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For celiac sufferers and gluten-sensitive tummies everywhereyoure just meals away from a flatter belly.

Getting the flat belly you want by eating truly delicious foods may seem like a dream, but more than a million readers have used the proven program behind the original Flat Belly Diet to beat bloat and permanently go from flab to fab. Busy moms have slipped comfortably back into their skinny jeans; harried husbands have melted their guts into six-pack abs; and readers with diabetes have tamed their blood sugar and slimmed their sloping bellies. Now, its your turn.

Trying to find a healthy eating plan that will help you shed pounds without causing pain and discomfort can be exceptionally difficult if you are sensitive to this one formidable foe. (Hint: Its an ingredient found in almost every processed food in the typical American diet.) Not sugar. Not even fat. No, youre up against gluten.

A protein found in wheat, barley, and rye, gluten is off-limits if you have celiac disease or if you have been diagnosed with, or suspect, a gluten sensitivity.

On the other hand, perhaps you are avoiding gluten by choicesomeone in your family is sensitive, or maybe you know someone who feels better than ever on a gluten-free diet, and wow. You want in on their newfound energy, increased mental focus, and brighter moodand who could blame you?

Thats why weve modified our classic Flat Belly Diet to create a new regimen that literally gets at the core of your weight loss desires without a bit of gluten. No matter which camp you fall into, this belly-flattening eating plan takes gluten out of the picture while pumping up the flavor so that you can enjoy being on a diet that doesnt taste like one!

Whether you are a gluten-free veteran or starting this journey for the first time, the Flat Belly Diet! Gluten-Free Cookbook will help you reach your weight loss goals by combining our New York Times best-selling belly-shrinking formula with truly delicious gluten-free fare.

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If these dishes sound too good to be true, take heart. They all share a powerful ingredient proven to punch out belly fat. The key is this: To shed belly fat, youve gotta eat fatspecifically, healthy fatat every meal.

These healthy fats are monounsaturated fatty acidsMUFAs (pronounced moo-fahs), for short. Were talking the plant-based, ultrahealthy dietary fats found in some of the worlds tastiest whole foods. Theres compelling scientific evidence that MUFAs may target body fat where its hardest to lose: in your belly. As a bonus, MUFAs promote satiety, that wonderful feeling of fullness that makes it easier to make healthy choices, brush off cravings, and whittle off belly inches.

The best part: Because MUFA-rich foods are some of the tastiest on the planet, youll never feel deprived. (Hint: You get to eat chocolate.) Flat Belly Diet Gluten-Free is as flexible as it is delicious. You can follow our suggested menu or use our guidelines as inspiration to design your own. And as a look through the recipes will show, you can assemble a tasty meal, snack, or dessert in minutes.

Now, gluten-free aficionados, its your turn to losedeliciously. Follow the plan faithfully, and you will lose weight (especially in your belly), reignite your energy, and enhance your chances of living a longer, healthier life. But before we turn to the plan, lets set the record straight on fatboth the fat you eat and the fat you store.

This chapter is your Flat Belly Diet Gluten-Free crash course. Youll learn why MUFAs are unique among dietary fats, how they help fight chronic disease as well as obesity, and meet the five MUFA superstars that form the core of the diet. Youll also get the how-tos of eating the Flat Belly way, beginning with a 4-day Jumpstart and moving on to a 28-day eating plan that gives you flexibility, enables you to continue to shed pounds, and teaches you how to keep the weight off.

Once youre up to speed on the basic program, well spend giving you more details on how you can do this plan sans glutenand all the perks that come with it. Youll hear all about the research linking a gluten-free diet with a ton of fascinating health benefits, and youll also learn to easily recognize and remove foods that contain gluten from your diet.

As youll see, going gluten free doesnt mean giving up the pasta, pancakes, and sweets you love. If you need proof, now would be a good time to skim the recipes, which begin on .

Remember the ill-fated fat-free craze of the 1990s? Every supermarket aisle bulged with fat-free crackers, cookies, chips, ice cream... the list goes on. In fact, responding to Americas concern about its fat intake, food manufacturers introduced more than 5,400 lower-fat foods between 1995 and 1997!

What triggered Americas fat phobia? Heres a best guess from famed Harvard nutrition researcher Walter Willett, MD, in an article published in Public Health Nutrition. In the late 1980s, he writes, nutritionists stopped advising people to eat more heart-healthy polyunsaturated fat and less artery-clogging saturated fat. Instead, their recommendation was to eat less fatperiod. It seems nutty now, but Dr. Willett theorizes that well-intentioned nutritionists may have doubted our ability to distinguish between different types of dietary fat. They were trying not to confuse us, and to recommend reducing our intake of fat across the board must have seemed like a good idea at the time.