20/20 Diet Plan for Rapid Weight Loss

The 20/20 Diet consists of eating 20 specific power foods that take a lot of energy to break down, which may increase your body's calorie burn rate and keep you fuller longer, says Ashvini Mashru, R.D., author of Small Steps to Slim.

In addition to providing eating regimes and recipe ideas, this slim-down strategy offers research-backed insights into why weight-loss goals go unmet—and includes the necessary fixes to help you reframe your relationship with food. You'll learn strategies, like how to tune into your body's legit hunger cues and adopt healthier habits that deter the ones that are getting in the way of your weight loss, like taking a route home from work that doesn't have your go-to take-out joint on the way.

How It Works

The diet consists of four phases. In The 20/20 Diet, Dr. Phil McGraw identifies seven reasons other diets fail people over and over again: hunger, cravings, feeling of restriction, impracticality and expense, boredom, temptations, and disappointing results or plateaus. Then, he addresses each of these roadblocks by applying the latest research and theories that have emerged since his last best seller on the same topic, The Ultimate Weight Solution. Dr. Phil and his team have created a plan that you can start following right now and continue working for the rest of your life. In this diet, readers will start by eating only 20 key ingredients, called the “20/20 Foods,” which theories indicate may help enhance your body’s thermogenesis and help you feel full. But that's just the beginning. This book explains why you haven't been able to lose the weight before, and empowers you with cognitive, behavioral, environmental, social and nutritional tools so you can finally reach your goal, and learn lifelong healthy habits to maintain those results.