Ilana Muhlstein - How I Dropped 100 Pounds Enjoying Carbs, Cocktails & Chocolate–And You Can Too!

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Y OU C AN D ROP I T!

How I Dropped 100 Pounds Enjoying Carbs, Cocktails & ChocolateAnd You Can Too! Ilana Muhlstein

New York, NY

ISBN-10: 1-940358-50-5

ISBN-13: 978-1-940358-50-5

Published by Beachbody LLC

www.beachbody.com

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To my mom, of blessed memory, who always supported my transformation, yet made me feel beautiful at every weight and size

BY LISA LILLIEN, AKA HUNGRY GIRL

I F YOU LIKE to eat, this book is great for you. And that means a lot coming from mebecause my nickname is Hungry Girl and food is my passion! Ive pretty much devoted my life to helping others make better eating choicesscouring shelves for smart swaps and sharing them with the masses in my daily emails, Hungry Girl books, magazine, podcast and on social media.

My followers live happier and healthier lives following my tips, tricks and recipes, which help them survive any and every eating situation, even in the hungriest of times. I hear from them a lot, and if theres one thing Ive learned, its that weight loss is nearly impossible to achieve if you dont have the right motivation. Thats why Im so grateful youre holding You Can Drop It!

My friend Ilana Muhlstein, M.S, R.D.N., will help you take off weight and keep it off thanks to a mindset thats proven to work. She has personally helped thousands of men and women lose 10, 20, 30, even 100+ pounds on her plan, the 2B Mindset. Shes living proof that it works, having lost 100 pounds herself using the same techniques. And she looks amazing!

In You Can Drop It!, she shares the secrets of how her methods can change your body, and your life, revealing the physical and mental benefits that come with rethinking your relationship with food. And her Core Four principles are so easy to remember: Water First, Veggies Most, Use the Scale, and Track Your Progress. Theyre always there for youevery time!

Ilanas results are super impressive. And so is she! Its funny how much we have in common. Were both opinionated women from New York, and not afraid to be loud and proud. We both grew up overweighther obese, me a little chubby. Our moms were both yo-yo dieters. In our homes as kids, food was not just for sustenance or pleasure; it was a topic of conversation, always. We lived through the weight-loss crazes of the 80s and 90s, for better or worse: grapefruit-only diets, cabbage soup diets, the Beverly Hills Diet (eat only fruit for 10 days). I remember thinking as a kid, If youre on a diet, youre eating nothing thats bad for you. If youre off a diet, you can eat everything all the time. It was all or nothing. Black or white.

Years later, I realized that is not the way to live life and definitely not the best way to achieve your weight goals. Thats when everything changed for me. I launched Hungry Girl in 2004 to help people make smart food choices and give them real-world eating solutions, strategies and easy recipes. To me, theres nothing more fun than getting in the kitchen (like a mad scientist!) and recreating somethingreplicating flavors by swapping out ingredients that are not so good for us with healthier ones. And of course, making everything taste delicious! Ive been called a foodologist, not because I have a fancy degree, but because Im super into enjoying and appreciating food.

What I love about Ilana is that, in addition to her impressive degrees (plural!), shes a typical woman facing the same food issues most of us deal with every day, just like me. In You Can Drop It!, shell be brutally honest about the struggles she went through when she was obese, what she learned in her years of study, and how she maintains her incredible weight loss today. The 2B Mindset is rooted in the soundest of nutritional intelligence, but it also comes from a place of truth.

After reading it, youll be more honest with yourself, and this is a good thing. Ilana knows youre going to want that cinnamon bun. She knows youll want to go crazy at that wedding buffet. She knows you might feel shame. And she makes that all okay with a plan that untangles your emotions about food and makes you feel clear, calm and cool about eating. This thinking has helped her private clients, and those whove signed up for the 2B Mindset online, be who theyve always wanted to be. Now its your turn. So grab your fork and dive in!

Enjoy the journey, and as I always say Chew the right thing!

L ISA L ILLIEN

Founder, Hungry-Girl.com

You Can Lose Weight Without Feeling Deprived or Hungry Ever Again.

H OORAY! Congratulations! Im so excited for you to lose weight happily and keep it off for good. Because you can drop these pounds. You can get the body you want. And youre not going to do it alone.

There are thousands of people like you, unhappy in their bodies and wanting to change. I see them professionally, as a registered dietitian nutritionist with my own private practice. More than 240,000 others have signed up for 2B Mindset, my online course and system for simple and sustainable weight loss. These folks have shed 20, 30, 50, even 100+ pounds and rediscovered their best selves thanks to the unique, easy and effective guiding principles found within the program videos and resourcesand in this book.

I know you can drop the weight because I dropped the weighta lot of weightusing this very same plan. People say they cant believe it when they see me, but I grew up morbidly obese, weighing more than 200 pounds at my heaviest. Ive been through this struggle. I know exactly how it feels. I get that there are temptations and cravings. I understand that big wins are usually followed by bigger setbacks. I know what its like to feel like the body youre in doesnt reflect the you inside.

I also know that I lost 100 poundsand that Ive kept it off. I know that I still love food and eating lots of it. I know that Im happier and healthier than ever before. And I know you can be, too. The techniques in