Synopses & Reviews
Discover the Most Common Diet De-Railer and Blast the Bloat for Good You eat right. You exercise. But still your scale won't budge. Despite your good intentions and all the stomach crunches you can stand, you could be unknowingly be sabotaging your efforts every day by eating one ingredient that is guaranteed to plug you up, bloat you out, and pack on the pounds. What is this dreaded diet saboteur? Salt.
Salt is everywhere--especially in the very 'diet' foods we eat to lose weight--and it's devastating to our health and our waistlines. In fact, as the Nutrition Twins explain, if you drop the salt you will drop a size--or more!--on their four-week salt-slashing plan.
Think you can't imagine eating food without the salt and flavor? Think again. The Secret to Skinny provides palette-pleasing meals and snacks that will fill you up without filling you out while you enjoy the side benefits of going lo-sodium: improved blood pressure, heart function, skin tone, and overall energy level. You'll learn how to incorporate key foods--the Anti-Bloaters, Flushers, and Slimmers--foods that get and keep you lean by ridding your body of excess salt and revving your metabolism for maximum fat burning. You'll also discover the Bloaters, Pluggers, Chubbers, and Flabbers--the everyday foods that are derailing your best efforts.
The Secret to Skinny also includes:
- Simple 'salternatives' and food swaps that subtract pounds and add years to your life
- Tips that trick your taste buds to crave less salt
- 14 days of menu plans, plus delicious low-sodium recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
- Quick-fix cures for a 'salt hangover' and the bloat that goes with it
- The 10-Day Jumpstart Plan that drops pounds fast
Synopsis
Salt is rising to the top of the health agenda; every major health agency, including the World Health Organization and the National Academy of Sciences, has recommended drastic reductions in sodium consumption. For years, salt has hid under the radar screen when it came to weight loss: It was believed that salt could cause problems if it was raising blood pressure. Wrong! Research shows that high salt diets are associated with more fat cells on the body; what's more, salt causes your fat cells to become denser, so it's harder for you to lose weight. Even worse, many supposed "healthy"foods are high in salt, just waiting to attach themselves to your waist, hips, and thighs.
Enter the Nutrition Twins, Lyssie Lakatos, R.D., and Tammy Lakatos Shames, R.D., (registered dietitians and sisters) who have helped hundreds of clients lose weight, eliminate bloating, and tone up for good on their salt-slashing program'"with the side benefits of reducing blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Simple and effective, their 4-week diet is built around key lo-so foods: green-light "Anti-bloaters,""Flushers,"and "Slimmers,"--foods that keep you slim by helping your body excrete salt and pounds. They shine a light on the red-light "Bloaters,""Pluggers,""Chubbers,"and "Flabbers,"--foods that you should avoid because they pack on the pounds. With easy-to-find foods that are full of flavor, they will show you how to swap out salt saboteurs with foods that keep you satisfied and slim. Meals should always include a Carbohydrate Slimmer and a Protein Slimmer, as these are wholesome, minimally processed foods that will keep you satisfied and slim. With two weeks of meal plans and more than fifty delicious low-salt recipes, this is a life-style and figure-friendly way to eat for permanent weight loss and health.
Synopsis
Twin trainers and nutritionists will help women blast their bellies with their 4-week diet plan: delicious salt-slashing meals that not only shed pounds but add years to your life by regulating blood pressure and returning salt-saturated cells back to health.
About the Author
Lyssie Lakatos, R.D., alongside her sister, Tammy Lakatos Shames, R.D., have been featured on the cover of Woman's World, and have appeared in publications including Cosmopolitan, Self, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, InStyle, Parents, First for Women, Glamour, O Magazine, and Family Circle. The Nutrition Twins developed a Wellness Planner and a weight management planner for Day-Timer, which they featured several times on QVC in 2009.Tammy Lakatos Shames, R.D., and her sister, Lyssie Lakatos, own a nutrition counseling practice and are the exclusive nutritionists for NBC's celebrities and employees at Rockefeller Plaza as well as for Juva Health and Wellness, an upscale, full-service Manhattan boutique featuring top physicians, all of whom teach at Mt. Sinai Medical Center. The Nutrition Twins have been featured regularly as the nutrition experts on The Discovery Health Channel, Fox News Channel, NBC, Bravo, WABC-TV, WPIX-TV, CBS, The Learning Channel, FitTV, Oxygen Network, Life and Style, Court TV, Fox & Friends, The Daily Health Feed and Fox 5's Good Day New York.