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Fat Flush Plan Diet - How I Did What I Did

This is my success story about the Fat Flush Diet Plan. It really is the easiest diet I have ever been on. Since I finished the 2 week, Phase 1 of the diet, back in June 2011, I have added back lowfat/ff dairy & some low carb bread/tortillas that I get from Walmart - Healthy Life Whole Wheat Bread, 35 cals, 5 net carbs and La Banderita Soft Taco Wheat Tortillas, 81 cals, 5 net carbs. Both taste good. I have also been having a couple of drinks a week. Haven't gained any of the weight back. I will keep eating like this from now on, it is too easy not to! ** Please remember, this is my diet story. Before following any diet please seek the advice of YOUR doctor or dietitian.

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The Book:

The Fat Flush Plan
Ann Louise Gittleman
The book came out in early 2000. A few different ways to find out about the Fat Flush Plan ~ To read more about the diet, get the book from your local library. ~ Also, Amazon.com sells cheap, used copies. ~ You can Google it to see what people say about the diet. That's what I did & after sifting through the posts I decided to give it try. Gittleman also has a cookbook (I bought that) & a few other books (one on men's health, bought that, too)
- The Fat Flush Plan Cookbook modifies her original diet a bit. It's a little less strict, but the way I changed the original diet to fit the way I eat, it came out around the same.
- She has a page on Facebook. I am a fan & get cool updates from her. They also have Fat Flush Fan pages, too.
- I followed the diet sorta closely. I just took regular vitamins & used bottled lemon juice. I did get the Black Current Seed Oil capsules from Whole Foods. I already had flax oil & regular stevia. Trader Joes has pretty cheap Ground Flax Meal & Unsweetened Cranberry Juice.
- I like the Vanilla Whey Powder, Walmart has the cheapest I've found.
- I didn't really follow the recipes, just cooked with/ate the basic foods that are allowed for the different phases of the diet.
- For PHASE 1 ~ I ate 1 or 2 eggs a day (sometimes as breakfast & sometimes as a snack), 1 or 2 shakes a day (sometimes as breakfast & sometimes as a snack - I usually made mine w/V8 VFusion Juice & skipped one of the fruit servings), unlimited veggies from the list, 4 oz of meat/fish with lunch & dinner. I drank all the liquids & had tea in the morning. I used Pam for cooking, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spray 'butter' to top the veggies, Braggs Amino Acids (basically a low sodium soy sauce) for flavor & ground dulce (a type of seaweed) instead of salt. Sometimes I would blend the flax oil, 3 olives, a hard boil egg, lemon juice, water & cayenne pepper to make a spicy salad dressing. I bought regular meat/fish (not organic) I did weigh the meat/fish to get 4 oz servings, but I didn't measure out the veg. I just made huge salads, or sides of veg, from the approved list of veggies.
- It really is the easiest diet and I was never hungry, especially since I modified it to work for me. I assume if I had followed it to the letter I might have lost a lot more. I was thrilled with 8 pounds in 10 days.
- If you can't get a hold of the book to read, here are some links to give you basic info about what the diet is about. The Livestrong site has a list of the foods allowed.