These rules were actually taken from the book. You’ll get loads more inside! More advice, healthy snacking tips, and a sample meal plan to have you truly eating like a Fit To Be Bride.

Rule 10: Eat Several Smaller Meals
Eating larger, less frequent meals presents your body with more calories than it can possibly process at once, paving the way for it to store those excess calories as fat. Eating smaller meals more frequently is a more efficient way to give your body calories because you’re more likely to be giving it only what it needs for that meal, which will decrease the chance for fat storage. Instead of eating a large breakfast, lunch and dinner, try eating breakfast, a midmorning snack, lunch, a mid-afternoon snack, and dinner, committing to smaller portions for each meal. This will increase your calorie burning efficiency, give you more energy, and reduce your desire to snack on bad stuff (to put it in highly technical terms).

Rule 5: Eat Only Protein and Vegetables for Dinner
Eating only protein and vegetables for dinner can serve three purposes:

1. It can keep you from loading up on carbohydrates that may be stored as fat because your day’s activities are done.
   
2. It can give you a chance to make up for eating too many carbs during the day.
   
3. It can enable you to catch up on your vegetable consumption for the day.

Before I mentioned that if your workout ends after 7:00 in the evening, you should eat a small meal that will help the body recover from that workout. The protein in the meal will help with muscle synthesis, and the vegetables will provide you with vitamins, fiber and natural (not processed) carbohydrate. This way you’ll get the nourishment you need in return for a reasonable amount of calories.

Rule 16: Dining Out
When you really think about it, the same rules exist when you dine out. You just need to make the decision to play by them. Let’s look at dinner, as an example. When you sit down at the table, here’s what your thought process should be: “I need to eat small portions, I need to stay low carb, and I need to drink water.” Other than the water part, you can tackle the colossal task of not breaking your “diet” when you eat out with two simple words. RULE FIVE! Remember, the rule that says to eat only protein and veggies for dinner? This means that the only thing you should be putting in your mouth as you sit at the table are the meat from the entrée and the veggies that come on the side. Sure, they’ll bring you pasta or a potato or French Fries, but you need to leave them on your plate in the same nice little arrangement they were in when your dinner arrived. Applying rule five when you dine out could empower you to be successful with your fitness goals more than anything else you’ll read here or in any other fitness book.

Rule 15: The Rules Still Apply on the Weekend
The structure of the work week often makes it easy to stick to your meal plan. When the weekend hits, you may feel like you’re on a mini vacation – you’re not! If you don’t stay the course, you can completely negate the progress you’ve made Monday thru Friday, with two sloppy days on Saturday and Sunday. If you want to see results, you have to live by the rules on the weekend.