Ten Years Thinner: 6 Weeks to a leaner, younger-looking you. No Gym Required. Christine Lydon, MD De Capo. 2008
This book will show you that it’s not necessary to join a health club or spend a lot of money to lose weight. Common sense and a bit of willpower are all you need.
Here’s the description from the book jacket.
What if someone told you that, 42 days from today, you could have slimmer hips, firmer thighs, tighter buns, flatter abs, more defined arms, and clearer, younger-looking skin? You can, with Ten Years Thinner, a simple, sustainable road map to the physique you’ve always dreamed of having. This program will give you rapid, dramatic results that you will begin to see and feel within the first week. It includes:
1) Customized 30- to 30-minute exercise routines you can do virtually anytime, anywhere, no matter yout body time.
2) A six-week meal plan, including quick recipes that take the guesswork out of what to eat to look great
3) Progress sheets to help you monitor your eating and exercise - and provide motivation as you see the inches melting away
4) How to maintain a healthy, toned body beyond the six-week program and into the months and years beyond
Ten Years Thinner presents Yale-educated medical doctor Christine Lydon’s highly innovative diet and exercise program, every element of which Dr. Lydon has designed to transform your body into a fat-burning furnace by catapulting your metabolic rate through the stratosphere. Unlike other diet regimes that excessively limit your caloric intake and commit you to a life sentence on the treadmill, Ten Years Thinner will fundamentally change how your body deals with food for an end result of a body chemistry that favors a youthful, toned, flab-free physique.
To make the dietary transition to a revved metabolism as easy as possible, Ten Years Thinner includes a detailed meal plan and dozens of quick, easy recipes that take all of the guesswork out of out of eating for a fabulous physique. There are no complicated calculations or confusing charts - and you won’t need tp hire a chef to make your meals nutritious and palatable.
Table of contents
The Blueprint
1. The Un-diet
2. Protein for Pulverizing Paunch
3. Fat for a fabulous physique
4. Carbohydrates Pt 1: Friendly fire for burning fat
5. Carbohydrates Pt 2: Glycemic response and the bane of the gain
6. Micronutrients that keep you lean and wrinkle free
7. Exercise: Why smart is better than long
8. The ten Years Thinner Diet
9. The Ten Years Thinner Workout
10. Forever Young
The Tools
Phase I: Diet and Exercise Guidelines for weeks 1-3
Phase II: Diet and exercise guidelines for weeks 4 - 6
Self tracking
The ten years thinner recipes
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