Sarí Harrar - The 2-Day Diet: Part-Time Diet—Full-Time Results!

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With gratitude to all the members of our 2-Day Diet test panel.
Thanks for coming along on this exciting journey. Your success will inspire others to live healthier, more active lives.

Wherever you are right nowstanding in a bookstore, sitting at your kitchen table with a mug of coffee, or reading in the car while you wait to pick up the kidswe know youve got two burning questions youd love to ask us about the 2-Day Diet:

Could something this simple really help me lose weight?

Can you prove it?

We asked ourselves the same thingsand youll find all the answers ahead in Part 1.

In , youll discover the results of the 7-week test panel that proved to us just how amazing this plan is. We tracked 18 brave and generous individuals (16 women and 2 men), ranging in age from their twenties through their sixties, who test-drove the plan. Youll learn all of their nitty-gritty before and after detailsincluding how much weight, how much body fat, and how many inches they lost. Youll read about their health improvements and about unexpected benefits such as brighter moods and deeper sleep.

, youll discover tantalizing evidence about the power of this approach to lower risk for major health threats such as diabetes, heart disease, and even some forms of cancer.

Our 2-Day Diet Workout gets its own how it works chapter, as well. In , we outline why devoting just 2 days a week to easy, superefficient interval training and strength training (toning) torches calories and fat while giving your muscles a youthful makeover.

If we could give a subtitle, it would be Yes, It Works, and Heres Why. We know youll come away impressed, inspired, and ready to start your own 2-Day Diet journey.

I ts a dieters dream come true. Diet just 2 days a week and lose more pounds, more inches, more body fat, and more belly fat than you would on a conventional pounds-off planwithout feeling hungry, deprived, bored, or worried that your next little slipup could throw all your hard work out the window. Thats the promise of the 2-Day Diet, the breakthrough weight-loss plan proven to help you slim down, tone up, and feel great. Yes, just 2 days a week. It couldnt be simpler.

Follow our delicious, dietitian-designed, low-carb eating plan just 2 days a week, then eat normal portions of healthy foods on our regular-carb plan the other 5. Youll enjoy satisfying, tastebud-tickling meals such as Coconut-Almond Pancakes and bacon and eggs for breakfast; hot turkey-and-cheese sandwiches and roast beef and guacamole for lunch; and Walnut-Crusted Chicken Breasts with Basil Sauce and Taco Burgers with Tex-Mex Salad for dinner. Help yourself to a daily snack, too, like a Chocolate-Almond Smoothie or a Strawberry Cream Frostie (so delicious that one of our test panelists is still making them for her family!), frozen yogurt, chocolate, walnuts, or Deviled Eggs with Hummus. Yum!

While you enjoy these flavorful, filling meals, this low-carb plan is busy turbocharging your bodys ability to burn calories and torch fat. Then regular-carb days give you an all-important diet break proven to help you stay on track.

Get active with our exclusive 2-Day Diet Workout. No time? No problem. Get the results you want in the time you have with our superefficient, multitasking exercise plan. In just 2 days a week, this program blasts more body fat and burns more calories than old-fashioned steady-paced exercise routines. Designed by a fitness expert, this activity routine is based on the new science of interval trainingalternating bouts of higher-paced and slower-paced activities shown to blast more fat and contribute to greater weight loss. Do the 2-Day Diet Workout interval routines for just 30 minutes twice a week as you walk or ride your exercise bike or even while you march, jog in place, or do calisthenics in front of the TV. Then add 10 to 15 minutes of strength-training, toning moves twice a week. Five simple exercises target all your major muscle groups, so you build sleek, shapely, calorie-blasting muscle all over in minutes flat.

Then watch as the pounds, inches, and body fat melt awayand the compliments roll in. Easy!

The 2-Day Diet works. When 18 women and men test-drove the plan for 7 weeks, everyone lost body fat and inches and reduced their body mass index (BMI), a measure that compares weight to height. Among them: Renee Guzenski, 40, who dropped 15.8 pounds and trimmed 13.25 inchesincluding 4 inches from her hips and 2 inches from her waist. She did it while enjoying sirloin burgers, steak with blue cheese dressing, and hot turkey-and-cheese sandwiches for lunch. Im wearing clothes I couldnt get into before, says Renee, an accounting associate and mother of two.