Thin for Good

Fred Pescatore

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A REVOLUTIONARY PERSONALIZED PROGRAM FOR LIFELONG THINNESS

Taking low-carb diets to the next level, Thin for Good combines clinically tested, up-to-the-minute nutritional advice with an added bonus: a revolutionary mind-body program designed to eliminate your cravings. Leading you through the eleven emotional levels of eating, Dr. Pescatore shares his unique solutions to the psychological roadblocks we all face when trying to lose weight. The result is a thirty-day plan--filled with affirmations, self-evaluations, and exercises--that will get you on the road to lifelong thinness. Customized for your sex and stage of life, filled with delicious recipes and meal plans, Thin for Good gives you the fuel you need for your lifestyle. Get thin for good--now and forever.

"Thin For Good offers an innovative approach to losing weight and keeping it off safely and effectively. Dr. Fred Pescatore not only provides excellent information on what to eat, he also sheds insight on the emotional aspects of eating that can sabotage even the best weight-loss efforts unless you understand them. The recipes are terrific, even if you're not dieting!"
--Carol Colman, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Antioxidant Miracle, Shed 10 Years in 10 Weeks, and Stop Depression Now

"Dr. Fred Pescatore unravels the complex emotions intertwined with losing weight, eating right, and feeling and looking better--and has come up with a sensible weight-loss plan that successfully deals with both diet and the mixed feelings so many of us have about our appearances."
--Jack Challem, The Nutrition Reporter and coauthor of Syndrome X
THIN FOR GOOD NUTRITION.

Dieting and Your Emotions.

Carbs and Glucose.

The Healing Power of Fats.

How to Read Labels and the New Food Pyramid.

THIN FOR GOOD AND YOUR SEX.

The Gender Gap.

The Female Diet Stages.

The Male Diet Stages.

THIN FOR GOOD: THE ANSWER TO YOUR DIETING PRAYERS.

The Guiding Principles of the Thin For Good Diet.

The Thin For Good Initiation Phase for Women.

The Thin For Good Initiation Phase For Men.

Thin For Good for Vegetarians.

THE MIND-BODY MEDICINES AND THE SUGGESTED THIN FOR GOOD MEAL PLANS.

Mind Over Calories.

The Mind-Body Medicines and Meal Plans--Week 1.

The Mind-Body Medicines and Meal Plans--Week 2.

The Mind-Body Medicines and Meal Plans--Week 3.

The Mind-Body Medicines and Meal Plans--Week 4.

Eight Weeks to Thin For Good: The Forever Phase.

YOUR THIN FOR GOOD SUPPLEMENTS.

The Supplement Program.

ENHANCING THIN FOR GOOD.

Move It.

Overcoming Special Weight Loss Difficulties.

Additional Mind-Body Exercises.

THIN FOR GOOD RECIPES.

The Recipes.

Index.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• diététique
• Nutrition
• Fitness
• Health
• Diet
• Diets

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 02 mai 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780470356456
• Langue: English

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Thin For Good
Also by Fred Pescatore, M.D.
Feed Your Kids Well
Thin For Good
The One Low-Carb Diet That Will Finally Work for You

Fred Pescatore, M.D.

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The information contained in this book is not intended to serve as a replacement for professional medical advice. Any use of the information in this book is at the reader s discretion. The author and the publisher specifically disclaim any and all liability arising directly or indirectly from the use or application of any information contained in this book. A health care professional should be consulted regarding your specific situation.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pescatore, Fred
Thin for good : the one low-carb diet that will finally work for you / Fred Pescatore.
p. cm. Includes index.
ISBN 0-471-36267-0 (cloth : acid-free paper) ISBN 0-471-41012-8 (paper)
1. Low-carbohydrate diet. 2. Reducing diets. 3. Women-Health and hygiene. 4. Men-Health and hygiene. I. Title.

RM237.73 .P47 2000
613.2 5-dc21 99-054631
10 9 8 7 6 5 4
This book is dedicated to SHF, whose constant inspiration makes it all possible.
Author s Note
The information in this book reflects the author s experience and is not intended to replace the advice of your own personal physician. It is not the intent of the author to diagnose or prescribe treatment. The intent is only to help you lose weight and perhaps gain health, in conjunction with your own personal physician. Only your personal physician can determine if this nutritional lifestyle program is suitable for you, depending on your personal medical history. In addition to regular checkups and supervision, any questions or symptoms that may arise should be addressed to your personal physician.
This book is not meant to serve as a replacement for your personal physician. Rather, it should be used as an adjunct or an alternative to what you ve been hearing for many years about what to eat.
In the event you use this information without your doctor s approval, you are prescribing for yourself, and the publisher and the author assume no responsibility.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Thin For Good Nutrition

1 Dieting and Your Emotions

The Eleven Emotional Levels of Eating: Level 1 Anger

2 Carbs and Glucose

The Eleven Emotional Levels of Eating: Level 2 Frustration

3 The Healing Power of Fats

The Eleven Emotional Levels of Eating: Level 3 Sadness

4 How to Read Labels and the New Food Pyramid

The Eleven Emotional Levels of Eating: Level 4 Fear
Part II Thin For Good and Your Sex

5 The Gender Gap

The Eleven Emotional Levels of Eating: Level 5 Understanding

6 The Female Diet Stages

The Eleven Emotional Levels of Eating: Level 6 Trepidation

7 The Male Diet Stages

The Eleven Emotional Levels of Eating: Level 7 Envy
Part III Thin For Good: The Answer to Your Dieting Prayers

8 The Guiding Principles of the Thin For Good Diet

The Eleven Emotional Levels of Eating: Level 8 Boredom

9 The Thin For Good Initiation Phase for Women

The Eleven Emotional Levels of Eating: Level 9 Relief
10 The Thin For Good Initiation Phase for Men

The Eleven Emotional Levels of Eating: Level 10 Joy
11 Thin For Good for Vegetarians

The Eleven Emotional Levels of Eating: Level 11 Contentment
Part IV The Mind-Body Medicines and the Suggested Thin For Good Meal Plans
12 Mind Over Calories
13 The Mind-Body Medicines and Meal Plans-Week 1
14 The Mind-Body Medicines and Meal Plans-Week 2
15 The Mind-Body Medicines and Meal Plans-Week 3
16 The Mind-Body Medicines and Meal Plans-Week 4
17 Eight Weeks to Thin For Good: The Forever Phase
Part V Your Thin For Good Supplements
18 The Supplement Program
Part VI Enhancing Thin For Good
19 Move It
20 Overcoming Special Weight Loss Difficulties
21 Additional Mind-Body Exercises
Part VII Thin For Good Recipes
22 The Recipes
Index
Acknowledgments
There are so many people without whom this book would not have been possible. I would like to especially mention the following:

EM for always believing in the project
HE for her contributions to the recipe section. Boy, are they good!
PM, EI, and HC for being themselves DC for too many things to mention
TM for always being able to get that just right, extra sentence out of me
CS for his dedication, hard work, and patience
And, of course, to my many patients who are a constant source of inspiration and enjoyment.
I couldn t have done this without you. Thanks.
Introduction
Thin For Good provides the missing link to thinness by giving you: a good, healthy low-carbohydrate diet program, and the power to use your mind to control your body.
The way most North Americans are being encouraged to eat today is wrong. There is no scientific evidence to support the claim that by eating a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet, you will get healthier and thinner. Instead, there is ample evidence to support the fact that a diet too low in fat may eventually lead to adverse health consequences, especially an increase in heart disease-amazingly, the main problem a diet low in fat was supposed to solve.
This low-fat myth, as I like to call it, has resulted in people believing that they can eat as many carbohydrates as they wish, as long as they don t contain fat. How many times have you sat down and finished an entire box of cookies or an entire pound of pasta and rationalized it by telling yourself that, after all, the food was fat-free? Fat-free maybe, but what about all the sugar you ve just ingested? Yes, there is sugar in those fat-free foods. And yet you still expected to lose weight.
Besides, don t you find eating fat-free a little boring? I know I do.
When I decided to write this book, I wanted to keep the good principles of low-carbohydrate eating, leave the bad ones behind, and at the same time change the way people look at food.
Thin For Good teaches you to choose all the delicious and nutritious foods you may eat-and which foods you should avoid-while still losing weight. Thin For Good eliminates a treacherous roadblock on the way to thinness: boredom, by not only being much more varied than most other low-carbohydrate diets but by giving you a mind plan that will leave the boredom behind.
During my years as the Associate Medical Director of the Atkins Center, I realized that the paradigm needed to change. I do not want people relegated to counting carbohydrates their entire lives-a new obsession that for some people has replaced the old obsessions about counting calories or fat grams. The problems with the old low-carb diets were especially evident with women, who found that eating all that meat wasn t enabling them to lose the weight they wanted.
Thin For Good offers a new low-carbohydrate way of eating, though not as restrictive as the Atkins diet. I believe it is possible to lose weight without having to be so strict about the carbohydrate content. You won t have to completely ignore carbohydrates that have nutritional value. Just as all fats are not bad, neither are all carbohydrates. I ll show you the differences.
As for fats, you will not be eating an unlimited amount of that food group, either. Fried foods and saturated fats must be limited when trying to devise an eating plan for life. Eating all the bacon and chicken skin you want is not healthy. The Atkins diet rarely took those things into account.
Think about it. How many diets have you been on in your lifetime? If you are an average North American, the number is at least ten. As you read this, one out of three Americans is currently dieting. Some of the diets we go on are pretty loony. And frankly, many of them work-at least in the short term.
In Thin For Good, I will also show you how the most important component of being a successful dieter was missing from all the other programs you have ever been on. Simply put, you must have the proper mind-body connection if you are ever going to be successful at dieting. No other diet has given you this information, and that s why you haven t been able to stay thin- up until now.
I have developed a concept called Mind Over Calories. Mind Over Calories will help you understand the rage and frustration you feel every time you follow a diet perfectly and still fail to lose weight. Food plays an extremely powerful role in the psyche. If you doubt this, I encourage you to take a moment to consider your food cravings and how emotional they may make you get from time to time.
Thin For Good opens the power of your mind to aid your weight loss, something you will not find in other low-carbohydrate eating plans such as Protein Power, Sugar Busters, or The Zone. None of those diets focuses on balancing the mind with the body. If you don t include your mind in the dieting process, you are ultimately doomed to failure. Thin For Good provides the solution to many of dieting s psychological roadblocks-you won t find it in those other bestsellers.
This book will hel