Harley Pasternak - The Body Reset Diet – Power Your Metabolism Blast Fat And Shed Pounds In Just 15 Days

Power Your Metabolism, Blast Fat, and Shed Pounds in Just 15 Days

HARLEY PASTERNAK, MS C
with Laura Moser

To my beautiful wife, Jessica, who provides me with boundless love, inspiration, laughter, and chocolate chip cookies

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THE BODY RESET DIET

HARLEY PASTERNAK, M.Sc., is the New York Times bestselling author of The 5-Factor Diet, 5-Factor Fitness, and The 5-Factor World Diet and was the co-host on ABCs The Revolution. He holds a Master of Science degree in exercise physiology and nutritional sciences from the University of Toronto as well as an honors degree in kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario, and is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine and the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Today, CNN, Americas Next Top Model, Rachael Ray, Tyra, and The Dr. Oz Show. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

www.harleypasternak.com

ALSO BY HARLEY PASTERNAK

The 5-Factor Diet

5-Factor Fitness

The 5-Factor World Diet

Contents

Acknowledgments

My literary agent, Andy Barzvi, who believed in me first, then made sure everyone else did too.

My family for keeping me grounded.

Andre Hudson. Your energy, loyalty, and laughter is invaluable.

Wendy Heller for being half lawyer and half sister.

Nancy Fowler, Holly Rawlinson, and Steve Fowler for tirelessly turning my little ideas into big businesses.

Laura Moser for helping me find the words... then putting them in the right order.

Susan Ott for the delicious recipes.

Ursula Cary and the team at Rodale Books for making this book become a reality.

Allison Garfield, for editing my edits.

Shelley Linden for letting me cheat off her in organic chemistry class.

The Ladies of the Revolution for inspiring me.

Tara Piper for keeping me hydrated.

Jen Hamel-Keddy for making sure I always have the coolest shoes.

Introduction

As a culture, weve gone way overboard trying to beat the bulge. Weve spent too much money, time, and effort trying to get thin. Weve gone on all sorts of dietslow cal, low carb, low fatin the hopes of achieving our dream body. Weve popped endless pills and cleansed our insides until nothings left. Weve eaten according to our blood type, subsisted on grapefruits for months on end, and come very close to starving ourselves. Why do we keep on getting fatter and fatter? Why is it that the country with the most gyms, health foods, low-cal salad dressings, and diet gurus on earth cant seem to stop gaining weight?

We all know how fat we are as a country: More than one-third of US adults, a whopping 35.7 percent, are not just overweight but obese, and that already-shocking figure is expected to rise to 42 percent by the year 2030. But if were so aware of the problem, why cant we seem to do anything to fix it?

Before we do anything else, we need to stop, take a step back, and look at what were actually doing.

Lets agree that were confused. The competing information were being bombarded with day and night isnt doing us any good. The Internet is great for streaming my favorite shows and finding out the weather, but when it comes to disseminating the right information about health and fitness, its nothing if not bewildering and even downright dangerous. Lets just forget what weve heardeverything we know, or thought we knew.

We need to hit the reset button.

We need to reset the way we think about food.

We need to reset our metabolism.

We need to reset our bodies.