Alpert - The diet detox: why your diet is making you fat and what to do about it

Ive always believed that fitness begins in the kitchen, and Brookes Diet Detox really simplifies how to stop dieting and upgrade your nutrition in just 10 simple steps.

Jorge Cruise, celebrity trainer and author of Tiny and Full

The Diet Detox is a fantastic book that cuts out all the BS and gives readers exactly what they need to know to lose weight and get healthy for life!

Dave Asprey, founder and CEO of Bulletproof

If you really do hate the word diet, this is the book for you. Brooke has put together an incredibly easy-to-follow guide to help weed through all the nutritional chaos and get back on track for good.

Jenna Wolfe, host of Fox Sports 1s First Things First

Bravo to Brooke Alpert for taking the diet out of dieting! Her 10 simple rules are all we need for lasting weight loss and good health. As an internist, Im thrilled for my patients to ditch the yo-yo diet dead-end for healthy eating habits they can stick to. The Diet Detox is just what the doctor ordered!

Holly L. Phillips, MD, author of The Exhaustion Breakthrough

This book is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to serve as a substitute for professional medical advice. The author and publisher specifically disclaim any and all liability arising directly or indirectly from the use of any information contained in this book. A health care professional should be consulted regarding your specific medical situation. Any product mentioned in this book does not imply endorsement of that product by the author or publisher.

Copyright 2017 by Brooke Alpert

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

First E-Book Edition: December 2017

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Names: Alpert, Brooke, author.

Title: The diet detox : why your diet is making you fat and what to do about it : 10 simple rules to help you stop dieting, start eating, and lose the weight for good / Brooke Alpert, MS, RD, CDN.

Description: Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017042965 (print) | LCCN 2017047025 (ebook) | ISBN 9781944648992 (electronic) | ISBN 9781944648923 (trade cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Reducing diets. | Reducing diets--Recipes. | Weight loss. | Detoxification (Health)

Classification: LCC RM222.2 (ebook) | LCC RM222.2 .A3956 2018 (print) | DDC 613.2/5--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017042965

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To anyone who has ever said, The diet starts Monday.

S O YOUVE DECIDED TO BUY A DIET BOOK. Its a fabulous investment, but I want to warn you before you read any further that this isnt going to be your typical diet book. Theres a way to eat thats going to make you feel good and help you achieve your goals, and then theres everything else. What you are going to get from me is the honest truth about how to finally lose the weight thats been holding you back. Dieting is hard work; Ive seen it in my private nutrition counseling and weight loss practice for the last decade. But its not about willpowerits about being smart with what and how you eat. If you want to change the way you look and feel, then youre going to have to permanently change the way you look at food and dieting. Its not rocket science, and it doesnt need to be overly complicated or restrictiveat the end of the day, its just food.

Leave the diets youve done in the past in the past. Let those fad moments go; let go of the 30 days of healthy eating you committed to only to overindulge in pizza, ice cream, or whatever your guilty pleasure is. Let go of the exhausting weight loss, weight gain, weight loss cycle. And instead, lets do this! Ive made it as easy as possible to make long-lasting positive changes. In exchange, what Im asking of you is simple: do my one-week jump-start program and then follow my 10 rules. You might have heard of versions of them beforeyou might even have tried some of them before. But youve never put them all together like this.

What Im offering in The Diet Detox is the real deal. Its the same guidance I give my clients, and its the same advice I give my friends. In fact, Ive even incorporated a lot of their questions and my honest answers throughout the chapters. This is the way I speak in my own personal life: clear and to the point. Im going to give you some of the tools I use in my practice for shaping the way you eat, but more important, Im going to give you the 10 rules for how you should be eating for the rest of your life. Reading this book and following the rules every day is the only way to lose the weight and keep it off for good.

In health and honesty,
Brooke

E VERY CLIENT who comes to my private practice, B Nutritious in New York City, leaves his or her first session with a list of 10 rules, or goals to work on. I charge a huge amount of money for this, but Im giving it to you here for the price of this book. What I tell my clientsand what I consistently remind them ofis that even though these rules or goals seem small or like common sense, they add up to a massive diet overhaul. The same 10 rules form the backbone of this book, and they will get you exactly where you want to go with your weight and health. Note that theres no kitschy shtick here, nothing trendy, and definitely nothing extreme. Thats because any diet worth your time shouldnt have an expiration date. Its a lifestyle, regardless of how much I hate that clich expression. These are the fundamentals that I use in my practice with every client at B Nutritious. There are just 10 things you need to be doing right now, with no negotiating. This is how to eat and how to live a healthy life in just 10 steps. To get started, look over the list on the next page, head to the one-week Kick-Starter on , and then start reading the chapters to see how to incorporate these 10 rules into your life from now on.