The Doctor's Diet: Dr. Travis Stork's STAT Program to Help You Lose Weight & Restore Your Health Read Free Page B

a person’s height and weight. Doctors use BMI as a guide to whether people are underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese. BMI is not a 100 percent accurate way of determining goal weights, because it doesn’t take into account the size of your frame or the amount of muscle you have. Muscle is denser than fat, so a very muscular person who has a perfectly healthy weight can have a BMI in the overweight range. But in general, doctors use BMI as a starting point for a discussion about goal weight.
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    Use the chart below to determine your BMI. Once you have it, check the BMI guide to see where your weight falls.

BMI
WEIGHT CATEGORY
Less than 18.5
Underweight
18.5 to 24.9
Normal Weight
25 to 29.9
Overweight
30 and over
Obese

THE DOCTOR’S DIET GAME PLAN
    I ’ve designed this book to give you everything you need to make life-saving changes that will keep you out of the ER and fully, vibrantly engaged in your healthy new life. To make things easy, I’ve structured The Doctor’s Diet in this way:
PART ONE: GETTING STARTED WITH THE DOCTOR’S DIET 14-DAY STAT PLAN
    You’ll jump right into the Doctor’s Diet with the STAT Plan. When someone is wheeled into the ER on the edge of death, the medical team leaps into action right away. The medical phrase for this is “STAT,” from the Latin word
statim
, which means
immediately
. You’ve probably seen doctors on television use this word while barking orders to nurses—for example, “inject 1 mg of epinephrine STAT!”
    In a medical emergency we rush to administer life-saving medications. When weight is an emergency, the same immediate action is called for. We want to start making health-boosting changes STAT. That’s why I call the first phase of my eating plan the STAT Plan.
    We’re starting with the STAT Plan right away. No need to wait—just flip to page 30 , and you can start following it at your
very next meal
. Seriously! Excess weight is a true emergency, and you can start your “treatment” right away.
    Sure, I do want to explain everything about it to you eventually—for example, I want you to understand why I’m suggesting berries at breakfast or lentils at lunch—but I don’t want you to have to spend hours or days reading about your new eating plan before you dive in. And I wantyou to get a thumbs-up from your own health-care provider before you make any major changes to your diet, especially if you have heart disease, diabetes, or any other health problems. But otherwise, there’s no reason not to get started right away—STAT!
    Think of it this way: When someone is wheeled into the emergency room having a heart attack, the medical team doesn’t sit down with them and chat for a few hours about the structure of the heart and the finer points of myocardial infarction. We jump into action, administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation, infusing medications, sometimes rushing them off to the operating room for surgery. And we do it all with lightning speed—STAT.
    The same goes for weight-loss emergencies. Being overweight or obese is a major health emergency that requires your immediate action. Not an emergency administration of drugs, medical procedures, or surgery, but an immediate change in your diet. If your weight is an emergency, you can start giving it emergency treatment right now by diving in to The Doctor’s Diet STAT Plan right away.
BEING OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE IS A MAJOR HEALTH EMERGENCY THAT REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION. NOT AN EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION OF DRUGS, MEDICAL PROCEDURES, OR SURGERY, BUT AN IMMEDIATE CHANGE IN YOUR DIET.
    WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM THE DOCTOR’S DIET STAT PLAN
    Using my high-intensity 14-day STAT Plan, you’ll see
immediate
results. Within two weeks, you’ll:
    Lose weight rapidly (up to 10 pounds in 14 days).
    Lose fat and start to reduce the size of fat cells.
    Burn dangerous belly fat.
    Begin to cut diabetes risk by stabilizing blood sugar and boosting insulin sensitivity.
    Begin to improve your heart