Beller - Week Weight-Loss Plan

EAT TO LOSE, EAT TO WIN POWER SOUPING. Copyright 2016 by Rachel Beller. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. FIRST EDITION ISBN 978-0-06-242492-1 EPub Edition MARCH 2016 ISBN 9780062424938 16 17 18 19 20 ID/QG 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To my parents, THE LOVING FORCES
OF MY LIFE; my four kids, FOR PUTTING A SMILE ON MY
FACE EACH AND EVERY DAY; and my husband, WHO IS MY BEST FRIEND Nicole LaMotte CONTENTS Nicole LaMotte Souping has never been hotter.

I dont mean temperature or spice (though the more spices the better)! Im talking about how anyone looking to lose weight and detox these daysfrom working moms to movie stars to CEOsis getting their soup on. In fact, souping is the new juicingonly better! And Ill tell you why. My office is in Beverly Hillswhich is ground zero for juicing. Every other person on the street is clutching a bottle of some applekalelawn clipping concoction. And I totally see the appeal of this type of diet. People want something quick and easy and with strict parameters.

They like being boxed into drinking whats in that bottleand thats it. No room for error. But I cant tell you how many of those people wind up in my office because theyre miserable, starving, have no energy and Just. Need. Something. Please! Thats because while juice diets are billed as cleanses or detoxes, the one ingredient with the most detoxing powerfiberis trashed after the juice is squeezed out, often leaving you with sugar water. Please! Thats because while juice diets are billed as cleanses or detoxes, the one ingredient with the most detoxing powerfiberis trashed after the juice is squeezed out, often leaving you with sugar water.

Sounds crazy, but its absolutely true. Plus, most of them dont have nearly enough protein to keep you satiated. Take a look. FOOD AUTOPSY: Detox Juicing The Marketing Department Needs to Clean Up Its Act For those of you who arent familiar with my Food Autopsies, theyre a deep dive inside foods that appear healthful but actually arentlike this popular cleansing juice. Hollywood types are willing to fork over ten dollars for a small bottle of this stuff! But what they dont know is that theyre guilty of a DUI d rinking u nder the i llusion that anything green in a fancy bottle is good for you. Heres the crime: The front of the bottle lists amazing ingredients, such as kale, spinach, romaine, parsley, cucumber, celery, apple, and lemon, along with the words 100% Juice in big letters.

It makes you think youre getting an entire salad through a straw. Now spin that bottle around and take a closer look at the label, because the first ingredients you see listed make up the bulk of the juice. This is what youre really getting: apple juice (first and foremost), then small amounts of juices from cucumber, celery, romaine lettuce, lemon, spinach, kale, and parsley leaf. Notice that the most nutrition-rich juices are at the very endand their intensely green flavor has been strategically masked in sugary apple juice. I call this green-tinted liquid candy. In fact, this one bottle of detox contains 28 grams of sugar, but none of the full, natural fibers the produce originally came with.

Thats one bad combo! With no fiber to blunt the natural sugars in the juice, what youre really paying for is a ticket on a blood-sugar roller-coaster ride that will have you feeling hungry again in no time. Thats not a real cleanseits your wallet getting cleaned out. Can we talk felony here? If you truly wanted a cleanse, youd ask for all the stuff they tossed after the juicing: the pulp, peels, and leaves. Thats where youll get the most of the valuable fiber and nutrients. Its like throwing away nutritional gold! As a nutrition expert who has helped people lose countless pounds, I know that fad diets dont workand not just because theyre unsatisfying or nutritionally weak. The biggest reason they fail is that once the diets over, theres no plan about what to do next.

Without maintenance guidelines, people fall back into old eating habits and regain the weight. This plan has you 100 percent covered here with a realistic maintenance strategy. Souping: A Lifestyle, Not a Trend Heres what makes this plan soup-erior to juice diets and other cleanses and detox plans. Souping is: 1. Cleansing. Souping is real detox, containing all the nutrients you need in one bowl.

Im talking health-boosting antioxidants, fiber, protein, and good-for-you omega-3 fats to naturally cleanse your insides and keep you satisfied. 2. Controllable. The thing people love about juicing is the calorically set mealsone bottle and done. No extras. And thats one thing souping shares with this type of plan.

You have a single bowlone that actually contains real, filling, yet still low-cal foodand youre set. Thats why so many studies have linked soup with weight loss and maintenance. (You can read more about that in .) 3. Comforting. Soups taste and feel like real meals, because they are. Theyve got everything you needvegetables, protein, healthful fats, and wholesome carbohydratesand you cant think soup without also thinking comfort.

And that makes souping sustainable, because it doesnt feel like a capital-D diet chore. 4. Convenient. Making a big pot of soup and taking single servings with you to workor having leftovers as a ready-to-go dinneris easy and economical. No more scrambling to fetch the right fast bite or overpaying for a tiny bottle of juice thats going to leave you hungry in 20 minutes. (Ill show you how in , Ill answer all of your questions, let you in on the science behind soupingyes, theres a ton of research showing it worksand give you the scoop on some of my nutrition recommendations. (Ill show you how in , Ill answer all of your questions, let you in on the science behind soupingyes, theres a ton of research showing it worksand give you the scoop on some of my nutrition recommendations.

Soups on! But before you dig in, Id like to show you why I want you to stick only to the soups in this book (at least for now) and not stray into the wild world of prepared options. Because not any old bowl will do.