term, but they soon creep back on again. Despite major public health campaigns and millions of dollars spent each year on diet products, the number of people who are overweight keeps on rising in almost all parts of the world, but particularly in the USA and UK. In 2010, 64 percent of American women and 74 percent of men were overweight. These figures occur alongside reports estimating that 108 million people in the USA follow weight-loss diets each year, spending $20 billion per annum on diet books, diet drugs and weight-loss surgery. A 2007 MORI survey found that the average UK woman spends 31 years of her life on a diet, yet British women are now the heaviest in Europe. British men don’t fare much better—66 percent are now overweight, positioning them as the second-heaviest in Europe. It’s clearly time for a new approach.

I can see and feel the weight loss, so I feel better  about myself. I don’t feel so tired—I have so much  more energy in the evenings. —Jane, 32

The story behind The 2-Day Diet

Our search for a different way to lose weight was driven by our work over nearly two decades with women diagnosed with, or at high risk from, breast cancer. We knew from our research and work done elsewhere that while being overweight signi- ficantly increases women’s risk of developing breast cancer, losing weight—even as little as 10 lb (4.5 kg)—can cut that risk by between 25 and 40 percent, compared with women who continue to gain weight, which is the norm.1 The problem is that losing weight—and keeping it off—is extraordinar- ily difficult. Typically the dieters we worked with had already made between three and five serious attempts to lose weight. However motivated they were and however hard they tried, less than half of them managed to shed the weight needed to reduce their risk. Many enjoyed amazing short-term success and displayed extraordinary willpower and determination, but, sadly, for most, the weight loss didn’t last.

case study: Anne

Anne’s story is typical. Anne was desperate to lose weight, know- ing that it was increasing her risk of developing the breast cancer that had already affected her mother, aunt, and cousin, and her chance of developing type 2 diabetes, which had affected her father’s side of the family. She had previously managed to lose 42 lbs (19 kg) at a weight-loss group over a period of five months. This must have involved her eating 900 calories less than she normally ate each day for five months—133,000 fewer calories in all! However, unfortunately, after all this effort, she regained most of the weight within four months.

Typically people stick with a diet for three to six months and lose around 14 lbs (6.4 kg) in weight. The majority of people—80 percent—then put most of the weight back on again, while the remaining 20 percent regain some weight but remain 8–12 lbs (3.6–5.4 kg) lighter than their pre-diet weight.2

So dieting isn’t entirely in vain, since it can prevent you from gaining even more weight in the longer term. However, the process of constantly losing and regaining weight is demor- alizing, can lower your self-esteem, and can undermine subsequent attempts to lose weight. As many dieters are only too aware, dieting is a constant drudge.

Thanks to The 2-Day Diet I feel less sluggish, less bloated, less tired after exercise, much healthier, and my clothes now fit more comfortably. —Honor, 45

The size of the problem

From 1950–1960 33 percent of adults in the US were overweight (defined as a BMI of 25 or higher) and 9.7 percent  were classified as obese (with a BMI of 30 or higher). The latest figures show that 6 percent of women are overweight and 36 percent obese, while 74 percent of men are overweight with 36 percent obese. Very roughly you can think of it this way: one-third of us are a healthy weight, one-third are overweight, and one-third obese.

The US government currently spends as much as $147 million each year on weight-related problems, which could rise to $334 billion a year by 2018.

A recent study by Duke University Medical Center reported that overweight workers miss 12 times more work days than non-obese workers.

In 2006, the United Nations announced that for the first time, the number of overweight people in the...

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Harmony/Rodale/Convergent
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
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Englisch
ISBN 10 
0804138400
ISBN 13 
9780804138406
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1
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368
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