Fat to Muscle diet
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| Wed, 09-29-2004 - 9:56am |
Essentially it's a common-sense guide to healthy eating and losing weight by raising your metabolism and increasing muscle mass. Boiled down to one sentence, it's "Eat less fat and exercise more".
What I like about it are the recipes. The first two weeks are called "Burn 1", and consist of what are called 'hotplates': Breakfast is 1 serving starch, 1 serving fruit, 1 serving dairy. Lunch is 1 serving protein, 1 serving starch, 2 servings vegetables, 1 serving fruit, 1/2 serving dairy. Dinner is 1 serving protein, 2 servings starch, 2 servings vegetables, 1 serving fruit, 1/2 serving dairy. DH and I have actually not been able to finish dinner every night - we're too full! The second two weeks are called "Burn 2", and start adding a little bit of fat and red meat back in, and increasing the exercise.
The only time I get hungry is between breakfast and lunch, but that's probably because I eat breakfast at 6am, and don't eat lunch until noon. I'm going to take part of my lunch and make it a mid-morning snack.
For example, today I had 1C of cereal (homemade granola), 1 C of skim milk, and one small banana. Lunch today is a bean soup, roll, large salad, and dessert is a cup of fat free vanilla yogurt and 1/2C of fresh strawberries. Dinner tonight will be Turkey Scallopini, 1 baked potatoe with dollop of fat free sour cream, 1/2C broccoli spears with lemon, a sliced tomato, and apple cobbler. Recipes for the Bean Soup, Herb salad dressing, Turkey Scallopini and apple cobbler are in the book.
There's also a calendar to follow. Today is *Eat Hotplates, *Exercise, *drink 8 glasses of liquid, and *read "Emergency Thermic Boosters", a short chapter in the book.

Good luck with it.
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