3-Hour Diet: Lose up to 10 Pounds in Just 2 Weeks by Eating Every 3 Hours! » (Reprint)

Jorge Cruise personally struggled with weight as a child and young man. Today he is recognized as America's leading weight-loss expert for busy people. Jorge has coached more than 3 million online clients at 3HourDiet.com and is the exclusive weight-loss coach for AOL's 23 million users. As "FitSmart" columnist for USA Weekend Magazine, Jorge's advice reaches more than 51 million readers across the country. He has appeared on Oprah, CNN, Good Morning America, Today, Extra, The Tyra Banks Show, Dateline NBC, and The View.

Following the amazing success of his New York Times bestseller 8 Minutes in the Morning, America's #1 online weight loss specialist, Jorge Cruise, is back with a revolutionary diet book that keeps with his trademark hassle-free, time-friendly approach.

It's a fact: the low-carb craze is everywhere. Another fact: two-thirds of Americans are still overweight, and no one is getting thinner. Although low-carb diets produce short term weight loss, the results are not sustainable in the long term. Dieticians, fitness experts, and medical publications are slowly awakening to the fact that the low-carb diet isn't the answer to weight loss nor a solution to the obesity epidemic.

What is the solution? Jorge Cruise's The 3-Hour Diet reveals that timing is the revolutionary weight loss element that has been kept secret until now.

Finally -- a diet plan that lets you eat what you really want and that actually works long-term! Jorge Cruise introduces a revolutionary diet and lifestyle plan that will shed the pounds for good. The answer is not in a grapefruit diet, a cabbage-soup diet, and certainly not in a low-carb diet. Losing weight and keeping it off is not only about what you eat but when you eat. Knowing when to eat resets the body s metabolism and turns off its starvation protection mechanism, ensuring that fat is released and fat-burning muscle preserved. So get ready to lose two pounds every week using The 3-Hour Diet -- with no carb counting, no calorie counting, no starvation, no deprivation, and no exercising. The 3-Hour Diet includes:

• A recipe guide with options for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and delicious treats from a range of homemade, frozen, and fast-food choices
• A 28-day visual eating planner to promote organization and accountability in meal planning
• Tips and advice from Jorge s clients on managing time and making meals on the go
• A sample mini-week of 8 Minute Moves for those who want to take health and fitness to the next level

With his trademark easy-to-follow instructions, accessibility, and client success stories, Jorge Cruise s The 3-Hour Diet is a dynamite combination of proven success and medical innovation. Losing weight and keeping it off has never been easier!

Publishers Weekly

Cruise promises to help readers lose two pounds every week, without counting calories or depriving themselves of carbs. It's all about timing, says the USA Today fitness columnist, whose diet advice has been featured everywhere from O and Prevention to the Today show and Good Morning America. Cruise theorizes that if a person allows more than three hours to pass between eating, a body turns on its natural "starvation protection mechanism," which causes the body to consume muscle. When this happens, one's resting metabolism is adversely affected. In an attempt to eliminate his main competition, Cruise dedicates an entire chapter to debunking low-carb diets. He claims they actually cause people to gain more weight in the long run. Along with an explication of his recommended diet and exercise plans, Cruise provides readers with 30 "timelines," charts they should fill out every morning at breakfast. These visual aids include space to write down what time each meal (or snack) will take place that day and what each will consist of (every meal must contain a balance of carbohydrates, fat and proteins). To help readers determine which foods fall into which categories, and how much of them they must eat, Cruise, who is also AOL's weight loss coach, provides recipes and "The All New Cruise Down Plate," a twist on the food pyramid. Although Cruise tends to oversimplify, this is overall one of the best diet books to hit the market in recent years, brimming with success stories, photos and plenty of optimistic energy. Agent, Ben Gage. (Apr. 1) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Acknowledgments     xi
Foreword   David L. Katz, MD     xiii
From the Desk of Jorge Cruise     xvii
Time to Lose
The Key to a Slim Body     3
Why Low-Carb Diets Make You Fat     15
Why Other Fad Diets Make You Fat     32
How it Works-Visual Timing
How to Successfully Do the 3-Hour Diet     45
Secret 1-The 3-Hour Timeline     52
Secret 2-The 3-Hour Plate     67
Overcoming Obstacles
How to Make More Time     95
Overcoming Emotional Eating     107
Living the 3-Hour Lifestyle
28-Day Success Planner     125
3-Hour Diet Maintenance Plan: How to Lose More or Keep It Off     251
Bonus Exercise Options     259
3-Hour Plate Custom-Meal Food Lists     268
Premade-Meal Ideas     283
Jorge Cruise's Bio     329
Selected Bibliography     331
Index     335
The Synergy Pages     347