Tanya Zuckerbrot - The Miracle Carb Diet: Make Calories and Fat Disappear--with Fiber!

Today, big is the norm; we expect jumbo portions all the time. Advances in food technology are making us fatter, too. Refined foods may look and taste delicious, but modern processing routinely strips away the nutrients that make food filling, especially fiber. Converting potatoes to potato flakes, apples to juice, and wheat to white bread makes it convenient to enjoy them, but the truth is that processed foods dont satisfy hunger for very long. And this is why we have become a nation of overeaters. In America, if you are hungry, you are in luck, because food is omnipresent.

You can grab a bite of almost anything anywhere and any time of the day. Gas stations and drugstores sell food, airports have vast food courts, and many office buildings have a cafeteria or vending machines. Its ironic that the abundance and close proximity of processed food is what keeps us perpetually hungry. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 68 percent of our adult population is either overweight or obese. Thats a scary statistic, but you dont have be a part of it. As a registered dietitian who specializes in weight loss, I know you can lose weight and keep it off while eating deliciously and healthfully, without hunger.

To prove it, I created the Miracle Carb Diet, which is contrary to any other diet out there. My promise to you is that you can lose weight, all while: Eating carbs you love Dining out Drinking alcohol Working out less Whether you need to lose ten pounds, fifty pounds, or no weight at all, the Miracle Carb Diet is a blueprint for building your best life with an easy, healthy plan for eating the fiber-rich foods that will help you reach and stay at your healthy weight, have more energy, combat the effects of aging, and even live longer. Thats right. Youll eat more, weigh less, and live longer!

By now most everyone has pretty much gotten the memo that fiber is good for you, and maybe youre one of those peopleand there are manywho assumes youre getting enough by eating a salad for lunch or switching to whole wheat bread. Thats a good start, but youre still cheating your body. Just how much fiber you need, how to get it, and how to optimize its benefits remains a mystery for most people. Its my mission to change that. Ignorance isnt going to be an excuse anymore. To put it simply, fiber is natures miracle carb.

So much revolutionary research has been done since I wrote The F-Factor Diet in 2006, not only validating but greatly advancing those early theories I had about fiber based on the experiences of my own patients. Since then, F-Factor has evolved from being a way to eat to being a way to live, and my new Miracle Carb Diet serves as the action plan for achieving your best self the F-Factor way.

Fair or unfair, were often judged by our physiques and by the way we project and present ourselves. If you feel unattractive and defeated by your weight, theres a good chance that you are not displaying confidence or sharing the wonderful qualities and true gifts you have to offer a potential employer or mate, friends, family, or your community. The best part of my job is watching the transformationnot just physically but emotionallyin the clients I coach. Seeing people gain confidence and strive to be their best is why I love what I do. Ive put that same passion into writing this book. I want you to think of me as your partner from this moment on.

When you try to hike that proverbial Everest by yourselfwithout the right tools, training, or mapyour chances of reaching the summit and achieving success are limited. Through this book, I am here to coach you, support you, cheer you on, and help strategize every step of the way. This book guides you along a path I have carefully charted and know to be the safest, easiest, and surest way to get you to your goals. More than anything, I want you to be able to experience the exhilaration of reaching your goal, of becoming your best possible self, inside and out. If you slip, I will catch you. If you grow weary, Ill show you how to reboot.

You will find everything you need to succeed in this book and in yourself. Youre already motivated to start this journey, or you wouldnt be here. All the time that you spend worrying about something related to your weightagonizing over the problem areas of your body, searching for what you can wear to camouflage them, thinking about what youre going to eat or regret eatingis time I am going to give back to you. Multiply all your negative thoughts and feelings about your weight in a given day by a week, by a month, by every year that you have been unhappy about your body, and then think of how much time that all adds up to. Now envision yourself filling those hours happily playing with your kids, pursuing a hobby, furthering your career, or socializing. Even a single hour spent dwelling on your weight is an hour stolen from a better life.

Imagine how liberating its going to be when you can forever check lose weight off your lifes to-do list.

And youll be able to maintain your normal lifestyle. Through the four simple stages of the Miracle Carb Diet, youll rev up your metabolism, shed pounds, achieve and maintain your target weight, and even defy the aging process. Theres nothing extreme about my approach. The key is to combine high-fiber foods with lean protein at every meal. And the amount of fiber were talking about is simply what the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recommends for daily consumption! This diet isnt about tricking your body or shocking the system into a state of semi-starvation. Its actually about routine maintenance: giving your body what it requires to function the way it is supposed to.