Lose 24 pounds in 7 days!
Engine 2’s approach is simple: Build meals around generous portions of unprocessed and minimally processed plant foods. That means everything from whole-grain cereal and pancakes to pizza and burritos. (The only limits: Skip oil and go easy on maple syrup
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Fast-forward 16 months: Jayne is 125 pounds lighter, down from a size 3X to a small. She’s reversed her prediabetes and fatty liver. She no longer needs medications for fibromyalgia pain, asthma, chronic sinus infections, acid reflux, colitis, rosacea, arthritis, degenerative disc disease or sciatica. “And it all happened effortlessly,” she insists, crediting The Engine 2 Seven-day Rescue Diet.
Experts aren’t surprised by Jayne’s transformation. According to George Washington University’s Neal Barnard, M.D., plant-based approaches like Engine 2 are essentially a cure for obesity. In one study after another, “we’ve seen that people lose weight almost automatically— without limiting carbs or portions,” he notes. Folks even report losing up to 24 pounds a week. Wow!
As the weight vanishes, so do related conditions like Type 2 diabetes. “The cause of diabetes is not excess carbs as we’ve long been told,” says Dr. Barnard. Rather, per new Yale research, the cause is a buildup of fat particles in muscle and liver cells. “When fat gets in the cells, sugar can’t get in,” he says. “So sugar stays elevated in the bloodstream.” A low-fat, plant-based diet is especially effective at reversing this problem. In a study led by Dr. Barnard, the approach reduced blood sugar three times more than the American Diabetes Association’s low-carb diet. “If you came up with a pill that powerful, it’d be a blockbuster. Our patients did it with kale, spaghetti and beans.”
There’s also evidence that a plant-based diet can prevent and even reverse heart disease and Alzheimer’s. “The sooner you start,” says Dr. Barnard, “the better off you’ll be.” pioneered the use of plantbased eating to reverse heart disease. “It’s common for people to increase their food intake by two to three pounds a day while still triggering dramatic weight loss and health improvements.”
How is that possible? First, each pound of unprocessed plant food contains about half the calories found in a pound of food we typically eat. Plus, every mouthful contains fiber, which makes your body work hard during digestion, boosting metabolism by 15% to 16%, explains Dr. Barnard. And compared to meat, plant foods provide about 64 times more antioxidants that increase fat burning, block calorie absorption, fight belly fat and more. As Esselstyn puts
it: “You target excess weight from all fronts.”
Total transformation! “For the first time ever, I’m at a healthy weight. And I eat as much as I want,” says Jayne. “I wake up pain-free. I have energy. I’m a new person!” And you can be too. “You may not think you can eat this way, but you can do anything for seven days,” Jayne cheers. “Then two weeks, then a month. By then, if it makes you feel half as good as it made me feel, you’ll never go back. Incredible things happen when you put the right fuel in your body!”