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The Fat Flush Plan | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ann Louise Gittleman, Barry Sears
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  232 reviews
Sales Rank: 2144
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0071383832
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
UPC: 639785332701
EAN: 9780071383837
ASIN: 0071383832
Publication Date: December 6, 2002
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Condition: ALL PAGES ARE INTACT HAS SOME MINOR WEAR, NO WRITINGS OR ANY HIGHLIGHTS, MISSING A DUST JACKET. (STOCK#: NOENN-DE2)
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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 Sauteed Scallops. The Fat Flush Plan is recommended for dieters willing to commit to a strict plan for weight loss. --Joan Price
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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 The Fat Flush Plan really works! May 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.... May 7, 2008
10 out of 16 found this review helpful
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
Are you serious about your body? May 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The way Dr. Gittleman shares information about WHY the food choices, supplements, and meal combinations work so well is a must for anyone who loves their body and wants it to take them a long way down the road.
Yes, you can lose a great deal of excess pounds and unnecessary body fat, but knowing how the liver is so vital to these processes has opened my eyes to the reality of how much damage we do on a daily basis through our lack of awareness.
PLEASE make this a part of your life. You'll never regret this purchase!
 Worth Your While . . . April 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Quite simply, the best diet plan I have found. It gets four stars rather than five, because--quite frankly--diet books are not fascinating. But Gittelman's recommendations are sound, if a bit strict. Other books I have read on nutrition back her up. When I practice the FFP, I feel much healthier and sleep better. The weight loss is not as quick as I had hoped, but I always feel as if I am doing something good for my body. She has great suggestions, like using flaxseed oil and omega-3 enriched eggs. I even like her regime of diluted, unsweetened cranberry juice and lemon water in the morning. But I cheat with a salt substitute and decaffeinated herbal tea. So I don't use her "stuff" religiously, but her basic guidelines are sound.
 Expensive and difficult to follow, with marginal results. April 18, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
My wife and I both carefully reviewed this book, and set out to follow it to the letter. That requires buying a lot of expensive ingredients and suppliments, but we figured it would be worth it. We were diligent about following all the instructions, which is not easy to do. You have to get used to a life with any salt or other seasonings, and you better enjoy the taste of flaxseed oil, because you're going to be eating a lot of it! For the first couple of days, we both lost weight - mainly because we were urinating almost constantly. By day four the weight loss slowed, then stopped, then started to reverse back up again. Please believe me when I tell it was not because we were cheating or not following the diet - we were really good about it.
The bottom line, for both of us at least, is that this is just another fad diet with limited results, and appears to be mostly water weight loss, which comes right back again. We never got the energy boost the author promised, and never really got the weight loss either.
I remember a doctor telling me once that if you want to lose weight, you simply need to reduce your calorie intake and increase your calorie burning (excercise) to a lower level than what your body needs to maintain its weight, and the pounds will come off. We're all hoping for the quick fix, like this diet promises, but in reality what that doctor told me is the only way to really lose weight - portion control and excercise.
Save your money. This book will end up sitting on your shelf gathering dust (probably alongside the Atkins book, The Zone, The South Beach, and all the others), and all the expensive flaxseed and suppliments and other stuff you invested in will quickly hit the trash can. Unless you have a tremendous amount of willpower and are willing to radically alter your lifetime eating habits, this diet simply doesn't work.
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