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The Viva Mayr Diet: 14 days to a flatter stomach and a younger you
Dr Harald Stossier
Helena Frith Powell
A glass of wine at dinner and a flatter stomach in 14 days? Yes girls, it can be done! The Viva Mayr Diet is the savvy diet for people in the real world who want to get a bikini body and revamp their health with ease. It's based on the world-famous Viva Mayr spa clinic in Austria, the hottest health and weight loss destination in Europe.After 14 days your stomach will be flatter, your skin will be glowing, you'll have a spring in your step and you'll be well on your way to getting a fabulous beach babe body. You'll feel so good you'll want to make The Viva Mayr Diet a way of life - and let's face it girls, if you want to make a permanent dent into those love handles you've got to look a bit further into the future. The difference is that after the 14 days you'll be hooked and it should feel as natural following The Viva Mayr Diet as it is reaching for your lip gloss.Dr Harald Stossier, the medical genius behind it all, has teamed up with Helena Frith Powell, former serial dieter and author of Two Lipsticks and a Lover. Together they will take you through the simple principles of the diet, open your eyes to why following it makes perfect sense and walk you step-by-step through the 14-day practical plan. Dr Stossier and Helena also share their experiences of following the diet with rare insight and humour, telling you what to expect, how to avoid any pitfalls and how to reap the benefits of looking and feeling better than you have done in years.Sneak preview facts every girl should know:• Agonising over water or wine at dinner? Make it wine every time!• Stop eating on the move! Eating when you're all stressed out is your no.1 enemy.• Eat a cheese burger really slowly and it'll be better for you than wolfing down an all-organic fancy salad.• Never, ever skip breakfast! If you're really that busy, drop dinner from your day instead.
14 days to a flatter stomach and a younger you
The VIVA Mayr DIET
DR HARALD STOSSIER &
Helena Frith Powell
Contents
Cover (#ua9abdbe4-a508-554d-b4a6-f2dcc422cb4b)
Title Page (#u3a022368-fa3d-5019-8328-20c490ba6419)
Introduction (#ufef3910b-56ef-5c21-b012-29898d9d3648)Eating your way to a healthier, thinner you (#ufef3910b-56ef-5c21-b012-29898d9d3648)
Day One (#u98d8bcd0-372c-5e0b-ae14-dc0acefe6e12)The first day of the rest of your life (#u98d8bcd0-372c-5e0b-ae14-dc0acefe6e12)
Day Two (#u312e087b-78af-5719-9cb9-0267b2e8b6fa)Viva eating (#u312e087b-78af-5719-9cb9-0267b2e8b6fa)
Day Three (#u7e4ebfcb-6cf8-50d9-8f6f-e017b847562e)The art of chewing (#u7e4ebfcb-6cf8-50d9-8f6f-e017b847562e)
Day Four (#litres_trial_promo)Getting active (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Five (#litres_trial_promo)Breakfast like a king (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Six (#litres_trial_promo)Raw before four (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Seven (#litres_trial_promo)Stop when you’re full (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Eight (#litres_trial_promo)The early bird (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Nine (#litres_trial_promo)Water works (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Ten (#litres_trial_promo)Enhancing digestion (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)Eating stress-free (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)Hello alkaline, goodbye bloating (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)Looking and feeling younger (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)The Viva Mayr way and you (#litres_trial_promo)
Recipes (#litres_trial_promo)
Useful contacts (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
Introduction EATING Your Way to a HEALTHIER, Thinner YOU (#ulink_cce9e86f-b077-5d24-9006-d3c77213b091)
Congratulations. This is the first step to a healthier, thinner, younger-looking and gorgeous you. I know what you’re thinking: All diet books say that. Some of them even tell you that you’ll get healthier and thinner just by picking up the book and paying for it. ‘Buy this book, it will change your life,’ they boast.
We all know they can’t be telling the truth, but just as when we buy extortionately expensive face creams that claim to take years off our appearance, we want to believe them. We are desperate to believe that our lives can be changed – or, at least, that our hips can be slimmer – by reading a book, smearing on some cream or buying some new knickers.
The bad news is that most of the time it simply isn’t that simple. There is no magic wand to make most of the changes that we want to see. But the good news is that the Viva Mayr Diet is as close as you can get to a miracle cure-all. It is, quite simply, the best diet there is – and the easiest one to follow. There is no calorie-counting, no weighing your food, and no living off cabbage soup for weeks on end. It is simply an approach to eating that will totally transform you. I guarantee that if you follow the Viva Mayr Diet, you will not only lose weight but you will also feel and look better than you have done in years.
This is because the Viva Mayr Diet is not only about what you eat, it is about how you eat and live. It is about making small changes to your everyday habits that will make a huge difference to your well-being. Some changes are so small you won’t notice them. Others are more challenging. But once you have lived the diet for the 14 days outlined in this book, you will be converted, I promise.
Think about what you want to achieve. Why are you buying this book? You want to lose weight? You want to feel better? To look better? Improve your health? I would guess that 99 per cent of you opted for losing weight as your number-one priority. Almost every woman I know thinks she should lose weight. But the fact is, as you will see from the Viva Mayr Diet, that weight loss is inextricably linked with all the other factors I mention. Like health and looks. One thing leads to another. Why not do it all at once and save time? Talk about multi-tasking …
Forget all fads; the raw-food diet, the blood-group diet, the ‘whatever we haven’t tried yet to convince people to part with their money’ diet. Go for the Viva Mayr Diet, which is sustainable, logical, simple and extremely do-able.
Where to begin to be thin
So how to begin? This book is divided into 14 days, with one crucial Viva Mayr point of focus for each day. For example, the focus of Day Three is chewing, one of the most important elements of the Viva Mayr Diet. It’s something we all obviously do – it’s just that most of us don’t do enough of it.
You can either read the whole book in one go and then go back and re-read the points on which you want to concentrate, or you can take it one day at a time for the 14 days, starting with the first chapter on getting prepared, and then progressing to when and how to eat. You’ll also find all of the recipes you need for a new, thinner you at the back of the book, to help support you through your first 14 days and the beginning of your new lifestyle.
The Viva Mayr Diet is not over after 14 days; this programme simply gets you started. In reality, the Viva Mayr lifestyle is something you will want to carry on with for the rest of your life. Once you’ve changed the way you eat, you won’t want to go back to your old habits. Viva Mayr is so different from other diets because it is about totally changing the way you think about food, and making food work for you to help your body reach its optimum state.
What is Viva Mayr?
Ironically, Viva Mayr hails from Austria, the country of Sachertorte – possibly the most fattening cake ever invented. It all began with the Austrian physician Dr Franz Mayr (1875–1965), a medical legend. He was the first person to prove a direct link between digestive health and overall health and attractiveness. He developed the famous Mayr Cure, which thousands of people still follow to this day. Dr Harald Stossier, the man behind Viva Mayr, was head physician at the original Mayr Clinic for ten years before setting up on his own.
Dr Stossier is an extraordinary man. If he ran the world, there wouldn’t be an overweight person in it. This is a man with a mission to change the world. Not through politics or good deeds, but by teaching us how to eat properly. Dr Stossier’s theory is that to live a long, healthy and constantly slim life, all you need to do is make a few changes to the way you eat. He began his career as an electrical engineer, but after four years he understood his true vocation was elsewhere. At his wife’s suggestion, he began to study medicine. However, early on he felt very strongly that traditional medicine was too narrow for him.
‘I quickly realised I wasn’t one of those typical medical students who just read the books and learned by rote. I felt very strongly my place belonged in complementary medicine,’ he tells me, sitting at a table in the afternoon sunshine at the Viva Mayr Clinic on the shores of Lake Wörthersee in Austria – the clinic he has created based upon his philosophy of health and well-being.
‘When I left medical school I had the opportunity to work with Dr Erich Rauch, who had studied under Dr Mayr. Dr Rauch talked about intestinal cleansing as a real health issue. It seemed so perfectly logical to me and I quickly realised how important this message was for everyone.’
I’m not sure I’m ready to talk about intestinal cleansing with someone I hardly know, but apparently it is an issue that is paramount to good health. And a lot of people pay good money to come here to Austria and discuss it in great detail. Are they all slightly weird or should I let my inhibitions go?
Dr Stossier’s clinic is an oasis of calm. Clients lie on sun-loungers watching the boats go by and only need to get up for consultations with Dr Stossier, treatments or meals. It is not the most luxurious or the most expensive clinic in the world, yet while I was there I met several people who could well afford to go anywhere they chose. They have chosen Dr Stossier and his clinic in Austria because they believe that he can change their lives, and for the vast majority of people I met, he has.
I arrived at the Viva Mayr clinic one Thursday afternoon in August, starving hungry. I don’t know what it is about clinics or diet places – or, indeed, just the thought of a diet – that makes me hungry. I can have just eaten Christmas lunch and start thinking about that diet I’m going to begin on New Year’s Day and before I know what’s going on, I find myself grabbing another roast potato to add to the 17 I’ve just eaten.
I shared a taxi from the airport with a lady called Brenda, from London. She had come to lose weight.
Dr Harald Stossier
Helena Frith Powell
A glass of wine at dinner and a flatter stomach in 14 days? Yes girls, it can be done! The Viva Mayr Diet is the savvy diet for people in the real world who want to get a bikini body and revamp their health with ease. It's based on the world-famous Viva Mayr spa clinic in Austria, the hottest health and weight loss destination in Europe.After 14 days your stomach will be flatter, your skin will be glowing, you'll have a spring in your step and you'll be well on your way to getting a fabulous beach babe body. You'll feel so good you'll want to make The Viva Mayr Diet a way of life - and let's face it girls, if you want to make a permanent dent into those love handles you've got to look a bit further into the future. The difference is that after the 14 days you'll be hooked and it should feel as natural following The Viva Mayr Diet as it is reaching for your lip gloss.Dr Harald Stossier, the medical genius behind it all, has teamed up with Helena Frith Powell, former serial dieter and author of Two Lipsticks and a Lover. Together they will take you through the simple principles of the diet, open your eyes to why following it makes perfect sense and walk you step-by-step through the 14-day practical plan. Dr Stossier and Helena also share their experiences of following the diet with rare insight and humour, telling you what to expect, how to avoid any pitfalls and how to reap the benefits of looking and feeling better than you have done in years.Sneak preview facts every girl should know:• Agonising over water or wine at dinner? Make it wine every time!• Stop eating on the move! Eating when you're all stressed out is your no.1 enemy.• Eat a cheese burger really slowly and it'll be better for you than wolfing down an all-organic fancy salad.• Never, ever skip breakfast! If you're really that busy, drop dinner from your day instead.
14 days to a flatter stomach and a younger you
The VIVA Mayr DIET
DR HARALD STOSSIER &
Helena Frith Powell
Contents
Cover (#ua9abdbe4-a508-554d-b4a6-f2dcc422cb4b)
Title Page (#u3a022368-fa3d-5019-8328-20c490ba6419)
Introduction (#ufef3910b-56ef-5c21-b012-29898d9d3648)Eating your way to a healthier, thinner you (#ufef3910b-56ef-5c21-b012-29898d9d3648)
Day One (#u98d8bcd0-372c-5e0b-ae14-dc0acefe6e12)The first day of the rest of your life (#u98d8bcd0-372c-5e0b-ae14-dc0acefe6e12)
Day Two (#u312e087b-78af-5719-9cb9-0267b2e8b6fa)Viva eating (#u312e087b-78af-5719-9cb9-0267b2e8b6fa)
Day Three (#u7e4ebfcb-6cf8-50d9-8f6f-e017b847562e)The art of chewing (#u7e4ebfcb-6cf8-50d9-8f6f-e017b847562e)
Day Four (#litres_trial_promo)Getting active (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Five (#litres_trial_promo)Breakfast like a king (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Six (#litres_trial_promo)Raw before four (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Seven (#litres_trial_promo)Stop when you’re full (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Eight (#litres_trial_promo)The early bird (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Nine (#litres_trial_promo)Water works (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Ten (#litres_trial_promo)Enhancing digestion (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)Eating stress-free (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)Hello alkaline, goodbye bloating (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)Looking and feeling younger (#litres_trial_promo)
Day Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)The Viva Mayr way and you (#litres_trial_promo)
Recipes (#litres_trial_promo)
Useful contacts (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
Introduction EATING Your Way to a HEALTHIER, Thinner YOU (#ulink_cce9e86f-b077-5d24-9006-d3c77213b091)
Congratulations. This is the first step to a healthier, thinner, younger-looking and gorgeous you. I know what you’re thinking: All diet books say that. Some of them even tell you that you’ll get healthier and thinner just by picking up the book and paying for it. ‘Buy this book, it will change your life,’ they boast.
We all know they can’t be telling the truth, but just as when we buy extortionately expensive face creams that claim to take years off our appearance, we want to believe them. We are desperate to believe that our lives can be changed – or, at least, that our hips can be slimmer – by reading a book, smearing on some cream or buying some new knickers.
The bad news is that most of the time it simply isn’t that simple. There is no magic wand to make most of the changes that we want to see. But the good news is that the Viva Mayr Diet is as close as you can get to a miracle cure-all. It is, quite simply, the best diet there is – and the easiest one to follow. There is no calorie-counting, no weighing your food, and no living off cabbage soup for weeks on end. It is simply an approach to eating that will totally transform you. I guarantee that if you follow the Viva Mayr Diet, you will not only lose weight but you will also feel and look better than you have done in years.
This is because the Viva Mayr Diet is not only about what you eat, it is about how you eat and live. It is about making small changes to your everyday habits that will make a huge difference to your well-being. Some changes are so small you won’t notice them. Others are more challenging. But once you have lived the diet for the 14 days outlined in this book, you will be converted, I promise.
Think about what you want to achieve. Why are you buying this book? You want to lose weight? You want to feel better? To look better? Improve your health? I would guess that 99 per cent of you opted for losing weight as your number-one priority. Almost every woman I know thinks she should lose weight. But the fact is, as you will see from the Viva Mayr Diet, that weight loss is inextricably linked with all the other factors I mention. Like health and looks. One thing leads to another. Why not do it all at once and save time? Talk about multi-tasking …
Forget all fads; the raw-food diet, the blood-group diet, the ‘whatever we haven’t tried yet to convince people to part with their money’ diet. Go for the Viva Mayr Diet, which is sustainable, logical, simple and extremely do-able.
Where to begin to be thin
So how to begin? This book is divided into 14 days, with one crucial Viva Mayr point of focus for each day. For example, the focus of Day Three is chewing, one of the most important elements of the Viva Mayr Diet. It’s something we all obviously do – it’s just that most of us don’t do enough of it.
You can either read the whole book in one go and then go back and re-read the points on which you want to concentrate, or you can take it one day at a time for the 14 days, starting with the first chapter on getting prepared, and then progressing to when and how to eat. You’ll also find all of the recipes you need for a new, thinner you at the back of the book, to help support you through your first 14 days and the beginning of your new lifestyle.
The Viva Mayr Diet is not over after 14 days; this programme simply gets you started. In reality, the Viva Mayr lifestyle is something you will want to carry on with for the rest of your life. Once you’ve changed the way you eat, you won’t want to go back to your old habits. Viva Mayr is so different from other diets because it is about totally changing the way you think about food, and making food work for you to help your body reach its optimum state.
What is Viva Mayr?
Ironically, Viva Mayr hails from Austria, the country of Sachertorte – possibly the most fattening cake ever invented. It all began with the Austrian physician Dr Franz Mayr (1875–1965), a medical legend. He was the first person to prove a direct link between digestive health and overall health and attractiveness. He developed the famous Mayr Cure, which thousands of people still follow to this day. Dr Harald Stossier, the man behind Viva Mayr, was head physician at the original Mayr Clinic for ten years before setting up on his own.
Dr Stossier is an extraordinary man. If he ran the world, there wouldn’t be an overweight person in it. This is a man with a mission to change the world. Not through politics or good deeds, but by teaching us how to eat properly. Dr Stossier’s theory is that to live a long, healthy and constantly slim life, all you need to do is make a few changes to the way you eat. He began his career as an electrical engineer, but after four years he understood his true vocation was elsewhere. At his wife’s suggestion, he began to study medicine. However, early on he felt very strongly that traditional medicine was too narrow for him.
‘I quickly realised I wasn’t one of those typical medical students who just read the books and learned by rote. I felt very strongly my place belonged in complementary medicine,’ he tells me, sitting at a table in the afternoon sunshine at the Viva Mayr Clinic on the shores of Lake Wörthersee in Austria – the clinic he has created based upon his philosophy of health and well-being.
‘When I left medical school I had the opportunity to work with Dr Erich Rauch, who had studied under Dr Mayr. Dr Rauch talked about intestinal cleansing as a real health issue. It seemed so perfectly logical to me and I quickly realised how important this message was for everyone.’
I’m not sure I’m ready to talk about intestinal cleansing with someone I hardly know, but apparently it is an issue that is paramount to good health. And a lot of people pay good money to come here to Austria and discuss it in great detail. Are they all slightly weird or should I let my inhibitions go?
Dr Stossier’s clinic is an oasis of calm. Clients lie on sun-loungers watching the boats go by and only need to get up for consultations with Dr Stossier, treatments or meals. It is not the most luxurious or the most expensive clinic in the world, yet while I was there I met several people who could well afford to go anywhere they chose. They have chosen Dr Stossier and his clinic in Austria because they believe that he can change their lives, and for the vast majority of people I met, he has.
I arrived at the Viva Mayr clinic one Thursday afternoon in August, starving hungry. I don’t know what it is about clinics or diet places – or, indeed, just the thought of a diet – that makes me hungry. I can have just eaten Christmas lunch and start thinking about that diet I’m going to begin on New Year’s Day and before I know what’s going on, I find myself grabbing another roast potato to add to the 17 I’ve just eaten.
I shared a taxi from the airport with a lady called Brenda, from London. She had come to lose weight.