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Flat Belly Diet Book (Hardcover)

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Prevention magazine is the country’s most authoritative, trustworthy, and innovative source for practical health, nutrition, and fitness information. Now, its editors bring you a weight-loss plan that’s specifically designed to target your number-one trouble spot: BELLY FAT. For women over 40, belly fat is incredibly stealth and incredibly stubborn. It’s also the most deadly, contributing to a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, and chronic illness than any other type of fat on your body. Finally, science has helped uncover a key dietary weapon in the fight against belly fat. Monounsaturated fatty acids, or MUFAs, help dieters lose more weight–in their bellies specifically–and keep it off longer. Flat Belly Diet! will lead you step by step, day by day, meal by meal toward a flatter belly…and a longer, healthier life.

About the Author

LIZ VACCARIELLO is the vice president and editor-in-chief of Prevention, the #1 healthy lifestyle brand and the tenth largest magazine in the nation, with nearly 11 million readers. She resides in New Jersey.

CYNTHIA SASS, MPH, RD, is Prevention’s nutrition director. With master’s degrees in nutrition science and public health, Sass has more than 10 years of experience in helping women lose weight. She lives in New York City.

Customer Reviews

Ready to get flat?
The Flat Belly Diet!, like other diet books, presents a program that takes an unusual angle on slimming your waistline: eating a reduced calorie diet that is high in monounsaturated fat (MUFA) in order to flatten your belly with no exercise required. The program is 32 days long and it’s based on “studies” that suggest this is enough time to make a dietary and lifestyle change.

The first thing the book teaches you is there are two types of primary body fat: subcutaneous and visceral. Directly under your skin you find the subcutaneous and then the visceral fat surrounds your organs. Visceral fat is far more dangerous to your health (common scientific knowledge). here is no disputing the fact that visceral fat is the most dangerous one for our health. There are many ways to reduce your visceral fat, but this diet focuses on monounsaturated fats (MUFA) that are part of your subcutaneous fat (your belly!).

Like other diet books, this one is filled with stories of people who have lost inches off their waistline using this program. With MUFAs the solution for this plan, you are supposed to fill up on them, and this will eliminate your belly fat.

The first part of this diet is called the Four-Day Anti-Bloat Jumpstart. The book promises you’ll lose up to 5 ¾ total inches. The premise for this is to get you motivated to proceed with the remainder of the diet by seeing some results happen quickly. The goal for these four days is to eliminate gas, heavy solids, and excess fluid. A 1,200-calorie diet is given with the instructions. From there you spend the next 28 days eating a 1,600-calorie requirement (based on a 40 year old woman of average height, frame size, etc). That’s pretty much it. MUFAs are this book’s new addition to the world of diets.

I also bought a book called The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book after seeing it recommended here with Flat Belly Diet!, and I strongly recommend it because it’s a fascinating book and it helped me to control some of my emotional eating by becoming more self-aware and improving my ability to self-manage.

It works for me!
This diet works for me. In any successful weight loss program you must be able to incorporate it into your life style and enjoy the foods that are recommended. Changing habits and adjusting your life style is not easy and requires a commitment to a program you can adhere to. The four small meals and whole grains, nuts and seeds seem to be the best diet for my tastes. I also love avocado and dark chocolate.

I am 57 years old and as many others my age can attest to, I have had the pounds creep on year after year. I have tried Weight Watchers, South Beach and many others and had some success but always ultimately quit.

Constant hunger was my struggle while on Weight Watchers and when I fell off that wagon I would hit the ground hard with more cravings than ever. South Beach is healthy, but as soon as I added even a few extra carbs I would quit loosing and seemed to have a lot of nagging headaches.
I almost didn’t buy the Flat Belly Diet book thinking it would be one more diet book on my shelf, but I am glad I did buy it!

I was a little hungry and bored the first two days! Now I am never hungry if I stay with the program. I travel and the suggestions on little snack packs are great! Little things that I can carry in my purse really help. (The whole wheat english muffin and peanut butter is my favorite!) I love the abundance of whole grain foods. They really fill me up and keep me from getting hungry. As the weight slowly comes off, I am exercising more and enjoying it.

At first it didn’t seem like I was loosing much weight nor did the tape measure prove that I was loosing many inches, but my family and friends kept commenting on my weight loss and actually thought that I had lost more weight than I actually had! Maybe it is because it does seem to be coming off my mid-section. (Could be the middle age thing for me.)

I would suggest joining the on-line Flat Belly Prevention site if you plan to stay with it. The site helps me to log my meals, makes suggestions for menus and you can create shopping lists.
I too am frustrated with those who shoot this diet down and have not tried it. I am glad that their diet and life style works for them, but this one works for me. Good luck to anyone struggling to control their weight, I feel your pain!

great book
Very helpful book with loads of info. I’ve only been on diet five days and it does take a little to adjust but it’s probably the most likeable diet I’ve tried and believe me I’ve tried a bunch. It makes sense to me and I did lose 4 lbs the first 4 days.