The No More Excuses Diet

3 Days to Bust Any Excuse,
3 Weeks to Easy New Eating Habits,
3 Months to Total Transformation

MARIA KANG

What’s YOUR EXCUSE for not having the body that you want?
Are you unmotivated, tired, or frustrated? Do you lack time, energy, finances, or support? What’s holding you back? What’s preventing you from being healthy, fit, and confident?

There are so many different ways to answer those questions. If you’ve been on this roller-coaster ride before, then you know what I’m talking about. You love food. You’re too tired. You lack energy. You have no willpower. You don’t have time—and the list goes on. I know exactly how you feel.

But these are
excuses.

Excuses validate our choices. They let us off the hook and give us permission to fail. While psychologically soothing, excuses limit our ability to create opportunities to progress toward personal health. What if I told you that the only thing standing in the way of you and the body you want is a single excuse? Would you confront it? Would you commit to overcoming it? That’s what this book is about. I want you to bust through these excuses and empower
yourself. I want you to rewrite your story and feel empowered to be anybody you want to be. Are your excuses valid? Sure, some of them probably are. Can most excuses be overcome? Absolutely.

This book is not about making you feel guilty for how you look, or ashamed of the choices you’ve made. This book is about getting you to a place where you love your life, love your body, and love your health. And in order to feel that way, you have to bust through the excuses that might stand between you and your best body. That’s what we will do together over the course of this program.

We will review your excuses, combat them, then attack them. I provide a simple set of rules to follow that will have a revolutionary impact on your ability to achieve your goals. I also present simple and flexible ways for you to understand fitness, nutrition, goal setting, and time management. Not only do I give you some simple workouts and easy recipes that make fitness feasible, but I also offer a maintenance plan for your new normal—the person you become when you’ve taken the path to fitness and good health. After all, it is often harder to stay in shape than it is to get into shape.

As a busy working mom of three young sons, who were born in 2009, 2010, and 2011, it wasn’t easy for me to get back into shape. After giving birth to my first son, I gained 35 pounds, my muscles were gone, and my midsection looked like a deflated balloon. Regaining my physical fitness was hard. In fact, it was really hard. There were days when I needed to wake up at the crack of dawn to fit a workout into my schedule. There were days when I was tired or unmotivated, when the last thing I wanted to do was prepare the day’s lunches and dinners so my family and I would have healthy foods at hand. But even when I had no energy or I felt overwhelmed by my responsibilities, I pushed myself to do it anyway. Sure, there were times when I missed workouts, slept in, or splurged on a piece of chocolate cake. But I never gave up. I never lost sight of my goal: getting into the healthiest shape I could.

Reaching any lofty goal isn’t going to be easy—and if you think this No More Excuses plan is going to be a cakewalk, then let me tell you right now that it will not be. But setting a goal for your health and achieving it is
worth the effort.
Whether your aim is to fit into a certain size pants, to eliminate a health risk, or to change your energy level, reaching that goal will make you feel physically, mentally, and spiritually
amazing.