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Fat Loss and a Flat Belly Using the Mediterranean Diet Plan

By Billy Baker

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Published: 01Oct2008
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For those who want to get rid of their muffin top fast here is a great diet plan. Modifying the Mediterranean Diet, this weight loss plan allows you to eat chocolate, olives, peanut butter, and some oils with every meal. Eat chocolate and still lose weight? Yes, you read right. Better still, this diet claims to flatten your belly fast, eliminating love handles, spare tyres, and middle aged spread effectively and speedily. Read on for more details.

How the Modified Mediterranean Diet Weight Loss Plan Works.

The Mediterranean Diet is rich in monounsaturated fatty acids (also known as MUFA's). MUFA's promote satiety, ensuring you feel full for longer. MUFA's also target abdominal fat, in addition to having many other health benefits.

For this diet to work you will be incorporating MUFA's with every meal 4 times daily. You will not be consuming any salt.

After ensuring that you include one MUFA category with each meal, the rest of the food plan follows along the concept of the Mediterranean Diet. This means incorporating plenty of whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, and limiting the intake of red meat.

To kick-start your weight loss you will consume 5000 kilojoules, or 1250 calories, for the first 4 days. After this, you will be limiting your intake to 6,700 kilojoules, or 1600 calories daily.

You will also have to drink one full jug of Amrita each day. (Recipe at bottom of article.)

What are MUFA's?

MUFA's are to be found in olives, dark chocolate, avocado, peanut butter, seeds and nuts, and some oils, such as flax seed, olive, or canola.

Who is suited to the modified Mediterranean Diet Plan?

Anyone who is looking to lose that excess tummy blubber. Women who have started to feel bloated around the waist.

Anyone looking for a weight loss diet that incorporates Mediterranean cuisine.

Anyone who is not looking to go into kidney failure.

Anyone who wants a sensible weight loss plan with some variety to their daily diet.

Anyone who wants to lose weight in a healthy manner.

Anyone who cannot give up their chocolate.

How much weight will you lose?

Following the 6,700 kilojoule plan will generally enable most people to lose about 14 pounds or 6.5 kilos in a month. The 4 day kick-start will have faster and more dramatic results.

* Amrita Recipe.

2 litres water
1 lemon, thinly sliced
1 cucumber, thinly sliced and peeled
12 fresh mint leaves
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger

Add ingredients to a jug. Leave in fridge overnight. The entire contents needs to be consumed the following day.

Author Billy Baker is well known in many nutrition circles and is a strong proponent of healthy living. He has supplied a more information on this article at this page about the Mediterranean Diet Now Linked to a Flat Belly which provided a 4 day sample plan. If you already know what you want, you can down load the Mediterranean diet guide here.

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