Reverse Diet or The Journey toward Complete Recovery

Reverse Diet: Lose 20, 50, 100 Pounds or More by Eating Dinner for Breakfast and Breakfast for Dinner

Author: Heidi Skolnik MS CDN

Here is the breakthrough diet plan that has people all across North America eating better, losing weight, and getting healthier. Now you can stop counting calories, avoiding carbs, and feeling deprived. Eat dinner for breakfast and shed pounds! If you’ve been a yo-yo dieter and nothing seems to work, this terrific new diet plan allows you to lose 20, 50, 100 pounds or even more for good, simply by reversing your meals. Dozens of tasty, easy recipes are included.

Publishers Weekly

The adage "breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper" inspired this book, for Cunningham, a motivational speaker who lost 172 pounds in nine months with that approach. She and coauthor Skolnik, a nutritionist, met while filming a food-centric segment for Good Morning America, and have paired up to recommend a lifestyle change that emphasizes fueling up with a larger meal early in the day and, in the later hours, replenishing as needed via snacks and smaller meals. While much of the duo's advice is not new (whole foods are preferable to processed ones, eat more vegetables, avoid sugary sodas), it is intriguing. Food lists, portion information and recipes help with planning ahead-preparing meals ahead of time is also key, the authors say. A section on setting realistic goals aims to help readers manage their expectations, and recommendations for using a "hunger scale" encourage mindfulness. (Jan.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     ix
Tricia's Story     1
Heidi's Story     6
Introduction     9
The Reverse Diet Weight-Loss Phase
What Is the Reverse Diet?     17
The Reverse Diet Food List and Reverse Diet Basics     30
Reverse Diet Meal Plans and Meal Planning     49
Reverse Diet Portions-and Plateaus     78
Reverse Diet Motivation: Dealing with High-Risk Moments     88
The Reverse Diet Bridge Phase
The Reverse Diet Bridge Food List and Meal Plans     123
The Reverse Diet Accelerated: Building Lean Muscle and More     150
The Reverse Diet Maintenance Phase
The Reverse Diet for Life     171
Reverse Diet Recipes     185
Food Reality Check     239
Calcium Sources     244
The Six Food Groups and Servings     246
Index     249

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The Journey toward Complete Recovery: Reclaiming Your Emotional, Spiritual and Sexual Wholeness

Author: Michael Picucci

Written with warmth, honesty, and compassion, this handbook charts a new path toward spiritual growth and renewal. Picking up where the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book left off, Picucci addresses the personal struggle recovering people so often express. This book is not solely for addicts, ex-addicts, or those who identify themselves as survivors of childhood trauma. It demonstrates a significant healing approach for every person seeking a richer life.

Jacquelyn Small

"Michael's book is an important statement concerning the evolution of addiction recover, which is the process of self-discovery that underpins all healing approaches. We are moving beyond pathologizing' ourselves which keeps us stuck in the past, and learning to view our symptoms as those of 'birthing a new consciousness.' Michael Picucci's book addresses this shift in perspective that can make us whole." -(Author of Transformers; Awakening in Time; and Becoming a Practical Mystic)

Carolyn Craft

"Recovery takes on new meaning in Dr. Michael Picucci's The Journey Toward Complete Recovery. He expands our hearts and opens our minds to the wonders, the growth and the tremendous rewards of a holistic, ongoing approach in recovering the lost parts of our Self. Anyone touched by the dis-ease of addictions or 'blocked energy,' will be awakened and transformed by this work, as I have. He gives both promise and hope." (Director and Host, Wisdom Channel Radio and Television Network)

Publishers Weekly

Founder of the Institute for Staged Recovery in New York City and creator of "Authentic Process Therapy," Picucci is an addictions counselor who bases his methods primarily on personal experience. In this updated edition of his self-published Complete Recovery, Picucci describes a "Stage Two" recovery program for evolving beyond freedom from addictions to "holism," which encompasses "joy, bliss, love, empowerment, creativity, respect for all life, and peace." Picucci makes an interesting distinction between "`recovery from' addictions and childhood traumas" and "recovery of fulfillment, wisdom, serenity, and emotional, spiritual and sexual wholeness." Using a structure of 12 "stations," which can be visited and revisited in any order as often as needed, he guides readers through six "fundamental" and six "emergent" modules of this process for healing the "spiritual-sexual split" and the "cultural pain... of oppressed minorities," and ultimately achieving the "shame-free presentation of self." Picucci says he offers "nothing less than a re-birthing process" through a combination of one-on-one psychotherapy, support groups and spirituality. His own life experiences--as a gay man, once married, now HIV positive, surviving AIDS, cancer, a heart attack, triple-bypass surgery and drug and alcohol addictions--give him a uniquely credible perspective on healing and wholeness. In his cogent, well-organized handbook, Picucci functions a bit like the gay shamans who had a special place in North American Indian tribes. His compassionate acceptance of diversity will inspire many readers to care to take the next step and seek the help they need. (Nov.)