The Lunch Box Diet: Eat all day, lose weight, feel great. Lose up to a stone in 4 weeks.

The Lunch Box Diet: Eat all day, lose weight, feel great. Lose up to a stone in 4 weeks.
Simon Lovell

The exciting new diet that everyone is talking about, the Lunch Box Diet will change the way you think about food and slimming forever. Looking at what you eat and also at how and when you eat, the simple, flexible plan is easy to build into any daily routine. And you can still enjoy a normal breakfast and dinner – as well as the odd indulgence.The Lunch Box Diet is a completely new approach to weight loss that is easy to follow – whatever your lifestyle. Leading fitness expert Simon Lovell has devised a 4-week plan that is so simple and effective it will become a way of life for you.• You're never hungry• Eat your normal breakfast and evening meal• No calorie counting• No cutting any foodstuffs out• No special diet foods• Quick and easy prep times• Thousands of tasty fat-burning box combinations• Perfect for the workplace• Increase your energy – no afternoon slumps• Gorgeous hair and super skinThe innovative diet trains you to eat in the healthiest possible way during the day. As you learn to eat the right things regularly and in small quantities between 10am and 5pm, you will transform the way you feel and lose weight. Simon's quick and delicious Lunch Box combinations will have you 'grazing' contently throughout the day, controlling your hunger and sugar levels. So as well as feeling completely energized, you will soon see the weight come off and stay off.The days of calorie counting and feeling hungry and overeating are over – join the Lunch Box revolution and you'll start to notice a difference in just 7 days.

the lunch box diet™

Simon Lovell

EAT ALL DAY, LOSE WEIGHT, FEEL GREAT

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#udddbe64a-c65e-53be-8c01-ecd615505ad3)

Title Page (#u8a3df22c-bf6a-5fec-9390-02e4dcbd6351)

The Secret’s in the Box (#udea2a5a9-9f9c-5dbb-b86d-24fc7485446d)

Chapter 1 Why the Lunch Box Diet? (#ua91f0d52-e231-50c5-babd-05c5186705ab)

Chapter 2 Weight Loss: the Easy Way (#u27b50606-0371-5211-8bfe-df061ac86b55)

Chapter 3 The Lunch Box Diet (#u3b0f6f1e-e903-554b-b32e-dca48b67dbdf)

Chapter 4 Your Rainbow of Great Flavours (#ub4c02341-38c6-5aa9-9735-eb92484e1a49)

Chapter 5 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 6 What’s for Dinner, Honey? (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 7 Thirsty? (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8 Beyond Weight Loss (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 Your 28-Day Plan (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 Simon’s Lunch Box Diet Recipes (#litres_trial_promo)

Index (#litres_trial_promo)

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Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

The Secret’s in the Box (#ulink_071761a0-1d4f-5813-bd28-a29489f36e1f)

Repeat after me: Let my wobbly belly never fall below my waistline again. On this path, despite previous efforts, I shall not be stressed, hungry, count my calories or make silly meals. I have broken from the unhealthy grasp of eating only meat, sipping water, munching a lonely carrot, spooning baby food, cabbage soup or any other unsustainable fix. From this day forward I shall live life, be vibrant and energised. When I reach my goal I will stand tall, proud and full of zest and share with others, as they look on with envy, the words: ‘The secret’s in the box.’

Chapter 1 Why the Lunch Box Diet? (#ulink_1db2ae7b-9849-5ba6-bd51-a2840c1f48eb)

First of all, well done! Put a massive smile on your face and feel the energy flowing from this second onwards!

The Lunch Box Diet is going to change the way you think about food, you’ll learn to know your body better than you have ever done before and the benefits to you over the next days, weeks and years are going to be significant.

This diet won’t only help you to lose weight; it might also get you doing more exciting things in your life. Maybe you’ll change your job and dump that annoying boss? Before I expand on this I want to tell you more about me so we can start building our relationship, which is going to be very important to your success.

I’ve worked as a personal trainer for many clients in one of the largest health clubs in the UK, so I know how difficult it can be for busy people to eat a healthy diet. Day in, day out, I’ve coached everyone from stay-at-home mums and dads to busy office workers and sportsmen and -women and I’ve found that they all have different routines, which makes controlling food intake different for everyone.

‘The Lunch Box Diet is going to change the way you think about food’

I’ve learned that a lot of the diet plans out there only take into account the food on the plate, not the tough demands upon your time and mental energies that modern life can bring. Many diets involve preparing meals and adding ingredients you just wouldn’t normally pick up, let alone have the time to prepare. My aim is to teach you how to build the Lunch Box Diet into your working day and train your taste buds to get used to a healthier way of eating. We’ll work hard together and, with my support, you’ll be able to get in shape, look great and feel more energised. It’s not just good for losing weight; it can also help to sustain a healthy balance in your diet. If you’re already an active person looking for an eating plan that complements your gym time, this plan will be ideal for you. This is the diet where you control what you eat based on your energy levels. What’s more you’ll never be hungry – ever – and you’ll lose weight. Yep, keep smiling!

My Story

I think it’s very important that professionals who set out to teach other people should base their teaching on personal experience. I haven’t been lean, strong and confident all my life – in fact, the contrary is true.

I was overweight in my early twenties and was easily a few jean sizes over what is classed as ‘normal’ these days. My average daily diet consisted of fried food, pizzas and microwave meals. My snacks were chocolate bars, my energy levels low and my confidence almost non-existent. When you’re down there, it’s hard to see out. I never thought that one day I would be writing a book about eating properly and spending most of my days teaching people how fitness and health can change their world. Hell, no!

But everyone has a turning point in their lives and mine came when I was bullied at school. Enough was enough. I joined a kung-fu class. At the class I met a guy called Tim. He took me under his wing, threw me into the gym and got me lifting weights. My body shape started to change and I got the buzz. I started attracting more girls – fantastic! As a guy who used to be the butt of everyone’s jokes, I loved it. Who wouldn’t? To Tim, who took me through those important first steps – thank you. I wouldn’t be writing this now and helping others if you hadn’t paid special attention to me.

Some of this back story may resonate with you because of experiences in your own life. It might not. But a lot of people who have problems with their weight have a story to tell. If I can connect with some of you in this way then we have a better chance of moving forward and developing together.

The Birth of the Diet

What I have found most satisfying about this project is that I never sat down and said, ‘I’m going to write a diet plan.’ It just snowballed from a simple three-page document I gave to my personal training clients. Those who followed my advice soon began to reap the rewards, and the feedback was excellent. Though I had believed it was a workable plan, I was still floored by the response. Everyone who tried it loved it. They passed it along to friends and family and before I knew it, people were asking me about my ‘diet’. That’s when I knew I had hit on something big.

The Lunch Box Diet was initially launched on the internet as an ebook, where it got rave reviews from top women’s magazines. They were saying things like ‘a way of life’ and ‘the best diet I’ve ever done’ (Elle magazine, January 2008). I knew that the plan worked because I used it myself and my clients were telling me it worked for them, but it was an unbelievable feeling when top-rated women’s publications were shouting it out to hundreds of thousands of people. That’s what led us to where we are now – the printed book.

‘I don’t want to be remembered for helping people to lose weight by drinking liquid diets and eating only one type of food’

I don’t want to be remembered for helping people to lose weight by drinking liquid diets and eating only one type of food, leaving them with no energy or zest for life. Instead, I want to help people to gain increased energy, improved concentration, better skin, no hunger pangs at work and improved overall health – the list goes on.

The great thing about the Lunch Box Diet is that after just a few days, you start to learn more about your body and it all happens quite naturally. If you are too strict about dieting or healthy eating, you will rebel. Of course, we all need an element of willpower to succeed but because you’re reading this I assume you’re ready to give it a go – so again, well done!

What Lies Ahead?

‘Don’t run away! If you’re not a vegetable lover, I’m going to teach you how easy it is to retrain your taste buds so that you will no longer want to hide your veggies’

So what is this Lunch Box Diet? I’ll go into depth later but as a very quick summary, the Lunch Box Diet is a fantastic, easy way of eating that lets you eat a normal breakfast and dinner and shows you how to ‘graze’ your way through the rest of the day. ‘Grazing’ means nibbling small quantities of food all day long, whenever you’re hungry. The diet is based on some very simple principles, one of which you’ve known about since you were a child: eat your veggies. Don’t run away! If you’re not a vegetable lover, I’m going to teach you how easy it is to retrain your taste buds so that you will no longer want to hide your veggies in your napkin or feed them to the dog under the table.

I’ll explain the low-down on healthy, effective, lasting weight loss. I’ll guide you through the effect metabolism has on your ability to lose weight. I’ll show you why you are far better off eating little and often than starving yourself. All those girls who starve themselves down to size ‘negative-two’ thin are asking for a heap of trouble in the future. At the very least, they’ll simply gain the weight back (usually plus some) and find it more difficult to maintain an ideal body weight. In the worst case, they may end up with a serious, life-threatening eating disorder. I don’t want that for you. I want you to be healthy and vibrant…that’s what sexy is.

Speaking of which, we’re also going to look at the emotional aspects of eating. I’ve been in the personal training business long enough to know that issues surrounding weight gain go beyond what you put in your mouth. Sometimes it’s a lot about why.

Once we’re through all of the basics, I’m going to instruct you on how to follow the diet. I can’t wait to show you all of its wonderful components and start you on the path to looking and feeling fabulous. I’ll take you through the rainbow of vegetables and tell you all about the wonderful options when choosing lean protein (which go way beyond chicken). The Lunch Box Diet is easy to use if you don’t eat meat, because you’ll learn about other types of protein and how to incorporate them into your day.