Fast Diets FD - (For Dummies) by Kellyann Petrucci & Patrick Flynn (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Over the last few decades, food fads have come and gone, but the standard medical advice on what constitutes a healthy lifestyle has stayed much the same: eat low-fat foods, exercise more, and never, ever skip meals. Yet, over that same period, levels of obesity worldwide have soared. So is there a different, evidence-based approach?

Yes! Fast Diets are the revolutionary part-time weight loss programs with lifelong health and anti-aging results. Fast Diets For Dummies is your hands-on, friendly guide to achieving weight loss, without having to endlessly deprive yourself. Inside, you'll get the lowdown on easily incorporating one or all of these unique dietary programs into your busy life. You will get the lowdown on tackling the most popular fasting diets such as: The Fast Diet (5-2 Diet), Intermittent Fasting, Micro-Fasting, and One Meal a Day (Warrior Diet). It offers you information and tips on how to incorporate these unique and popular dietary programs into your busy daily life.

• How and why the benefits of these fasting diets go well beyond weight loss
• Fast diets dos and don'ts
• How to get started and everything you need to know to help you along the way
• Over fifty 500- and 600- calorie meals that are quick and easy to make

From the Back Cover

Learn to:

• Get up-to-speed on the hottest fasting diet plans around: intermittent, the 5:2 Diet, the Warrior Diet, and micro-fasting
• Select the best diet plan to achieve your weight, health, and anti-aging goals
• Make 50 plus simple and delicious calorie-controlled meals

Lose weight, improve overall health, and stop aging in its tracks

Fast Diets are revolutionary part-time weight loss programs with lifelong health and anti-aging results. Here, you get expert information and helpful tips on how to incorporate the most popular fasting diets into your daily life: the 5:2 Diet, intermittent fasting, micro-fasting, and the Warrior Diet. If you want to drop a few pounds, heal a disease, fight aging, or boost or enhance vitality, Fast Diets For Dummies has you covered.

• What's all this fasting about? -- find out what fasting is, why it's nature's ultimate fat-burning weapon, and how it can help you reverse disease, boost energy, and add years to your life
• Meet the Fast Diets -- discover four practical fasting practices to help you lose weight, gain muscle, boost productivity, and become the best possible you (and help on deciding which one is best for you)
• Cleanse your kitchen -- learn exactly what you'll need to get on your fasting journey with a blueprint that covers all the kitchen essentials you'll need to have on hand (and what you'll need to get rid of)
• Start cookin' -- get 500-calorie (for women) and 600-calorie (for men) Fast Diet recipes that'll keep you on track when you're on the 5:2 Diet

Open the book and find:

• The science behind the most popular fasting options
• How a positive mindset can set you up for success
• Foods that you can eat (and ones to avoid)
• The relationship between fasting and exercise
• Calorie-controlled recipes for your modified fast
• Guidance on living the fasting lifestyle on a daily basis
• Tricks to enhance your fast
• Ways to stave off hunger

About the Author

Dr. Kellyann Petrucci, author and nutritionist, appears on various news streams nationally and conducts workshops and seminars worldwide to help people feel -- and look -- their best. She is also the author of the popular website www.DrKellyann.com and gives daily news, tips and inspiration on twitter @drkellyann.

Patrick Flynn, a fitness minimalist, is the coauthor of Paleo Workouts For Dummies, and the driving force behind a top 500 Health and Wellness blog Chronicleofstrength.com.