(14 Your Weight) 100 Your Metabolic Score

Past dieting efforts have slowed your metabolism and led your body to stubbornly hold on to excess weight. At this stage, you need to flood your body with easily digestible nutrients and fat-burning foods to shake out of the metabolic rut. See page 28. Your metabolism is slowly crawling, often causing seemingly random weight fluctuations. At this stage, you need to stabilize your metabolism with a carefully calibrated balance of nutrients, then kick fat burning into high gear with plenty of fat and protein. See page 28. Years of battling stress or yo-yo dieting have locked your metabolism at a sticky set point. At this stage, you need to rekindle your metabolic fire and keep it burning with plenty of nutrient-dense fruit and high-protein fare. See page 28.