Snooze your way into your bikini!

Yes really... with hot new fitness guru MAX LOWERY’S brilliant 2-meal-a-day beach diet, you can get in fabulous shape for summer — in your sleep!

As thoughts turn to the holiday season, most of us start reappraising our summer wardrobe. You may have already pulled out the strappy sandals, but chances are last year’s swimwear is still languishing in a bottom drawer.

to help you fit into your bikini, now’s the perfect time to switch from comforting winter eating and drinking habits to a healthier, fresher, lighter diet.

My work as a personal trainer to top models and tV stars has taught me that the key is a two-pronged approach which combines good dietary advice with quick fix, simple exercise routines to tighten, strengthen and tone.

Clients report great results from my body sculpting and training plan — typically losing up to a stone in a month.

this diet is everything you need to achieve the shape and self-assurance you never thought possible — you’ll be feeling beach confident in no time.

SHED POUNDS WITH THE NEW DIET SECRET

Forget calorie counting or endless days of juices and fasting, there’s a new diet buzzword emerging from the celebrity gyms: tre or ‘time restricted eating’.

this is one of the best researched and easily maintained methods for you to incorporate short periods of fasting into your everyday life, and it’s an easy way to burn fat and lose excess weight fast.

All you do is drop one meal at either end of your day — decide whether you are going to skip breakfast or dinner, then stick to it.

this sets up the tre process by putting you on a ‘2 Meal Day’ where you can enjoy a large and nourishing breakfast and lunch, or a deliciously nutritious lunch and dinner.

It works because either option effectively extends your fasting window to a powerful and effective 16 to 18 hours, most of which occurs while you sleep.

Most people find breakfast easiest to drop, but if you find it difficult to eat later in the evening, skip dinner instead. Whichever you chose, you must stick to it.

research indicates that cutting back to two meals is enough for remarkable results — as long as your two meals are healthy.

And extending your overnight fast really is easy and, perhaps surprisingly, it leaves you feeling less hungry than before and bursting with energy.

AND NOW FOR THE SCIENCE BIT...

When you put your body in a temporary fasted state, it naturally releases a cocktail of energy-boosting hormones to ensure you are super-efficient at catching your next meal.

once you’re used to it you should find that even on an empty stomach, energy and mental alertness increase, coordination and body movements improve and you stop feeling hungry.

Digestion takes up considerable energy, so fasting can create a ‘buzz’ that spurs you to unforeseen levels of activity.

It only takes a couple of days to become physically and mentally accustomed to skipping that third meal, and it’s the best way to encourage your body to become a fat-burning machine, rather than a sluggish sugar-guzzler. We are natural fat burners, but because fat is essential for our survival, our bodies have evolved to hang on to it if they can, and burn the sugars from food.

For those who pick and nibble, the body becomes accustomed to a sugary fuel source and fat reserves remain untouched.

the way our bodies work hasn’t really changed since we were hunter-gatherers. on the rare occasion there would be a food surplus, we’d cling on to fat reserves for harsher times.

these days, we can have a constant supply of food, but our bodies haven’t adjusted and just store even more fat. however, tre effectively tricks your body into thinking there isn’t any food available, so you start burning stored body fat for energy.

QUICK AND EASY FITNESS TWIST

When it comes to looking good and feeling fabulous, food is only part of the story. no healthy weight loss journey is complete without targeted exercise.

I have devised full-body workouts that take just 15 minutes a day. these starter exercises are configured to be safe, simple and enticing for even the most reluctant gym bunny.

no need to get dressed in Lycra or buy special equipment. schedule your exercise at some point during your fasting window (before lunch or in the evening) to maximise the fat- burning impact. that way, the diet and exercise become an amazingly effective body-shaping tool.

My happy, slender and bodyconfident clients are testament to the fact my plan is the simplest and easiest way to enjoy the healthy, fat-burning, weight loss benefits of intermittent fasting — without the gnawing hunger, calorie-counting or grumpiness of so many fasting-based diet plans.

You’ll be free from the tyranny of hunger and cravings and you will no longer have to waste any time worrying about the whens and whats of your next meal.

If you stick to my meal plans and delicious recipes you won’t feel hungry or deprived. no calorie counting, no portion control, just steady effective weight loss.

EXACTLY WHAT AND HOW TO EAT

‘reAL’ food is fundamental to my diet plan and I urge you to look at food in terms of nutritional content rather than calorific value.

We haven’t evolved to digest highly-processed cereals, crisps, biscuits and fizzy drinks and this causes us to become fat, sick and addicted to sugar.

often the healthiest real foods contain the most calories, but since you will have two meals, not three, it is crucial that the food is

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full of nutrients. My recipes are as nutritious as possible and provide you with the macronutrients to achieve your weight-loss goals.

Although fats have been pilloried, studies show healthy fats from plant sources such as avocados, olive oil, and polyunsaturated fat and omega-3 fatty acids from oily fish like salmon and mackerel are crucial for a healthy body.

By eating a diet high in healthy fats, with moderate protein consumption and eliminating ‘bad’ carbohydrates, such as cakes, biscuits, sweets and fizzy drinks, you will nourish your body properly.

My meal plans keep carbohydrate levels relatively low because not only does this stop you from using fat to fuel everyday activities but unused carbs will be stored as fat. Carbohydrates control insulin, which itself controls fat storage. If you eat carbs without exercising, you’ll put on fat.

Although eating protein will keep you fuller for longer by stimulating the release of satiety hormones and because it takes longer to digest, mine is not a high-protein diet, as these can put a strain on your kidneys.

If your body uses protein as a form of energy, it is less likely to be burning stored body fat.