The 20/20 Diet

The 20/20 Diet by Dr. Phil McGraw gives readers a perfect, 20/20 vision of what their lives and bodies will look like when they finally lose weight and keep it off forever. He has identified and helps you solve, once and for all, the top 10 reasons people fail at losing weight again and again on every fad diet that comes out. Those reasons are: Hunger, Cravings, Feeling of restriction, Impracticality, Boredom, Temptations in your environment, Lack of quick results, Plateaus, Too complicated, Too focused on food. How is it possible that this diet actually solves all of these diet failure problems? Since his runaway hit and #1 New York Times bestselling book, The Ultimate Weight Solution, came out over 10 years ago, important research has emerged that allows Dr. Phil to do an even more effective job of helping readers solve these 10 problems. This is really exciting: we now know more than ever about how certain foods and activities affect our bodies and brains. In this book, he and his team have harnessed the power of those discoveries and molded them into a plan that you can follow today and for the rest of your life without rebellion In this diet, readers will discover 20 key foods, called the 20/20 Foods, which are shown to: Increase your body's thermogenesis, which means you will naturally burn more calories after eating them. Help you feel fuller right when you eat them so you're not leaving the table hungrier than when you sat down. Have a "time-release" effect, which means they can help you feel full for hours after eating them, so you're not starving to death and craving every doughnut you see. But that's just the beginning. This book reveals the truth about why you haven't been able to lose the weight before, and empowers you with cognitive, behavioral, environmental, social and nutritional tools to finally reach your goal one time, and be done with it. As he says, "You can choose to see your goal with 20/20 accuracy, and when you see a goal that clearly, you can achieve it."