The Pound a Day Diet: Lose Up to 5 Pounds in 5 Days by Eating the Foods You Love - Hardcover

DiSpirito, Rocco

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1455523674 ISBN 13: 9781455523672

Publisher: Grand Central Life & Style, 2014

Synopsis

THE POUND A DAY DIET is an accelerated program designed to help dieters lose up to five pounds every five days-- without frustrating plateaus-- while enjoying all their favorite foods. It rewrites every carb/fat/calorie rule in the book! This delicious, easy-to-use, plan is specifically formulated as a Mediterranean-style diet that is carb and calorie corrected to turbocharge metabolism and weight loss. Complete with menus for 28 days (four five-day plans and four weekend plans), dieters first follow the five-day plan, switch over to the weekend plan, return to the five-day plan for the second week, and continue with the weekend plan-alternating like this right down to their goal weight. To help readers, Rocco has created 50 all-new lightning-quick 5 ingredient recipes, as well as ready-made suggestions for those who simply cannot find the time to cook; a primer on healthy and fast cooking techniques; calorie-calibrated menus and shopping lists; and a lifestyle plan for maintaining a lean, healthy body for life.

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The Pound a Day Diet: Lose Up to
5 Pounds in 5 Days Eating the Foods You Love
Celebrity Chef Rocco DiSpirito (Now Eat This!) offers a rapid weight-loss regimen designed to re-educate palates and perspectives about dropping pounds quickly and keeping them off. Based on the most current nutrition research, this approach dispels the belief that a slow, steady loss is the best way to lose weight and avoid regaining. There are three keys to his plan: 1) veggies are a secret weapon; 2) lean protein "rocks your body"; and 3) "nutritional balance is paramount." Eating "calorie-corrected" and "carb-corrected " foods revs up metabolism, and adopting a Mediterranean diet helps maintain it, so that this method of eating becomes a way of life. Phase l of the plan lasts four weeks: three meals and two snacks for a total of 850 calories for each of five days, followed by two days of three meals and two snacks for 1200 calories per day, then repeated for three more weeks. Phase 2, maintenance, begins when a goal weight is achieved; calories increase but guidelines remain. Sixty new hea

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FAST
WEIGHT LOSS
SIMPLE PLAN
AMAZING
RESULTS
Celebrity chef and bestselling author of the successful Now Eat This! Diet series, Rocco DiSpirito reveals a brand new, cutting-edge concept in accelerated weight loss. With his groundbreaking low calorie, six-meal-per-day formula, proven to boost metabolism and shed fat fast, is designed to help you lose up to five pounds every five days--without frust-rating plateaus--while enjoying all your favorite foods. And little to no cooking or exercise is required!
This delicious, easy-to-use plan rewrites every carb, fat, and calorie rule in the book! The 28-day program is based on the science of the calorie deficit and uses a fat-as-fuel approach. It is rich in fiber and nutrients and carb-corrected to turbocharge fat loss and quickly deplete existing fat reserves.
Complete with menu plans that focus on Rocco's powerful metabolism-boosting ingredient combinations, the book allows readers to first follow the five-day plan and then switch over to the more indulgent weekend plan, return to the five-day plan for the second week, and continue with the weekend plan--alternating like this right down to their goal weight. To help readers achieve weight loss success, Rocco includes:
* 60 all-new, lightning-quick five ingredient recipes 
* Store-bought meal alternatives for those who simply cannot find the time or prefer not to cook
* Fast and healthy cooking technique guide
* Calorie-corrected menus and shopping lists for 30 days

* A lifestyle plan for maintaining a lean, healthy body for life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Life & Style
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1455523674
• ISBN 13: 9781455523672
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320