Eat What You Love and Still Lose Weight
SELF magazine
Diet rules suck in general, but this one is an exception: With Drop 10, you should eat your favorite foods. Let the grins begin!
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Reaching your goal weight will put a smile on your face, but getting there doesn't have to be a downer. Enter the Drop 10 happy calories: With 10's metabolism-revving recipes and fat-sizzling workouts, you can eat when you want, when you want, and still shed 2 pounds per week. Best of all, you can spend your happy calories on anything, including...
DAILY TREATS: Each day, you get 200 happy calories to use as you please. Chocolate, cheese or wine? Check, check or check! If you desire it, put it on your Happy Plate. (NutritionData.Self.com can help you find calorie counts.) Cravings: satisfied, 100 percent guilt-free.
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MEGA SPLURGES: Parties, weddings, hot dates. Life is full of reasons to indulge, and your diet shouldn't get in the way. So the Drop 10 doesn't. You can roll over up to three days' worth of happy calories, giving you as many as 800 to enjoy at once. More Champagne for everyone-you included.
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SECONDS (AND THIRDS): Happy calories are a hungry girl's best friend: On those days your belly feels like a bottomless pit, they let you have another scoop of pasta at mealtime or a second midday snack. Cash in your happy calories in whatever you like, but aim to consume all 1,400 each week to fend off hunger and fatigue. (Use our handy log at self.com to keep track.) Sign up for the Drop 10 diet now and start enjoying what you eat!
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