Mary Ann says her husband was as happy as she is with her results from the first 4 weeks on the Flat Belly Diet. In just 32 days, she had lost 3½ inches off her hips, 3½ inches off her stomach, 3 inches off her back (that little place that hangs over the bra strap), and an inch on each thigh. “On the scale today, I lost 2 more pounds. I feel as if the weight is melting off of me. People tell me I’m walking with more confidence in my step. It’s terrific!”
The administrative assistant has a message for anyone considering the Flat Belly Diet: “The only thing you have to do is start it. All the tools are there.”
She calls it a revolutionary, doable winner – doable, she says, because the MUFAs keep you satisfied.” Most people, including me, don’t stay with a diet plan because they get hungry between meals. The difference with this diet is you literally don’t get hunger pains. It’s revolutionary because you start seeing results so fast that you want to keep going.” And the winner part? “Well,” she adds, “just look at what I’ve lost.”
And well she should be. The 46-year-old graphic designer had tried to lose weight off and on over the years and had even been successful at times. But she could never seem to get rid of her belly fat. “That was always the last to go,” she laments. And it was the most annoying to her. So she thought, “If this Flat Belly Diet does what its name says it’s going to do – if it’s going to help me get rid of my belly fat – I’m going to be one very happy woman.”
Nicole already knew this about herself: When she makes a commitment to something – especially a public commitment – she’s more likely to follow it through. So, she challenged herself. “I made the decision to go on the diet – all 32 days worth – and then I told everyone I knew, so there was no backing out.”
Cheered on the whole way by her family and co-workers, she reveled in her weight loss. “you couldn’t help but see the changes in my body,” she says, “which made me want to keep going. Plus, it was great knowing they were all in my corner.”
Being on the diet slowed her down in what she says is a good way. “I had a tendency to eat really quickly – just to get it over with. Like at work. I know you’re not supposed to do this, but I always ate at my desk. When I started the diet, though, I learned to pace myself. I thought about what I was eating and truly appreciated every morsel. Even the portions of nuts. Instead of popping a bunch of nuts in my mouth at once, I’d bite off a piece of one, chew it, and really savor it. I try now to do that with everything.” She plans to continue with the diet. With this kind of weight loss plus a flatter belly – it’s a life plan.
At first, looking at 1,600 calories a day, she didn’t think she could do it. But it wasn’t hard, she claims, because the food is so filling. The MUFAs amazed her.
What was hard for her, she says, was changing her thinking in so many ways. “I knew that the diet required us to eat things like olives and olive oil. And even though I knew that the calories were not that bad, it was hard at first for me to believe that you can fight fat by eating fat. Or that fat has to do with other things as well. I had to get over all those years of denying myself those high-fat foods. It was a leap of faith.”
It was a leap she’s glad she took. “I learned so much from this diet,” she says. “First of all, I learned that belly fat an be more dangerous than the other kinds of fat, and so with this diet, I’m making my body healthier in addition to making it thinner. I also learned that what the scale says is so much less important than how you feel. I wanted to get to 130, but I’m happy with how I look and how my clothes fit at 133.”
“I’m thinking about all the overweight friends I have,” she says. “I’m so excited by this diet, I can’t wait to get them to try it!”
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