The subtitile of The Don't Diet Or Exercise System is, "Lose Weight Eating Anything You Want!" Can it be true?

Authors Dave & Shelley say they have helped thousands of weight loss clients do just that, lose weight without diet or exercise, while eating the foods that you love.

The authors suggest, first, to stop dieting, because, as we all know, diets just do not work. Everytime you go on a diet, you may lose weight, only to see it come back, and then some. Then, they suggest that you also stop exercising.

Strange as it may seem, they cites examples of injuries and physical harm that has befallen those who bought into the exercise craze of the eighties. Beyond that, this is where the, "System," kicks in.

The System is a complicated, but simple, set of formulas that you custom design for yourself. They include:

That's just a sample of the 23 Chapters in this one book! Truth be known, this book could have been entitiled something like, "The Best Kept Weight Loss Secrets," compiled into one easy-to-read reference. If you're looking for weight loss tips in a book format, that opposes diet and exercise, then The Don't Diet Or Exercise System, might just be what the Doctor ordered.

One of the most talked about sections of the book is the chapter that deals with what our core motivators are to over eat. Once we have determined, why we over eat, then we can more easily deal with what the author calls, "eating triggers." Once these are regognized, they can be more easily dealt with.

The authors, while encouraging abstenance from fad dieting, admit that the scientific data reveals that fad dieters are still more healthy than obese-stricken Americans, who suffer from severe health issues. There are handy height/weight charts and an enlightening list of fast food, sit-down restaurants and the menu options that actually enhance your weight loss.

Restaurant examples include:

The eating-out guide is probably worth the cost of the book - plus - full instructions are given on how to determine the healthy options that might be available at your favorite restaurants that are not listed, specifically.

Even though, "you can eat anything you want," some foods are better for you than others. And, of course, the system clearly lays out, how to tell the difference. Suprisingly among the list of items to eat regularly, we discovered Chocolate. According to the author, gourmet dark chocolate (with 70% or more cocoa content) actually may enhance weight loss, "and has substantial health benefits."

Go figure... a weight loss system that downplays exercise, uplifts eating anything you want, including chocolate, while eating at your favorite restaurants to boot? This may indeed change the way we think about weight loss and dieting.

HOT - The Don't Diet Or Exercise System Resources:

BREAKFAST:

1/2 grapefruit or 8oz unsweetened juice.

2 Eggs any style

2 Slices of bacon

Black coffee or tea, no sugar

LUNCH:

1/2 grapefruit or 8oz unsweetened juice.

Salad and or raw veggies (any dressing, {not low fat or fat free})

Meat (Cooked any way)

DINNER:

1/2 grapefruit or 8oz unsweetened juice.

Meat (cooked any way) Vegetables (any green or red, may be cooked in butter or Seasoning or a salad as above) Black coffee or tea, no sugar

BEDTIME:

(opt) 8oz Tomato juice or skim milk

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. At any meal you may eat until you are full, and you can not eat anymore. You must eat the minimum listed listed at each meal.

2. Do not eliminate anything from the diet, especially don't skip the bacon at breakfast or omit salads. It is the combination of foods that burn the fat.

3. The grapefruit is important because it acts as a catalyst that starts the burning process.

4. Cut down on coffee, it affects the insulin balance that hinders the burning process. Try to limit to one cup each meal.

5. Don't eat between meals, if you eat the combination of food suggested, you will not get hungry.

6. The diet may eliminate sugars and starches. Fat does not form fat, it helps burn it, so you can fry food in butter and use butter generously on vegetables.

7. Do not eat desserts, breads and white vegetables of sweet potatoes. You may double or triple helpings of meat, salads or vegetables. Eat till you are stuffed. The more you eat the more weight you will lose.

8. There may be no weight loss in the first 4 days, but you may lose 5 pounds on the 5th day. You may lose 1 and 1/2 pounds every two days until you reach your goal.

9. DRINK EIGHT 8oz GLASSES OF WATER EVERY DAY. 1/2 GALLON.

THIS DIET IS SAID TO BEEN GIVEN TO HEART PATIENTS NEEDING TO LOSE WEIGHT FAST FOR BY-PASS SURGERY.

ALL SOFT DRINKS NEED TO BE DIET AND CAFFEINE FREE.

YOU MAY NOT HAVE: White onions, potatoes, celery, peas, cereal, carrots, corn, starchy vegetables, bread, noodles, rice, potato chips, pretzels or fruit or diet dressing.

YOU MAY HAVE: Red onions, bell peppers, radishes, broccoli, cucumbers, green onions, leaf spinach, cabbage, tomatoes, green beans, lettuce, chili (no beans) mayonnaise, any cheese, hot dogs, cole slaw, regular salad dressing, green vegetables, 1tsp nuts, dill or bread and butter pickles.

Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 2 Tbs. oil, best if you use olive oil
• 4 parsnips cut into 1/2 inch pieces (this is about 1 lb. of parsnips)
• 4 ribs celery sliced
• 1 turnip cut into 1/2 inch pieces (3/4 of a pound)
• 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
• 1 Tbs. chopped garlic
• 2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
• 16 cups reduced fat, low sodium, chicken broth
• 7 cans (5 oz. each) of chicken, or 5 cups (1 1/2 lbs) fresh chicken (cooked)
• 1 bag (16 oz.) frozen carrots
• 1 box (10 oz.) frozen broccoli florets
• 1 box (10 oz.) frozen chopped collard greens
• 1 1/2 cups frozen chopped onions
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh dill or 1 tbs dried dill.

Cooking Instructions:

Using a large pot, heat the oil over a medium head. Add the parsnips, celery, turnip, jalapeno peppper, garlic, salt and cayenne pepper. Cook all the vegetables until the are crisp-tender...this should take about 15 minutes. Add the broth, chicken, carrots, broccoli, collard greens, onions, lemon juice and dill. Brink it to a boil, reduce heat and let it simmer for 5 minutes.

This will make 26 cups of soup.

Breakfasts Choices

On the chicken soup diet you are allowed one breakfast a day. Now you can try a different breakfast every day, and this is the best way because it will give you a good nutritional balance. Since there are only 5 different ones to choose from, for the last two days of the diet, repeat the ones you liked the best. Okay, here are the Breakfast dishes:

Breakfast 1:

1 cup vanilla nonfat yogurt combined with 1/2 cup chopped fruit salad and sprinkled with wheat germ.

Breakfast 2:

1 cup ricotta cheese combined with 1/2 tsp. of sugar and a dash of cinnamon.

2 pieces while-grain bread, toasted

3 dried figs

Breakfast 3:

1 1/2 cups Total cereal

1/2 cup nonfat milk

1/2 cup calcium enriched orange juice

Breakfast 4:

1/2 cup prune juice

1 small whole-wheat bagel, topped with 1 oz of fat-free cheddar cheese melted.

Breakfast 5:

1 1/2 cups cooked Wheatena Cereal

1/2 cup nonfat milk

Remember, you have one of these breakfast dishes every day and then as much of the chicken soup as you want.

Recipe:

The cabbage soup can be eaten at any time you feel hungry during the day, and you can eat as much as you wish as often as you like.

Ingredients:

• 6 Large Green Onions
• 2 Green Peppers
• 1-2 Cans Diced Tomatoes
• 1 Bunch Celery
• 1 Package Lipton Onion Soup Mix
• 1-2 Cubes of Buillion (if desired)
• 1 head cabbage

Cut vegetables into small pieces and cover with water. (V-8 juice and water can be used). Boil fast for 10 minutes. Reduce to simmer and continue cooking until vegetables are tender. Season to taste with salt, pepper,parsley, etc. EAT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT WHENEVER YOU WANT ANY TIME OF THE DAY.

Diet Plan:

Day One:

Fruit: Eat all of the fruit you want (EXCEPT BANANAS). Eat only your soup and the fruit for the first day. For drinks- unsweetened teas, cranberry juice and water.

Day Two:

Vegetables: Eat until you are stuffed will all fresh, raw or cooked vegetables of your choice. Try to eat leafy green vegetables and stay away from dry beans, peas and corn. Eat all the vegetables you want along with your soup. At dinner, reward yourself with a big baked potato with butter. Do not eat fruit today.

Day Three:

Mix Days One and Two: Eat all the soup, fruits and vegetables you want. NO BAKED POTATO.

Day Four:

Bananas and Skim Milk: Eat as many as eight bananas and drink as many glasses of skim milk as you would like on this day, along with your soup. This day is supposed to lessen your desire for sweets.

Day Five:

Beef And Tomatos: Ten to twenty ounces of beef and up to six fresh tomtoes. Drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of water this day to wash the uric acid from your body. Eat your soup at least once this day. You may eat broiled or baked chicken instead of beef (but absolutely no skin-on chicken). If you prefer, you can substitute broiled fish for the beef one one of the beef days (but not both).

Day Six:

Beef and Vegetables. Eat to your heart's content of beef and vegetables this day. You can even have 2 or 3 steaks if you like, with leafy green vegetables. NO BAKED POTATO. Eat your soup at least once.

Day Seven:

Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices and vegetables: Again STUFF, STUFF, STUFF yourself. Be sure to eat your soup at least once this day.

That's it. Good luck. We would love to see this diet work for you, help you lose weight, and give you a more positive self image.

The basic hook to this diet is that you get to eat a slice of bread with butter at every meal. Here is the basic diet. It's a four day diet and you can switch any of the breads with a bread that you like, or if you can't find a particular bread. Here is the diet. A note, this diet is more of a crash diet than a fad diet, it is low calorie, averaging about 850 calories a day. So, you will feel hungry during this diet.

Day One:

Breakfast:
1 slice whole wheat bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1/2 cup orange juice

Lunch: 3.5 ounces drained water-pack tuna
gree salad
1 slice portein bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1 small apple

Dinner:
4 ounces broiled cod
1cup steamed broccoli
1/2 cup steamed peas
1 slice rye bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1 orange

Day Two:

Breakfast
1 slice raisin bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1 soft boiled egg

Lunch:
3.5 ounces pink salmon
3 ounces lettuce
1 tomato
1 slice white bread
1teaspoon butter

Dinner:
4 ounces broiled hamburger
1 hamburger roll
1 pickle
green salad.

Day Three:

Breakfast:
1 slice corn bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1 cup grapefruit juice

Lunch:
2 hard-boiled eggs
1 green pepper
1/2 cup green beans
1 slice French bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine

Dinner: 4 ounces broiled white meat chicken
1/2 cup mixed vegetables
1 slice bran bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine

Day Four:

Breakfast:
1 slice cracked wheat bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine

Lunch:
1 ounce Muenster cheese
1/2 cup stewed tomatoes
1 cup steamed summer squash
1 slice Italian Bread
1 Teaspoon butter or margarine

Dinner:
4 ounces dark meat turkey
1/2 cup corn
green salad
1 slice pumpernickel
1 teaspoon butter or margarine