Product Description

Kiss cellulite goodbye!

The Fat Flush® Plan melts fat from hips, waist, and thighs in just two weeks and re-shapes your body while detoxifying your system. The Fat Flush Plan is a groundbreaking low carb/detox diet and fitness program. Fat Flush is known as the only diet program that gets rid of bloat, supports the liver, cleans up the lymph, and helps to eliminate the appearance of cellulite – for good.

An international best-seller with legions of devoted followers, The Fat Flush Plan has been featured on "The View," as well as in cover articles in Time, Glamour, Self, and many others. It is based upon essential fats (such as flax seed oil and flax seeds), balanced proteins (including eggs, meat, fish, and moderate soy) plus low-glycemic healthy carbs from fat flushing fruits and vegetables. The Plan also features “cleansing” tonics such as unsweetened cranberry juice and water, the “Long Life Cocktail,” and daily hot water and lemon juice as well as a delicious array of fat burning, water regulating, and insulin controlling herbs and spices (think cayenne, mustard, cilantro, parsley, cinnamon, and cloves).

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4086 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Amazon.com
The keys to overweight are liver toxicity, waterlogged tissues, fear of eating fat, excess insulin, and stress, asserts nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman. Her Fat Flush Plan addresses these problems with a targeted diet.

The Fat Flush Plan, filled with nutritional analysis and detailed explanations, is not a quick read. Despite Gittleman's assertion that the plan is "as easy as 1-2-3," it is quite regimented. No white flour, white sugar, margarine, vegetable shortening, artificial sweeteners, or caffeine. The diet emphasizes essential oils (e.g., flaxseed and GLA), protein (eight ounces or more, plus two eggs a day), vegetables, thermogenic spices (e.g., ginger and cayenne), water, and diuretic beverages (eight glasses/day of diluted, unsweetened cranberry juice). In its first two-week phase, the plan is a rigid, low calorie (1,100-1,200 calories/day), low-carb (no grains or starchy vegetables) diet. Phase two lets you increase your calories to 1,500 and add two "friendly carbs." Phase three, the "lifestyle program," moderately adds more dairy, carbs, and calories. Gittleman promotes walking and recommends strength training in phase three.

The book includes 41 recipes such as Grilled Lamb Chops with Cinnamon and Coriander, Breakfast Egg Fu Yung, and Cumin Sautéed Scallops. The Fat Flush Plan is recommended for dieters willing to commit to a strict plan for weight loss. --Joan Price

Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients
A superb book...belongs in the company of the half dozen best how-to books on diets written...

From the Inside Flap
If you're like most people, you're probably thoroughly confused when it comes to choosing a weight loss plan. You've been bombarded by new miracle diets, yet constantly alerted to the health risks associated with these fads. Are carbs bad? Is a high protein diet good? How much fat is really healthy? Should you follow the Mediterranean diet or the Asian diet? Finally, there's a way to ease your concerns and meet your goals: The Fat Flush Diet Plan will show you how to shed unwanted pounds while actually improving your health, and building a bridge between beauty and vitality.

The Fat Flush Diet's unique, groundbreaking program targets cleansing the liver­­the largest, most versatile organ in the body­­and the one most essential to maintaining optimal body weight. Based on a satisfying, healthful, and cleansing combination of essential fats, balanced proteins, and quality carbohydrates, this detoxifying process boosts the liver's ability to function at its highest level, accelerating weight loss while improving your health. Simple safe, and highly effective, this plan:

works via a process of detoxifying the liver thereby increasing metabolism provides an excellent way to begin dieting as well as to continue weight loss is the only diet program that can successfully break through the stubborn weight loss plateau every dieter faces, and "flush out" stubborn fat, while retaining crucial nutrients The Fat Flush process also sets off a domino effect of health benefits, including:

Increasing your metabolism

Giving you more energy

Helping you get a more restful night's sleep

Stabilizing your moods

Here, at last, is a diet that combines common sense and sound science, making it the perfect choice for both first time dieters and those who have had varying levels of success on other programs.

FINALLY, A DIET PLAN THAT BUILDS A BRIDGE BETWEEN BEAUTY AND HEALTH !

"Ann Louise Gittleman once again leads the crusade for better nutrition. She exposes the pervasive myths that all fats are bad and that unlimited carbohydrates are good. Sensible and thorough, her Fat Flush Plan is a terrific primer for anyone wanting to lose weight and regain vitality. We recommend it enthusiastically!" ­­Michael R.Eades, M.D., Mary Dan Eades, M.D., Authors of Protein Power

"What a great program! Whether you're starting a diet with a bang or trying to budge the scales after a binge or just tuning-up your body and hoping to lose some stubborn inches, this is a great, safe way to do it." ­­Fran McCullough, Author of The Low-Carb Cookbook and Living Low-Carb

"Ann Louise's Fat Flush Plan is dietary common sense for all the right reasons ­ it's balanced, it's a program you can safely stay on for life, and it works." ­­Dr. Barry Sears, Author of The Zone

From one of the Top 10 Nutritionists in the United States, according to Self magazine, and one of the most influential healers of the 21st century, according to Total Health, comes a revolutionary diet plan. Based on a delicious and healthy combination of essential fats, proteins, and carbohydrates, Ann Louise Gittleman's Fat Flush was first popularized on iVillage.com, The Women's Network. Thousand of dramatic testimonials later, the Fat Flush message board has become one of the most popular diet and fitness boards in the history of iVillage. Now, Gittelman shares her complete Fat Flush Plan with dieters everywhere. This phenomenal plan is worth its weight (loss) in gold.

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Customer Reviews

An excellent plan, if you are tough enough!
How bad do you want to lose it? Because this diet is like boot camp for bulges and cellulite. If you are able to stick to it, you WILL see dramatic results. I am not going to lie, it is tough; the first week is absolutely brutal. But once you get rid of the sugar you won't believe how good you feel! I was sugar free for a few months, and at my son's second birthday party, I tried a sliver of his birthday cake and the sugar made me dizzy and gave me a horrible headache. Once you cut out the refined process foods and get them completely off your palate, you won't believe the natural sweetness of organic, fresh fruits and veggies. What I loved most about this book is that Dr. Gittleman took the time to back her claims with her life's research and work, and she explains things scientifically, but in a way that is understandable. Also there is a wicked awesome online forum, google it and go there for support if you decide to start the plan. Good luck and get ready to flush that fat!

The Fat Flush Plan really works!
This book is very informative. I've learned so much about the foods that I've been eating and why I couldn't lose the weight or keep it off. I've lost 12 pounds so far and plan on losing the last 10 and keeping it off!

Save $100+ and your energy. Here's what helped me....
I hope someone reads this and gains from my experience........

I bought her book collection, chunky supplements and then went to Whole Foods for more of her required flax seed & unsweetened cranberry juice.... Wow. I should have known better beforehand, but I was desperate to make a life change and lose weight. For point of reference; I am a female, was 39 years old at the time, 5'6'' and 153 pounds.

If you buy the book and get on board with this nonsense, the first thing you'll notice is how much time you are spending making witchie-poo concoctions that die your teeth pink over the weeks and give you canker sores. The books and lifestyle changes are pure chaos. If you're like me, you'll end up feeling like an idiot and hating life more. You'll not be better from the experience.

I did lose my 30 pounds over 12 months by myself. What did I do? I bought an elliptical trainer and the DVD box set of "Sex & the city". Instead of watching tv and sitting on the couch every night, I worked out to an episode (just one at first) to get started. (I'm too self conscious to try another gym membership). I slowly worked my way up to 8 pound dumb bells to tone my arms and started doing sit ups. I figured out what my heart rate should be at for my age & weight and kept at that fat burn level while on my elliptical trainer (yes, it does make a huge difference!). I used to go as fast and hard as I could and not have good weight loss results. An inexpensive heart monitor is all you need. Buy one of those instead of this goofy book and her pills...

The biggest thing that I would advise is NOT to do is to limit what you can and can't eat. I had tried the Adkins diet and failed a year prior; why? Because I love my toast! I don't have to eat a whole loaf to be happy, but if I want to stay sane then I have to have bread in my diet. I also like cheese a whole lot, so I allow myself cheese, too. If you want to stay sane and able to be thin & fit, then exercise and let yourself eat. If you stop obsessing and let yourself at least taste something when you want, then you probably won't have a binge-fest. I did make a conscious effort to stop eating so many chips (chips and salsa w/bowls of queso). I have tried to create some better options around THAT I ENJOY EATING and get health benefits from. Instead of all the jelly beans I was downing, I keep a bag of fresh grapes around and other handy fruit. It is the lots of little things like that at the end of the year that add up to 20+ pounds.

I hope this saves someone else out there the time and money. To recap: Get your heart beating at the right rate when you exercise and DON'T deprive yourself food groups.

There's no luck to wish on this; this "Plain Jane" approach just works.

:-) Smiles from Texas!
Amy