Prevention Magazine Editors - The Belly Melt Diet

Forget everything you think you know about how to lose weight. I mean it. If it seems youve spent virtually your entire adult life counting calories, logging fat grams, obsessing over the presence of carbs, I hate to break it to you, but youve been wasting your time. Except I have a feeling that after years of making all the right diet moves and failing to see lasting results, Im not telling you anything you didnt already suspect.

This book is going to explain to you why you were right to be dubious. And it suggests a new path to easy, quick, and lasting weight loss that makes more sense than any conventional diet Ive ever come across, either in my role as executive editor of Prevention magazine or in my personal experience as a veteran of the weight wars. And it starts with this: To finally shed pounds forever, you need to work with your body, not against it.

Thats a pretty revolutionary statement, if you think about it. The Belly Melt Diet does not come with a list of banned foods or a prescription for grueling exerciseboth standard with conventional dietsprecisely because those things are what doom other diets to failure in the first place. The hunger and exhaustion that accompany those regimes are signs from your body that you are forcing it into something unnatural it does not want to do. This plan, on the other hand, based on the latest in chronobiology research, helps you shed pounds painlessly and speedily because it works with your bodys natural cycles, rhythms, and desiresnot against them.

One of the first things youll learn on the Belly Melt Diet is how to understand the workings of your bodys inner clock, which is not a metaphorical figure of speech but an actual thinga cluster of tissue deep in the brain that controls hormones that in turn control appetite, metabolism, your need for sleep, and your energy levels. Youll learn how easily modern life can conspire to throw this inner clock out of whack and how fatigue, food cravings, and, yes, weight gain are the most common results. But most important, youll learn how to reset your clock and get your natural rhythms right, and this book takes you through the steps. When youve put it all together, youll sleep better, banish food cravings, and feel less hungry; and in the bargain, the weight will quite literally melt right off of you.

Exercise matters, too, but the Belly Melt Diet has a similarly unique and sensible perspective. If youve always dreaded exercise, this book will explain why getting moving has always been such a struggle for you. If youre a regular exerciser, it will tell you how to make your workouts more effective and satisfying. Once again, timing is everything, and youll find out about the two specific times of day when exercise is not only the most beneficial in helping you reach your weight loss goals, but also the most advantageous for your overall health.

So, are you ready to turn the pages of this bookand of your life? Are you ready to say good-bye to senseless yo-yo dieting and finally reclaim the slender body you were meant to have? Your moment of personal reinvention has arrived. Congratuations! Today is Day 1 of a more energetic, happier, and, yes, more beautiful you.

Margot Gilman

Executive Editor

Prevention

If youre like most women, youve been fighting your body your entire adult life. Youve beaten it up repeatedly with restrictive diets and brutal training regimes, perhaps losing weight, only to find that the pounds come right back after you tire of the impossible-to-keep-up-with diet and schedule. Then you blame yourself for a lack of willpower and your overwhelming desire to give in to cravings. It seems as if youre always fighting yourself.

This probably is no surprise to you: Americansespecially American womenspend millions of dollars on potions, pills, and programs that promise the body of their dreams, yet two out of three of us are overweight or obese. We slash calories, take up jogging, hire a personal trainer, and cut out every last gram of fatyet it seems as though as soon as we lighten up a bit and try to return to a more normal way of eating and living, the pounds pack back on.

So what are you to do? Well, were telling you to give up the fight.

Huh? Thats right, by surrendering to your own understandable pattern of physical needs, and putting yourself in sync with your natural rhythms, you will finally flatten your belly and permanently win the war against weight gain.

Its time to establish a new cycle, one that doesnt involve weight falling off and piling on again. Foodand your relationship with foodis a huge part of it, of course. But what you put in your mouth depends more than you ever thought on the natural rhythms of lifecircadian rhythms and how much sleep you get, the weather, your menstrual cycle, to say nothing of your stress and anxiety levels. Exercise matters, too, but that doesnt mean working out for the sake of working out. It means being aware that your body is ready to move more at certain times of the dayand that by working with your bodys cycle instead of against it, you can burn more belly fat and build more metabolism-boosting lean muscle.

The Belly Melt Diet is the first weight-loss plan that takes into account how you feel and why you feel that way. Why do you want certain foods at certain times? Why do you eat more when you are tired? Why do you see better results when you work out at particular times of day? Answering these questions will allow you to make fitness and food choices that work in harmony with your bodys needs. Our revolutionary weight loss plan will not only melt the belly fat right off you, but you will sleep better than ever, manage your stress like a champion, and never go hungry again in the quest for a slender figure.

The fight is over, and if you adopt this plan, you will be the lifetime winner of a toned and trim figure; youll have more energy to do the things you love; and youll possess a calm, focused mind that helps you get and stay in control of your physical and emotional self.

What if we told you that weve discovered a secret? A secret that unlocks years of yo-yo dieting for a panel of women just like you, who are looking for a long-term solution not only to shed dangerous belly fat but to feel great, look younger, and reduce the risk of chronic diseases that make women old before their time.

The Belly Melt Diet is that secret. Its a plan based on who we really are as women. Its about embracing, not blaming, ourselves. Instead of counting calories, this revolutionary program teaches you to harness the power of your own internal cycles to lose weight, once and forever. This amazing new program seizes on the latest research of chronobiologythe study of biological rhythmsto show how the cycles in your life, from your daily eating patterns to your menstrual cycle to your sleep cycle, and even the seasons affect your appetite, cravings, moods, and, most important, weight loss.

The fact is, internal clocks govern nearly every aspect of our bodies, including the hormones that control appetite, metabolism, and fat storage. In The Belly Melt Diet, youll learn to identify your own body rhythms and tweak the master clock in your brain to sync your cycles more to what experts say is ideal for reaching and maintaining a healthy weight. Youre also going to learn why getting a good nights sleep is crucial to your ability to successfully lose weightand keep it off.