Recorded Books Inc. - Stop & Drop Diet: Lose Up To 5 Lbs In 5 Days

A READERS DIGEST BOOK Copyright 2015 Trusted Media Brands, Inc. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction, in any manner, is prohibited. Readers Digest and The Digest are registered trademarks of Trusted Media Brands, Inc. Food photographs by Ali Blumenthal, Dan Roberts, Jim Wieland, Grace Natoli Sheldon, and Mark Derse Tester photographs by Steve Vaccariello Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vaccariello, Liz. Stop & drop diet / Liz Vaccariello pages cm Includes index.

Summary: New York Times bestselling author and Readers Digest editor-in-chief Liz Vaccariello presents the easiest diet ever, teaching you how to stop eating unhealty versions of the foods you love and offering quick and easy meals you can find or make anywhere you go using your favorite everyday brand-name foodsso you can drop up to 5 pounds in 5 days!Provided by publisher. ISBN 978-1-62145-260-7 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-62145-261-4 (epub) 1. Weight loss--Popular works. 2. Reducing diets--Popular works. 3.

Health--Popular works. 4. Nutrition--Popular works. I. Hermann, Mindy G. Title. III. III.

Title: Stop and drop diet. RM222.2.V257 2015 613.25--dc23 2015026670 We are committed to both the quality of our products and the service we provide to our customers. We value your comments, so please feel free to contact us. Readers Digest Trade Publishing 44 South Broadway White Plains, NY 10601 For more Readers Digest products and information, visit our website: www.rd.com NOTE TO OUR READERS The information in this book should not be substituted for, or used to alter, medical therapy without your doctors advice. For a specific health problem, consult your physician for guidance. Mention of specific companies, organizations, or authorities in this book does not imply endorsement by the author or publisher, nor does mention of specific companies, organizations, or authorities imply that they endorse this book, its author, or the publisher.

The brand-name products mentioned in this book are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Internet addresses, telephone numbers, and product information given in this book were accurate at the time it went to press. Readers Digest tested the diet with 10 readers and employees. Testers were not paid to participate. How much weight you lose will vary depending on your gender, age, and starting weight, plus what you typically eat and how much you exercise, among many other factors. Even using the same program of diet and exercise, individual results will vary.

Losing 1 pound a day is not a typical result.

Rebecca Simpson Steele is Readers Digest s photo director. She devoted hundreds of hours to planning and executing multiple food and product shootsand produced the almost two dozen video shoots for our incredible online course. Her keen eye, her commitment to excellence, and her ability to handle the talent are all gifts I am thankful for every day. Ali Blumenthal is Reader Digest s photo assistant and helped with many aspects of the project. As an accomplished photographer in her own right, we counted on her to photograph the hundreds of packaged foods in the book. I am grateful for the endless hours Ali spent both in the studio and at her desk! Many thanks also to the team at the Taste of Home photo studio, who helped us capture all the meal, restaurant, and recipe photos, especially Kerri Balliet, Sarah Thompson, Stephanie Marchese, and Ester Robards.

And thanks to Catherine Cassidy for supporting this project in so many ways! Lauren Gelman and Kelsey Kloss are the heart of Readers Digest s health team. As director, Lauren was instrumental in pulling together lessons and scripts for the Stop & Drop Online Course . Kelsey worked on almost every aspect of the product suite, writing, researching, organizing, checking, and rechecking. It was with breathtaking grace and admirable fearlessness that Courtenay Smith jumped into her role masterminding the Stop & Drop Online Course . She is executive editor of Readers Digest by day, but eye of the Stop & Drop hurricane by night. I am abundantly grateful for all she does for our magazine, this product, and my spirit.

Thank you for your candor, your wisdom, your tenacity, and your many many skills. I wouldnt dare do a book or tape a segment without you! Of course, Courtenays laser focus and commitment were possible because of the multitalented team on Readers Digest that picked up the slack: Managing director of content operations and all around editorial wunderkind Kerrie Keegan; executive editor and the heart of so much of Readers Digest , Barbara ODair; and creative director Dean Abatemarco, who never met a design he couldnt fix, a cover he couldnt improve. Senior designer Gloria Tebelman saved the day in more ways than I can count. Her vision for the Stop & Drop Diet book cover, her design of Part Three, her production of the online course graphics... everything is just better thanks to Gloria. Readers Digests book department has a deep well of talent.

Fearless leader Debra Polansky, editorial director Jim Menick, art director George McKeon, managing editor Lorraine Burton, master marketers and salespeople Kim Gray, Veronica Gonzalez, and Nancy Taylor. Harold Clarke, you believed from the very beginning. I thank you and miss you. In consumer marketing, I thank Leslie Doty, Valerie Federice, Karen Berner, Jamele Polk, Jess Wesley, Mary Melian, and the rest of their talented teams. Special thanks also to the small army of copyeditors, proofreaders, fact-checkers, food shoppers, designers, and other helpers without which this book could not have happened: Susan Hindman, Mary Jane DeFroscia, Nancee Adams-Taylor, Shara Beitch, Alyssa Jung, Brooke Wanser, Will Sabbagh, Drew Salvatore, Sierra Rinaldi, Claire Nowak, Elizabeth Tunnicliffe, Wayne Morrison, and John Cassidy. Pauli Cohen, Sabrina Strauss, and the Goodman PR team, youre an authors best friend.

Hugs to my dear friends at The Doctors : Jay McGraw, Travis Stork, Shannon Hunt, Andrea McKinnon, Patricia Ciano, Jeff Hudson, Keegan Heise, and team. And a huge shout-out to my fellow Stop & Drop testers: Nora Healy, Donna Lindskog, Angela Mastrantuono, Carol Maymudes, Diane Rohan, Eileen Supran, Karen Woytach, Joe and Kim Gray, and Randi Zelkin. Adrienne Farr, where would I be without you? Steve, Olivia, and Sophia, what would I do? And of course none of this is possible without the woman with the plan, Bonnie Kintzer. Thank you for being a leader, mentor, and all-around inspiration.

Some people want to be told exactly what to eat from day to day; others just want a few general principles to follow. Some people are happy to cook every meal; others find that impossibly daunting. Some people have 100 or more pounds to lose; others merely a few. Some people are ready to change their whole lifestyle; others are only willing to make a few small tweaks. Personally, Ive always taken a health-focused approach to weight loss, drilling down into the latest science to attack specific physiological challenges that hurt health and lead to weight gain. In my book Flat Belly Diet! , for instance, I focused on the amazing nutrientmonounsaturated fatty acids, or MUFAsthat can target deadly belly fat.