The Reverse Diet: Lose 20, 50, 100 Pounds or More by Eating Dinner for Breakfast and Breakfast for Dinner - Hardcover

by Tricia Cunningham (Author), Heidi Skolnik (Author)

Here is the breakthrough diet plan that has people all across North America eating better, losing weight, and getting healthier. Now you can stop counting calories, avoiding carbs, and feeling deprived. Eat dinner for breakfast and shed pounds If you've been a yo-yo dieter and nothing seems to work, this terrific new diet plan allows you to lose 20, 50, 100 pounds or even more for good, simply by reversing your meals. Dozens of tasty, easy recipes are included.

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Have you tried diets on which you lost weight at first but eventually it crept back? If you've been a yo-yo dieter and nothing seems to work, this terrific new diet plan allows you to lose 20, 50, 100 pounds or even more for good, simply by reversing your meals. With The Reverse Diet, you fuel your body in the morning--when you need energy the most--then have healthy snacks and a hearty lunch, and finally eat a refreshing light meal for dinner. The Reverse Diet allows you to enjoy delicious and satisfying foods, reduce cravings, and lose as much weight as you want while improving how you look and feel.

The Reverse Diet combines Tricia Cunningham's real-life experience of losing more than 150 pounds with nutritionist Heidi Skolnik's expert knowledge and years of practical work with hundreds of clients. While most diets focus only on weight loss, the Reverse Diet lets you drop pounds while giving you the crucial skills to be inspired, overcome temptations and obstacles, and eat well for life--not just for weeks or months. Based on an eating plan that includes healthy, satisfying whole foods, the Reverse Diet consists of three phases designed to help you escape yo-yo dieting cycles for good.

In the Reverse Diet Weight-Loss Phase, which includes extensive meal plans, you'll learn how to: Determine the goal weight that's right for youEat healthily with scrumptious breakfast snacks, a great lunch, and a small dinnerChoose nutritious foods from the extensive Reverse Diet Food ListBreak through your emotional and motivational obstacles

Once you reach your goal weight, the Reverse Diet Bridge Phase, which also includes special meal plans, shows you how to: Reintroduce higher-calorie foods you might think you can't eat on a dietMaintain a balanced, healthy weightHandle slip-ups

In the Reverse Diet for Life Phase, you'll discover how to: Maintain your motivation, set new goals, and enjoy your new lifestyleCelebrate the wonderful new you

Cunningham and Skolnik make this breakthrough plan even easier with dozens of tasty and easy recipes, tips for handling plateaus and problems, advice on dining out, and online community and support opportunities. So reverse your meals, habits, and health for the better--let The Reverse Diet be your ultimate guide to losing the pounds for good.

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What They're Saying about The Reverse Diet:

""The Reverse Diet" is a smart and effective way to lose weight--and keep it off."
--Lisa Callahan, M.D., author of "The Fitness Factor"

"A simple, smart concept that will help people rethink the way they eat."
--Matt Bean, Senior Editor, "Men's Health" magazine

""The Reverse Diet" program has given me tools that have been very easy to follow. I started the program at 240 pounds. Fourteen months later I have lost 87 pounds. I look and feel fabulous!
--Anna L.

"I lost 8 pounds my first week on "The Reverse Diet" and I have never looked back. I have now lost 55 pounds and have kept the weight off for 4 months. I feel better than I ever have, and I look great."
--Antoinette B.

"The best part is, I want to continue "The Reverse Diet" program, which has never been the case with any diet I have tried in the past. Thank you!"
--Angela B.

"The Reverse Diet" is the breakthrough new diet plan that has people all across North America eating better, losing weight, and getting healthier. Now you can stop counting calories, avoiding carbs, and feeling deprived. For most of us who struggle with weight loss, dinner is often the largest meal of the day. By eating dinner foods for breakfast and breakfast foods for dinner, eating fewer processed foods, and retuning your hunger cues, you'll watch the pounds disappear! Tricia Cunningham--who lost more than 150 pounds on "The Reverse Diet"--and nutritionist Heidi Skolnik show you how eating a larger meal in the morning and a smaller meal at night improves your metabolism and body composition while promoting better health. Combining dozens of delicious recipes, several weeks of meal plans, and plenty of motivational tips and support, "The Reverse Diet" is the easy-to-follow, remarkably effective solution for eating the right foods at the right time--and losing the weight for life!

Author Biography

TRICIA CUNNINGHAM devised the Reverse Diet, lost over 150 pounds on the plan, and has maintained her weight loss for more than six years. A successful motivational speaker, she has appeared on "Good Morning America" and in numerous national magazines. Her popular Web site is www.reversedietsolution.com.

HEIDI SKOLNIK, MS, CDN, FACSM, runs a private nutrition practice and is the nutritionist for the New York Giants and the American School of Ballet. She is the weight-loss columnist for "Men's Health" magazine and appears frequently on national television programs, including CNN's "American Morning," "Good Morning America," and many others.