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| ISBN-13: | 9781418530945 |
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| Publisher: | Nelson, Thomas, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 04/03/2007 |
| Sold by: | HarperCollins Publishing |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 240 |
| File size: | 858 KB |
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the revival slim & beautiful diet
Say goodbye to belly fat and hello gorgeous-looking skin, hair, and nailsBy Aaron Tabor Suzanne Tabor
Thomas Nelson
Copyright © 2007 Aaron Tabor, MD and Suzanne TaborAll right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8499-0355-7
Chapter One
A Doctor-Designed Diet that Rescued Mom
May I have a dessert menu?
These are the shocking words I recently overheard an overweight woman ask her waitress. Why was I shocked? Because she had just devoured a gigantic plate of pancakes saturated with strawberry syrup and topped with a tall spire of whipped cream as her "dinner." Did I mention the quarter-pound of sausage she also inhaled? Houston, we have a problem ... a really "big" problem.
It honestly broke my heart for her.
As a medical research doctor and graduate from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, I've dedicated my life to discovering easy ways for people to lose weight, look beautiful, and live healthy, empowered lives. It is painful for me to see someone making food their master, serving it versus letting food serve them with beautifying nutrition, as it was designed to do! I believe every day is a gift, and our eating should reflect our gratefulness for life.
If your weight and appearance are preventing you from living a life you absolutely love. I am here to help you. This clinically proven diet is designed to produce slim and beautiful bodies, but if you are only trying to look better in a bathing suit, we have somedeep priority issues to resolve. Why? Because I know your excess fat is killing you-and that's a little more important than how you look in a bathing suit.
FACT: Being fat doesn't bite the hand that feeds you-it kills it!
So, if you are looking for undying sympathy because overeating has made you gelatinous, it won't come from me. However, if you need a friend to empower you with clinically proven truth and advice, then I am here with my hand raised high! I will be with you every step of the way down a new "nutritional makeover" path.
Like our moms said, "Sometimes the truth hurts," but our acknowledging the truth is the only way we can walk and work together hand-in-hand towards drastically changing how you look and feel.
FACT: You are fat because you choose to be.
I'm not going to sugar-coat the facts-about-fat for you: You are fat because you have chosen to be fat by eating more calories than you burn.
Sadly, your chosen path leads to more than thirty deadly diseases, such as breast cancer, ovarian cancer, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, stroke, and sudden-death heart attack. A fat life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what disease you are going to get.
Death walks slowly toward all of us from birth, but when we are fat, death runs toward us. We don't even have to move off our couches! The big bad wolf will break your little piggy door down sooner or later-it's a fact.
Have you already failed on another diet? It's okay; I have too. More than likely, the diet failed you instead of you failing the diet. What I mean is that many popular diets have never actually been clinically proven to work in a well-designed clinical trial. You end up feeling hungry, constantly hungry, which leads to another dismal diet failure.
Unfortunately, many popular diets are also too difficult to be understood easily unless you have a science degree. Complicated or controversial theories produce more confusion than lost pounds. Even worse than a confusing diet plan is a plan that is too complex to continue using over time, making the minimal results you achieve short-lived. After suffering on the diet for a few weeks, you "fall off the wagon," and the pounds rush back to your belly, gluteus maximus, and legs, clinging on in clumps of dietary defiance. Having the "max" return to your maximus isn't fun or flattering.
Sound familiar? Well, I've eliminated these traditional diet problems with a super simple, yet extremely powerful, diet and physical activity plan. Take a big breath and relax because it is proven to work. We will jump full speed into the plan in the next chapter.
DO YOU HAVE A DREAM OF A BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHY LIFE YOU ACTUALLY LOVE?
Developing a clear vision of your dream body and life is important for you to succeed. If all you have are visions of sugarplums dancing in your head, you will continue to be "plump." The hero Dr. Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine, made a profound statement, "I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."
You and I can conquer your beauty and weight nightmares and make your dreams a reality because of new medical research.
FACT: Your past diet failures no longer determine your future, because new beauty research developments exist.
You are going to learn about specific solutions that I've created and helped research in this book. I believe you will find it infinitely more helpful than the general diet and nutrition information found in hundreds of other diet books. I've spent seven years developing The Revival Slim & Beautiful Diet at some of America's best hospitals. The diet is based on numerous Revival medical studies, including National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded work on Revival's role in promoting normal cholesterol levels. Revival is doctor-approved-thousands of physicians have already recommended Revival products, and several hundred thousand people have become customers (affectionately called "Revival-LITES" by mom and me). Many brilliant medical researchers, whom I am honored to call my colleagues, have contributed to this research (in particular Dr. James Anderson and Dr, Robert Blair). Our medical research continues to make more discoveries for you. We are working diligently to bring many good things to your life.
"ASK NOT WHAT YOUR BODY CAN DO FOR YOU; ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR BODY."
If we treat our bodies well, they will take us to some amazing places in life. Our bodies are the ultimate driving machines.
Let's see a vision of where we are headed to, as we walk down the hill together.
Dieters in Revival's weight loss clinical trial, conducted at a major independent academic hospital, achieved spectacular average results by enjoying Revival's milk-protein-based diet or soy-protein-based diet. The diet plan combined with the activity plan detailed in this book is designed to help dieters:
lose 26 to 29 pounds in just sixteen weeks (about 1 to 2 pounds per week);
quickly reduce gelatinous belly fat (lose up to 25 percent or more in sixteen weeks), shrink your waist circumference, and lose dress/pant sizes;
reduce hunger and satisfy sweet, salty, and crunchy cravings;
promote better energy levels with protein-packed, low-glycemic "smart-carb" choices (i.e., no rapid rise in blood sugar levels);
promote normal cholesterol levels;
promote normal blood pressure;
maintain proper blood sugar levels.
With Revival's soy-protein-based diet (that includes special naturally concentrated Revival products discussed in the next chapter), medical research shows additional health and "nutritional makeover" beauty benefits. Individual results vary, but the plan is designed to:
reduce appearance of wrinkles with less roughness and better coloration;
increase hair silkiness with reduced dullness and better manageability;
strengthen nails with less splitting, ridging, and flaking;
balance hormones for reduced hot flashes, night sweats, and lessened PMS;
maintain healthier tissues with natural soy antioxidants;
support normal memory and cognition health;
promote better bone health.
Do these diet benefits sound too good to be true? Could a simple plan really produce powerful results? Well, it's time to tell your inner Mr. Doubt to simply "tear down these walls," and let medical research truth set you free.
Why would I work for seven years researching and perfecting this diet? Because of a special woman-Suzanne Tabor-my wonderful mom! I'm privileged to co-write this book with her because she is an amazing mother, wife (she and dad recently celebrated forty-one years together), and businesswoman. If there were a Nobel Prize for parenting, my parents definitely deserve it for successfully raising three boys. "Dr. Mom" has that wholesome Southern down-to-earth goodness that immediately puts you at ease. I'm happy that you get to "meet" her shortly. She will share her "Bright Bites" with us throughout the book to inspire us and make us laugh. She has already walked down the hill to a better place. And, if I know my mom, she is making us a healthy picnic lunch to enjoy upon arrival.
At fifty years old, my mom was a wreck in the midst of a midlife meltdown. A rapidly enlarging waistline embarrassed her. Clothes that used to fit were now uncomfortable. Unrelenting hot flashes and night sweats (sometimes fifty per day) disrupted her work, concentration, and sleep. Low energy hovered like a dark cloud over her day, making routine tasks seem impossible. Deepening wrinkle appearance, dull hair, weak nails, and dry skin were not only a very uncomfortable annoyance, but were also taking a deep emotional toll on her self-esteem.
To make things worse, hormone-related moods swings began disrupting her otherwise harmonious marriage with my dad. We all know it's true that if mom isn't happy, no one is happy. At one point, Dad started singing, "Don't Be Cruel" and "You've Lost that Loving Feeling" in his off-key voice. He unfortunately didn't improve the situation when he blurted out in frustration, "You need anti-Tasmanian Devil medication!" Ouch! He obviously had not paid attention to mom's favorite coffee cup: "I'm out of estrogen and I have a gun!"
When mom called me insisting for help, I knew from the sound of her tearfully stressed-out voice that something very special and very powerful had to be done to help her. Most great moms are very picky, and mine is no exception. Not only did she want a solution, it needed to be a natural solution for her worsening situation.
If you are blessed with great parents who make you proud, then you know precisely how painful it is to see them suffer with anything, big or small. To see my mom-the mom I always give a "World's Best Mom" card to on Mother's Day-totally beaten down physically and emotionally was alarming.
Her midlife "tribulations" fueled my unrelenting quest to develop a natural solution to rescue her. After all, it was my mom enduring this burden! Something had to be done to fix it. Multiple years of research has led me to create Revival products (both milk-protein-based and soy-protein-based products) and to develop The Revival Slim & Beautiful Diet-a delicious, doctor-designed solution engineered for total body beauty and wellness. (And, yes, the diet includes chocolate in case you are wondering!) They say necessity is the mother of invention. I say, "My mother necessitated the invention."
Mom is doing fabulously now with tons of energy (she has more than I do!), a slim and svelte waistline, balanced hormones, free of the Tasmanian Devil, and beautiful-looking skin, hair, and nails. Everyone comments on how her skin glows with a smooth radiant appearance (which needless to say makes her feel great about herself), and how healthy and silky her long hair is. To be honest, I think she is more excited about her stronger nails and softer skin than her smaller dress size and minimized hot flashes and night sweats. And for me, a medical research doctor, it is rewarding to know that the diet supports her normal heart and bone health. That makes me happy.
As for my dad, he is once again on cloud nine, an incredibly blessed man. After escaping mom's dog house by profusely apologizing for his unwise medication comments, he is singing "My Girl" to his tempting bride.
He and I both follow the diet daily, too, in case you are wondering. And neither of us have had a single hot flash in seven years! But all joking aside, all is well in Tabor-ville.
Mom says, "Revival gave me my life back!"
My dad chimes in, "Revival gave me my wife back!"
We've all suffered through bad events, including sickness, lost of a loved one, or a broken heart. It's an unavoidable part of life. Sometimes the purpose of our suffering isn't clear. But in this case, Mom and I both understand exactly why she had to endure such health and beauty tribulations: Because of mom's temporary situation, she and I have now been blessed to help thousands of people live a life they love with Revival. It's a very humbling role that we consider an honor to fulfill. Waking up every day knowing that we are actively helping tens of thousands of people (and more every day) is a top-of-the-world feeling.
Mom and I want to help you create a life and body that you love, too.
FACT: Beauty is only skin deep, but unhealthiness goes all the way to your bones.
This "Mom-approved" diet plan covertly helps you do something even more important than improving your outward appearance-it helps support your entire body's health from the inside out.
What good is a slim waistline or beautiful skin, hair, and nails if your heart is too frail for you to walk, or your bones so unhealthy that you stoop over with your face to the ground?
This diet is designed to do so much more for you than to simply make you pretty. I often call The Revival Slim & Beautiful Diet the "diet plus plan" because it helps you lose weight and look great, plus it may help balance your hormones to reduce common discomforts of PMS and menopause; plus it may help promote healthy bones; plus it may support normal memory and cognition health; plus it may promote energy with protein-packed, low-glycemic benefits; plus it may promote maintenance of proper blood sugar levels; plus it bathes your body and skin in antioxidants; and, plus it may promote normal blood pressure health and normal cholesterol levels (which may reduce your risk of heart disease, the number-one killer of women and men). You are in good hands with the Revival Slim and Beautiful Diet.
You do not need a math degree to understand that these health benefits add up for your happiness, but you do need to understand that a critical decision must be made today, a decision which is the most important part of this diet equation:
Are you ready to take the first steps in creating your beautiful dream body and life you love?
If you can't say an emphatic "yes!" today, I believe you are destined for a short-lived future, troubled by accelerated health problems and continued deterioration of your beauty.
I promise that if you choose to start walking down a new path with me today, you will enjoy a slim and beautiful new you-healthier and sexier than ever. So, if you are tired of looking fat with a dull appearance and feeling even worse, I'm asking you to start down the hill with me-today.
Do you believe every day is a gift, as I do? If you do, take the first step today-it's important because that means we've already won half of the nutritional war against ugly fat and wrinkles. I believe you want to make the right decision because you know how unhealthy, and even deadly, being fat can be. Today's decision is not only one small step for your weight, but one giant leap toward a beautiful life you will love.
Put on your "diet boots" made for walking.
Let's meet mom and then get a move on!
MEET MY MOM!
Greetings!
I'm Suzanne, Aaron's mom. I call him "Doc." He says he likes to call me "Dr. Mom" because I've helped him so much during his life. If you have raised a child (I've raised three), you understand that we moms deserve an honorary medical degree!
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Please Read for Maximum Results! ix
A Doctor-Designed Diet that Rescued Mom 1
Rapid Weight Loss Plan: The Revival Slim & Beautiful Diet 13
The Ten Psychological Commandments of Permanent Weight Loss 51
Beauty and the Beanstalk: "I've Got Soy Under My Skin!" 69
The Fifteen Physical Laws of Accelerated Weight Loss 99
Put a Tiger in Your Tank...Energize Me! 125
Your Daily Diet Devotions: Just Lose It 143
Escape Your Hormonal Hades, the Valley of Dry Bones, and a Broken Heart: Soy Meets Girl 177
Closing Remarks 195
Resources to Rule Your World 197
Become a "Shrink": Host a Revival Diet Small Group! 197
Revival Slim and Beautiful Diet Plan Summaries 199
Daily Eating Pattern Templates 203
Medical Study References for the Intellectually Curious 205
Healthcare Provider Patient Samples Program 215
Nutrition Staff and Order Information 216