Table Of ContentThe Naughty Diet
The Naughty Diet
The 10-Step Plan to
Eat and Cheat Your Way
to the Body You Want
Melissa Milne
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Title: The naughty diet : the 10-step plan to eat and cheat your way to the
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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To your right to
feel good without
being good.
Contents
Introduction ix
Step 1: Embrace the Four Naughty Mantras 1
Old Rule: Be good—or feel bad.
Naughty Way: Don’t be good, or bad—be Naughty!
Step 2: Join Team Naughty 9
Old Rule: Start a diet.
Naughty Way: Join the thousands on my antidiet movement!
Step 3: Stop the Shame Game 21
Old Rule: Meanies and the media have power over us.
New Rule: We have power over us.
Step 4: Make Guilt Your Bitch 39
Old Rule: I shouldn’t have eaten that cookie.
Naughty Way: That cookie won’t eat me up.
Step 5: Listen to Your Body 57
Old Rule: You need to follow a diet plan.
Naughty Way: Let your body take the lead.
Step 6: Find Your P-Spot 73
Old Rule: Nothing beats an orgasm.
Naughty Way: No foodgasm, no orgasm.
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Contents
Step 7: Eat Naughty Foods 89
Old Rule: Choose diet food that supports your weight loss.
Naughty Way: Choose quality food that supports your desires.
Plus: A Guide to the Top 50 Naughty Foods
Step 8: Cook When You Want 119
Old Rule: 1,256, 1,257, 1,258 calories
New Rule: Count on feeling better with every bite.
Plus: 30 Naughty recipes!
Step 9: Chill the Eff Out 177
Old Rule: Downtime is for lazy people.
Naughty Way: Sleep your way to the top.
Step 10: Change Your Brain, Change Your Body 203
Old Rule: Exercise your willpower.
Naughty Way: Exercise your imagination.
Plus: 18 Naughty Tricks for Getting More Out of Doing Less
Bonus Chapter: 237
24-Hour Damage Control—80 Ways to Kick Food
Guilt to the Curb
Notes 250
Metric Conversion Chart 263
Join Team Naughty Today! 264
Acknowledgments 265
Index 266
I N T R O D U C T I O N
Take my hand, Naughty Girl.
I want to show you something.
IT’S RIGHT OVER HERE: the white sandy beach of a quiet little getaway that’s
closer than you think.
Our little nautical nirvana is empty—just you and me and a pitcher of
rum punch with fresh limes. The dunes shine porcelain under the golden
sun, and the cloudless sky meets the rolling waves of the Caribbean in an
uninterrupted mural of blue, with only an occasional fishing boat intruding
on the horizon. This is the Naughty life. This is Mojito Beach.
And look: here comes another woman, strolling until she stops near us.
She slides her sunglasses up to the top of her head and squints at us through
the beams of light.
Her name is Sharon. She’s got a mojito, too, and she drains the last of her
plastic cup as she flops down in the sand next to us. “I’m trying to relax,” she
says after introducing herself, adjusting her sarong so it covers her thighs.
“I have a hard time doing that.” And maybe because she downed that drink
too fast, Sharon tells us her story:
“My husband and I are here celebrating our fifth anniversary. Well, we’re
supposed to be celebrating. Last night, we had a whole plan to rekindle the
excitement. But the only thing we rekindled was the same old fight we al-
ways have,” she says. “I was feeling fat after dinner, and then I didn’t feel
comfortable getting naked because it was too bright. When I pulled away, he
lost his patience, and then he lost . . . well, you get the picture. I waited until
he fell asleep and then I raided the minifridge.”
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