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The 2-Day Diet is not a quick fix. The aim is to establish good long-term eating habits. The two diet days are a jump-start for weight loss, but it is not a miracle diet. The diet days boost your weight loss by 0.9–1.4kg (2–3lb) a week at the start of the diet, reducing to about 0.5kg (1lb) a week subsequently. The real change comes through eating healthily on your other five days. Eating three healthy meals a day and cutting out the junk food will enable you to maintain the weight loss from the diet days. You should feel better in yourself and full of energy.

The simplicity of the 2-Day Diet is extremely compelling and it is so easy to get started. As you progress with the diet, you will find that the key to long-term success is how you manage your diet days. If you don’t eat the right food, then you feel starving and unable to cope: this makes you far more likely to cheat or give up. I remember on my first day, I had a large glass of orange juice at breakfast time. This ‘wasted’ 100 or so calories which I was in desperate need of by dinner time. By eating the right food and not eating ‘empty calories’ you can eat enough to keep going throughout the day. This is the core of this cookbook. You can find the right food to eat for every day and it is always tasty and filling. If your diet day is pain-free then you can stick with the diet, change your lifestyle and ultimately your figure.

A little bit of planning will help your first few diet days fly by. Follow these steps to ease you through your first two days:

1. Decide which days you are going to diet during the week. Remember the days must be non-consecutive. Think about what you’ve got on in your schedule. The best days are busy but not social ones. So pick your boring days and you will be fine.

2. How many meals are you going to eat on your diet days? Three small meals OR breakfast and dinner OR lunch and dinner.

3. Use the appropriate meal planner as a guide. Set out what you are going to eat. Buy and prepare your food in advance.