The Model Body Plan Based on an essay written during her undergraduate studies at New York University, Aesha Waks's The Model Body offers readers a thoughtfully researched, easy to follow, weight-loss solution. The Model Body plan strips away the fat and clearly outlines the simple steps necessary to reach and maintain your goals without ever having to give up the foods you love.
The Model Body Plan
A Motivational Weight Loss & Fitness Plan That Strips Away the Fat
By Aesha Waks, Chris NorthropTrafford Publishing
Copyright © 2016 Aesha Waks
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4907-6879-3Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, ix,
PREFACE, xi,
INTRODUCTION, xiii,
WEIGHT & MEASUREMENT LOG, xv,
3-DAY STARTER JOURNAL, xvii,
PART I DIET,
CHAPTER 1 COMPARATIVE PLANS, 1,
CHAPTER 2 AN INTRODUCTION TO DIETING, 5,
CHAPTER 3 VEGETABLES, 8,
CHAPTER 4 FREEBIES, 10,
CHAPTER 5 VITAMINS & SUPPLEMENTS, 11,
CHAPTER 6 HONEY & APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, 12,
CHAPTER 7 WATER, 13,
CHAPTER 8 JUNK FOOD, 14,
CHAPTER 9 MEAL REPLACEMENTS, 15,
CHAPTER 10 DIET EXAMPLES, 17,
CHAPTER 11 AVOIDING HEALTH PROBLEMS WHEN DIETING, 20,
CHAPTER 12 RESOURCES TO FINDING NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION, 22,
PART II EXERCISE & FITNESS,
CHAPTER 13 AN INTRODUCTION TO EXERCISE & FITNESS, 27,
CHAPTER 14 WEIGHTLIFTING, 29,
CHAPTER 15 CARDIO, 32,
CHAPTER 16 CALISTHENICS, 34,
PART III LIFESTYLE,
CHAPTER 17 SPORTS & ACTIVITIES, 39,
CHAPTER 18 REST & LEISURE, 40,
CHAPTER 19 BAD HABITS, 42,
CHAPTER 20 HOLIDAYS & SPECIAL EVENTS, 45,
PART IV INSPIRATION,
CHAPTER 21 MOTIVATION, 49,
CHAPTER 22 MAINTENANCE, 50,
CHAPTER 23 TESTIMONIALS, 51,
PART V 4-WEEK JOURNAL,
• DIET,
• EXERCISE & FITNESS,
• LIFESTYLE,
• INSPIRATIONAL,
CHAPTER 1
COMPARATIVE PLANS
Throughout the years, I've researched and read many diet books and tried most of the popular plans. While there is merit to these plans, they have failed me. I've found these plans to be too rigid. If you break one rule, the entire house of cards collapses. I was left feeling guilty and it brought me back to square one. Here's an overview of some of the more popular diet philosophies that I've researched and tried in the past:
Traditional Plan
This is the most common plan. Simply put, you eat three meals — breakfast, lunch and dinner — and three snacks a day. For women, combined calories from meals and snacks should not exceed approximately 1,200 calories. Men can add a few hundred calories more to this number. Height and weight does factor into the exact daily caloric count. While this is a great starting point (and I understand the value of eating three meals a day), I am not a morning person and thus rarely eat breakfast. I also felt it was a bit rigid to commit to eating three snacks everyday of the week.
Points System
With this mainstream popular approach foods are assigned point values. It's like going to the casino and trading in money for clay chips, but more complicated. At a casino, if I have 100 dollars to gamble with then I have a few options. I could trade in my money for twenty $5 red chips or four $25 green chips or one $100 black chip. It's pretty clear-cut. However, with this point plan the options are so much greater, because there are thousands of different combinations of foods and meals available to choose from. In order to grasp the system and accurately count the points it is encouraged to use a points manual and buy foods sold by the company that created this plan.
When I go out for a slice of pizza different pizzerias use different flours, different amounts of cheese, etc., thus the calories could differ. It was extremely hard to transfer these foods into points unless I was buying this company's pre-fixed meals. I didn't want to be
