Drop a Size for Life: Fat Loss Fast and Forever!

Drop a Size for Life: Fat Loss Fast and Forever!
Joanna Hall

The UK’s most respected diet and fitness expert introduces the follow-up to her top ten bestseller, Drop A Size in Two Weeks Flat! Joanna Hall explains not only how to lose that extra weight, but how to keep it off for good in the face of the many changing factors and pressures that affect our lives.• Joanna Hall builds on her Drop A Size In Two Weeks Flat diet and explains how to achieve the shape you want and keep it throughout those inevitable lifestyle changes.• The step by step plan starts with mental preparation to help you stick to the three stages of eating and exercise guidelines that follow.• Once success is achieved, learn how to drop that size for good and stop the rebound pounds with a 12-month plan.• Includes strategies and tips for dealing with the various lifestage, emotional and environmental factors that could threaten your new slimmer figure:– Pregnancy – Marriage – Menopause –Illness or injury – Stress – Social pressure – Holidays• This book is ideal for those people who yo-yo diet, as it gives you the ammunition to maintain your success in the face of changes that would previously have derailed your new healthy eating habits.• Joanna’s philosophy: "Diet and Fitness is part of our every day life. More and more research is throwing forward the link between health, activity and life quality. This is a book which inspires the mind to make those changes. It’s all about being the best that you can be whilst living the life you wish to live."

JOANNA HALL

DROP

A SIZE

FOR LIFE

FAT LOSS FAST AND FOREVER!

CONTENTS

Introduction

Getting Started

How the book works

Section One: Preparing to Drop a Size

Step 1 Train your brain

Step 2 Befriend the mirror

Step 3 Think, say and do as one

Step 4 Make friends with the enemy

Step 5 Establishing the here and now

Step 6 Get on that pedestal

Step 7 Finding the elusive G spot

Section Two: Dropping that Size

The 10 Fundamentals

Follow the Carb Curfew

Eat more fibre

Cut your sodium intake

Fit in some exercise – with and without your trainers

Get savvy about fats

Don’t skimp on the protein

Beware of alcohol – the hidden pound piler

Keep up your water intake

Get to grips with portion control

Follow the 80-20 rule

The drop a size eating plans

The Recipes

Drop a size for life foods

Troubleshooting some commonly asked questions and problems

Section Three: Keeping Your New Size for Life

The child-bearing years

Pregnancy

Reclaiming your body after pregnancy

Midlife

Perimenopause

Menopause

Growing older

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INTRODUCTION (#u0ce09cbd-d8b0-596c-8d62-1a2010e4f3fa)

So you want to drop a size? Well, it’s easy! It simply entails making some changes to your diet and stepping up your activity levels – both of which you’ll learn how to do in this book. Where the real challenge lies is in maintaining that ideal size – not for a week, or a month, or even for a year, but for life.

Imagine how wonderful that would be – to achieve the body shape and size you want now and still have that figure in a decade’s time. Well, you can do it – but, like most things worth having in life, it’s going to take a little time, effort and know-how.

Dieting is a lot like relationships. What we’re looking for in a relationship and what we’re prepared to put into it influence the kind of relationship it will be. Quick-fix diets are the equivalent of a one-night stand: you get what you want fast and it feels great – but it doesn’t last. You may hope for something a little more permanent but inevitably you soon realize that the man or woman of your dreams isn’t all you thought they’d be and your interest wanes. Similarly, that ‘revolutionary’ new diet that was going to get the weight off, once and for all, soon becomes a slog and leaves you feeling disillusioned and disappointed.