With a gorgeous 42 year old Liz Hurley on the cover, and free lipgloss (the red is AWESOME) if you buy it from Coles, what’s not to love about this month’s New Woman magazine. The cover promises a 7-day Hollywood diet that works. It’s on Page 106.
Subtitled “It’s the seven-day diet putting a smile on Hollywood’s famous faces. Eat the foods you love and get trimmer thighs. What’s not to love?” Hey, they stole my intro line!
Basically, this diet is the brain child of Dr Susan Kleiner, apparently the most talked about eating plan since Atkins. She’s studied the effect certain foods have on your brain chemistry, and focuses on the ones that raise your levels of serotonin - your body’s feel good chemical, which is the active ingredient in many anti-depressants. Her book “The Good Mood Diet: Feel Great While you Lose Weight” (only available in the States, or from Amazon) is compressed into this terrific article, which should kick start your feel good plan.
One of the things I loved most about this diet is the mandate to have a cup of cocoa every night. Woo hoo - I’m living like a Hollywood star and I didn’t even know it. The downside is she says you need to make it with a sugar substitute, but I choose to use nature’s sweetener, rather than one tinkered together in a lab. You should also eat nuts every day, three servings of dairy a day, eat regularly to stop blood sugar plummeting, and eat 40 percent carbs, 30 percent protein, and 30 percent fat at each meal - in other words, a balanced diet.
There are four days worth of diet planning, and you can get the other three by logging onto the New Woman website.
I like this diet, but one of the reasons I like it so much is I’ve mentioned several of the ideas in my Top Five health newsletters. See, this is a quality site you’re visiting!
I give this article (and the free lip gloss) *****, and I’m considering buying the book.
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