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The Stubborn Fat Fix: Eat Right to Lose Weight and Cure Metabolic Burnout Without Hunger or Exercise - Hardcover

Berkowitz, Keith; Berkowitz, Valerie; Bowman, Alisa

 
9781594868283: The Stubborn Fat Fix: Eat Right to Lose Weight and Cure Metabolic Burnout Without Hunger or Exercise
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 159486828X ISBN 13: 9781594868283
Verlag: Rodale Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Challenges the practices of popular deprivation diets while outlining a program for addressing metabolic imbalances that promote weight gain, in a guide that reveals the potential benefits of consuming strategic combinations of additive-free foods and small quantities of typically disallowed treats.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

KEITH BERKOWITZ, MD, is founder and medical director of the Center for Balanced Health in New York City and a former medical director of the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine. He lives in East Brunswick, New Jersey.
VALERIE BERKOWITZ, MS, RD, is the director of nutrition at the Center for Balanced Health. Formerly a nutritionist at the Atkins Center, she also serves as a nutrition consultant to Prevention and Men's Health magazines. She lives in East Brunswick, New Jersey.

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THE OVERSPENT BODY

We wrote this book for the multitudes of people whose physicians have told them to lose weight "or else."

Or else you'll need blood pressure, blood sugar, or blood cholesterol medication.

Or else you'll need bypass surgery.

Or else your diabetes will result in blindness, amputated limbs, or organ failure.

Or else you'll die.

Or else. We don't use those words in our practice. We don't because we understand that you have been trying for many years to lose weight. We believe you. We also know all too well just how many physicians, friends, and spouses have already said those words. We know that the words or else do not motivate people to lose weight.

You don't need to hear these words because you already know them. Michael certainly did. When he came to our practice for the first time, he was more than 20 £ds overweight, diabetic, and terrorized by "or else." "In the past six years, I've gone from doctor to doctor," he told us. "Each one prescribed me a different batch of drugs, none of which worked." By the time Michael came to us, he was taking $400 worth of prescription medications every single month, was fed up with doctors, and was terrified. "I'm afraid that I'm going to die," he said.

He wanted to see his children grow up, attend college, get married, and have children of their own. He desperately wanted to lose weight. What was stopping him? His body was bankrupt, and his physicians were trying to pull him out of that bankruptcy by getting him to stress his body even more-- more in the way of exercise, more in the way of effort, more in the way of fear. Sure, various physicians had suggested he eat less. They hadn't, however, shown him how to eat less in the midst of everyday crises such as hunger, cravings, and fatigue.

Once we outlined our nutritional and supplement plan and gave Michael the tools he needed to stick to it, Michael started losing easily. His blood sugar evened out. Without the peaks and valleys in blood sugar, his cravings diminished. His hunger transformed into satisfaction. His energy levels normalized. His metabolism improved. He cut his monthly drug bill by 75 percent. He regained his confidence, and his life. Oh, and he also lost 20 £ds. You can read the details of how Michael did it on page 8, and we'll offer more stories of patients who lost anywhere from 10 to 70 £ds just by following our simple, sustainable plan. Keep reading to find out how you can get the same great results.

WEIGHT LOSS THAT WORKS

Over the years, we've helped hundreds of people just like Michael. We enable weight loss by encouraging our patients to do something that at first seems extremely counterintuitive: Eat more. Move less. That's right. Eat more. Move less.

Of course, you've heard you should do the opposite. You hear it all the time: eat less, move more, right? Yet this may be the worst advice to follow, because cutting back on food while ratcheting up your exercise can trigger sudden drops in blood sugar that increase cravings, decrease energy, and leave you hungrier than ever. This either gets you nowhere or gets you even heavier than you were before. These are your body's cries for help. There is an underlying cause of your hunger, preoccupation with food, and lack of energy.

On this program, by eating more and moving less, you will recharge your metabolism so you can finally, once and for all, lose weight. You'll do it without the deprivation associated with most diets, too. We don't expect 100 percent adherence to our plan--in fact, we "build in" opportunities to indulge. We've included luxuries such as ice cream, chocolate, and a glass of wine with dinner. You'll be able to enjoy the foods you love, and keep right on losing. More important, we'll show you how to have these foods without suffering extreme spikes and valleys in blood sugar. You'll learn how to eat to bring your body into balance.

A LITTLE ABOUT US

In 1999, we met Dr. Robert Atkins, tried his diet, and lost 20 £ds. Of course, we'd read the news stories and heard the experts claiming that the diet raised the risk for heart disease, so we made sure to monitor our health with regular blood work. You know what? Neither of us experienced a rise in blood cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood sugar. That experience won us over to the merits of low-carb diets and was the primary reason we signed on to work at the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine. We believed Dr. Atkin's approach was truly revolutionary.

We eventually went out on our own, founding our private practice, the Center for Balanced Health in Manhattan. We set about creating a plan that would enable the most resistant body to shed fat in the real world. We wanted people to reap all of the dramatic weight loss of lower-carb, higher- protein, higher-fat diets, sure. But we also wanted to make sure they got enough other important nutrients--most critically, the fiber and wholesome foods such as fruits and vegetables that they weren't getting before. We also wanted to bring their bodies into balance. We wanted to find a more moderate approach that most people could stick with long term. While we worked and tinkered and fine-tuned, we stumbled onto perhaps the biggest secret to our success.

What was it, you ask?

We devised a way for people to continue to indulge in their favorite high- carbohydrate foods and still lose weight. When most people diet, they temporarily stop buying and eating foods such as ice cream, chocolate, bread, and fruit. Yet you can only deny yourself such delicious foods for so long. When you forgo all of your favorite high-carbohydrate foods, you end up wanting them all the more--and eventually you find yourself eating them all the more. Despite withstanding lots of deprivation, you end up overeating anyway, and gaining weight rather than losing. How frustrating! We knew that deprivation was the Achilles' heel of every low-carb plan, so we built in safety valves. No longer would a low-carb diet equal a no-fun lifestyle. No more all-or-nothing, if-I-touch-a-carb-it's-all-over deprivation. We'd created a successful, healthful, delicious diet plan that works long term--even in real life.

By following the program in this book, you'll lose up to 10 £ds in the first 2 weeks and up to 10 £ds a month after that until you reach your goal. You can succeed. You can lose weight. Read on to find out how.

THE NO-HUNGER DIET PLAN

To allow you to lose weight without hunger, we use an individualized five- pronged approach that includes:

A whole foods diet: Based on your health, weight, and eating habits, you'll choose from two eating plans that vary in their amounts of recommended carbohydrate foods. These eating plans feature whole foods (fruits, vegetables, whole grains, meat, fish, eggs, and cheese) that are free of weight-gain-promoting additives such as added sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, refined flour, trans fats, and refined soy.

You'll slowly add in more carbs as your body allows. You will not, however, have to eliminate your favorite whole foods forever. We include healthful, fiber-rich carbohydrate foods such as avocados, nuts, berries, and olives early in the plan. Yes, low-carbohydrate eating does not have to equal no- carbohydrate eating!

The food lover's pressure valve: You'll prevent that do-or-die moment--when low-carb dieters usually start fantasizing about belly flops into heaping plates of pasta--with regular servings of indulgence foods. These treats do away with deprivation altogether. You can enjoy regular small servings of dessert (yes, you heard right, we're talking chocolate and other sweet treats), fruit, and yes, even bread(!), and still lose weight. A lot of weight. We'll show you how, and we'll show you how to get and stay in control,...

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Verlag
Rodale Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
159486828X
ISBN 13 
9781594868283
Einband
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
275
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