Fit for Life - Softcover

Diamond, Harvey; Diamond, Marilyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446553646 ISBN 13: 9780446553643

Verlag: Balance, 2010

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Discover why this international bestseller's easy-to-follow weight-loss plan has made this enduring classic one of the bestselling diet books of all time!

It's the program that shatters all the myths: Fit for Life explains how to change both your figure and your life. Nutritional specialist Harvey and Marilyn Diamond explain how you can eat more kinds of food than you ever ate before without counting calories ... and still lose weight!

Fit for Life is the perfect solution for those who want to look and feel their best. Join the millions of Americans who are Fit for Life and begin your transformation with:

• The vital principles that bring you permanent weight loss and high energy
• The Fit for Life secrets of timing and food combining that work with your natural body cycles
• A 4-week meal plan, menus, shopping tips, and exercise
• Delicious recipes and more

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Harvey and Marilyn Diamond are also the authors of the bestselling Fit For Life 2. And, Marilyn also penned The American Vegetarian Cookbook and A New Way of Eating. She is co-author with Dr. Donald Schnell of Fitonics. Marilyn Diamond lives in Beverly Hills, CA. Havery Dimond lives in Florida.

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Fit for Life

By Harvey

Wellness Central

Copyright © 2010 Harvey
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780446553643

Part I

The Principles

BY Harvey Diamond

INTRODUCTION

For the sake of clarity, unless otherwise noted, Harvey’s voice is used in Part I and Marilyn’s in Part II.

Are you one of those people looking for a way of living that will allow you to sensibly lose weight? Keep the weight off permanently? And accomplish this while experiencing all the joys of eating? If your answer to these questions is yes, then you can start to celebrate right now! Because this is the information that will enable you to do just that!

This book is the culmination of over fifteen years of intensive study of the relationship between the foods we eat and the shape of our bodies. If you are fed up with the dieting merry-go-round and are looking for some practical and sensible information that can put you in full control of your weight, then here is some very exciting news. You are about to learn some secrets of how to lose weight, and lose it permanently, while eating. I know some of you feel that’s too good to be true. I felt the same way, but I found out through experience that you can indeed eat your way to the weight you wish to be.

Wouldn’t it be ideal to eat and enjoy it, always feeling satisfied and not deprived, always looking forward to meals, and most important, always maintaining a comfortable body weight? This is what FIT FOR LIFE is all about. It is not a diet! It’s a way of eating that can be incorporated into your life-style as a way of life, not as a dogmatic regimen. It doesn’t require calorie counting; it is not a starvation diet; it avoids portion restrictions; it is not behavior modification; there are no drugs or powders; it is not a temporary measure. It is a set of dietary principles that you can use as much or as little as you wish, depending on your goals. The program puts no pressure on you. You will be comfortable all the way along, having regular, progressive success as you incorporate this information into your life.

FIT FOR LIFE brings about permanent results. Following its principles will teach you to stop “living to eat” and begin “eating to live.” It may seem as if eating great food, not counting calories, not locking up your refrigerator, and not dieting are impossible dreams, but let us assure you it is no dream—it works.

You may have reached a place in your life where you are absolutely sick and tired of hassling with your weight. You may have arrived at a position where, once and for all, you want to find an eating program that works, that you can trust. You want to feel confident at last that your body will be receiving all the nutrients it needs, your energy level will be high and consistent, and your weight, after a lifetime of major or even minor fluctuations, will stabilize. In short, you want to eat regularly and well, but at the same time you are determined to be free of that nagging concern over extra pounds and extra inches.

The information in this book affords you the opportunity to do all that. With this much promise, however, you may very well be thinking, “Uh-oh, nothing but alfalfa sprouts, lettuce, and wheat germ, with a bowl of grated carrots for dessert!” No way! We’re not from that school of thought! To put your mind at ease, let’s take a look at what one typical day could include.

When you awaken in the morning, you can have a big glass of fresh fruit juice. Choose whatever you like, whatever is in season and most convenient for you. It can be orange, tangerine, or grapefruit juice that you make on a simple, inexpensive citrus juicer. If you happen to have one of the many all-purpose juicers on the market these days, you can make some fresh apple juice, or strawberry-apple, or watermelon, or watermelon-cantaloupe. The point is that you are encouraged to start your day with fresh juice.

If you prefer, or in addition to the juice, you can have a fresh fruit salad, or simply some fresh fruit. You can have any fresh fruit you like, but no canned fruit, and you can have as much as you feel like having. (We will explain later why canned fruit will not fit into the program.)

Perhaps you had some juice and half a cantaloupe early in the morning, and then around ten o’clock you feel hungry again. You can then have more fresh fruit, an orange or two, an apple, fresh peaches, more melon, fresh nectarines, or some cherries or grapes, depending on the season. If you have had some juicy fruit but are still feeling a little hungry, you can have a banana or two. The idea is to eat fruit during the morning, until noon, whenever you feel hungry.

At lunch you might have a big salad made with whatever fresh, raw vegetables you prefer. You can choose from a variety of dressings, and with your salad, if you wish, you might have some whole-grain toast and butter, or some soup. You might have a sandwich made from a combination of avocado, tomato, cucumber, lettuce, sprouts, and mayonnaise or butter. (By the way, if you have never had a big, luscious avocado and tomato sandwich, you are in for a real treat!)

At dinner, if you have one of those all-purpose juicers, you might want to have a big fresh vegetable-juice cocktail while you prepare the rest of your meal. You can have buttered yams, rice, or baked potatoes with an assortment of lightly steamed vegetables and salad. Or you can have a special main-course Mediterranean Rice Salad or Steak-lovers’ Salad. You can have your choice of meat, chicken, or fish with vegetables and salad. For a change of pace, you might try a delicious soup with some hot buttered corn bread and coleslaw. You might have an assortment of steamed, raw, or sautéed vegetables wrapped in hot tortillas with avocado and sprouts. There are so many options and lots of new ideas to try! There is no reason to have any concern about boredom, deprivation, or confusion. You can see that there is plenty of good food to eat—exciting, delicious food, in fact! The high quality and variety of the food directly correlate with how you will look and feel. Most of the dishes you will be eating will be familiar to you, making the program easy for you to follow. And there will also be many satisfying, original meals that are new to you. Emphasizing familiar foods, the program merely calls for some very simple changes on your part.

What is completely new and different about this program is that IT IS NOT ONLY WHAT YOU EAT THAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE, BUT ALSO OF EXTREME IMPORTANCE IS WHEN YOU EAT IT AND IN WHAT COMBINATIONS. This when and how factor is what you have been searching for, the missing link that will insure your success!

What is most exciting is that this is a sensible approach to weight loss that can be readily employed as a life-style. It works! It is innovative and it is fun! This system will give you lasting results! It is NOT a fad diet, and it succeeds because, unlike fad diets, it is NOT a temporary solution! You will never again have to experience the disappointment of gaining back weight you have tried so hard to lose. You’ll have at your fingertips some...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Balance
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0446553646
• ISBN 13: 9780446553643
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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