Heather Dubrow - The Dubrow Keto Fusion Diet: The Ultimate Plan for Interval Eating and Sustainable Fat Burning

This book has been an incredible adventure! We are so grateful to our amazing support team for helping us bring this book to life.

Thank you to our kidsthe Fab FourNick, Max, Kat, and Coco; we love you so much and were thankful you dont roll your eyes every time we say, So... weve got an idea for a new book...

Thank you to everyone at HarperCollins! Lisa Sharkey, Anna Montague, Kayleigh George, Heidi Richter, Maddie Pillari, Alison Coolidge, and especially Kelly Rudolph (who knew sipping tequila with you after Sadies bat mitzvah would result in this ?!?!). We are eternally grateful for your support in understanding the science and breakthrough technology of our fusion lifestyle plan.

Gretchen Lees: weve said it before and we will say it againyou are the hippest, coolest, smartest, funniest gal on the planet, and we are so lucky to have you in our world (and we know you and Lindsay are going to be incredible parents!).

Chef Amanda: you wow us weekly with your beautiful, DELICIOUS mealsand you have outdone even yourself with these unbelievably yummy, easy-to-replicate dishes! Thank you for sharing your gifts!

Also, a huge thank-you to Rosecleer Marie Johnson and Aziza Jade Berry, who styled the food for our photo shoot! What an art form! Speaking of photosto our personal paparazzi, Rod Foster, thank you for continuously making us look better than we deserveLOL. Truthfully, you always capture every moment brilliantly!

Thank you to our agents, Lance Klein, Mel Berger, Ryan Mcneily, and Justin Ongert at WME, for your continued support!

Finally, our village: Natalie, Victoria, Danielle, Ina, Sue, Nora, Nicole, Rachelle, Simara, and Pete! Thank you seems insufficient, but we love you all and appreciate everything that you do!

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HEATHER DUBROW is an actress, television personality, author, and the host of the top-rated podcast Heather Dubrows World . Heather and her husband, Dr. Terry Dubrow, have the #1-selling skin care and supplement line, Consult Beaute & Health, which is sold exclusively on the ShopHQ shopping channel. Heather and Terry live in California with their four children.

On Instagram and Twitter: @heatherdubrow

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Website: heatherdubrow.com

DR. TERRY DUBROW obtained degrees in the medical sciences from Yale University in 1980 and the UCLA School of Medicine in 1986. He is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is also a certified expert for the Medical Board of California. Dr. Dubrow has been showcased as the surgical expert on several television shows, including FOXs The Swan and E!s Bridalplasty , and since 2013, he has been the star of E!s hit show Botched . He and his wife, Heather, live in California with their four children.

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Website: drdubrow.com

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You probably dont spend a lot of time scrolling through the websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the World Health Organization, but if you did, youd find some stats that are scarier than any episode of Stranger Things . Im talking about some seriously frightening stuff. Heres some of the information Ive seen:

• Over 70 percent of Americans are either overweight or obese.
• Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975.
• Most of the worlds population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight.
• Obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and certain types of cancer, which are some of the leading causes of preventable, premature death.
• Obesity is preventable.

At a time when medical advances are so incredible that they seem sprung straight out of science fiction, these facts are almost impossible to believe, yet they are not the stuff of make-believe. We appear to be in the midst of a full-blown metabolic meltdown.

The obesity epidemic has been a decades-long development, but in our own bodies, it can feel as though significant change happens overnightwe look away from the mirror for one minute and return to find a muffin top or man boobs. Ill tell you a little story as an example.

In June of 2019, my lovely wife, Heather, and I went to France for a two-week vacation. As one of the busiest plastic surgeons in the world, taking a vacation this long is not something I can do regularly; I have patients depending on me and a full staff of twenty-three who rely on me to keep them busy and employed. But between my medical practice and shooting episodes of Botched and License to Kill , I had been working nonstop for several months. I like to worklove it, actuallybut I needed a break. Off to France we went.

Once we arrived, we proceeded to eat whatever we wanted. Im talking pizza, bread, croissants, cheese, and then more bread, in outrageous excessand whatever we ate, we drank twice that. For two weeks, it was all high-carb, high-fat, high-alcohol, and minimal exercise.

Fans of our podcast or shows know that this is the opposite of our normal routine (except for the fat part). At home in Newport Beach, California, we eat very low-carb, fill up on plenty of high-quality fats, and... well, the drinking part isnt that different... but we both exercise diligently and daily.

What would you think the consequencesor lets call it the metabolic priceof this time in France might be? I cant speak for Heather because she was very coy about her stats after this trip, but for me, the price I paid was 14 pounds. I gained 14 pounds in two weeks. Thats a pound a day. My pants were tight, my shirts hugged my body in a way that I hate, my usual baseline high energy level was completely sapped. I was blown away by how awful I feltand frankly, how quickly it happened.

Now, my experience was at an accelerated rate (maybe its the European conversion rate?), but I think for a lot of people this is how weight gain happensyou make a seemingly innocuous choice once, or twice, and dont realize that the result is that your body makes a metabolic preference for fat storage. Since you likely arent aware this is happening, you dont go after this extra baggage right away, and it settles in. Once its comfortable, it even starts to invite additional fatty tissue to join the party. And of course the longer its there, the more stubborn this baggage seems to become.

Luckily for me, I knew how to correct my metabolism in a way that would return my physique to its prior form. A couple of years ago, my biohacking approach would have relied primarily upon the practice of intermittent fasting as the metabolic solution. This practice, which Heather and I refer to as interval eating, is at the core of our previous book, The Dubrow Diet . But weve gotten smarter, and our strategies have gotten better andthis is keymore sustainable.

Dont get me wrongfasting is fantastic, and its still one of the primary practices in the Dubrow Keto Fusion Diet (DKFD), but weve identified a superior way to restore metabolic function to its optimal state. This method includes fasting at a shortened duration, that is, fewer hours of feeling hungry, combined with a ketogenic-based eating strategy that essentially acts as a fast extender.

What Ive discovered is that this is the most civilized, sensible, no-suffering-required way to reset and restore your internal biology related to weight and metabolism. So while I panicked at the weight gain, that didnt last long, because, being me, I shifted my focus to fixing the problem. I turned to this powerful fusion strategy to drop what I started referring to as my France 14, and it was indeed the perfect fix, helping me return to my normal weight within twenty-one days.