"The Fat Flush Plan " author: Anne Louise Gittleman

The book titled 'The Fat Flush Plan' was published in 2002 but the first fat flush eating plan made its debut in her book 'Beyond Pritkin released in 1988.

Emphasis is not given solely to controlling insulin production but to "Five Hidden Weight Gain Factors" being
* Liver toxicity
* Waterlogged tissues
* Fear of eating fat
* Excess insulin
* Stress fat

The plan has three set guidelines
Phase 1: The two week Fat Flush
Phase 2: Ongoing fat Flush
Phase 3: The lifestyle eating plan

Phase 1 is the 'toughest' stage of the program and has been labled 'bootcamp'. It is first and foremost a cleansing program to facilitate weight loss by giving the liver support and nourishment.

Phase 2 is designed for ongoing weight loss with a bit more variety in food choices adding back a 'friendly' carb each week to check for adverse reaction to it.

Phase 3 is really the fat flush maintance program providing a lifelong eating program aimed at increasing your vitality and well-being for life. Now 2 dairy products can be reintroduced and a variety of starchier veggies and nongluten grains. Once again new foods are added back one at a time to gauge your bodies reaction. Once on this stage of the program you will likely find your daily percentages work out at the ratio 40:30:30

The FFP is made up of whole natural foods eaten without salt.
Cut out are trans fats, caffine, diet sodas, alcohol, aspartame, sugar, yeast relalted vinegars (except apple cider vinegar), all grains and cereals, starchy vegetables, in the first phases dairy products (except whey) are also cut.

Flaxseed oil (2 tlbs) and essential fatty acid supplement are to be taken daily.
1 cup of unsweetened Cranberry juice is to be watered down to make up 64 oz and taken throughout the day.
First thing upon waking and last thing at night you have a teaspoon of psyllium husks in a glass of the 'cran-water' dubbed the 'Long life cocktail'.
Lemon juice in morning in hot water.
Lean Protein up to 8oz a day.
Eggs up to 2 a day.
Vegetables unlimited from a choice of non starchy low GI selection.
Fruit up to 2 a day from the low GI and carb, eg; 1/2 grapefruit or 1 c berries equals one choice.


A Day on Phase 1: The 2-Week Fat Flush Plan

Try this sample menu:

On arising:
Long Life Cocktail

Before breakfast:
8 ounces hot water with lemon juice

Breakfast:
Veggie scramble: 2 scrambled eggs with spinach, green peppers, scallions and parsley, and one 8-ounce glass of cran-water

Midmorning snack:
1/2 large grapefruit

20 minutes before lunch:
One 8-ounce glass of cran-water

Lunch:
4 ounces of salmon with lemon and garlic, warm asparagus, mixed-green salad with broccoli florets and cucumber, 1 tablespoon flaxseed oil, and one 8-ounce glass of cran-water

Midafternoon:
Two 8-ounce glasses of cran-water

4pm snack:
1 apple

20 minutes before dinner:
One 8-ounce glass cran-water

Dinner:
4 ounces of grilled lamb chop with a pinch of cinnamon and a dash of dried mustard, sautéed kale in broth, baked summer squash with a touch of cloves, and 1 tablespoon flaxseed oil

Midevening:
Long Life Cocktail

How to Use This Menu:
You can use this example as a basic menu guide. Just substitute foods from the same food groups for daily variety. Besides the daily diet, take GLA supplements, and a balanced multivitamin/mineral. You can change the fluid intake to suit your schedule if that is more convenient, of course.

Important Reminder :
No herbs or spices except for those fat flushing herbs and spices outlined in The Fat Flush Plan
No margarine
No alcohol
No sugar
No oils or fats except those in the flaxseed oil
No grains, bread, cereal or starchy vegetables such as beans, potatoes, corn, parsnips, carrots, peas, pumpkin, or acorn or butternut squash
No dairy products

Anne Louise Biography
Even if nutrition wasn't your thing, just a quick peek at some of Ann Louise Gittleman's achievements would demonstrate that she is in a league of her own:

Yet the true measure of Ann Louise Gittleman isn't in her number of books sold or her many awards and accolades. It's in her compassion and sincerity to clean up America from the inside out on all fronts - weight loss, detoxification, beauty and the environment.

Anyone who does know the health scene at all over the past two decades knows that Ann Louise is one of the most respected, dynamic, and accomplished "celebrity" nutritionists America has ever produced. As a writer, consultant, talk show host and spokesperson, Ann Louise has imprinted her distinctive message on everything she does.

Many of her books have become classics because of her prophetic insights. Ann Louise was the first nutritionist in the country to sound the alarm on the fat free, high carb diet craze in her landmark book BEYOND PRITIKIN in 1988. In 1993, Ann Louise's GUESS WHAT CAME TO DINNER was the first book of its kind to expose the parasite epidemic. That same year, Ann Louise brought menopause out of the closet with her SUPER NUTRITION FOR MENOPAUSE which was another first, offering natural remedies for mid life symptoms. In 1996 her revolutionary YOUR BODY KNOWS BEST introduced the concept of individualizing diet based upon ancestry, genetic heritage and blood type - and was featured in Newsweek and CNN. In 1998, Ann Louise introduced Americans to the new term "perimenopause" in her bestseller BEFORE THE CHANGE and Ann Louise talked about perimenopause on national television shows including Good Morning America. In 2000, her book LIVING BEAUTY presented the missing link to both health and beauty - internal cleansing.

Throughout her career, Ann Louise's articles, insights, and books have enlightened the public on a variety of health-related topics. Countless magazines and newspapers have quoted Ann Louise or featured her work including Cosmopolitan, Publisher's Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Seventeen, Family Circle, Runner's World, Parade, Fitness, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Hartford Courant. She has appeared on Fox News Live and MSNBC's Home Page.

After 20 years in the spotlight, Ann Louise is still at the top of her profession and still writing the most timely and edgy books on the market. Her latest - THE FAT FLUSH PLAN - is an outgrowth of all her previous body of works and promises to be the best selling diet book of 2002.

Why are Ann Louise Gittleman and her books still so successful when other people and their books have come and gone? The answer may be that she really cares about the public and has an uncanny ability to pinpoint major health concerns and provide solutions years ahead of anybody else. Then she takes these ideas, backed by the best-written proposals in the business, to the top publishers. That's it. Visionary books that feature cutting edge contemporary topics. It's like the winning formula adopted by Ann Louise's highly esteemed mentors and associates like the late Nathan Pritikin, Hazel Parcells, Robert Atkins and Barry Sears.

A world-renowned lecturer, Ann Louise sits on the medical and editorial advisory boards of the American Menopause Foundation, the Health Sciences Institute, the Price Pottenger Foundation, and Taste for Life Magazine.

In essence, "Ann Louise Gittleman's enormous contributions to the state of healthcare in America are as sound as they are daring, which makes for a true leader in any field of endeavor." Her aim in the new millennium is to do just that - deliver health, healing and hope throughout the world.

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