Cynthia Sass

Liz Vaccariello

Prevention magazine is the country's most authoritative, trustworthy, and innovative source for practical health, nutrition, and fitness information. Now, its editors bring you a weight-loss plan that's specifically designed to target your number-one trouble spot: BELLY FAT. For women over 40, belly fat is incredibly stealth and incredibly stubborn. It's also the most deadly, contributing to a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, and chronic illness than any other type of fat on your body. Finally, science has helped uncover a key dietary weapon in the fight against belly fat. Monounsaturated fatty acids, or MUFAs, help dieters lose more weight--in their bellies specifically--and keep it off longer. Flat Belly Diet! will lead you step by step, day by day, meal by meal toward a flatter belly...and a longer, healthier life.

Flat Belly Diet

Mariel Adrianna de la Garza

So far, so good. As a student, my eating habits are lacking, to say the least. I don't cook [though I like to], I eat out a lot, I got out with my friends and have a drink or two, and I eat a lot of things high in sodium. SO, all of those things have been bad for my health - and my dress size. I picked this book up the other day at Target on a whim and I actually really like it. As of this writing, I'm on Day 3 of the 4 Day Anti-Bloat jumpstart, and it's already made a noticeable difference. The first four days are designed to slim you down by getting rid of bloat and water weight, thus giving you the motivation to follow through for the next few weeks. It's working. I've started to actually THINK about the things I eat, and today I went grocery shopping and bought all sorts of healthy things I'm excited to cook over the next month.

My favorite thing about this diet so far is that it isn't really a "diet" in the way that most of us are used to [way too many rules, too few calories, etc]. It's just a different way of eating - a real diet. Part of the reason I bought the book is that when I flipped through the recipes, there were A LOT of things that (1) sounded delicious and (2) sounded like things I could cook. So far, so good.

We'll see how the next four weeks go.

Flat Belly Diet

Reviews